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

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Well, today I'm excited to have back on the program a returning guest, one of my favorite guests, and

someone who has quickly grown to be a very dear friend of mine.

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.

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Before we go into the subject at hand, the names of God, I also want to whet the appetites, or the

listening appetites, that is, of our listeners by having you give a little promo or

introduction to my interview this Thursday, God willing, with Tom Evans, the

new president of Family Radio, Family Stations Incorporated.

And this is really a history -making moment, isn't it?

It

sure

is.

It's

a

major

announcement,

a

major...

It

did

get

inside

out

from

the

bottom

up.

And Tom Evans is

just

a really,

really...

Great.

And I

might

as well

also

plug

a couple of

the.

Other programs I have this week.

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Beacon, is going to be my guest.

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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.

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I've only done this one or two other times ever, but we have an anonymous guest who is a missionary in

China.

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China.

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in regard to the Christian Church and the government's oppression, which is

getting stronger again than it had been for quite a long time.

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in its history.

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He is a former member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, the

RLDS, which is today known as the Community of Christ.

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the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints.

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was saved by the true Jesus Christ of Scripture and by the true gospel

of Scripture.

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But once again, our email address is chrisarnsen at gmail .com.

If you have any questions about the names of God for our guest today, Pastor Joe Jakowicz, that's

chrisarnsen at gmail .com.

As always, please give us your first name, city and state, and country of residence.

And by the way, this is a little reminder for those of you who have written to me many, many, many times with questions.

Always give me your city and state of residence, even if you sent in a million questions, because

my memory is not that great.

And I'd like to announce to our audience where our listeners are writing from, because it gives our audience an idea

of the scope and breadth of our listening audience, which is global.

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million times.

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.

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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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Then the following night, also at 6 30, at the Switzerland Community Church, this time of

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Dr. James R. White and Dr. Michael L. Brown are on the same debating team.

They are debating two men who profess to be Christians, who are ordained ministers,

who are also openly involved in the homosexual activity.

They believe that this is completely acceptable in the new covenant in the eyes of God.

The debate theme is, Is Homosexuality Consistent with New Testament Obedience?

That's Saturday, September 8th, 6 30 p .m. at the Switzerland Community Church in Switzerland,

Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville.

For more details, once again, go to SwitzerlandCommunityChurch .org, SwitzerlandCommunityChurch .org.

Then coming up in November, the 9th and the 10th of November, the Alliance of

Confessing Evangelicals is once again having their Quakertown Conference on Reform Theology

at the Grace Bible Fellowship Church of Quakertown, Pennsylvania.

This year, the theme is The Glory of the Cross.

The speakers include David Garner, Ray Ortland, Richard Phillips, Timothy Gibson, and Carlton Wynn.

I will have, once again, God willing, an Iron Sharpens Iron Radio exhibitors booth there at the conference.

For more details, go to AllianceNet .org, AllianceNet .org.

Click on events, then scroll down to the Quakertown Conference on Reform Theology.

I hope to see you there.

Then coming up in January, the event that you've been hearing, Todd Friel of Wretched TV and

Wretched Radio, and Phil Johnson of GraceTU, the ministry of John MacArthur, and James White of

Alpha Omega Ministries, you've been hearing them promote this on my program.

The G3 Conference is being held, God willing, from Thursday, January 17th through Saturday, January 19th

at the Georgia International Convention Center in College Park, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.

G3 stands for Gospel, Grace, and Glory, and this January's theme is The Mission of God, A

Biblical Understanding of Missions.

Keep in mind that if you have Spanish -speaking and bilingual friends, tell them that

the G3 Conference has an exclusively Spanish -speaking edition on Wednesday, January 16th,

that they can attend.

But the English -speaking conference, as I said, is Thursday the 17th through Saturday the 19th, and they have a long

lineup of phenomenal speakers, including Dr. James R. White of Alpha and Omega Ministries,

John Piper, Stephen Lawson, Voti Baucom, Conrad M. Bayway, Tim Chalies, Phil

Johnson, as I just mentioned, Josh Bice, the founder of the G3 Conference,

Todd Friel of Wretched TV and Wretched Radio, who I mentioned earlier, Stephen J. Nichols, the president

of Reformation Bible College, the college founded by the late R .C. Sproul and Ligonier Ministries, and many more

are on that lineup.

If you'd like to attend, go to g3conference .com, g3conference .com,

click on G3 Conference 2019, and also if you would like

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If you have a business or a parachurch organization or a church that you would like

to be publicized in the crowd of between four and five thousand people that they are expecting to

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during the event from the 17th through the 19th of January.

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If you have a question about the names of God, please give us your first name, your city and state, and your country of residence.

If you live outside the USA, only remain anonymous if your question involves a personal and private matter.

And Pastor Joe, we have a question for you from Harrison in

Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

Harrison says, can you take the name of the Lord in vain even when you are

saying something that otherwise might be appropriate?

