 Okay. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, man. Good morning. The last day of classes today. We'll just wait for a few more people to join. Okay, we'll begin. The main time people will join us. Can somebody lead us in prayer this morning, please? Anyone need us in prayer? Yeah, go ahead. Father, we come to your throne of grace, Lord. Thank you for this day. You have given us Lord this Friday. Whatever we will be learning from your word, Lord, that it should not be just kept in our heart, but it should be manifesting it really and Lord, it should be revealed by our nature, Lord, by our daily work set, our day-to-day life, Lord. Lord, whatever we will be learning, Lord, it should be used for the expansion of your kingdom, Lord. Whatever the CDPC Bible College is putting in our heart, Lord, that it should be a blessing for us, Lord, and it should become a fruitful tree, Lord, in the future. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay. So we are in chapter three. We come to the last part of chapter three. So can a few of you tell us what we have been learning in chapter three, please? Just one point each of us, each of you can share. So what did we study in the doctrine of God? The nature and the attributes of God. Okay. We are basically studying the nature of God and how do we know the nature of God? One through his attributes and through his? Through his word, through Holy Spirit. Okay. The word and the Holy Spirit reveal to us the nature of God. That is, it reveals to us the attributes of God, but what else reveals to us the nature of God? One is his attributes and the other is his. We studied about it in the last class towards the end of the last class. What did we study? After we studied the attributes of God, what did we study? Names of God. Yes. We studied the names of God. So we looked at the nature of God. The nature of God is revealed in his attributes and in his names. Okay. So we looked at a few attributes of God and then we began studying the names of God. Now, before we studied the nature of God, what else did, what did we look at in the beginning of this lesson? In the nature of God. What is a question that we answered? How do we know that God exists? Yes. That's the one we answered at the beginning. Yeah. So we looked at, you know, thank you, John. We looked at, you know, we answered the question, does God exist? Okay. And then we looked at a few references and then we moved on to studying the nature of God, which is revealed in his attributes. And then we began studying the names of God. Okay. Now the names of God I used to describe, which I used to describe God tells us more about his character and his being. Okay. Talks about his nature and his very being. We looked at a few common names of God. We looked at Adonai. Adonai means Lord or Sovereign. And it's not a name that is exclusively used only for God. It's also used for human beings to those who are masters, owners, those in authority, those who are in supreme authority. Okay. So we see that it's a title that is used for God and for men as well. Now the Greek word for Adonai, what is a Greek word for Adonai? If you don't want to unmute your mics and speak, you can type it in the chat section, your answers. Sorry, Lubega. Go ahead. It is called Kouros. Okay. Thank you. It's called Kourios. It's a Greek word for Adonai. And we saw it appears in several places, but we just saw one references in Genesis chapter 19, verse 2. Okay. Then we moved on to the next common name of God that is Elohim. And where do we see this name Elohim revealed to us first in the Bible? Genesis 1-1. Genesis 1-1. Thank you, Lubega. Genesis 1-1. And it's basically talking that, you know, as God, He's the source of all creation. He's the powerful God. That is what is the meaning of Elohim. And we also see the Greek form, a translation of this word Elohim in the Greek is Theos. And we see this where in the Bible in the New Testament. We've been looking at this chapter again and again the last few weeks. It is in John 1-1. Thank you, John 1-1, where it's talking about, you know, the Logos create who's God and who is the Creator. Okay. So this word Theos is the Greek equivalent or the name Theos for God is a Greek equivalent for Elohim. Then we looked at another name of God that is El, which means strength, power or might. And we looked at a few El names of God. We saw El Shaddai. We studied El Shaddai. And we all know the meaning of El Shaddai. Okay. We looked at El Shaddai means the almighty, the bountiful one, the all sufficient one. And it is revealed to us. God revealed this name first to Abraham in Genesis chapter 17 verse 1, when Abraham was 99 years old. God had promised to him, you know, almost 24 years back that he would have a son. He and his wife said, I will have a son. And it's almost 24 years and they haven't seen the promise fulfilled. And God appears to Abraham and says, you know, when he was 99 years old and said, I am El Shaddai. That means I am the almighty God. I am all sufficient. I can do. There's nothing that