411: Kristian Smith – Exhortation: The Name of YAHWEH

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Hello everyone.

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This is Brother Levi McKinley
and I’m coming to you from the

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Wend Your Anaclesia up in
southeast Queensland, Australia.

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This week’s talk was an exhort
that was given by our brother

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Christian Smith, who is also a
member of the Wend Your

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Anaclesia, and it was given back
in April 2024.

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And although this talk was given
a little over two years ago now,

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it’s always stuck with me since
I heard it, and I’ve never

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forgotten it.
And one of the reasons why I

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think it was so memorable, to me
at least, was the fact that as a

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kid, I was always taught that
Yahweh is God’s name.

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And I remember going over to my
friend’s house and we’d all sit

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down together and do the
readings.

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And it always stood out to me
that some people would replace

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the literal words in their
English Bible, Lord God, to the

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Hebrew word Yahweh.
Actually, you remember being

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called out once because I didn’t
do it and I had no idea why,

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What, what the, what the go was
like.

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Why did people do this?
And so it was always a question

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in my mind growing up why we
viewed Yahweh as so special.

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And maybe I guess that’s one of
the things with being young, you

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don’t have all the answers.
And as you grow, you find out.

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And this is exactly what that
talk did for me.

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And maybe this is nothing new to
you, but for me it was.

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And I found it very helpful
because it not only helped me to

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understand why God chose to
reveal himself by His name, but

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it also helped me to appreciate
and to realize just how special

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His name really is.
It’s more than just a title.

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The name Yahweh reveals God’s
greatness and His depth of

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being.
But something else that just

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blew me away, which I think is
probably my favorite point from

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this talk, is how God is breath,
how Yahweh is breath, and

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whether we intend for it to be
or not, the very breath in our

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lungs acknowledges God.
If you get a free moment to

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yourself, just listen to
yourself breathing as you inhale

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and exhale, and you’ll notice
that you’re speaking His name

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because Yahweh is breath.
I think that’s really cool and

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very special and definitely
shows God’s handiwork in us.

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So, as always, we hope this talk
strengthens your faith and

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brightens your day.
This is Brother Christian Smith,

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the name of Yahweh.
Good morning my dear brothers

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and sisters.
What a blessing and a privilege

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it is to be with you here this
morning, gathered around the

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emblems of God’s love today.
The thoughts for today’s

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exaltation have come from a few
places.

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Firstly, the Scriptures of
course, which is only

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appropriate, but also a few
hymns from the hymn book and

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also a very unusual poem that I
stumbled across some time ago

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which I borrowed some of the
sentiment from.

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But firstly, let’s start with
the hymns.

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There is a very clear memory in
my mind, even from quite young,

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of being a little bit confused
and sometimes even slightly

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amused by the words of a handful
of hymns from the hymn book.

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Now for some context to that
statement.

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If you’re old enough, we can
probably cast our minds back and

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remember that before the green
hymn book, there was the blue

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and the blue hymn book.
In case you’re unsure what that

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is, is really just a shorter
version of what’s in the green

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hymn book.
And in the addition of the blue

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hymn book that was used in the
ecclesia that I grew up in,

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there were a handful of hymns.
There weren’t many of them, but

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there were a few that featured
the word Jehovah.

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Now, I’m not actually sure if
Jehovah features in the green

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hymn book.
I think mostly we’d find that

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it’s the word Yahweh.
But in any case, it wasn’t

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always so in the hymn book that
we grew up with.

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Now even from quite young it was
obvious during the meeting that

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nobody sang Jehovah.
It was replaced with the word

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Yahweh instead, and this fact
was made even more obvious.

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And this is where sometimes it
was slightly amusing because

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there was always the small
problem of how to exchange the

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two syllable word Yahweh into
music that allowed for the three

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syllables of the word Jehovah.
So this meant that there was

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always a leftover note.
And the end result of that

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problem was that these lines of
lyrics were often ended up being

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mumbled or sort of sung
significantly quieter until the

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words in the music’s music
matched up again.

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So what that did for me, at
least in my mind, if nothing

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else, was emphasise the fact
that the word Yahweh was a much

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preferred replacement for the
word Jehovah.

