El Olam
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
Throughout the Holy Scriptures we find God inspiring men to write down that which characterizes their Creator, their God.
We have been, the last several weeks, been examining these characteristics or names give God.
We have examine thus far…
Elohim - Godhead
El Elyon - God Most High
El Shaddai - God Almighty
Today we will be examining “El Olam” which means “Everlasting God.”
33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
One of the things that makes this name more unique is how little these two Hebrew words are found together.
In fact this is the only place in the Old Testament where they can be found.
That doesn’t mean there are no other places where “olam” is describing God, because there are and we will look at both of them today.
With this in mind let’s examine our lesson for today.
When we examine the Scriptures we find our Hebrew word “olam” in connection with God in wherein God is described as an…
Everlasting Rock
Everlasting Rock
Intro to point.
Intro to point.
The usage of the word “rock” in a metaphoric sense has been around for a long time.
We’ve all heard someone say of another, “so and so is my rock.”
Biblically speaking God has used this term to explain Himself through inspired writings.
You see…
God is our everlasting rock.
God is our everlasting rock.
4 Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
Why would our “God Everlasting” be described as an “everlasting rock?”
everlasting rock?”
First, because of His everlasting strength.
1 I love you, O Lord, my strength. 2 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. 3 I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.
3 For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name’s sake you lead me and guide me;
1 In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me!
Second, because of His everlasting assurance.
3 Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
Thirdly, because of His everlasting immovable salvation.
47 “The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,
Summary
Summary
The Everlasting God of heaven is our everlasting rock because of His unwavering strength, assurances, and salvation.
This three truths also make clear our next text from wherein we find our Hebrew word “olam” describing God as an…
Everlasting King
Everlasting King
10 But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
10 But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
King of kings.
King of kings.
Our Everlasting King is “King of kings” because there is no greater than He.
I love how succinctly Adam Clark established this reality when he said…
And an everlasting king] As he has made, so he governs, all things. His sway is felt both in the heavens and in the earth.
testing
In other words God has the right as King of kings to govern man kind.
Adam Clarke, The Holy Bible with a Commentary and Critical Notes, New Edition., vol. 4 (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife Corporation, 2014), 284.
Adam Clarke, The Holy Bible with a Commentary and Critical Notes, New Edition., vol. 4 (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife Corporation, 2014), 284.
21 He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;
1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
However, the Everlasting King isn’t just King over other kings but over each of us.
7 For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
15 which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
15 which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
1 Tim 6.
As seen here not only is our Everlasting God “King of kings” but…
1 Tim 6.
Lord of lords.
Lord of lords.
Our God Everlasting is Everlasting Lord as well.
The word lord simply means master or ruler and God most assuredly is such.
11 Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. 12 Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.
19 For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.
49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”
16 On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
Summary
Summary
El Olam is truly our Everlasting King.
With El Olam being our Everlasting Rock & King it’s only fitting we recognize the eternity of everlasting.
Everlasting Eternity
Everlasting Eternity
Intro to point.
Intro to point.
Grasping eternity which is what everlasting means is hard if not impossible this side of heaven.
The reality is there are secret things that belong to God that we are not meant to fully grasp.
29 “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
However, God has given us information concerning Himself in the title “God Everlasting” that must be considered and known about Him.
As Everlasting God who is eternal this means He is always…
Past present and future.
Past present and future.
God is always and forever but what does that mean for us, what is it that this is supposed to teach us about God or remind us about Him?
One, Eternal God means He keeps His promises.
13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself, 14 saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.” 15 And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.
13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself, 14 saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.” 15 And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise. 16 For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.
Heb 6.
17 So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, 18 so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. 19 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, 20 where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Second, Eternal God means He will never leave us nor forsake us.
5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Third, Eternal God means eternal rest for the righteous.
28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
9 But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—
13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
10 for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. 11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
Summary
Summary
God’s eternity demonstrates His trustworthiness in keeping His promises, never leaving His righteous, and gathering His faithful unto death with Him for eternity.
Conclusion
Conclusion
When we first see “El Olam” in we see God teaching us that He is our Rock, our King, our Everything.
God Everlasting wants you and I to trust and obey Him so that we can spend eternity with Him in heaven.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
