All right, so you can go ahead and get your copy of God's word. And we're gonna be in Genesis chapter two. Genesis chapter two and verse four. It's gonna be our text today. Genesis chapter two and verse four. These are the generations of the heavens, the earth, when they were created in the day that Yahweh God made earth and heaven. In the day that Yahweh God made earth and heaven. title of my sermon today is Yahweh God, Yahweh God. Of course, I'm reading from the Legacy Standard Bible. Most other English translations will read the Lord God, and we'll get to that here in a little bit. But as you follow along, you'll notice Lord being in all capital letters there. And if anybody wants to borrow one of my LSB Bibles, you can do that, or you can follow along in your King James or any other translation as well. It's one thing to consider God's creation, and I stand in awe at that, to be able to go out at night and to look up at the night sky and just consider the stars and the beauty of God's creation, or even to look up at the recent eclipse that we had of the moon, to stand on the shore, the beach, to look across the ocean and consider God's awesome, vast creation, or even to look at the flowers when they bloom in the springtime, to just look out your window or look at a microscope and see the things of God's wonderful created universe. And we stand in awe at those things, but it's quite another thing to consider the awesomeness of God Yahweh Himself. I've been, as I knew that this text was coming, I've been both excited about it and also fearful of it as well. It's the greatest topic that a preacher may consider, the topic of God himself. It was John Knox, the early Scottish reformer who once wrote, I've never once feared the devil, he said, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit. And that's true words. Certainly, how much more fearful is it to consider the subject of God? And when we approach under this subject, I suppose that we could enter into this subject and go on for a lifetime and never exhaust this subject. Certainly we won't tonight, and I'm not going to go on forever on it, although we could. We could. This may be my first message on the subject of Yahweh, but it's not the first time that it's been preached or considered from our pulpit here at Sovereign Grace Baptist Church, because on October 15th, 2023, Isaiah picked up this subject, and he taught on why the name Yahweh matters. And he did a really good job of it. In fact, I listened to that again right before I got into the pulpit today. And I commend that recording to you. It's on our sermon audio and our YouTube pages. Isaiah did his homework when he considered that. And there is some overlap of what we'll be looking at this evening, but not much. Because as I said, there is much to consider. Out of all the names and the titles for God, Yahweh is the most common in all of the Old Testament. The name occurs in the Hebrew Bible and in your legacy standard Bibles 6,844 times. It comes to us from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton, which refers to the four Hebrew letters corresponding to Y-H-W-H that represent the name of God in the Old Testament. And so you can see in an inner linear Bible, And the Hebrew doesn't change whether you're looking at a King James or a NASB or ESV or legacy standard. Where you have the word Lord or Yahweh in the legacy standard, there is the Hebrew. In fact, let me blow that up just a little bit here. There is the Hebrew in the top right. Yod-Heh-Wau-Heh is how you would say those letters. And so in the King James, it would say, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven, made the earth and the heavens, or something to that effect. the word Lord being in all capital letters. The reason for this is that this goes all the way back to the Greek Septuagint, which is a Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures. The Masoretic Jews of the intertestimate period were so concerned about taking the name of Yahweh in vain that they used Adonai instead of Yahweh in their translation. So basically you go to Exodus chapter 20 Exodus chapter 20 verse seven. We find this third commandment out of the 10. Shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain For Yahweh will not leave him unpunished Takes his name in vain so those those Jews of the Intertestimate period they said that is a serious Commandment and they were right. That is a very serious commandment And so They set up rules, and out of fear of misusing the name of Yahweh, they began to use Adonai in place of Yahweh. You may say, well, we don't speak Hebrew. What's all this got to do with us? in our English Bibles, like King James and others, you'll notice the difference. Where Adonai is, you'll see Lord as capital L, lowercase o-r-d, and where where Yahweh is, it's capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D. So there is a difference, although it is subtle, but there is a difference there and it shows forth in our English versions. Notice though, beloved, that in this commandment, God did not say, that were not allowed to use his name at all. He said, you shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain. What they did in setting up this perimeter, substituting, they were trying to put a hedge, trying to put an extra rule in place. The question is, did they really prevent the vain use of God's name? And the answer is, no, they did not. Because how often do we even now hear people use the name God or the title Lord in a non-reverent way? Indeed, Elohim means God, but as we saw in a previous