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That is, there was something
special about that word Yahweh.

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And of course, all of that
prompted the question, why do we

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use the word Yahweh and not
Jehovah?

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Which is a good question.
Just to be clear, this isn’t

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actually the topic of our
exhortation this morning, but it

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is very much leading us quickly
there.

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So while we’re here, just in
case like me, you were unsure of

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what the answer to that is, why
do we use the word Yahweh?

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It’s not Jehovah.
This is, in short, the answer

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that was given.
The word Jehovah came about by

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taking the consonants of the
word Yahweh, so that’s YHWH, and

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combining into them the vowels
of the Word Adonai, which is the

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Hebrew word for my Lord.
So if we take the consonants of

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Yahweh and the vowels of Adonai,
mix them together, combine them,

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this gives us a word of roughly
Yahuwah.

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This word was then Latinized,
that is, was turned into a Latin

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version of that word which gives
us the word Jehovah.

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And this process seems to have
been done in the Middle Ages by

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Christian scholars and then over
the next few 100 years.

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It was later abandoned by most
of them with of course Jehovah’s

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Witness Witness group being the
most notable to hang on to it.

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So in short, Jehovah the word is
a man made word combining

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different words and thoughts.
One thing is certain in the

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Exodus 3 account, which Chris
read for us just before, when

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Moses asked God what his name
was, God didn’t reply with the

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word Jehovah.
In fact, it’s not really obvious

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from our reading that he said
Yahweh either.

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So why is it that we place so
much weight on this word of

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Yahweh, so much so to use it in
our hymns and to even often

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replace the words Lord God with
Yahweh in our Bible readings?

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So it is with this name of God,
and its original Jewish form in

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particular that we will
hopefully draw some

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encouragement from this morning.
So let’s have a look.

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If you’re still at Exodus
chapter 3, let’s have a look at

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Exodus 3 again.
So this is what we read for us

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this morning.
We’ll start here.

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So this is the account where God
is asked to reveal his name to

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his people, the Israelites.
Until now, he’s been known

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mostly by titles.
That is the Jewish versions of

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the word God, and we’ve already
mentioned one of those already.

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That’s Adonai, which means my
Lord.

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So Exodus 3 verse 14 is the
verse where most that we’re

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going to start with rather, but
this passage really seems

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slightly strange when Moses
talks to God and we’ll talk

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about that later.
But Moses said in short, the

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Israelites are going to ask me
who has sent me and who is going

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to deliver us from Egypt.
He says to God, what will I tell

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them?
What name will I give them?

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Now, Israel historically weren’t
strangers to God.

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Sure, their relationship had
been very up and down with him,

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but surely they were familiar
with the God of their fathers.

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That’s what we would think at
least.

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But maybe at this time when
they’re slaves in Egypt, they

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had forgotten this fact while
they were there.

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So God answers Moses with a
statement.

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Simple, definitive and eternal
statement.

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He said aya Asha aya, or as we
would read in our Bible, I am

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that I am or maybe your version
says I will be who I will be.

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Tell the people God said I am
has sent you.

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That is Moses.
We’re reading here in the in

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this account, the first time
that God expressed his

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absoluteness.
He identified himself as

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ultimate truth, eternal and
unique.

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Let’s have a look at verse 15
because here in verse 15 is

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where God really answers the
question that Moses asked him.

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God continues in verse 15.
He says, this shalt thou say

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unto Israel, the Lord God of
your father’s, the God of

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Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had
sent me unto you.

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This is my name forever, and
this is my memorial unto all

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generations.
The passage we read there, the

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phrase this is my name that God
refers to in verse 15 is

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referring back earlier in that
verse to Lord God.

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We would read at the beginning
of the verse or we could replace

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that, and we often do with the
word Yahweh.

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Yahweh is my name is what God
said.

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More accurately, YHWH is how it
was originally written in

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Hebrew.
Now it really is a study in

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itself how we go from Lord God
to the word Yahweh, which we

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really don’t have time for this
morning, but as far as I can

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tell, Yahweh is a good
translation to fit into that

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for, for that word Lord God.
But in particular this morning

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it’s the original Jewish form of
the word Yahweh, which is really

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very interesting.
The original written form of the

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name of the Almighty that is
YHWH.