is impossible by me and I will keep my promises. So El Shaddai, the next El name of God we saw was El Eleon. And we saw where it appeared in the Bible for the first time in Genesis chapter 14 verse 19. What does El Eleon mean? Anyone remembers? El Eleon. Most High God. Okay. The Most High God. And this name was spoken by Melchizedek, the king of Salem, when he blesses Abraham, when he comes back from defeating the kings that had taken Lot and the rest of the people in Sodom and Gomorrah as captives. And he blessed Abraham and said, blessed be Abraham of God, most high possessor of heaven and earth. So blessed be Abraham. El Eleon, God most high. And also we see in the same chapter that Abraham, you know, gives thanks and blesses God and calls upon the name of God as El Eleon. So it basically expresses the El Eleon means the extreme sovereignty of God. Okay. It expresses the majesty of God and his highest preeminence. Okay. I'll say that again. It expresses the extreme sovereignty of God, the majesty of God and his highest preeminence. Now, I'm not going to look at what a sovereignty means and what preeminence means because we've already studied about it. The next name of God we looked at was El Olam. Okay. Anyone remembers what El Olam means? The everlasting God. The everlasting God. Thank you, John. And the word Olam means world, universe, eternal, forever, everlasting time or space. Now, some of this information I'm giving is not in your notes. So you could follow through with your notes. And if you want to make your own personal notes, it would be nice. So El Olam, the word Olam means world, universe, eternal forever everlasting time or space. So we understand from this word Olam that the name of God that he is sovereign. He's the eternal ruler of the entire universe and he is beyond time or space. So El Olam is basically the eternal God without beginning or end. Eternal God who has no beginning and has no end. Psalm 90 verse 2 says that before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. We actually saw this. We studied this verse. We also studied what is the meaning of everlasting to everlasting. The name of God El Olam also teaches us that God is unchangeable. Malachi chapter 3 verse 6, we looked at this verse in the last class. So when we studied about the unchanging attribute of God. Isaiah chapter 37 verse 26. Can somebody read that please? Isaiah 37 verse 26. Can somebody read that? Have you not heard long ago I did it from ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass that you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps. Thank you. So here we see that God's plans and his purposes are timeless and he will not fail to follow through with them. So it is, it also means that he is El Olam, the almighty God who's eternal and whose plans and purposes are timeless and he will not fail to follow through with them. Isaiah chapter 42 verse 4 says he will not falter or be discouraged till he establishes justice on earth. This also reveals the nature of God as or the name of God as El Olam. So we read this word. This word is revealed first or appears first in Genesis chapter 21 verse 33. When Abraham makes a peace treaty with Abimelech at Bathsheba and there he calls upon the name of God as El Olam. And it's basically him displaying his faith that this everlasting God would deliver his covenant or would deliver what he has promised. The covenant promise that he has given to him that his descendants, that Abraham's descendants will receive the land or will live in that land. So what do we learn from this name? Now everything we see in the natural is very temporal, is subject to change. But like Abraham, we should not be moved by what we see since El Olam, who is the eternal God who created the universe, he will not fail or he will not go back on his promises. His promises are from eternity to eternity. He will not fail to accomplish his plan and his purpose. So even as we study these names of God, we learned when we did systematic theology that when we studied about God as the creator, we said let it burst forth from us into worship and song and adoration for who he is. He's a creator. He's almighty. His creation is so perfect. So even as we look at the names of God, we can use this when we pray. When we pray that we just declare over ourselves, our families, people that we're praying for, we just declare the names of God. So even as you see things around that are subject to change, you might be discouraged, but just remember that God is El Olam. He's the eternal God who created everything. He is a promise keeping God and he will never fail to accomplish his plans and his purposes. Okay, there are two more names, the El names, which are not there in your notes, but I thought I will just mention that to you. One is El Rohi. Okay. Anyone knows what's the meaning of El Rohi, R-O-I? Separate. Okay. El Rohi is the God who sees Genesis chapter 16 when Hagar, who is the maid of Sarah, and you know, Sarah takes the step when she sees that God's promises is not fulfilled. She