Elohim: The Name of Majesty

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Why does the Bible sometimes use a plural name for the one true God? Today, R.C. Sproul explores how the name "Elohim" exalts the greatness and majesty of the Lord as King over all.

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Meet Today's Teacher:

R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

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0:00.0	When Elohim is used for Yahweh as a name and title for the God, the plural of majesty is
0:07.2	calling attention to the superiority, to the transcendent greatness of the most high God.
0:16.2	Anything else, by comparison, is really a pretense. All other claims to deity pale into insignificance
0:26.1	in comparison with Elohim, in whom all of the characteristics and all of the attributes,
0:35.8	all of the facets, all of the fullness of deity dwells.
0:47.8	Our God is the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings.
0:52.7	He is high and lifted up as the Prophet Isaiah experienced
0:56.8	in Isaiah chapter 6. You're listening to renewing your mind on this Thursday. I'm your host,
1:03.7	Nathan W. Bingham. The God we ought to believe in is not to be the God of our imagination,
1:10.6	the God we might prefer, but must
1:13.0	be the God who has revealed himself in the pages of sacred scripture.
1:18.6	And this is one of the reasons why I believe this series, Names of God, is so helpful,
1:25.0	because as R. C. Sproles surveys these names, it helps us to see who God is,
1:30.3	Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Today is the final day that you can request access to this
1:36.9	15 Message series, along with three books from Dr. Sprole. So if you haven't already, please
1:43.0	make a year-end gift in support of renewing
1:45.3	your mind and Ligeneer Ministries at Renewing Your Mind.org. And to thank you, we'll unlock
1:51.6	this series for you in the Ligeneer app and send you this book bundle from R.C. Sprawl.
1:57.6	Well, here's Dr. Sprawle on the name, Elohim.
2:09.7	As we continue our study now of the names and the titles of God, we're concerned at this point with names and titles for God the Father.
2:13.0	And what I would like to do now is ask you if you are in a position, if you're not driving a car somewhere, but if you're in a place where you can reach into your pocket and pull out a coin, any coin, a quarter, a nickel, a dime, whatever, I want you to look at that coin for just a second and see if you can find a Latin phrase on that coin.
2:36.2	I think you know what Latin phrase we're looking for.
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