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No vowels, only consonants.
All ancient Hebrew words follow

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this pattern when written.
That is, they wrote them without

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any vowels.
Vowel sounds were often included

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in words when spoken, but not in
a written form.

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So it is left for the scholars
afterwards to surmise what the

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sounds were likely to be as the
ancient Hebrews spoke their

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language, and the word Yahweh
really is no different.

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It seems like, as best as we can
tell, that the A and the E were

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probably the sounds used when
speaking God’s name out loud,

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that that isn’t actually known
for sure.

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But what we do know is that in
this ancient Hebrew language,

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God chose to reveal His name to
mankind that we might benefit

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from it.
He chose a deeply nuanced

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language with layers of meaning,
where letters and words have

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numbers, sounds and symbology
attached to them, which can make

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it hard for people with, let’s
say, broad Australian accents to

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always fully appreciate.
So just a few observations about

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the original title of Yahweh at
YHWH.

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On the surface, all of these
things may seem unintentional

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and of no consequence.
But assuming that our

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understanding of the language
aspect of God’s name is correct.

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And we do have to make
assumptions here because of

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course, Exodus 3 was written
thousands of years ago.

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A long time has passed since
then, and we aren’t Jewish

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language scholars.
But assuming that we’re correct

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on that, these things help to
give us a better appreciation, I

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think, of the greatness and the
depth of being of the Heavenly

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Father.
So firstly, YHWH is made-up of

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three different Hebrew letters.
So they are the Y, yod, H, hay,

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vav which is the West, and then
a hay.

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Again, hay, or the rather yod or
the Y is the smallest of the

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Hebrew letters, and it’s also
the most frequently occurring

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letter in Scripture.
Yod, if you see it written,

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looks very much like a small dot
in Hebrew script.

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And since a yod or a dot is used
to form all of the other

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letters, it is considered to
represent the starting point of

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the presence of God in all
things.

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In other words, it represents
God’s omnipresence.

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The 2nd and 4th letters.
The letter H or hey, as I would

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say it means look or behold.
That’s the meaning of it, and it

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is said to represent the divine
breath and the power of God.

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The 3rd letter, the West is the
letter Vav.

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This letter has a meaning of
hook and as the 6th.

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As it is the 6th letter of the
Hebrew alphabet, it’s then

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associated with man.
In Hebrew tradition it is

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suggested that the vav
represents the connection or the

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hook that binds heaven and
earth.

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So within this name of God we
have a sense of omnipresence,

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God’s breath, and also a sense
of connection between heaven and

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earth.
We can also note that the word

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Yahweh with just the consonants
YHWH contains all soft sounds

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and this makes it impossible for
this word, the name of God, to

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be shouted.
It is also impossible to be

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spoken quickly or in any other
way other than very

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deliberately.
In fact, this word, when we do

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try to say it in its vowel form,
is quite difficult to say.

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It is almost impossible for the
mouth to ever close properly

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around it.
YHWH comes out as little more

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than breath.
I’ll try it.

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Yeah, an interesting thought
that God’s name in this form is

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almost unpronounceable as
anything other than breath.

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Accidental maybe, but if not,
how fitting in the light of

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Bible teaching of God and in
particular a verse that we read

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in John chapter 4.
So come with me there, if you

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would, to John chapter 4.
In this chapter in John chapter

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4, Jesus spoke to a woman of
Samaria and their paths crossed

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as she was came to draw water
from the well.

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During that conversation in
verse 23, Jesus said to her, But

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the hour cometh, and now is when
the true worshippers shall

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worship the Father in spirit and
in truth, for the Father seeketh

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such to worship him.
And verse 24, God is a spirit,

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and they that worship Him must
work, must worship him in spirit

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and in truth.
God is a spirit, or my saying

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depending on the version you’ve
got, God is spirit.

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This word spirit means vital
principle or breath.

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God is the vital principle.
He is breath.

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God is breath from John 4.
How fitting, then, is the

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original Hebrew form of his
name, which is also little more

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than breath.
Breath is the vital principle,

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as we know, to all living
things.

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We can survive several days with
our food, only two or three

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without water, but we have only
minutes with our breath.