gives her maid to Abraham and she conceives. Okay. And when she conceives, we know there is not a good relationship between Hagar and Sarah because the Hagar is mocking Sarah. And so Sarah begins to treat Hagar rudely and she runs away from, you know, Sarah and Abraham. And she finds herself in her desert and, you know, in very harsh conditions. And then we see that, you know, she cries out to God and God appears to her and speaks to her. And then, you know, she declares this name as the God who sees. So the God who sees means basically the God who knows. So even as you go through challenges and even as you go through difficult situations, just remember this that, you know, the God you serve, the God you worship, the God you know, the God you've accepted is a God who sees. He sees, you know, what people cannot see. He sees your pain. He sees your difficulties. So El Rohi, the God who sees. The other name El name of God, which I like to mention, which is not there in your notes is El Khana. Anyone knows what's the meaning of El Khana? It means jealous God. Okay. So we see this name revealed in Exodus chapter 34 verse 14. So can somebody read Exodus chapter 34 verse 14, please. Exodus chapter 34 verse 14. For you shall not worship any other God for the Lord whose name is jealous is a jealous God. Okay. So here the name of God is revealed as El Khana jealous God. Now when we think of this word jealous or jealousy, you know, we have a totally different meaning and so we can misunderstand this name of God today because of relationships that are filled with selfishness. You know, distrust, hostility. This word jealousy, you know, has a very negative connotation. But when we're talking about God being a jealous God, his jealousy is basically rooted in justice in holiness and love and not like, you know, we kind of have this negative connotation of this word jealousy. But God's jealousy is rooted in his justice in his holiness and his love. You know, it's a very, it's a healthy passionate burning this devotion of God for us and a firmness that he will not share his position, his praise, his glory with anyone else with another. Okay. As we read in Psalms chapter 83 verse 18. So it's basically, you know, the El Khana means jealous God is God is his jealousy is rooted in his justice holiness and his love. And it's something that is healthy. And it's a passionate burning devotion that he has for us and a firmness. Okay. Or a perseverance that, you know, he will not share his position, his praise or his glory with anyone else as we read in Psalm 83 verse 18. Okay. So Isaiah chapter 42 verse 8 says, you know, God says I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols. Okay. So God desires and exclusive love relationship with his people. And he expects us to be in total, totally in love with him and not share our love with any other idols or anything. You know, we don't give precedence to anything than his love. We keep God first and everything and everything and everyone else after him. We read in Exodus chapter 20 verse 3 that, you know, he does not want to share our love and attention with idols or with other false gods. And that is why even Jesus when was asked what is the greatest commandment? What did he say? What did he say was the greatest commandment to love the Lord your God with all your soul with all your heart with all your soul with all your strength with all your mind and to love your neighbor as yourself. Luke chapter 10 verse 27. So here we see that, you know, being a jealous God, he does not want us to share his glory or praise or his affection with anyone else worship to anyone else other than him and also to be exclusively in a love relationship with only him. And that is why we have this greatest commandment where God says, you know, in the Old Testament we read this New Testament also we read it that we need to love the Lord our God with all our heart soul mind and strength. Okay, so that is Elkhana, the jealous God. Then we looked at the name I am that I am. Okay, where God reveals himself as the eternal one, the self-sufficient one, the self-existent one. And this name I am in the Hebrew, you know, when we translate it, the Hebrew word, it means to exist, to be, to become. And it is from this verb, it is from this Hebrew verb, which means to exist, to be, to become. And we get the name Yahweh or Jehovah. Okay, and I said that the Old Testament people never used to take the name of Yahweh on their lips because of the reverence and the fear they had for God, but they used to use the name Jehovah. Okay, so we looked at a few names of God with Jehovah. We saw Jehovah Rafa. What is the meaning of Jehovah Rafa? God our healer. The Lord our healer. Thank you. Jehovah Nisi, anyone else can answer? The Lord is my banner. The Lord is my banner. The Lord is my banner. Thank you, Zealotoli. And we see this name when, you know, Joshua goes with a few people, is like soldiers to fight against the Amalekites, Amalek the king. And we see that, you know, Moses is, you know, holding on his high hand