Let's say that you are in a restaurant waiting for your food to be served and it is taking a long time

and when the waiter or waitress finally arrives with your food you say, thank God.

Is that taking the Lord's name in vain or is that an acceptable.

Expression?

No,

I

think

if

you

say

thank God,

it's

acceptable

because

he is

holy.

He is to

be revered and

therefore

it is

acceptable.

And

we have

another

listener,

Arnie

in Perry

County,.

Pennsylvania, who says there is an overlooked verse that I don't believe is used

often enough by those of us who believe in the doctrines of sovereign grace that is just

another proof of the sovereignty of God and salvation.

And I am referring to Matthew chapter 1 verse 21

where we read, she will bear a son and you shall call his name Jesus

for he will save his people from their sins.

This is a definite statement.

It is not that he will try to save his people from their sins or that he will try to save

everyone from their sins or that he will make men savable.

It is a specific statement of definite certainty.

He will save his people from their sins.

It seems to address the doctrine of definite atonement and

unconditional election.

At the

same time.

Do you

agree?

I agree.

You want

me to do that?

Yes.

Because Jehovah is the

God

in the

Bible.

You've

heard

of

that

before,

Chris,

right?

Yes.

He

is

omnipotent.

Seat

separation

from his

creation.

His name

identifies

him.

I am

not yet

50 years old.

And have you seen Abraham?

Jesus said to them, most assuredly.

I could see

this in one.

He is the one

who has life in him.

Oh, thanks

a

lot,

Chuck.

You

and I

learned in

grammar

school that

a verse

can't

have

action without life.

So without

life, there is

no

one who shall

call his

name

Jesus, for he will

save his

people from their

sins.

Jesus Christ relates directly to

the dead

himself.

I am the

way, the

truth, and the what?

The life.

Now, we

have a listener

that asks a

question directly.

On Christ's self -identification as the I Am.

We have CJ in Lindenhurst, Long Island, New York, who asks, I don't know if you have ever

interacted with Jehovah's Witnesses, but what possibly could they say in response to

the fact that Jesus identifies himself as the I Am in the New.

Testament,

and

yet

they

reject that

he is Yahweh?

Yeah, I don't

know

specifically if

they change.

That particular verse or not.

I don't have a translation or a copy of their translation.

Handy, but they definitely do work their darndest to

strip Jesus Christ from his throne as often as.

They can.

Well, if they say

in John...

Well, we have to go to our

final break

right now.

It's.

Going to be a lot shorter than the last one.

So if you have any questions for Pastor Joe Jakowitz on the names of God, I would suggest very

strongly that you send the questions in now, because we're rapidly running out of time.

Our email address is chrisarnson at gmail .com.

Chrisarnson at gmail .com.

Don't go away.

We'll be right back after these messages with more of Pastor Joe Jakowitz and the

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Welcome back, this is Chris Arnzen, if you just tuned us in.

Our guest today for the last 90 minutes in the next half hour to come is Joe Jakowicz,

who is the founder of the aforementioned First Love Radio, and he is also

the pastor of Christ Bible Church of Dublin, California.

Our theme today is the names of God, and if you'd like to join us on the air with a question of

your own, our email address is chrisarnzen at gmail .com, chrisarnzen at

gmail .com.

And please, as always, give us your first name, your city and state, and your country of

residence if you live outside the USA.

In fact, we just got a listener question from somebody who did not do that.

Please give us your city and state of residence, and we will read your question.

And please only remain anonymous if your question involves a personal and private matter.

That's chrisarnzen at gmail .com, chrisarnzen at gmail .com.

And Pastor Joe, if you could pick up where you left off on the names of God.

We

were

talking about

which points

us to

the

under

the name Yaris.

Jehovah Jireh?

Yeah.

Uh, that is, uh, that God is, uh, faithful?

Close.

I don't mean to put you on the spot, so I'm sorry, but we're close enough where I can do that.

Jehovah Jireh, the Lord will provide.

There you go.

There

you go.

So God has

done

that

for you

in Genesis.

However,

worried

about

their

future,

they

do

not

sow the

economy, the

education system, but God wants us to

Jehovah Jireh.

Praise God.

Uh, we do have a listener.

Uh, let's see, we have Kenneth in, let's see, Kenneth did

provide his, uh, city and state.

Uh, we have Kenneth in Oakland, California, who says, please

ask Joe how his ministry is going at San Quentin state prison.

One of his former students is listening.

Oh, okay.

I know.

I know

who this tree

there is.

It's really a

team weekly

Bible study.

We have an array of new men to be blessing that ministry.

Well, praise God.

Thank you, Kenneth.

And keep listening to Iron Trip and Zion radio and spreading the word in Oakland, California and beyond.

Uh, well, if you could move on with another name for God that we should know about.