message in this series, Elohim, God, can also mean gods, can be applied to false gods, it can be applied to angels, it can be applied to men. Adonai means Lord. It can be applied to the God of heaven, obviously, to Yahweh himself, but sometimes it can be applied to men. So for instance, in Genesis chapter 18, Genesis chapter 18 and verse 12, Genesis 18 and verse 12, Sarah laughed to herself, saying, after I am worn out, shall I have pleasure, my Lord being old also. And so Sarah called Abraham Lord. In the New Testament, we read how that Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords. But Yahweh is different. Yahweh is the name that is given only to one, only to one God, only to the God of heaven. And so, When we look at the name of Yahweh, it is very important. And we see that here. Now in your King James Bibles, even though mostly it is translated as Lord, there are seven instances where There are seven instances where the Tetragrammaton is transliterated as Jehovah. And that didn't come out very well. It's kind of tiny, but you can kind of maybe see that there. But there are seven times that that There we go, it's a little bit better maybe. Seven times. So for instance, Exodus chapter six and verse three, where the King James says, and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob by the name of God Almighty, but by my name Jehovah was I not known to them. In the legacy standard, it would say Yahweh. And there are other passages listed there as well. What is the difference there? What's going on with that? Why is the Tetragrammaton being shown as Jehovah, but Yahweh here? What happened is that several different men have written on this, but John MacArthur actually wrote about it in his book on biblical doctrine. He says, the Meseretic pointing of YHWH led Latin writing Christians to transliterate the Mesoretic writing of that with its vowel markings as I-E-H-O-V-A-H. It appears in Latin Christian writings as early as the 12th century. So the church of the Middle Ages came to combine the consonants of YHWH transliterated as IHVH and the vowels of Adonai to produce the name Jehovah. The Reformers embraced this transliteration, and William Tyndale also used it in some passages in his Old Testament translation of 1530. Then the Authorized Version, or the King James Version of 1611, and the English Revised Version of 1885 used Jehovah in a few passages, excepting the J in the place of the I. And this was the usual translation of Yahweh in the American Standard Version of 1901. And so, this is how it came to be. It was a Latinized kind of a mistranslation, mispronunciation. But I want you to understand something. John MacArthur and his group are not the first to come to this conclusion. There are on the internet several, especially since the translation of the Legacy Standard Bible, who have thought, and I give everybody the benefit of the doubt, that they have thought that MacArthur and his group the legacy standard translators, they think that they're the ones who first came up with the translation of Yahweh, but that is just not the case. I have Baptist commentaries going back to the 1800s with the name of God as Yahweh and questioning the name of Jehovah. And so for instance, Let me see if I can get to it. In the 1800s, there was a man by the name of George Boardman. He lived from 1828 to 1903. He did a series of lectures actually at the University of Pennsylvania on the Ten Commandments in 1889. And in that, In that book, one of the best on the Ten Commandments I've ever read, he said, this Hebrew word Jehovah, I hardly need to say, appears in the authorized version of the Hebrew scriptures as the English word Lord printed in small capitals. Inasmuch as the word is a proper noun, modern translators think that the word should be transliterated, but they differ as to whether the transliteration should appear as Jehovah, or Java, or Yava, or Yahweh. The American revisers prefer the term Jehovah, and this shall be our term for this course of lectures. A more important question is this, what does this Hebrew word Jehovah mean? It means the eternal, self-existing, ever-living, ever-acting one. And so his main point was, I understand there's some question as to whether Jehovah is even correct, but since we're gonna use this Bible, we're gonna go with Jehovah, but understand something. The most important question is, what does it even mean? And it means the eternal, self-existing, ever-living, ever-acting one. And so, he understood that it was a controversial thing even in the 1800s. John Broadus, John Broadus, again, kind of a question as to how to pronounce his name. I guess it depends on where you're from. But in his commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, he lived from 1827 to 1895. And in 1886, his commentary was published, probably the best commentary on Matthew. If you need a good commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, sell your clothes and get this one, it's good. He said in Hebrew, thought and feeling, the name of God was peculiarly sacred, representing him. It must not be spoken irreverently, and later Jewish feeling exaggerated this into a rule that the proper name Yahweh must not be pronounced at all but another word substituted. And so He didn't even get into the controversy as to whether or not Jehovah was right. He just went with Yahweh right away in his commentary in the 1800s. Both Brodus and Boardman were capital B Baptists. In fact, if you ever had anything printed by Broadman, such as the Broadman Hymnal. They were named after Boardman and