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More Than A Name - Week 2

SPEAKER: Pastor Charlie Riley
January 24, 2026

The Names Of God Reveal Who He Really Is: His Character, Nature, Actions, And Attributes

The Names Of God Can Be
Broken Into Four Categories:

  1. Three Primary Names
    Elohim, God – Jehovah, LORD – Adonai, Lord
  2. Five Secondary Names
  3. Four Minor Jehovah Names
  4. Nine Major Jehovah Names

Hebrew Name “Elohim”
Elohim Is First In Order Of Use
It Occurs Some 2,550 Times
In The Old Testament

Elohim Used 35 Times
Genesis 1-2:4

Elohim (El-lo-heem)
Plural (More Than 2 In Hebrew)

Root Meaning = To Swear; Indicates God, Under Covenant Of And Oath With
Himself To Perform Certain Conditions

Name Implies: One In Covenant With The Fullness Of Might And Unlimited Power

Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God (Elohim)…”
Genesis 1:26.”And God (Elohim) said, let Us …”

Elohim’s Power
The Sun Hollowed Out
Crust 100,000 Miles Thick
(Earth Only 8000 Miles)
Earth Inside The Sun With The Moon
(240,000 Miles Away)

Moon Would Not Come Within 100,000 Miles
Of Touching The Sun’s Crust

The Star Antares Hollowed It Out

400,000,000 Miles In Diameter

Leave A Crust 100,000 Miles Thick

Our Sun And Earth And Beyond
Would Fit And Not Come Within
100,000 Miles Of The Crust

YHWH = Jehovah or Yahweh

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Origin of “Jehovah”: In the 13th-16th centuries, Christian scholars combined the Hebrew letters YHWH with the vowels from the word Adonai (meaning “Lord” or “my Lord”), which was the substituted word used by Jewish tradition. This created the hybrid pronunciation “Yehowah” or “Jehovah”.

YHWH (In The Original Hebrew Name Of God)
This Is Known By Theologians
As “The Tetragrammaton”

Most Bibles “LORD”
(Usually All Capital Letters)

Most Frequent Name Used – 6,823 Times
Jehovah Or Yahweh = Known As
“Plain Name Of God”

“All the names of God which occur in Scripture are derived from His works except one, and that is Jehovah; and this is called the plain name, because it teaches plainly and unequivocally of the substance of God.”
Jewish Commentator
Moses Maimonides

Jehovah-Jireh (Genesis 22:14)
The LORD Will Provide/See To It

Jehovah-Rapha (Exodus 15:26)
The LORD Who Heals

Jehovah-Nissi (Exodus 17:15)
The LORD My Banner

Jehovah-Shalom (Judges 6:24)
The LORD Is Peace

Jehovah-Raah (Psalm 23:1)
The LORD My Shepherd

Jehovah-Tsidkenu (Jeremiah 23:6)
The LORD Our Righteousness

Jehovah-Shammah (Ezekiel 48:35)
The LORD Is There

Jehovah-M’Kaddesh (Leviticus 20:8)
The LORD Who Sanctifies

Jehovah-Sabaoth (1 Samuel 1:3)
The LORD Of Hosts/Armies

The “I AM”

Primary Word ‘Havah’ Hebrew “Ehyeh” Showing God Is The “Self-Existent One” Or “He That Is Who He Is”

Secondary Word ‘Havah” Meaning ‘Being’ And Is, “To Become Known”

Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ (More Correctly “What Is The Meaning Of Your Name?”) what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”
Exodus 3:13-14

THE I AM!
The Self-Existent, Self-Revealed, Almighty And All Powerful God

1. Elohim
Creates Something From Nothing

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1

God Can Create
Something From Nothing!

The Atheist Believes
Nobody Out Of Nothing
Created Everything

2. Elohim
Brings Light To The Darkness
And Order To The Chaos

The earth was without form (tohu), and void(bohu); and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:2

I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form, and void; And the heavens, they had no light.
Jeremiah 4:23

3. Elohim Brings Rest

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Genesis 2:1-3

Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.
Daniel 11:32