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Breathing is our most basic
action, an essential one, our

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first task at birth and the last
of death, an action done without

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thought or consideration until
it is not able to be performed

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easily.
We take breathing for granted,

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don’t we?
Until it’s hard to do.

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And I’m sure we can all identify
with the horrible feeling of

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being short of breath, or
finding our air supply polluted,

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or the feeling of desperation
when we’ve found ourselves

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underwater for too long and
urgently needing that vital gasp

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of air, or even eating a piece
of steak can happen.

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We are nothing without breath.
Nothing else matters to us when

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we are struggling to breathe.
All other issues or ailments at

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those desperate times are
secondary to just get air.

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Of course, our dependency on air
is always present, including

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right now.
It’s just that we give it little

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thought until those precious,
precious breaths are hard to

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find.
As we know, we are utterly

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dependent on the Almighty for
our breath of life.

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Just as a newborn can do nothing
for itself, so are we dependent

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on the Almighty, on Yahweh.
He alone supplies the air, the

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ability to breathe it, and the
life that it gives.

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We do none of it ourselves.
And we are totally at His mercy.

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Every breath that fills our
lungs is a tiny little gift to

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us from God himself.
So let’s consider our breath of

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life and the Spirit of God in
Genesis, and we’ll follow it

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through to Ecclesiastes.
So if you’d like to have a look

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at Genesis 2, we’ll see here the
continuation of it and where

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breath really comes from between
these two two quotes.

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So Genesis chapter 2.
And in Genesis 2 we read how

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Adam was formed out of the dust
of the ground at creation.

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The necessary elements to form a
human were all present, with the

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atoms all ranged in the right
way.

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Yet Adam was not a living soul
until the breath of life was put

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into his body.
And we know that from Genesis 2

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verse 7 says and the Lord God,
that’s Yahweh formed man of the

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dust of the ground and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of

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life and man that is Adam became
a living soul.

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So Adam was a lifeless body
until God provided that spark of

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life to allow all of his organs
to function and then that breath

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to keep them going.
So this, of course, was the

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beginning of Adam and of human
life.

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But once Adam was up and
breathing and walking around, he

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didn’t turn to God and just say
thank you.

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But I’ve got it from here
because we know that’s not how

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it works.
And Ecclesiastes 12 makes that

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very clear to us, that the
dependency on God’s Spirit that

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is God’s breath is always
present for us.

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So let’s have a look at
Ecclesiastes 12, in particular

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verse 7.
So we’ve read about the

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beginning with Adam in the
garden.

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Please out these trolls talking
about the end at death.

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And verse 7, the reeds.
Then shall the dust return to

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the earth as it was, and the
spirit shall return unto God who

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gave it again.
That word spirit in Ecclesiastes

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12, verse 7 means breath or
vital principle.

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We could read it.
So if we read that again, then

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shall the dust return to the
earth as it was, and the breath

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shall return unto God who gave
it.

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And we read similar words really
in a Job, in Job 34 verses 14

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and 15, Job 34 verses 14 and 15.
And it reads there, if he, that

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is God, set his heart upon man,
if he gather unto himself, his

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spirit, and his breath, all
flesh shall perish together, and

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man shall turn again unto dust.
So from these verses we know

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that in the end the atoms return
to the ground where they came

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from, and the breath or the
ability to breathe returns to

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God where it came from.
And it is this thought that

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helps explain, I think, God’s
omnipresence, perhaps the

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hardest of the three O’s of God
to get our head around.

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As believers in the Bible and
God, we have really no problem

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coming to terms with His
omnipotence, that is, Him being

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all powerful.
Of course, to be able to create

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and sustain all things, He must
be all powerful.

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If He’s all powerful, it is then
not too much of A leap to

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believe that He’s all knowing
and all seeing, but omnipresent.

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To be everywhere present is, I
think, hardest for us to

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understand because we can only
understand our being as existing

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in a fixed place during a
certain time.

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We can’t experience anything
being all places at the same

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time, everywhere, but God is so
far above our experiences.

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Come with me to Psalm 139
speaking about God’s

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omnipresence.
Psalm 139, we’ll start at verse

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7.
Just go down to verse 10.

