Tonight we're going to be in the book of Proverbs chapter 18. And here in our text we have the same contrast as we've had between the fool and the wicked. Between the fool and the wise I should say. Between the wicked and the righteous. And interestingly enough, this time our Lord is using references as to what men speak, what men say. And seven times in our text, the first 13 verses of Proverbs chapter 18, it refers to either the lips, the tongue, the mouth, words, seven different times, seven different times. And most of the time it's referring to the fool, what the fool speaks. You have the foolish man's mouth, his lips, his words, his answer, and the words and actions of the righteous. The words and actions of the righteous. The scripture says the steps, the steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord. The steps, don't you think his words are too? Of course they are. Of course they are. Scripture tells us, we'll get to this a little later on, the meditation of the heart and the answer of the tongue, that's from the Lord, that's from the Lord.

He says in Matthew 24, 34, O generations of vipers, how can ye being evil speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. So we're gonna say anything right, anything good, anything that has truth to it, has to be of the Lord. It has to be from him and by his grace and by his power, because we cannot conjure it up. We cannot bolster it up. He further echoes this in a different gospel, the one in Matthew I just read, but the one in Luke says, a good man out of the good treasures of his heart bringeth forth that which is good, And an evil man of the evil treasures of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil.

For of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaketh. We, as God's elect, and if we would have continued reading in the book of Exodus, we would have got to the part where, Exodus chapter three, where Moses starts contending with the Lord a little bit and says, hey, you got the wrong guy. And I'm going to paraphrase. He says, I'm slow of speech. He says, I can't talk, right?

And this is what we must as the Lord's people remember. If we don't examine our tongue and what we say, we look to Christ because who has taught the dumb to speak, the lame to walk, who has rose the dead from the grave? He tells Moses, did not I now go and I will be with you, Moses. So the meditation of the heart and the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord. It comes from the Lord. He gets all the glory. It's the Lord that makes us to differ.

We never look and see wicked people or evil men, foolish. You know, you see foolish people. You see them all the time and your heart breaks for them. Sometimes you see them and you're like, and they may be this close to the truth. That ain't close enough. How much do you have to believe of the Bible to be a believer? Every word of it. Every single word of it, you have to believe it.

What thus saith the Lord? And if we find ourself believing the truth, it's because God is the doer of it. Therefore, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. The Lord gives a new heart to speak his truth, doesn't he? Now, I didn't want to spend too much time talking about the tongue, necessarily, because there's something glorious in our text that doesn't go along with the tongue, but we've already had some messages regarding that. We already had some messages regarding that earlier on in Proverbs. So the Lord gave me a message that's found in verse 10.

So we're gonna read verse one through 13, but before I do, it's very important Whenever we see contrast as the Lord has given us throughout scripture, throughout Proverbs, and we see the foolish and the wise, it's so important that we don't get lifted up in pride and see ourselves as wise because they that think themselves to be wise, they are the fool.

They are the fool. It's the ones that believe that they're the fool that are actually wise. It's the sinner. that's made the righteousness of God in Christ. He said, I come not to call the righteous, but the sinner to repentance. So all false religion has it backwards. We mustn't see ourself as wise. We must see ourself as the chief sinner, the fool whom the Lord came to save. And only the Lord can do that. And the statement is, is who maketh thee to differ, he gets all the glory. If we find ourselves speaking his truth, believing his gospel, he's the doer of it. So let's read this together.

Proverbs 18.1, through desire, a man having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt and with ignominy, reproach. The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters and well springs of wisdom as a flowing brook. It is not good to accept the person of the wicked to overthrow the righteous in judgment. A fool's lips entereth into contention and his mouth calleth for strokes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, his lips are the snare of his soul. The words of a tailbearer are as wounds and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

Here's our topic tonight and our title, The Name of the Lord. The Name of the Lord. Let's read the rest of it. The name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous runneth unto it and is safe. And I'm gonna bring this back up again, but notice the word runneth. Somebody recently asked me, why do you prefer the King James Version of the Bible?

