R.C. Sproul

Sometime you ought to sit down and see how long you can go speaking without using some form of the verb to be.

There's no more common word in our language than am.

And yet in that common word, we get the uncommon hint.

of the majestic character of God, who says, I am.

And he said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.

And then Jacob asked, saying, Tell me your name, I pray.

And he said, Why is it that you ask about my name?

And he blessed him there.

And so Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved.

In this session today, we're going to be looking at the names and the titles that the Bible ascribes to the members of the Godhead.

Names and titles of the Father, names and titles of the Son, and names and titles of God the Holy Spirit.

We're doing this for a reason, and that is that in Scripture, very frequently, the name of a person or the title of the person says something very important.

about the character of the person.

In our culture today, we don't name people on the basis of outstanding characteristics or attributes.

But in Israel particularly, names often had tremendous significance and gave us deep insight

into the character.

And sometimes when a person would go through a life-changing trauma, their name would be changed.

We remember, for example, how Jesus assigned a new name to Simon.

at Caesarea Philippi.

After the great confession, when Jesus asked his disciples, who do men say that I am?