towards the battlefield and they win. But when his hand gets tired and he puts it down, we see that they lose the battle. So, you know, two men on either side hold his hands and throughout the day, he's stretched out his hand. And then when the Israelites win the battle, he makes, builds an altar, makes a sacrifice to God and calls on the name as, you know, Jehovah Nisi, the Lord my banner, which means the Lord is my victory. So even as you learn this name, you can declare this over your life that, you know, when situations when you feel defeated, when you want to be victorious areas, you know, in your life where you're facing temptations, weaknesses, fear, and you just declare the name of Jehovah Nisi that he's your banner, he's your victory. Okay. The next name we looked at was Jehovah Jaira. Anyone remembers what's the meaning of this name? It's very simple. The Lord is my provider. The Lord is my provider and we saw where, thank you, the Lord is my provider. We saw this name first appears in Genesis chapter 22 was 14. And we see that Abraham calls upon the name of God as Jehovah Jaira, who is the Lord the provider. When he, you know, provided an animal for sacrifice and God, you know, saved his son, Isaac from being sacrificed. And so he calls, Abraham calls on the name of God as Jehovah Jaira. Then we looked at the name Jehovah Shalom. Okay. What's the meaning of Jehovah Shalom? Thank you, Shobasis. The Lord is peace, but I said it's not just peace, but it's a very comprehensive word. It means more than peace. It means well-being, wholeness. It means protection from evil, preservation from every kind of harm and danger, preservation, good health. So it's a very holistic word. And so that's what Jehovah Shalom means. And we saw where it appears first in the Bible in Judges chapter 6 was 24. When Gideon calls upon the name of God as Jehovah Shalom, when he's totally afraid that he's seen an angel and he thinks he's going to die and God tells him, you know, do not be afraid. You shall not die, peace be with you. And then he calls upon the name as Jehovah Shalom. The next one is Jehovah Sabot. We look at this name today. What is the meaning of Jehovah Sabot? The Lord of Hosts. Thank you. The Lord of Hosts or Sabot, the Hebrew word Sabot means host or multitude. So Jehovah Sabot means the Lord of Hosts. So this Hebrew word Sabot often has a military connotation such as a group of men fighting or an army. As we see in 1 Samuel chapter 17 was 45 and Isaiah chapter 13 was 4 where we see, you know, David, when he's facing the Philistine, Goliath, he tells him, you come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel whom you have defied. So the name Jehovah Sabot, the God of the armies of Israel. Sometimes Sabot also refers to the hosts of heaven. Like we see in Psalms chapter 148 was 2 and 1 Kings chapter 22 was 90. Now, some of these things are not in your notes. So if you're following with your notes, you can see it's not there. Take down these references, look at it later on and study it and you can also make your own personal notes. So Sabot also refers to hosts of heaven as we see in Psalm 148 was 2. 1 Kings chapter 22 was 19. It's actually a picturing God as the Lord of the multitude of angels, which are numbered 10,000 times 10,000 as we read in Daniel chapter 7 was 10. Now this Greek word Sabot also is used to describe the innumerable stars in the night sky. Psalm 33 was 6. Psalm 103 was 20. Okay. So the important thing about this name of God is that, you know, whether it is armies that he's, or whether it's a host of armies or host of angels or innumerable stars. Jehovah Sabot, the Lord of hosts rules over all things both in heaven and on earth. So he is supreme authority. He's God over the heavenly host of the angels. He's God of the armies of the world. He's God of the innumerable stars. We also learned that he calls, he knows each star by name. He calls them by name. Okay. So the first time this word Jehovah Sabot appears in the Bible is in 1 Samuel chapter 1 was 3 and was 11. You know, when this man went up the city to worship and sacrifice the Lord of hosts and Shiloh. And 1 Samuel chapter 1 was 11 where we see that, you know, Hannah is crying out to God to have a child. She's childless and she makes a vow and said, Oh Lord of hosts. So she calls upon Jehovah Sabot. And she says, if you indeed look on my affliction of your maid servant and remember me and not forget your maid servant, but will give your maid servant a male child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life and no razor shall come upon his head. So here we see that, you know, the name appears Jehovah Sabot when Hannah calls upon God as Jehovah Sabot. And she makes a vow that if God, you know, blesses the Lord of hosts, blesses her with a son, she will give him back to the Lord. Okay. Now Jehovah Sabot, the Lord of hosts is a name that emphasizes the power and the might of God. He rules over the vast multitude of stars, angels and armies. And yet we see first at this name, which is such a powerful name