Two reasons. Number one, it's the closest thing we have to the original transcript, the original manuscript, that does not have a copyright on it. meaning anybody can copy it. All other translations have a copyright on it. This is the closest thing to the original translation that we have.

Number two is words like E-T-H and shall. When God said I will and you shall, that's gonna come to pass. He didn't say I will and you will, he said I will and you shall. Well here it says the righteous runneth, T-H. That is a continual, action. That's not a one-time thing. It's not even that it's a multiple time thing. It's a continual, we are constantly running, constantly running. And he didn't say was safe. He says is safe. So that tells me every time we run unto the Lord, by his grace, we're called, we find ourselves safe.

Verse 11, the rich man's wealth is his strong city. And as in high wall, in his own conceit. Before destruction, the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility. He that answereth a matter, before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

The name of the Lord, I have not drawn a text with that title before, and I find that it is a wonderful thought, all the, you know there's more than one name of the Lord, but every single one of them reveal the person and character from perhaps a different perspective or perhaps some different understanding of a character of our Lord. The only difference in the Lord's people and those left of themselves is found here in verse 11, we run To him, as our high tower, as our hiding place, by his grace alone, we are, and somebody said, well, I chose to run to him.

I chose to do that. Well, this is what he says in Jeremiah 31, three, the Lord hath appeared unto me old, saying, yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee. So I loved you, then I drew you, Then you fled to the high tower. Do we see the, we have to have it right. Most false, all false religion has it this way. I decided to run because God loved me, therefore I'm saved because I chose to run. That's not what happened. He says, I loved you, I drew you, I bought you, you're mine. Therefore, we came to him. He's gotta give us the ability. The Lord's chosen people are drawn to the Lord.

They desire to have his name, not our name any longer. We don't want our name. When the roll is called, and there's a song that's called that, when the roll is called up yonder, and that's definitely not what I'm talking about. But when the time comes that our name is called, I do not want to hear my name called. I want to hear his name called in my place, in my place. When the record is read, I don't want my record read. I want his record to be read. I want to hear his name. I want to hear his record.

And he is the only one that can cause that to be so, the only one. Only the Lord's people desire to have His name, to flee to His resting place, His hiding place. Oh, the cleft of the rock. We desire Him, Him. For tonight, I hope to look at the name of the Lord. And you all know there's many, many, many names of our God that's given to His people.

And there may be some times that you might See Him as Jehovah Sitkin you, the Lord our righteousness, and the Lord allowed you to enter into that. and know what a comfort it is to see the Lord our righteousness. There may be other times where you just hear him as Jesus Christ, as the Messiah, the Savior, the one that was prophesied that he would take away the sin of his people. He would call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sin, Matthew chapter one. Maybe that gives you comfort. There may be another time you might hear him as wonderful counselor, the Prince of Peace, the Everlasting Father. Maybe sometimes you hear him as Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, and that gives you comfort knowing I'm not the beginning of salvation or the end of my salvation. Hearing his name, there's power in his name. There's not just one name.

That we can call him because he's so vast, so infinite, so beyond our understanding. He's everlasting. He's eternal. There's no way that we can consolidate, but don't miss that Jesus Christ is his name. He's God. Don't miss that Jehovah is his name. He's God. Don't miss that all these names that the Lord's given to himself is to show us his isness. Even the, even the, I am that I am. That's his name. That's his name.

He gives us insight by His Spirit to different parts of His character at different times, and we find great comfort at different times. Our need is always the same, but there are some times where the Lord reveals something to us that's different. than he ever has before, and that's usually how it goes. He gives us a crumb off of the master's table. I've never tasted this crumb before. I've never seen this part before. And that's what satisfies us. That's what satiates our thirst for that moment, for that time. This is who our Lord is. It's all based on his name. A person's name is a reflection of who they are.

Whenever you think of me, And I hope you think of me in regards to praying for me. I need your prayers. When I think of you, I pray the Lord causes me to remember to pray for you more often. When I think about you or you think about me, you think about my face. You think about my character. You might think about my personality.

