August 21, 2018 Show with Joseph Jacowitz on “The Names of God”

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And I'm speaking of Pastor Joseph Jakowicz. He is founder of First Love Radio, the network that has been streaming Iron Sharpens Iron for a number of months now, our new network. He is also founder of First Love Publications and First Love Missions, and he is one of two pastors at Christ Bible Church in Dublin, California.

Today we are going to be discussing the names of God, and it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, my dear friend Joseph Jakowicz. Chris, it's a pleasure to be with you.

And while many of our listeners have heard you on the program before, for those of our listeners discovering you for the first time, because it seems like new people are being added to the audience every day, why don't you tell our listeners first of all about First Love Radio?

First Love Radio began, well maybe a little less... Well, I hope the Pastor Anderson you mentioned is.

Not Steve Anderson, the anti-Calvinist, King James only pastor in Arizona. No, no, I could be wrong about that. I was saying that jokingly because I knew that you would never air a program like that since he hates the very things that you find most precious in your life.

Well, I know that you immediately follow Iron Sharpens Iron Radio. Tell us about that program that you are involved.

In. Four or five months. And you also are founder of First Love Publications, and that's where I.

First met you face-to-face is when you were manning a book table right next to the Iron Sharpens Iron Radio exhibitors booth at the G3 conference. It was such a joy to be able to be right directly next to you and to see all the people, many, many, many people, hundreds of people milling around First Love Publications table.

Tell us about that ministry. First Love.

Publications is a ministry that officially supplies these publications. And you are one of two pastors at Christ Bible Church, Dublin, California. Tell us about that ministry. Yes. Do you have to wear full body armor when you go to Berkeley?

No, but our brethren are not only looking up vertically in prayer to God, but they're looking over their shoulder horizontally to make... Well, we will be giving, God willing, the contact information for all of your ministries.

Before the end of our program again. But I'd like to give our email address for those of you listening who would like to ask a question. The email address is chrisarnsen at gmail .com, C-H-R-I-S-A-R-N-Z-E-N at gmail .com.

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Other programs I have this week. Tomorrow, after a very long absence, Richard Bennett, the founder of Berean Beacon, is going to be my guest. Richard Bennett is a former Roman Catholic priest who is a Reformed Baptist evangelist and author now, and has been for many years.

And he is going to be on the program to discuss the nature of God. Then, of course, as we just heard, Tom Evans, president of Family Radio, will be on Thursday, the 23rd of August. And Friday, the 24th of August, we have an anonymous guest.

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The Meaning of the Names of God

Well, let's start with the names of God issue, Pastor Joe. Why is it, first of all,.

That you wanted to discuss this issue? Well, the names of God are very...

Well, I know what Christopher means. It means Christ bearer.

Okay, good. But men or people like you and I who are much at the beginning, not only by doctrine and theology, but... You know, I can only wonder, I don't know if you've ever heard.

Of a name of a brother in Christ from the 19th century who wrote a phenomenal book that has just been recovered from the ashes of history and has become a very popular book with solid ground Christian books.

But the author's name is Ichabod Spencer. And you can only wonder why his parents named him Ichabod, which means the glory has departed.

Yeah, maybe he was a bad boy and he didn't... Perhaps, I don't know. Or they just didn't.

Want this extra mouth to feed. Who knows? But maybe we can find out one day.

...in the Bible revealed. Who would name their child fool?

In fact, can we pick up on Nabal when we come back from our first break? Sure. If anybody would like to join us, our email address is chrisarnson at gmail .com. If you have a question for Pastor Joe Jakowicz on the names of God, that's chrisarnson at gmail .com.

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If you have questions of your own, our email address is chrisarnsen at gmail .com, C-H-R-I-S-A-R-N-Z-E-N at gmail .com. And Pastor Joe,.

Before the break, you were beginning to discuss Nabel. We were talking about Nabel's name. I hear you fine. Okay. In fact, we have a question that relates to that from a listener. We have John in.

Bangor, Maine, who asks, I have learned that the name Jehovah is actually a mispronunciation or an anglicized version of Yahweh. Should we no longer sing the name Jehovah from our hymnals or use it when we describe it in speaking and preaching, etc., because it is a mispronounced name?

Should we not exclusively use, when we are speaking about that specific Hebrew word,.

The name Yahweh? Well, I'll come to what matters. Now, was that the way that God intended it when.

He breathed out that word in Hebrew in the Old Covenant, or was that a way that the Jews prevented themselves from spelling out his name? Because I understand the Jews, even to this day, do not, if they're Orthodox, that is, they are afraid of using his name.

Because they are afraid of accidentally using it in vain. Yes. And in the Bible, you're not even going to get past that. And so, going back to my question, though,.

Was just the consonants used in that name intentional, as far as removal of vowels, or was God's original breathed-out name only containing consonants? No, it was intentional. I think that.

Because we do not speak the Old Covenant, it is a dead language. So, the Masorites translated the Hebrew, God raised the Hebrew language, they added in their fall language every day and knew what the words meant and knew how the words were pronounced.

It's interesting to note that.

I heard someone criticizing our mutual friend, Dr. James R. White, when he was reading the Shema in Hebrew, he used the name Yahweh. And someone I heard say, he is not reading that correctly, the Jews would never say that, they would say Adonai.

And James said that he's using Yahweh because that's the way it was originally read, and it only became Adonai out of superstition, as you were saying before, out of a fear of using the name of the Lord in vain.

Yes, the Jewish translation...

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I have lists of biblically sound churches all over the world and I have already helped a number of listeners in the Iron Sharpens Iron Radio audience find churches near them, including in places like Perth, Australia and states within the United States as well.

But please never siphon money away from your regular giving to your local church to give to us. Never put your family in financial jeopardy by giving to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio. But if you are financially blessed above and beyond your ability to obey those two commands, then please support Iron Sharpens Iron Radio if indeed you don't want us to disappear.

Go to ironsharpensironradio .com, click support and then click click to donate now or mail in a check to the address you see on the screen. And if you want to advertise with us, send us an email to chrisarnson at gmail .com.

Chrisarnson at gmail .com and put advertising in the subject line. As long as whatever it is you are advertising is compatible with what we believe, you don't have to believe identically with me to advertise, but you can't advertise anything that would conflict with what I believe and therefore if you agree with what we believe or you're promoting something that doesn't militate against what what we believe here, send us an email to chrisarnson at gmail .com and put advertising in the subject line.