Did you know that God has a name in the Old Testament, a specific name?

Now, Jews nowadays will not use the name of God out of an act of reverence.

They don't want to use his name in vain, so they simply will not use it at all.

In fact, they will type G slash D if they're writing out the word God, and they will not use the name of God, the one found in the Bible in the Old Testament in particular.

I don't think that we're supposed to avoid using that name. I think that might be an over

reaction to a desire to preserve the honor of God's name, but it's actually in the Old

Testament, Yahweh. Yahweh is God's name or Jehovah. There's a debate on how it's pronounced. I won't

get into all that today. Just know there's an actual name for God in the Old Testament.

This name is only used of the true God.

And any time this name appears without any dispute

when you see Yadhe Vavhai, these Hebrew letters in the Old Testament,

you know it is always talking about God, almighty, omnipotent, omnipresent,

eternal, the only God. And why am I telling you all this?

Because if the Bible in the New Testament, or the old for that matter, if it calls Jesus Yahweh, like not just suggests that he is deity or he has God qualities or is a God, but actually calls him Yahweh, then that's really significant,

theologically.

It means like a whole bunch of dominoes fall into place about who Jesus is.

And not only does it mean he's God, it means he would be the God of the Old Testament,

the God who spoke through the burning bush, the God who created the universe and all that

is in it.

So what if the New Testament authors were willing to straight up identify Jesus as Yahweh?

Well, as you might be able to guess, they are, and they do.

And they're going to do it in a passage we're going to study right now today, along with a bunch of other awesome things.

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