42. What is God's name?
God Himself reveals His name to us in Scripture.
A. In the Old Testament, God reveals His personal name: Yahweh ("I am").
Exodus 3:13-15 Then Moses said to God, "If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is His name?' what shall I say to them?" God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And He said, "Say this to the people of Israel: 'I AM has sent me to you.'" God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel: 'The LORD [Yahweh], the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is My name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations."B. In the incarnation, God reveals the fullness of His grace with a new personal name: Jesus, which means "Yahweh saves." Christians also confess, "Jesus is Lord," meaning Jesus is Yahweh in human flesh.
Matthew 1:21 You shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.1 Corinthians 12:3 No one can say "Jesus is Lord" except in the Holy Spirit.
Philippians 2:10-11 So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in Heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Note: In confessing Jesus Christ as Lord, we confess that Jesus is Yahweh, namely, the one true God, the God of the Old and New Testaments, come in our human flesh. See also Romans 10:13, as it quotes Joel 2:32.
Eventual commentary - focus on Joel 2:32
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