appears in the Bible. And it comes out to the mouth of a very humble woman who is praying in her anguish, was praying in her total distress and brokenness and shame for a blessing from God. And we see that Jehovah Sabot, the Lord of hosts. Here's, sorry, here's Hannah's prayer and he blesses her with a son Samuel and Hannah keeps her promise. So, you know, Hannah's story actually tells us something important. It tells us that although God is indeed the Lord of the multitudes of the heavenly hosts or the angels, you know, he's also the Lord of each one of us individually. Okay. He relates to us personally. He comes to us personally when we are weary, when we need his blessing. In the darkest nights in difficult times, the Almighty, the Lord of hosts will hear us. He will comfort us. He will strengthen us. He will bless us. Even if you are the only person on earth needing attention, you know, the Lord of hosts will minister to you, will console you, will provide for you. And also we see that none of our troubles, whether it is small or big, is, you know, that he will not notice because he's El Rohe also because he sees, he knows, he notices. Okay. So whatever we need, we can cast our burdens on him because he cares for us. It says in 1 Peter chapter 5 verse 7, also the psalmist, you know, he cries out to God in Psalms chapter 34 verse 6 where he says, you know, the poor man cried out to the Lord and the Lord heard him and saved him from all his troubles. Okay. So the Lord of the Jehovah Sabbath, the Lord of hosts is your Lord. He hears you. He knows you. He sees and nothing is too small for him that he cannot minister to help or care for your needs. Okay. The next name is Jehovah Mechadisham. Okay. Anyone knows what is in the meaning of this name? Jehovah Mechadisham. God who sanctifies. Thank you the Lord who sanctifies unlike the other names of God that we saw, which is appears in numerous places in the Bible. Sometimes some of these names appear 262 times and all of those things, but this name Jehovah Mechadisham appears only twice in the Bible. One in Exodus chapter 31. Sorry, Exodus chapter 31 versus 12 to 14. And the other one is Leviticus chapter 20 was seven and eight. So can somebody read Exodus chapter 31 verse 12 and 14, please. And somebody else can turn to Leviticus chapter 20 was seven and eight. Exodus chapter 31 verse 12, the Lord spoke to Moses saying, but as for you speak to the sons of Israel saying, you shall surely observe my Sabbath. For this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you. Thank you. And says you shall keep the Sabbath therefore for it is holy to you. Can somebody read Leviticus 20 verse seven and eight, please somebody else Leviticus chapter 20 verse seven and eight. You shall consecrate yourself therefore and be holy for I am the Lord your God. You shall keep my statutes and practice them. I am the Lord who sanctifies you. Thank you. So in these verses, we see that Jehovah Micodeshion is described as God as the one who sanctifies his people. Okay. And he sanctifies his people Israel and makes them holy. He sets them apart as his own. And that is why he chose the whole nation of Israel, not because he's a partial God, not because he loves one nation or people group over the other. But he chose the Israelites basically so that, you know, they can be a model or an example to the rest of the nations around them. And when the other nations see them, they will know the God they serve, they got the worship. They will know the command of the laws that God has given them and they would, you know, come in relationship with God. So God chose them to be an example, to be a witness for him, to present him before the nations. Okay. And it was God himself who said he will make them holy and set them apart as his own. Okay. So it's true of us even today as the church, as the people of God, you know, as each one of us are called the royal priesthood or holy nation. You know, God himself sanctifies us. He himself sets us apart to live holy lives. And sometimes we feel very unholy. We don't act like holy people. We don't act like the sanctified people that God has called and set us apart. But if you really notice what this name means, it actually is God himself saying that, you know, in this verses that we read, it says, I am the Lord who sanctifies you. So it's not something that we can do on our own. It's something that God does. Jehovah, the God who sanctifies himself will sanctify each one of us and make us holy. But again, knowing that he's a sovereign God, he leaves a choice to us. So the choice for us is that when we, you know, when we choose to submit and surrender and come under his authority, that's when to that extent we allow him that extent he will work in us to that extent he will sanctify us. And now we need to know that, you know, sanctification is not something is a one time thing when we accept Jesus. Of course, the Holy Spirit comes in us, lives in us, sanctifies us. It's just the beginning, but sanctification is a process. It happens throughout