Well, as we hear the Lord's names, we see him through a glass darkly, but we see his face beautiful, not as we are. We see him as other than we are. We see his works as good, not as our works are. Our works are not good. We can't present our works to him. That's why the Lord Jesus Christ lived a perfect life we couldn't. to give the works that we couldn't, to produce the works that we couldn't produce. When you think about somebody, you think about their name. A lot of people, they want to leave a legacy whenever they die.

They have their, they have this mentality, I want to get all that I can and can all that I get. I'm going to sit on it and I'm not going to share with anybody and And the Lord talks about that in several places. Ecclesiastes, he talked about thou fool, tonight thy soul be acquired of thee. I think that was the Lord, one of the Lord's parables.

The point I'm making is, is when you think about somebody, you think about what they've done in life. But when we think about God, you have to think about what he did in eternity. Now, trying to enter into that is far above our mental ability. It has to be done by faith. We think about, he loved me with an everlasting love. Why? For his name's sake. For his name's sake, I've loved thee with an everlasting love. Not your name's sake, his name's sake.

Matter of fact, the Lord said, if we deny him, yet he remains faithful, he cannot deny himself. He cannot deny himself. Everything that the Lord reveals about himself is about what he has done in the salvation of his chosen people. It's about him getting all the glory, all the glory. I don't want to say part of his character. I mean, every view point of his character, every viewpoint that we have, and we look through a glass darkly, we do.

All of them reveal that he's absolutely the sovereign creator of the universe and all the sustainer of life. He, he is the beginning of all life because he is life. He's the beginning of an end of all truth because he is truth. We see that he is infinite, the self-existing one.

As a matter of fact, whenever we read over in Exodus chapter three, when he said, I am that I am, that's what that means, a self-existing one. Now this should give us great comfort as the Lord's people because whenever you realize that he has no beginning of days nor end of life, he's the self-existing one. He doesn't depend on me or you for anything at any time. If he chose to save me, there's nothing I can do to mess it up. That comforts my heart. I can't mess it up. That doesn't make me want to live a frivolous life. I just stand in awe that our God is so amazing, so amazing. And all of his names, all of his names are amazing because they reveal his character, the fullness of his character.

I Am That I Am means Jehovah. The name Jehovah is the covenant name which was given to His chosen people in the Old Testament. And it usually is always represented, and remember this, when you're reading Scripture, especially in the Psalms, and you see that when the Lord is referred to as Lord, if it's capital L, capital O, capital R, capital E, that is Jehovah.

The self existing one. The self existing one. It signifies that. He's the eternal one that he revealed to Moses. Listen to what he says in Isaiah 42, eight. I am the Lord, capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D. That is my name. I am the Lord. I am self existing. That is my name. Think about that. He's the reason his people are saved.

Malachi 3.6 says, for I am the Lord, all in caps, I change not, therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed. I am the Lord, I change not, therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed. He's changeless. He's changeless as the self-existing one. This is who he is, and this is what is his name. By his, isness, and by his name, he's wrought salvation for his people. Before time, and I say this often, before time, he chose to save a particular people in his own counsel, determinate counsel. Who'd he counsel with, the angels? No. No, there's an argument in some false religions in Genesis chapter one where it says, let us make man in our image. Who was he talking to, the angels?

No. We believe in the triune Godhead, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. And how they can, how they can separate themselves and still remain one, explain that to me. We have a spirit. which is our breath, we have a soul that's gonna live forever, and we have the flesh, and if any part of that separates, we're dead.

Not him. Matter of fact, that's how he gives us life, he gives us spirit, sends his spirit and power. That's how he saved us, he sent his son to the earth. Think about that. We can't understand all this, and yet it's glorious in our sight because we know that's exactly what happened according to the scripture.

Before time, he made a covenant between the father, The Son and the Holy Spirit, the Father elected a people, the Son agreed to redeem those people, given to Him by the Father, and the Spirit agreed to regenerate those people in time, in time. It's called the everlasting covenant of grace.

