There is no name like the name of our God because there is no one like our God.

The many divine names used in Scripture reveal his perfect nature.

Let's open the Word of God today with Scott Pauling and learn more about the name.

Does it bother you to hear people take the name of God in vain?

I tell you, as a Christian, when I hear someone curse the name of Christ or use the name of God lightly and flippantly, it grieves me.

It grieves me because that's my God, that's my father, that's my Savior, that's my friend, that's the one living inside of me.

And yet, may I ask you a question, do you think it grieves God when his own children do not use his name properly?

Now, I'm not suggesting, of course, that we simply should not take God's name

in vain. That goes without saying, but how should we use his name? We're talking about the name,

and we're going to look at many of the instances where his name is used throughout Scripture,

and why should we even study this name? Well, I think we've established already, we should

study the name of God so we could know him better. Remember, his name equals his nature. His name

reveals something about who he is to us. But I think it goes beyond simple knowledge to say, oh, yes, I know him.

No, we want to use the name properly. How should we use that name? Well, let me take

you to the first occasion where it has told us in scripture that people started using the name of the

Lord. It's found in Genesis chapter number four. Verse number 25 says, and Adam knew his wife again,

and she bare a son and called his name Seth.

For God said she hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel whom Cain slew.

Now you remember, Cain kills his own brother Abel, then has God's curse put upon him.

So this is the beginning of the godly line.

This is the new seed that God gives to Adam and Eve through which Messiah will come.

So I want to pause and say, thank the Lord for this.

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