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Sunday, July 19, 2026

Names of God - YHWH 'Asah Shamayim Erets - The Maker of Heaven and Earth

YHWH 'ASAH SHAMAYIM ERETS

(pronounced yah-way - ah sah shah-MAH-yeem eh'rets)

The Lord, The Maker of Heaven and Earth

Psalm 121:2

My Help comes from The LORD, The Maker of Heaven and Earth.

MY HELP: My Divine Intervention. My Intercessor. My Rescuer. My Savior. My Interceder. My Alliance. My Restorer of The Covenant. My Wisdom & Navigator. My Source.

THE LORD: Self-existent, Eternal

Genesis 2:4

These are the generations (the history, the account) of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that The LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

Psalm 124:8

Our help is in The Name of The LORD, The Maker of heaven and earth.

And because our help is in The Name of The LORD, we are so very much aware that our salvation is in The Name of The LORD, too. As Paul wrote in Romans 10:13, "For whosoever shall call upon The Name of The Lord shall be saved." Now we see by Scripture and the knowledge of the holy that, THE LORD IS MY SAVIOR.

[Exodus 15:2; Psalm 18:2; 27:1; 118:14; Isaiah 12:2; John 2:9; Revelation 7:10]

THE MAKER: Purposeful Creator, Industrious One, Governor, Accomplisher, Provider, Deliberate Creator, Intentional Artist

Nehemiah 9:6

You alone are The LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.

Psalm 148:1-5

Hallelujah! Praise The LORD from the heavens; praise Him in the highest places. Praise Him, all His angels; praise Him, all His heavenly hosts. Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars. Praise Him, O highest heavens, and you waters above the skies. Let them praise The Name of the LORD, for He gave the command and they were created.

John 1:1-3

In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God, and The Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.

Revelation 1:8

I am Alpha and Omega, The Beginning and The Ending, says The Lord, Who is, and Who was, and Who is to come, The Almighty.

OF HEAVEN AND EARTH: Sky above the earth, celestial bodies above the sky. Dry land, ground, country, domain, firm.

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:6, 7

Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.

By The Word of The LORD were the heavens and the earth created. God spoke, with His Breath, all life into existence at the time of creation during the six days He created the earth and the heavens. Psalm 33:6 "By The Word of The LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by The Breath of His mouth."

[Isaiah 45:2; Jeremiah 10:12]

Genesis 1:9, 10

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas: and God saw that it was good.

Psalm 104:6-8

You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them.

And on this earth, God created mankind, male and female, man and woman. Man God created with His Word and His Breath out of the dust, the land, of the Earth. [Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3:19; 1 Corinthians 15:47; Job 33:4; Acts 17:25; John 1:3]. Not primordial soup, neither primates nor rocks, as some would have us to believe, but by The Word of God, The Spirit of God and God Himself we are created beings. And we have a responsibility towards our Creator to return to Him and worship Him.

For we have been separated from God through our sin-nature which we have inherited from Adam and Eve, from whom all life has been generated. For when God created them, He told them to 'be fruitful and multiply'; and they did [Genesis 1:28]. But when they sinned against God, all of the lives which came from Adam and Eve were now tainted and separated from God. It wasn't just Adam and Eve who were removed from the garden in Eden: all of their children and grandchildren and so on and so forth also had to leave the garden. The nature of sin is that it taints everyone.

But how do we get back to God? How do we return to our Creator, our Maker? In the beginning of returning back to God, it was during the time of Adam and Eve's third son born after the fall--Seth--when mankind turned to God. Genesis 4:26.

Perhaps seeing the results of his brother Cain's actions--jealousy, murder and unrepentance--caused the men of Seth and his son Enosh's time to separate themselves from them and call on The Name of The Lord.

Still this call goes out: Whosoever shall call upon The Name of The Lord shall be saved. Urgently the call is given: Return to The Lord Your Maker. Repent, and believe.

Romans 10:13

For whosoever shall call upon The Name of The Lord shall be saved.

John 20:31

But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is The Christ, The Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His Name.

John 1:12, 13

But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His Name, He gave the right to become children of God—children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.

Mere lineage cannot bring us into the presence of The Eternal Living Holy God. We must be born again through belief that Jesus Christ is God's Only Begotten Son, Who died on the cross for our sins, conquered death/hell/the grave and walked out of the tomb in which He had been laid into a glorified body, a resurrected body and is seated now at the right hand of God, interceding on behalf of His people.

We who believe are not only of the lineage of Adam and Eve, we are of the seed of Abraham, who believed God when circumstances always said otherwise. He obeyed God and journeyed to a place he'd never been before, never seen nor even heard of. He brought his son Isaac to the top of the mountain to sacrifice him as God had commanded. But God provided a different sacrifice. Abraham did not have to sacrifice his beloved son.

But God chose to sacrifice His Beloved Son, so that the sins which dragged us down to hell, the sins which separated us from God, would be broken from off of us, through the shedding of His own blood. God allowed His Word, wrapped in flesh, to be tortured, beaten and nailed to a cross: for us.

Now it is possible to return to God, for the ultimate sin-offering has been made and the veil that separated us from God's Holy presence has been torn permanently. Now, we can return to our Creator. Now, we can call on The Name of The Lord God for our salvation. Now, The Maker of Heaven and Earth is The Maker of our New Life in Christ Jesus. Now, our Maker is remaking us daily into His image in a different way than He made us in His image in the garden.