Listen to what He said in Isaiah chapter 61. I'm gonna do a lot of quoting of verses. We can turn to a few of them if we have time, but I'm already I feel like I'm already pressed. Isaiah 61, eight, for I, the Lord, love judgment. I hate robbery for burnt offerings, and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. He's saying, I don't like your burnt offerings. God will provide himself a lamb. I will make an everlasting covenant. I will satisfy myself. I am the Lord. I am God.

It's called the sure mercies of David. The sure mercies, why was David's mercy sure? Because of the source, because of the substance of it. The Lord Jesus Christ was the source and the substance of it, so his mercies were sure. And if you're in Christ, and you're in Christ, if I'm in Christ, the mercy of God is sure to us and cannot be changed or altered, why?

I am the Lord, capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D, and I change not, therefore, You sons of Jacob are not consumed. You elect of mine, the apple of my eye, the ones that are precious in my sight, that I have saved, redeemed, bought, the ones that I've called mine, my beloved. None can take you from my hand. None can take you from my hand.

It is the covenant of grace whereby he chose to save sinners. He tells us in Isaiah 48, for mine own sake, and I love that, if we ever wonder why would the Lord save me? You ever wondered that before? Of all the people, of all the people, why would the Lord, and I know that we don't mean to say that in unbelief, because if you were looking, we believe that the Lord was capable of doing it, that's not the problem, it's just like, Oh, I didn't deserve, that's the point.

I didn't deserve it. But listen to what he says, here's his reason. For mine own sake, even for my own sake, will I do it. That's why. For my own sake, I'll do it. Not for your sake, my own sake. For how should my name be polluted? I will not give my glory to another. Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called.

I am he, I am the first, I am also the last, the father. The Father elected a people. The Son redeemed those people, and the Spirit regenerates those people in time. The announcement of the Redeemer was revealed to Adam in the garden. After Adam had sinned against the Lord, he hid himself, and the Lord said, where art thou, Adam? And I love the Lord asking questions of his people.

Every time he asked a question, not only did he know the answer, he could have just went right to Adam, And he would have scared him to death, wouldn't he? He thought, I'm a dead man. You know, that's why I was hiding from the Lord. He knew he did wrong. He knew he was a sinner, just like you and I. How can that which is clean be made right? Adam, where art thou? Here I am, Lord. Well, why are you hiding? Well, we're naked. Well, who told you you were naked?

Did you eat of the tree? Well, of course he ate of the tree. God knew that. The Lord's gonna draw the confession from his people. That's the whole point. So what'd the Lord do? Well, he saw the fig leaves on them and he said, that's not gonna work because it's by your hand. Not gonna work. No, for mine own sake, I will save you.

And God killed a lamb and covered them. God revealed the lamb of God to Adam in the garden. He's called one of the members of faith over in Hebrews, the hall of faith. Hebrews chapter 10, I believe it is. He was revealed in the Ark of Noah. In the Ark of Noah, you say, what's his name? Well, to Adam, he was the Lamb. To Noah, he was the Ark. He was revealed unto him in the Ark.

And we see Christ, our Ark, in that, do we not? How they stayed in the Ark and was not destroyed when the wrath of God came down. All these types and pictures in the Old Testament are all a perfect example of his name, what his name has accomplished by his grace. For my own sake, Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord why for my own sake not for yours Not because of what you do not because of what you don't do for my own sake my own sake He was revealed as all types and shadows and throughout the Old Testament unto Abraham he was He was Abraham's ram caught in the thicket, wasn't he?

He was Abraham's sacrifice. He was promised to Abraham. The Messiah was promised to Abraham and Abraham believed God. Why? Because it was counted to him for righteousness. It was reckoned to him. God said, I'm gonna give you faith and you're gonna believe because I've made you righteous. I've made you righteous.

Isaiah saw our Lord like this. Isaiah gives some wonderful, Wonderful insight as to seeing the Lord Jesus Christ before his day. Listen to this, Isaiah 9, 6 says, unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Every one of those are capitalized.

Why? It's his name. It's his name. Somebody said, I have a lot of confusion in my life right now. I have a lot of chaos going on. I don't know what to do about this and this. Go to the Prince of Peace. Fleet of the Prince of Peace. The high tower, the high tower, it's his name. It's his name, cry out to him. Cry out his name. Which one? Pick one. The one that you need. He's everything to his people. That's why he's given us all these names. Counselor, Wonderful, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father.

