El Shaddai (26 of 61)
In the Beginning
Pastor Jeff Schreve
Primary Scripture: Genesis 17:1-27
Everybody is familiar with William Shakespeare, the greatest playwright the world has ever seen. He wrote the play, "Romeo and Juliet," and has a very famous line in the play, "Romeo and Juliet." And Shakespeare writes these words: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet." Now, he was trying to make the case that names really mean nothing. Names are irrelevant. And a rose would still smell sweet if you called it something else. But when it comes to God, names are extremely important. And God gives us many different names for Himself for us to connect to God in a very special way.
Now, last time, if you were here when we did Genesis 16, we were introduced to a name, El Roi, the God who sees me. That was the name that Hagar, the Egyptian maid, who was pregnant with Abraham's son (He was going to have a son named Ishmael), gave to the LORD. You are a God who sees me, because God sought her out, and God ministered to her, this poor Egyptian pregnant girl out in the middle of the desert. God is the God who sees us.
But now, in Genesis 17, we're introduced to another El name of God. You know, we have Yahweh names of God, and we have El names of God. And the name that we're introduced to in Genesis 17 is the name made famous in the Amy Grant song from 1982, "El Shaddai." How many remember the song, "El Shaddai" by Amy Grant? You know, I was looking that up. That was the song of the year in 1982, and it was voted in 2001 by the Recording Industry Association of America as one of the songs of the century, El Shaddai. It had Hebrew in there. And lots of people would sing it and they didn't know what they were singing because of the Hebrew, but it's a great song. And it causes us to know that name. Even though we may not know what it means, we're familiar with the name El Shaddai because of that song. A ...
In the Beginning
Pastor Jeff Schreve
Primary Scripture: Genesis 17:1-27
Everybody is familiar with William Shakespeare, the greatest playwright the world has ever seen. He wrote the play, "Romeo and Juliet," and has a very famous line in the play, "Romeo and Juliet." And Shakespeare writes these words: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet." Now, he was trying to make the case that names really mean nothing. Names are irrelevant. And a rose would still smell sweet if you called it something else. But when it comes to God, names are extremely important. And God gives us many different names for Himself for us to connect to God in a very special way.
Now, last time, if you were here when we did Genesis 16, we were introduced to a name, El Roi, the God who sees me. That was the name that Hagar, the Egyptian maid, who was pregnant with Abraham's son (He was going to have a son named Ishmael), gave to the LORD. You are a God who sees me, because God sought her out, and God ministered to her, this poor Egyptian pregnant girl out in the middle of the desert. God is the God who sees us.
But now, in Genesis 17, we're introduced to another El name of God. You know, we have Yahweh names of God, and we have El names of God. And the name that we're introduced to in Genesis 17 is the name made famous in the Amy Grant song from 1982, "El Shaddai." How many remember the song, "El Shaddai" by Amy Grant? You know, I was looking that up. That was the song of the year in 1982, and it was voted in 2001 by the Recording Industry Association of America as one of the songs of the century, El Shaddai. It had Hebrew in there. And lots of people would sing it and they didn't know what they were singing because of the Hebrew, but it's a great song. And it causes us to know that name. Even though we may not know what it means, we're familiar with the name El Shaddai because of that song. A ...
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