Yahweh-Jirech
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
We have been going through a series of lesson title “God By Name.”
The hope was that we would get a better understanding of God through the inspired characteristics or names given to him.
I was gone last Sunday evening, so two weeks ago we looked at “Yahweh-Mekoddishkem” (mekod-diskim) or “the LORD who sanctifies you” from Exodus 31:13 and Leviticus 20:8.
Today we will be looking at Genesis 22:14 wherein we find “Yahweh-Jirech.”
This word is a very intriguing word in that it is found 1,289 times in the Old Testament.
This tells us it has many different meanings with the root word simply meaning “to see, to understand.”
We actually see this name given in two places in Genesis 22.
8 Abraham said, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together.
14 So Abraham called the name of that place, “The Lord will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”
Now considering the root meaning, “to see, to understand” it makes sense that it is translated as “providing” here.
God sees and understands what we need and because of “perfect understanding” he provides for us.
In context we find one of the great examples of faith wherein Abraham is told to sacrifice his son to God.
Abraham didn’t bat an eye because of his tremendous faith in God.
He knew that it was through Isaac that that God’s promise would be fulfilled.
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, 18 of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” 19 He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
Abraham had faith God would provide whatever was needed for this test.
Today we are going to study this great truth that “we can trust and rely” on God to provide certain things.
With that said “we have faith today that the LORD will provide us with…
Our Daily Bread
Our Daily Bread
Physical Needs.
Physical Needs.
There is a great deal of uncertainty in the world today.
Satan, the ruler of this world (John 12:31), has done his best to make it seem like those that follow Christ and are obedient to God through his word will struggle physically.
That only the financially abundant are the happy ones and have all their “daily bread” so to speak.
However, this couldn’t be further from the truth as God has always said he would protect us and thus in essence place a proverbial “hedge of protection” around us physically.
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Not only does God desire to physically give us our “daily bread” but he even more so desires to give us spiritually our “daily bread.”
Spiritual Needs.
Spiritual Needs.
For all the love God has shown us physically and will continue to show his faithful followers continually, God the Father, Son, and Spirit want that much more abundantly to provide for our spiritual needs.
There are two things required for our spiritual needs to be met.
The first thing required for our spiritual needs to be met is God precious word that guides us to godliness.
3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
The second thing required for our spiritual needs to be met is God spiritual blessings placed upon the godly.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
God has given us every thing we need to live godly lives and every spiritual blessing in Christ, in other words God has provided for his children their spiritual “daily bread.”
Summary
Summary
Today and every day we can have faith that the LORD will provide each and everyone of us, our physical and spiritual daily bread.
We also can have faith that our LORD will provide us with…
Answered Prayers
Answered Prayers
Yes, No, Wait.
Yes, No, Wait.
From Genesis 1 through Revelation 22 God, through his “breathed out word” has made it abundantly clear that he not only hears the prayers of those seeking him but that he answers every single prayer with a yes, no, or wait.
In 2 Kings 20 we find king Hezekiah having his prayer answer by God with a “yes.”
1 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.’ ” 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, saying, 3 “Now, O Lord, please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 And before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the Lord came to him: 5 “Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord,
In 2 Corinthians 12 we find Paul in a similar situation wherein he has what appears to be a physical aliment of some sort, though not seemingly leading to death.
However, instead of God saying yes to Paul’s prayerful plea, God’s answer was no.
7 So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
David found himself in the same situation as Paul with David’s prayerful plea for his son born to Bathsheba by way of their fornication.
15 Then Nathan went to his house. And the Lord afflicted the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and he became sick. 16 David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.
17 And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them. 18 On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us. How then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm.”
In Psalm 40 we have a psalm or prayer of David wherein David specifically states he is “waiting patiently” on the LORD to answer his prayer.
1 I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.
Summary
Summary
Today and everyday we can have faith the LORD our God will provide an answer to our prayers.
14 And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
We can likewise have faith our LORD will provide us with…
Boldness & Confidence
Boldness & Confidence
Courage Under Distress.
Courage Under Distress.
How can any Christian handle the daily struggles of sin, slander, and persecution?
How can any child of God deal with the constant bereavement the godly will continually endure?
The answer lies in our faith that the LORD will provide for us boldness and confidence.
First, God provides for us this boldness under stress by informing us of the reality of those constant trials and tribulations.
2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Secondly, God provides for us this confidence under stress by reminding us that he will be the one with us giving us strength to overcome.
10 fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Thirdly, God provides for us this boldness and confidence under stress by reminding us that his strength is not fleeting but everlasting for the righteous.
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.” 6 So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
Summary
Summary
Each day we are blessed to live on this earth, created by our Creator, we are reminded that we can have faith that our LORD will provide us boldness and confidence even when we are under great distress if we are firm and strong in our faith.
13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
Conclusion
Conclusion
The LORD Our Provider is whom we can have perfect trust and faith in because we know…
He will provide us with daily bread.
He will provide us with answered prayers.
He will provide us boldness and confidence.
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.
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.