our lifetime till the time we die. Okay, so it happens throughout our lives. But it's important that we every day, recommit, resubmit our lives and come under his submission and authority so that he can continue to sanctify us to the extent and the degree he wants us to be holy in his sight. And we also know the standard that God has said for us is be holy as I am holy. We studied about this as well. It's something that's not mentioned only in the Old Testament. It's also mentioned in the New Testament and that is the standard because God is holy. He wants us his people to be holy. And you know, he's making us without any spot blame wrinkle or blemish so that we can be presented without any spot blame wrinkle or blemish before the most high God. So it's God himself who sanctifies us, but the part that we need to play the choice we need to make is we need to submit and surrender to God. So times when you feel very unworthy, unholy and you've done things that has displeased God, you know, you can go on and you know, pray and just call on the name of God as Jehovah Mekidishim. And say submit and surrender my life to you, sanctify me and make me holy and set me apart for your work or God. Okay, the next name of God is Jehovah Rohi. Anyone knows what's the meaning of Jehovah Rohi? Yes, anyone in class? Jehovah my shepherd. Yes, the Lord is my shepherd. Thank you. So, you know, as the Lord is our shepherd, we all know Psalm 23. I'm sure most of you know it, you know, even by heart. So what are the characteristics of God as, you know, a shepherd? Can each one of you give me one one attribute of God as Jehovah Rohi God our shepherd? He leads, he guides. Okay, he leads, he guides. What else? Only John and Lubega have joined class today. What about the others? What are the other characteristics of God as our shepherd? Psalm 23, he cares. Okay. What else? He prepares it. Go ahead, go ahead. He prepares, he protects us. He prepares a table before our enemies. What else? He corrects us. Thank you. He provides us with the richest of things, the best of things. You know, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not be in want. He leads me beside green pastures. Okay. He's somebody who gives us the best. What else? He restores our soul. Right. He guides us in parts of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though we walk through the valley of shadow of death, which means when we go through difficult situations, his rod and his staff, or even when we're facing near that experiences, his rod and his staff is there to, is with us that means his rod is something that corrects us and his staff is something that guides us, comforts us, leads us in parts of righteousness. And he does it all for his name's sake. Okay. Yes. You know, he makes our cup overflow. We lack nothing. You know, those who trust in the Lord will lack no good thing. Okay. He bountifully blesses us. He performs all things for us like the psalmist says. Anything else? What is the last few verses that the shepherd does for us? As a good shepherd, surely his goodness and his mercy shall follow us all the days of our life. Right? And he's always there with us. He never leaves us, no? For sake us. So that is Jehovah Rohe. Okay. The Lord is our shepherd. So even as you pray, use some of these things, it just enriches your spirit man, your soul. It just reiterates who God is. It will strengthen you. It will encourage you. It will also help you to know who God is. And it will wipe away all the lies of the enemy with the truth of who God is and what he can do. The next name of God is Jehovah Sidhu. Sidhiku. Okay. Sidhikino. And that is, what does it mean? God our righteousness. Thank you. The Lord our righteousness. And this name Jehovah Sidhikino or Jehovah Sidhiku appears twice in the Bible. Again, like the other name of God that we saw. And both these times it appears in the book of Jeremiah. Jeremiah chapter 23 was five and six. And Jeremiah chapter 33. Okay. So it's Jeremiah chapter, just a minute. Yeah. Jeremiah chapter 23 was five and six. And Jeremiah chapter 33 was 15 and 16. And Jeremiah says, you know, behold the days are coming. He makes a note of what the Lord is saying. God says in Jeremiah chapter 23 was five and six. Behold the days are coming. Says the Lord that I will raise to David a branch of righteousness. A king shall reign and prosper and execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. In his days Judah will be saved and his die will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called the Lord our righteousness or Jehovah Sidhikino. Okay. And Jeremiah chapter 33 was 15 and 16. Again talks about the same thing and God is revealing his name as the Lord our righteousness. Now, when Jeremiah wrote this book, the people were in exile in Babylon. Jerusalem and the temple had been destroyed and God raises up prophets like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and others who called God's people to repent from their sins and turn back to God. And they say that if they did so, then God will