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.

In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.

This is not just the first verse of Scripture.

This is not just a statement of fact.

This is not just how the creation week begins.

This is actually God's first revelation of himself. You know, the Bible really is actually God's first revelation of himself.

You know, the Bible really is just God's self-revelation.

It's not God telling us simply facts about things.

It is God telling us truth about himself.

And we believe, of course, that the Bible is a progressive revelation.

We move from Genesis all the way through to the revelation of Jesus Christ.

We move from the known to the unknown.

We move from where God begins with us to where God says amen.

And so, Genesis 1-1 is a pivotal verse in every way. Now typically when we go there, we talk about what God did.

But today, I take you to Genesis 1-1 to talk to you about who God is.

Over the next several weeks, we're going to study the names of God.

Now let me tell you right up front, we can't be exhaustive of this because

that study in and of itself would take forever just to study all the occasions where you find

God's name and all the implications of it through scripture. But I would like to show you some of

the great self-revelations that God gives us about himself through his names, the names of the

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