Somebody says, I don't have a father. I don't have a believing father. I understand, I don't either. He's the Everlasting Father. The Everlasting Father. I need to find peace. He is the Prince of Peace. Cry out to him. It's his name, it's what he's accomplished. Oh, and he became a man. God became a man, the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Savior, the Set-apart One. He was the Father's elected sacrifice. He was the one to bear the sin of His people. He was the only one qualified, only one capable, only one that had precious, perfect blood that could wash away the sin of His people. And that's exactly what he did.

First, he lived a perfect life that we couldn't live, so that our record could be stripped from top to bottom, completely blank, and then rewritten by the Lord Jesus Christ's record, put right in place. Isn't that glorious? You mean I was perfect? I lived a perfect life before God, never having one perverse thought, never saying one wrong word, never doing one wrong thing, never sinning one time?

Yes, if you're in Christ, not one time. Not one time. God said, I've cast your sin as far as the east is from the west. Why? "'cause I've loved you with an everlasting love. "'Therefore, you sons of Jacob, you're not consumed. "'I am the Lord, I change not. "'Therefore, you sons of Jacob are not consumed.'" Oh, he was born the Lamb of God, which was, which is, which is to come. He was the first and the last. He had no beginning of days nor end of life, yet he died on the cross of Calvary.

Explain that to me. There's a lot of theological people out there that argue over a lot of things. Explain how the eternal God died. You can't. You gotta just believe it. Believe it by faith. That's why arguing's so foolish. We can't begin to describe the names of our Lord and the things that he accomplished. Why? Because it has to be believed by faith alone. Faith bestowed by grace alone.

Oh, he took our sin and he bore them in his body on the tree that should have been ours, endeared the wrath that should have been ours. One of my favorite names of our Lord, I love them all. I'm not diminishing any of them. My substitute, my substitute, my surety, my surety, the one that said I will die in their place. And if I do not accomplish that which I set out to do, I will take the blame for it. That's what assured is. Now we know he cannot fail. Why? Because he's God. I love the fact that he can't lie. I am the Lord. I cannot lie. Lord can't lie.

Everything that God required. for the salvation of his people, for our record to be clean, because his name is called Jehovah Sitkinu, the Lord our righteousness. Our name now is called Jehovah Sitkinu, the Lord our righteousness. Because his name is called Jesus Christ, our name is called perfectly righteous. It's called perfectly truth and full of grace in God's eyes, never sinning one time. Why? Well, because His name's also the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Alpha means He's the start of salvation. Omega means He's the end of salvation. He's the beginning of it, He's the end of it.

He justified His people freely by His grace. How do you know? Hebrews chapter one, verse three says, when He had by Himself, all His names, when He, He had by Himself purged our sin, He sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high. Why? Ever making intercession for his people. He is our intercessor. He is our mediator. He is our prophet. He is our priest. He is our king. He is our advocate with the father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. If any man sin, We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

These are his names. These are not just a title that was given to him. These are his actual names. Don't you love that? We only have, I have three names. I have a lot of names people call me probably, but that's the point. I only have three real names. My wife calls me names every once in a while. You know how it goes. But these are his actual names. They're not just, pet names, they're not just titles given by men. God said call him this because that's who he is, the savior of my people. Don't you love that? That's his name.

The most glorious part is knowing that he was successful. He said it is finished after he had purged our sins and because of this, because of his success in redeeming his people, God hath given him a name that's above every name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. God will give us the grace on this side of eternity and faith to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, to bow and confess he is Lord here, now, or we will do it in fear. on the other side, but either way, everyone will confess him. Every bit of his names, every bit of his isness, the Lord Jesus Christ is Lord. Now the good news of the gospel is this, brethren. There's power in his name. You know what Romans chapter 10 says? Whosoever calleth on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Aren't you glad it doesn't say your name right there? Why? Because there's a bunch of Caleb Andrew Hickman's in the world. How would I know if it's my name that he's talking about? How would I know if it was my daughter's name? There's a bunch of Lacy's in the world. There's a bunch of, you get what I'm saying.