promise to forgive God's promise to forgive them. Jerusalem and the temple will be rebuilt and they would once more live in their land with peace and safety. Now these two passages in Jeremiah are part of these promises that God makes. The kingdom would be restored and a righteous king in the lineage of David would rule once more and he will be called as Jehovah Sidhikino. The Lord our righteousness. Okay. Of course the Jews did return back to the land. Jerusalem and the temple were rebuilt. But we see that no king ever ruled over the land after the exile. Instead, the priestly elite governed under the general oversight of the Persian Empire. So God's plan for his people was not fully realized because they never fully turned back to God. They never returned back to God completely. So most Bible scholars see these two passages in Jeremiah, which is talking about Jehovah Sidhikino, referring to Jesus Christ, the Messiah, who would come to bring righteousness to all who accept him as their Lord and Savior. Okay. So it is something that was in the future and was fulfilled in the coming of the Messiah Jesus Christ who came and brought about righteousness and he brings continues to bring righteousness to those who accept him as Lord and Savior. The next name of God is Jehovah Shama. Anyone knows what's the meaning of Jehovah Shama? God being with us. Thank you. The Lord is present. Now this name Jehovah Shama appears in Ezekiel chapter 48 was 35. And it's a name of the city that the prophet Ezekiel was shown in a vision. And he was shown this name Jehovah Shama, which means the Lord is there. Now when Ezekiel receives this vision from God, the Jews were in captivity in Babylon for 25 years. The temple and the city Jerusalem were in ruins. But like I just said that, you know, God had promised his people that he would restore the city and the temple would be rebuilt. In the closing chapters of Ezekiel, the prophet describes what God told him in the vision about the coming restoration of the land, the city and the temple. And it included a detailed plan of the measurements of the if you read Ezekiel, you know that chapters you see that there was a detailed plan of the measurements of the restored city. And in the final words of Ezekiel in his book are these that the name of the city from that day on shall be called the Lord is dead Jehovah Shama. Okay. Which means that God himself will be present God himself will live with his people. And, you know, this Jehovah Shama has a very special meaning for the Jewish exiles, because they felt forsaken by God when they were in Babylon, they felt that they were totally cut off from God. But, you know, the promise of him restoring back the city restoring back the temple. And that will be rebuilt and this very promise that the Lord himself will be present that he himself will be there was a great assurance for the people. Okay. And then, you know, the last name of God is our father, which where does our father appear in the Bible. All of you, you know, hopefully say that every day. Say it in your prayer every day. Where does our father appear in the Lord's. Thank you in the Lord's prayer in Matthew chapter six verse nine. And our father is perhaps one of the greatest aspects of God's nature that we must grasp that he is our father. He's not just some God who's waiting to punish us to curse us to put us down to condemn us, but he's a loving God, a loving father. And, you know, some of us who have not had a good relationship with our father, or we've not seen a good side of our father. You know, we always also begin to think about our Heavenly Father in the same way, but he's not like our earthly fathers. Our earthly fathers, all of us have our own weaknesses, our friendlies. But, you know, our Heavenly Father is all the attributes that we have studied about him, all the names that he has revealed to us. He's just so big, so incomprehensible by us. We cannot even comprehend him, cannot even, you know, contain him in our little minds. He's so great, but it's so wonderful that this great, big, almighty, or powerful God, you know, who is holding on or who oversees everything or who created the hosts of angels and and the stars and the planets knows each one of us by name. He sees each one of us, you know, El Rohi, and he knows what we are going through, and he will come through for us. Okay, he's a good, good father. So those are the names of God that, you know, is revealed to us in the Bible. Of course, there are so many other names you can do another study about it. But it would be good to please go through your notes, study these, and also, you know, keep speaking this declaring it over your lives. And also when you pray, you can declare the names of God over your life, and also, you know, just declare and decree his attributes over your life. That is chapter three. Any questions, any doubts, any comments you'll have? No, if not, we'll end class. Have a good weekend, good restful, refreshing weekend and we'll see you all on Monday. Okay. Bye everyone. Thank you, pastor.