Come, let us worship and bow down before The Lord Our Maker. Let us call on His Name for our salvation. Let our repentance be real and pure, that we might remain His people. If we are truly of Christ, then we will live for Christ and die to self.

Friday, January 6, 2023

Guard Your Heart - - Guard Your Approach To God

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

*Strong's Ex. Conc. No. 7272

Steps: foot (by extension: any part of the foot or relating to the foot: toe, heel, sole or pluralized (feet, toes, heels, soles)

From the Hebrew word 'regel' (pronounced reh'-gel); footstep(s), journey (Genesis 29:1), pace (Genesis 33:14), follow (Exodus 11:8), times (Exodus 23:14).

So many seemingly different ways to express the word 'steps' and yet they all make sense. In our study today we learn how to guard our hearts when we approach God in His house, whether that house is His sanctuary in heaven, His designated house of worship or His presence (in prayer when we speak together).

In Exodus 3:5, when God spoke to Moses from the burning bush, He instructed Moses to remove the sandals from his feet for the place in which Moses stood was holy ground. Where God is is holy and nothing unholy can be where God is. Moses, just like Joshua, needed to be obedient to the voice of God or he would not be able to obey God. This same instruction would be repeated to Joshua (Joshua 5:15).

PREPARE TO MEET YOUR MAKER (James 4:7-10)

When we approach God we are to resist the temptation to turn aside from God. We choose to be resolute in our desire to hear what our God has to say to us. We put on our Helmet of Salvation, which blocks our 'hearing' what the devil is saying, for he can neither step into nor cross the blood which flowed from Calvary.

In our approach to God we are fully dressed in the armor of God, ready with our Swords (the Word of God) to repel the enemy of our souls, having fully applied said Word to ourselves.

We are to submit to God, with a desire to draw near to hear what He has to say to us that we might obey Him and do the work He has for us to do, whether it's cleaning the bathrooms or preaching from a pulpit, whether it's resting in His presence or fixing the roof. God has a work for us and we need to be ready to do it, according to the Word He gives us to do. (James 4:7)

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Approach God with clean hands (in good conscience [cleansed by faith, repentance and transformation into a changed attitude]) and a pure (sanctified) heart (James 4:8).

Grieve, mourn and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom. (James 4:9) When God sends afflictions (tribulations, persecutions, distresses) on us, it is to our benefit that we accept such trials and not rebuff them, nor be antagonistic against our persecutors (Matthew 5:11). Mourn and weep over our sins, and the sins of others, when we approach God. For it is God who turns our mourning into dancing (Psalm 30:11), it is God who wipes away our tears (Isaiah 25:8; Revelation 21:4).

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up (James 4:10). Both Moses and Joshua had to remove their shoes, a sign of humility in obedience to the voice of God. Both men were elevated to a higher place of position amongst the people they would be in charge of. While a higher position in this lifetime is not guaranteed to us when we obey God, the obedient Christian will still be in an exalted position during the millenial reign of Christ (Revelation 20:4. 6) . And 1 Peter 2:9 tells us that even now we are 'a royal priesthood, a chosen people, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession'.

OBEDIENCE BETTER THAN SACRIFICE (1 Samuel 15:22)

Having guarded our heart in such a manner, we are now prepared to enter His presence. Almost. This verse in Ecclesiastes tells us we need to obey God and not offer sacrifices to Him that will not be accepted. If God is telling us to do something and we are not doing it, no amount of 'sacrifice' on our part is going to be accepted by Him. King Saul learned this the hard way: he lost his kingship (1 Samuel 15).

Though animal sacrifices were instituted by God in the Old Testament under the Old Covenants, they were but shadows of the ultimate sacrifice which Christ would make when He became God's Lamb who once and for all Redeemed us to Himself.

Sacrifices done not according to God's Holy Word are not going to be acceptable to God at any time ever. Even before Christ arrived on the scene, David wrote in Psalm 51;17 that "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise." A broken and contrite heart is the sacrifice God now requires of the people who want to be in His presence.

Broken spirit. Broken and Contrite Heart. Humbled, not self-centered. Not self-indulgent, not self-involved. Not a willful, disobedient heart, not a rebellious spirit. A God-centered heart. A heart and spirit that are ready to receive from God, not reject God. These are the sacrifices which God has approved for us. Anything less or more will be rejected by Him. We must prepare ourselves to be in His presence or we will not be allowed entrance through His gateway, His doors.

THIEF IN THE NIGHT (1 Thessalonians 5:2)

Are we ready now to approach God? Let us get ready. For the day is fast nearing when God will send His only begotten Son Jesus Christ to return for His bride, for His church, to bring her into the kingdom of heaven (1 Thessalonians 4:17). On the Day of The Lord, when He returns to set up His kingdom here, unlike His birth here, His arrival will be unannounced (1 Thessalonians 5:2).

TODAY IF YOU WILL DRAW NEAR TO GOD

The Word tells us we only have "Today" to hear God and obey (Psalm 95:7; Hebrews 3:7, 15; Hebrews 4:7). What will happen "Today" when we respond to God's voice? Hebrews 10:15-22

15. "The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First He says,

16. '“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”

17. Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”

18. And where these have been forgiven, an offering for sin is no longer needed.

19. Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,

20. by a new and Living Way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,

21. and since we have a great Priest over the house of God,

22. Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

GUARD YOUR STEPS MEDLEY