It says, whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Somebody said, well, you just got done saying only the Lord's people can believe. I'm still standing by that. Only God's whosoever's will. Only God whosoever's will. Only they that are enabled, only they that are caused by his power because of his name will come to him. They will call upon the name of the Lord.

Lord, save me. Save me by your grace. Romans 10, 9, and 10 says that, if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, that's his, not just his name, but his person, his character, his finished work, who he is as God, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart, God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart, not the old heart of stone, it's the new heart of flesh, but with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. The confessions on the inward heart. We confess with the mouth. And we started that, didn't we? It was all about what was being spoken. I wanted to make sure I got back to that at the end.

The confession. is what God draws. God draws us to confess the Lord Jesus Christ here. We don't speak the lies that's found all throughout these 12 verses, the ones that are the fool, the ones that are the wicked, the ones that are saying deceitful things. We're made to speak the truth about who God is.

Why? Because we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe he is God, the fullness of the Godhead bodily. That's what the scripture says. How do we confess? By grace through faith alone. God sends his spirit in time to quicken his chosen people. Everyone that the father elected and the son redeemed, the spirit regenerates.

Somebody said that the, I didn't click on this one, but I was looking up something. I was curious. named for the Holy Spirit, and he's called the Comforter, different things like that. But his name is the Holy Spirit. It's the Spirit of Christ. It's the Holy Spirit of Christ. This isn't complicated. But somebody else says, no, his name is this, it's this and that. I didn't even click on it. I'm like, nope, that's not it. That's not it. He don't want attention drawn to himself.

Do you know why? because he's the Spirit of Christ. Every time, if you have peace, if you have peace from the Prince of Peace, it'll come from the Lord's Spirit. He's breathing upon you. The moment you look to the Prince of Peace for that comfort, you're gonna have peace. But the moment you look to the dove, the Spirit of God, he'll fly away.

All glory and honor and praise unto the Lamb forever and ever and ever. That's what the scripture says. That's what the scripture says. The Lord is the one that calls us to believe, sends his comforter in our time of need to point us to the Lord's finished work, our hiding place, our ark, our cleft of the rock. Let's read verse, just one verse in closing.

Verse 10, the name of the Lord is our strong tower. The righteous runneth into it and is safe. Constantly running, constantly begging, Lord, save me, and we're constantly safe in him. Why? because of the name of the Lord. It's not my running that does it, is it? No, if that was the case, I would stumble and trip and fall. It's the Lord that's enabling us to run to Him. It's the Lord that's enabling us.

So I ask you in closing, brethren, have you believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God? Have you believed that He is the fullness of the Godhead bodily? If you believe that Jesus Christ is God, you're a believer. because everything in false religion denies him being the fullness of the Godhead bodily, the successful redeemer of his people. Have you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ as all your wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption?

The real question is, are you like these fools or the ones that are wicked that look to themselves, the one that he said, Verse two, a fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. You ever heard somebody say, I'm just trying to figure myself out?

You ever heard that before? That's exactly what that's talking about right there. Somebody don't wanna hear understanding. No, I'm just trying to figure my own self out. I'm not worried about what God thinks. I'm not worried about what he says. I need to figure, I gotta figure out myself. I'm on a, I'm taking a sabbatical or something. You ever heard that stuff? That's what this is talking about. The fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

No, no, the name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run into it and is safe. And we know why they're righteous because they've been made the righteousness of God in Christ. Have you believed on the only name given among men whereby we must be saved? How do I know that I'm saved? We don't ask that about ourself. Do you believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ as your only hope for salvation?

Then believe. Believers just believe, brethren. We believe and speak what God has said about himself, his son, and his spirit, and his chosen people. Thank God for the name. the names of God. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you that your name is above every name and there's power in your name. Not as some foolishly believe that are in darkness, but Lord, we see by faith its beauty, your beauty. Thank you. Bless us to our understanding. In Christ's name, amen.