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Let’s read our theme verse for the series together.
Including today, God willing, we have three more messages in this series on the names of God.
So far, we have looked at seven different names of God.
Elohim - He is the Mighty Creator God.
El Roi - He is the God who sees me.
El Shaddai - He is the Almighty God.
El Elyon - He is God Most High.
Yahweh Jireh - God will see to it.
God will provide.
Yahweh Nissi - God is my banner
Yahweh Shalom - God is peace
Open your Bibles to .
David is coming to the end of his life.
He was a shepherd boy who God had protected from both lions and bears.
He was chosen by God to lead the nation of Israel.
By the power of God, he defeated the giant Goliath.
He had fled from Saul because of Saul’s jealousy.
After gaining the kingdom of Israel, David made some major mistakes.
He slept with another man’s wife and had him killed.
He disobeyed God’s commands about trusting in numbers more than trusting in God.
He lost the kingdom in a coup attempt by his son.
He regained his kingdom, but he lost his son Absolom.
David had experienced so many different things in his life.
He was known as “the man after God’s own heart.”
In Samuel 22, David wants those around him to know something important he had learned about Yahweh.
David wrote a song to express his thoughts about the God he loved and served.
2 Samuel 22:1
This song of David is recorded here in and also in .
Being recorded twice in the Scriptures, this song must be important.
It tells us something very important about God.
Several times over the course of chapter 22 and 23, David uses the same terminology about God.
God is Yaweh Tsuri.
Yahweh Tsuri - God is my Rock
Wasn’t it the old Chevy commercial that used the Bob Seager song as a slogan “Like a Rock”?
They wanted you to think that their trucks were strong, reliable, and dependable.
David wants you to know that God is your Rock.
God is strong, reliable, dependable, stable, and a place of protection from your enemies.
God is Yahweh Tsuri.
God is my Rock.
This is deeply personal.
God is MY Rock.
If you are a follower of Jesus, then God is YOUR rock.
This Name of God is used well over 50 times in the Scriptures.
The Hebrew has two different words for the word “rock”.
The first one is“sela”.
The word has a range of meaning.
סֶלַע (sě·lǎʿ
“sela” - hardness, cliff, boulder, or stronghold.
The second word is “suri”
“suri” - fortress or steep elevation
Both words are used as titles for Yahweh.
The first thing this name for God reveals to us is that as Yahweh Tsuri, God is a place of protection from our enemies.
Yahweh Tsuri is a place of protection from our enemies.
Have you ever had an enemy, a person who really want to hurt you because you did what was right?
I am not talking about someone who was mean to you or someone who angry tweeted at you.
I am talking about someone who hates you because you did what you were supposed to do and they hate you for it.
David knew all about people like this in his life.
King Saul had tried to kill him because of nothing other than pure jealousy and hatred.
David, literally, had to run for his life and hide in caves.
His own son organized a coup against him and once again David had to run for his life.
David was following God and sought to do what God wanted him to do, but there were people around him that hated him for it.
They wanted to hurt him in whatever way they could.
David had experienced God as Yahweh Tsuri.
He had experienced God’s protection from his enemies.
Throughout the Scriptures, we see God’s protection of his faithful ones.
God will protect you from your enemies when you are following his will for your life.
We are seeing a growing and festering hostility against those who follow God.
We are seeing the horde of our enemies growing stronger as we stand for the gospel of Jesus Christ.
We must remember what Jesus has promised us.
The rock Jesus would build the church on was not Peter.
The Rock is the gospel.
Peter’s confession was that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, the one sent to deliver his people from their sins.
Evil cannot overpower the life saving gospel of Jesus Christ.
The rock Jesus would build the church on was not Peter.
The Rock is the gospel.
The Rock
The rock Jesus would build the church on was not Peter.
The Rock is the gospel.
The Rock
Jesus gave this declaration at a place called Caesarea Philippi.
Caesarea Philippi was a Roman town and is a very rocky place and they had built temples to various Roman gods into the very mountain itself.
One of the temples was to Pan, the half-man, half goat being.
In Caesarea Philippi, there was the grotto of Pan.
Caesarea Philippi
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The belief was that the ancient fertility gods would descend into this cave to hell until spring.
At the end of winter, the pagans would gather for orgies and other ceremonies to entice the gods to come back and make the land fertile for the next growing season.
This place was known as the “gates of hell.
It was here that Jesus said, “the gates of hell will not overpower it.”
The gospel will overpower all lies that our enemies will use against us to harm us.
God is Yahweh Tsuri.
He is the truth and will protect us from our enemies.
Also, as Yahweh Tsuri, God is our stability in life.
Yahweh Tsuri is our stability in life.
God never changes.
Do you take comfort in the fact that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever?
You should because it means that we can know what God wants for us.
We can know what God expects from us.
We can know how God interacts with us.
We can know because we have a written record of his interactions with his people.
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