Yahweh-Shammah
Notes
Transcript
Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
We have been studying through the Old Testament examining the names or characteristics given our God.
Up to this point we have studied a great many of these names, with only today’s and one more left.
With in mind let’s focusing our attention on the last chapter and last verse of the book of Ezekiel, Ezekiel 48:35.
35 The circumference of the city shall be 18,000 cubits. And the name of the city from that time on shall be, The Lord Is There.”
This particular passage ends a larger, highly misunderstood, section of chapter dealing with prophecy concerning the church.
26 I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 27 My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28 Then the nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”
This sanctuary or temple will be forevermore and, as we just saw in our text for today, it will be “Yahweh-Shammah” or “the LORD is There.”
What can we learn from this particular “name of God” especially as it relates to the church?
God presence in the church is significant in two specific ways…
First, the fact that “God Is There” in the church points to…
Possession
Possession
Jesus Built The Church.
Jesus Built The Church.
There are a lot of “so called churches” in the world today.
Last I heard there are over 33,000 denominations in existence here in America alone.
The reality is that God is “not” there in those denominations as they are not “his church.”
Only one church was built by God.
18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
If Jesus built it than it belongs to him.
Jesus also possess the church because…
Jesus Is Head Of The Church.
Jesus Is Head Of The Church.
He built the church and he was put in charge of it.
18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
22 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
This means the church follows Christ’s steps.
10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
Summary
Summary
God’s presence in the church is significant because it points to the truth concerning who is in possession of the church and thus head of the church God not man.
19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
The second reason God’s presence in the church is significant is the fact that his presences demands true and proper…
Security
Security
Providentially Protected.
Providentially Protected.
The church of Christ is protected “forevermore” by God through providential means.
Remember again what Jesus said about the church he would build.
18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
The “gates of hades” will never win against the church that God dwells in where “Yahweh-Shammah” “The LORD is There.”
44 And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,
33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
What great security there is in knowing the “LORD is There” in the church you are apart of providentially protecting it for all time.
Summary
Summary
God’s presence in the church is significant because it not only points to the truth concerning who is in possession of it and thus the head of it but that it is being protected and made secure by him who is head.
33 but whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.”
Conclusion
Conclusion
The name Yahweh-Shammah or LORD is There should be that which reminds us and comforts us in the brotherhood because…
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
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.