What’s In a Name?

Intro: Alexander the Great “Change your behavior or change your name” - Grego - “You’re a Dziadul. I expect the work of 2 boys out of you”

What’s in a Name? - What does your name represent?

A Name is an abbreviated icon of the entirity of a Person - The whole of you boiled down to one word.

Trans: Now with that understanding, let’s plug it in to our text in

Look at the progression here:

Our - corporate nature of Prayer

Father - Relational address - the intimacy or nearness of God

In Heaven - the transcendence of God - the farness of God. - “Don’t let the Privilege of our Position cause us to be Ignorant of God’s Importance”

Now the prayer transitions to the first of 6 requests.

Hallowed be Thy Name

Hallowed = hagiazo - make holy, to consecrate, sanctify, hallow, treat as holy

aorist = ongoing

imperative = command

passive = God is not doing the ‘hallowing, sanctifying’ We are requesting that God enable us to make his name holy

YBH - What does that look like in our lives? Why would Christ have this be the first request?

How does this alter our praying?

God thinks alot about his name:

- don’t take his name in vain

- leads me in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake

Mal. 1:11 For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down,

Mal. 1:11 For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down,

My name shall be great among the Gentiles;

In every place incense shall be offered to My name,

And a pure offering;

For My name shall be great among the nations,”

Says the Lord of hosts.

Conc: So What. We must carry God’s name on purpose. Our living is what hallows or profanes God’s name

What is your name doing to God’s name?

When people hear your name (the sum of who you are) is God’s name hallowed or humbled?