Yes, it is

Jehovah Nisi,

meaning the

Lord is

my Jehovah

straight.

Look at what

Paul said

to the

Ephesians upon God, because

he's Jehovah Nisi.

He is the Lord, our banner.

We read in Isaiah four on the Lord will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like Eagles.

They will run and not grow weary.

They will walk and not faint.

And so like Moses, we must wait on the Lord

that will be given to

us

Jehovah

Nisi, the Lord,.

Our banner.

And we have a listener from White Plains, New York, RJ from White Plains, New

York says that does not the Hebrew name for God Elohim

indicate a plurality in his oneness.

As the

Trinity

would

teach?

Good

question.

Mighty

leader

or

might

created

because of

this

same time is one God.

We're not polytheistic.

One God who has revealed himself in God, the father, God, the son, and God, the Holy Spirit.

Each one of those three identified in the Old Testament or

two earlier,

a little boy in Hebrew who went to

Hebrew school and was bar mitzvahed had to memorize the Shema 6, 4, Shema

Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai echad.

Here, O Israel, the Lord, our God, the Lord is one.

The Hebrew word echad means one.

There are

places we

in

Genesis one said,

let us.

Now, since you

are a Jew,

a

believer

in Christ.

Jesus, as your Lord, God, Messiah and King,

do you know of how the Jews in their, their

steadfastness in a right way to maintain the concept

of a monotheistic monotheistic religion?

How do they respond when they themselves must know if they are, if they speak Hebrew,

they must know that Elohim does refer to a plurality within the

unity or oneness.

Do you know how they typically would respond to that?

Well, I asked a group of rabbis about.

A year

ago

at the

dinner,

put his hand

on

the

table.

Oh, Yosef,

why

did

you,

to

God, 41,

41 years

without

the Hebrew

language,

Jewish

mindset,

you

cannot

come

down

from

Israel's enemy, Messiah

at the

head of it, people from their sins.

He would be punished.

He would,

God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

And so not only Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22, Messiah, I said, how

is it?

Uh, I said to them that you do not understand this.

And the rabbi, the one doctor of theology spoke up and I said, I only quoted

from your own Bible.

I did.

I said, well, let me show you why you did not believe it.

And all these elder rabbis with gray in their beard looked at me, riveting their attention on me.

And I said, Isaiah six prophesized

that

the

Jews

again at

his

second, a guy

next

to me

was this

Orthodox Jew.

Actually,

that

was my.

Question.

Oh, your question.

Um, that, and by the way, folks, I did not know that I was going to get that absolutely remarkable

answer, uh, to that question because pastor Joe had never shared this story with me before.

Uh, that is just utterly phenomenal that, that the Lord gave you that occasion, by the way, I hope

that this did not lead to a divorce before the marriage even began.

No.

Wow.

That that's something.

Well, I want you to have now three minutes of time to just summarize what you most want etched in the hearts and minds of our listeners today

before we go off.

The air.

Well,

the

names of

God

truly

reflect

the

character

of

God, the

love,

not

only,

well,.

I really thank you for helping arrange this interview.

I'm so grateful that Tom Evans has chosen iron sharpens iron radio, uh,

above any other program to make these announcements.

And I am praying for God's blessings on not only the interview I'm having with Tom this Thursday, but also on

family radio that they would never again drift back into a doctrinal heresy

and dare I say apostasy.

Uh, I thank God that this will once again be a platform for biblically sound churches to proclaim the

doctrines of sovereign grace.

Uh, by the way, I just wanted to quickly note that Tom in West Islip, Long Island, New

York was blown away by your answer to the question that involved, uh, the wedding of your niece

and Tom, uh, is married to a Jewish woman and

she became a believer as a result of a trial that they had gone through, uh,

when their daughter, uh, had overdosed on heroin and the doctors were not

very confident that she would, uh, revive from this coma that she was in.

And, and she raised up out of that hospital bed with very little, uh,

uh, bad remnants of this experience physically.

And she, she committed her life to Christ and she was baptized.

So we're delighted to know that God's grace is working in this way.

Thank you, Tom, for writing in and perhaps we will do an elongated program with Joe on

this remarkable story he just told.

I want to, I want to let our listeners know that you can find Christ Bible Church of Dublin,

California.

You can find out more information about that church from christbiblechurch .org, christbiblechurch

.org.

You can find out more about, uh, First Love Radio at firstloveradio .org, firstloveradio .org.

You can find out more about First Love Publications at firstlovepublications .org.

And you can find out more about First Love Missions at missionsfirstlove .org, missionsfirstlove

.org.

Thank you so much, Joe Jakowicz, for being on the show.

I look forward to your frequent return to Iron Trip and Zion Radio.

I want to thank everybody who listened, especially those who took the time to write.

And I want you all to always remember for the rest of your lives that Jesus Christ is a far greater savior than you are a

sinner.