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Verse 7.
Whither shall I go from my

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spirit, or whither shall I flee
from thy presence?

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So whither shall I go from my
breath, or whither shall I go

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from thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou

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art there.
If I make my bed in hell, behold

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thou art there.
If I take the wings of the

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morning and dwell in the
uttermost parts of the sea, even

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there shall thy right hand leave
me, and thy right hand shall

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hold me.
And again in Jeremiah 23, we

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also read the words where God’s
God asks a question.

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Do I not feel heaven and earth?
The vital principle of the

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breath of life, the Spirit of
God, is what provides life and

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keeps it going in all of these
places at the same time.

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Life can only be provided by the
Creator, and in this way Yahweh

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is omnipresent.
His life giving presence is felt

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in all living things, from the
unknowing shrub to the smallest

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of creatures, to the most
obedient of disciples and even

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the most ironclad atheists.
All bear witness of the Creator

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with each breath.
Each breath is exaltation to the

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Almighty, whether or not it is
even realised or acknowledged.

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God is breath.
He is the vital principle to us.

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He is vital to our existence
right now.

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And His Son is vital to our
future, Jesus, the ultimate

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example of how our sinful ways
can be overcome.

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And then our mortal functions
replaced, our corrupted failing

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bodies replaced with an
incorruptible one, which is

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surely, which is surely the
greatest of all gifts.

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Jesus body is now changed by
God-given immortality.

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And when we consider the process
of how this was done, the

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sacrifice and the blessing
provided by God and His Son, we

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can truly think, truly
appreciate, I think, the

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opportunities given to us today.
God gave his Son the breath of

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life and Jesus didn’t waste a
single one of them.

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He used each breath wisely and
not even an idle word past his

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lips.
Faithful service day after day.

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Of course this pleased the
Father, but even Jesus breath

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needed to be removed and so and
so important was this event that

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God not only knew what would
happen, He not only allowed it

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to happen, but God actually had
to make it happen because only

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Yahweh could give His Son life
giving breath and only Yahweh

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could take it away.
And so He did for us brethren

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and sisters.
On the cross, Yahweh removed his

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spirit from his Son’s body.
Jesus breath returned to God who

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gave it, and Yahweh’s
omnipresence was definitely felt

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by all at that time.
But of course Jesus death was

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short lived, which is a good
thing.

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Three days later, God’s Spirit
was returned to Jesus in a way

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yet not experienced by anyone
else.

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God’s breath of life was
returned in abundance, so much

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so that mortality was replaced
with immortality, perfect in

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corruption, a state so good that
we can’t really understand it.

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And so we came here this
morning, brothers and sisters,

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to remind ourselves of what is
really important, to focus on

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our minds on things that we
should, to remember His Son and

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our example, to obey and serve
with love and gratitude.

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It is a blessing and a privilege
to be here this morning, isn’t

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it?
Not just because of the

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beautiful surrounds in which we
find ourselves gathered with

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like minded family, but also
because God has given us more

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time.
He’s given us more breaths.

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Enough breaths to witness this
day so far.

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Which is an amazing blessing,
even if we’re not particularly

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feeling it this morning.
For whatever reason, as

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undeserving as we all are, He
has provided us with health and

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circumstance sufficient to meet
here today.

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This is an amazing blessing and
it’s not always easy to feel

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that all the time.
I get that.

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I know it’s easy to be like,
well, meeting starts at 11, walk

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in, hopefully get a seat near
the air con somewhere, stand up,

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sit down at the right times.
That is how I can feel

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sometimes.
But really, what an

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extraordinary blessing We have
breath from God and opportunity

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beyond belief and each other to
share the journey with praise

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God.
John 4.

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God is breath and we that
worship Him must worship Him in

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breath and in truth.
At the beginning of this new

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week, we need to breathe words
of praise and worship to the

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Father.
We need to breathe words to

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those around us that are
befitting of a disciple of

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Christ.
We need to be conscious and

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grateful for our breaths as the
gift of Yahweh that they are to

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use them well to give glory to
Him.

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God is unpronounceable, yet in
every second pronounced, in

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every breath we take, hallowed
be His name.

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