God Is Powerful and Personal

Israel's Journey

1. Genesis
2. Egypt
3. Wilderness
4. Egypt
   • Exodus 3:12-14
   • Plagues and locusts
5. Sinai
   • Exodus 32:1-4
   • god makes a covenant with his people. Shows them how they should be living
   • the people abandon God for their idols made of gold
   • Exodus 33:15
   • Exodus 34:6-7

God is Powerful

Exodus 19:16-19

You can do nothing to re-route a storm, because it is powerful. The power of God is the same way.

God is Personal

Repetition - In Hebrew, when you see repetition, that is the equivalent of writing in all capital letters.

Renaming - The ways we name things are ways of identifying them. In the scripture, your name was your character and your destiny. This is why God renames people.

Elohim - a type of being, used for God in Genesis
Haya -"I am"
Yahweh - "he is"

God names who he is to give clarity to who he is.

We use God's name in vain when we use him to get what we want.

Matthew 6:9 - "hallowed be your name"

• because his name is who he is

Many of us view God as casual, rather than personal. We have a weak view of who God is.

There is tension in who God is. Completely forgiving AND completely just.