Broadus. Those two men, from what I understand, very instrumental in a lot of things, and certainly appreciate the work that they did in their preaching and the things that they did. But this sermon is not about winning any arguments, but I do want to warn. I have to warn because there is an idea, a teaching that's going around on the internet. that says that Yahweh is a bad translation, and even some people go as far as to say that Yahweh is a false god. That's simply, at its best, dishonest and misinformed. And at its worst, it is a violation of the third commandment, or even blasphemy against God Almighty. I pray that it's being done in ignorance, but be careful what you listen to, what you watch, what you follow, or repeat or share online, because there are people out there, some so-called Jehovah's Witnesses are among them, some extreme King James onlyists, and those sort of fellows, they are not that they're not telling the truth about these things. I quoted some older Baptists. Let me look at some more contemporary Baptists before the Legacy Standard Bible came out. Here is from Brother Milburn Cockrell from the Berea Baptist Banner, July 1983 edition. He was writing on the first commandment. He said, first, consider the divine name. I am the Lord thy God. This could be translated from the Hebrew. I am Jehovah your Elohim. Jehovah or Yahweh means in the Hebrew, the eternal, self-existent, ever-living, ever-acting one. And so, Brother Cockrell, pastor of the church down in Mississippi, or at that time, South Point, Ohio, I believe. But anyway, definitely understood that God's covenant name being Yahweh, Another article that he wrote in 2001, this time on the third commandment, he said, an expanded rendering of the Hebrew in Exodus 27 could be, you shall not misuse or abuse the name of Yahweh your God. The name of God must not be spoken without meaning or with deceitful intentions. There must be a careful guardianship of God's reputation. We must not misrepresent God and make claims in his name that are false. Both men and angels are required to give the glory due to his name. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name, Psalm 96, 29 to 66 too. Glory. In glory, our King James is a translation of the Hebrew word. The name of God should weigh heavy upon our minds and hearts. We must give the glory that is befitting his majesty. Anything less than that is to despise and scorn that worthy name. And so, Even in that same article he goes on to write, the third commandment is not a prohibition against speaking the name of Yahweh. He says, I know of no scripture which teaches it is wrong to take the sacred name Yahweh upon our lips as Orthodox Jews believe. What is forbidden in the third commandment is not the use of the name of God. but the abuse and misuse of that worthy name. And so, as we read in the text, and I realize that not everybody has the same favorite translation. You know, maybe your favorite translation still renders it as Lord. When you read the text there, you think about the name of Yahweh, but as you read, whether you read Yahweh there or Lord or even Jehovah, Keep these things in your mind and consider the seriousness of it. The fact that the text that I'm preaching from here, that the translators decided to go the direction they did when they took the Hebrew Tetragrammaton and rendered God's covenant name as Yahweh. The translators here, when you pick up a really old Bible version, like Tyndale, or the Geneva, or the Bishop's Bible, or even the King James, you can read it, and you can say, well, I wonder why they translated it that way. And a lot of times, it's hard to know for sure why they may have picked that particular translation. Even sometimes with some of the newer translations, some committees aren't as open as others. The LSB translators have been very open. And so, thankfully, they have done a lot of interviews. They have done a lot of videos. The translators of the LSB, they're not saying that the King James was wrong in the way that that it was done in the past. They're not saying that the translators of the New American Standard were wrong in the way that they translated the Hebrew Tetragrammaton. They're not saying any of that. But what they are saying is that this is the way that they wanted to go on this. And don't take my word for it. You can read the Forward to the Legacy Standard Bible, which is in the front of your Bibles. You can go online, you can hear what the translators have to say on the issue. And as I was preparing for this, I knew that this was coming. And so I linked a couple of their videos on my blog. There's about three people who read my blog. I think one's a friend, one's a troublemaker, and the other one's anonymous, so I don't know. But it's faithdelivered.net if anyone else wants to go there and look. But you'll see that post there with those videos linked there. I do appreciate reading the name of God, Yahweh, in the text. Why? Why do I like that? Well, there's something that is lost in the translation, when the name of God is not clearly there. As I said before, I preached through Genesis before, back several years ago. When I did, I didn't notice. It wasn't so clear to me. Then in Genesis chapter one, all the way through, it was God, Elohim, that created, that made, that was doing all the work. And then in chapter two, as God begins to describe what's going on with man, there's a shift. and all of a sudden, it's now Yahweh God. There's a reason for that. Now, obviously, it was there in the King James, but I read over it, I didn't notice it. Over in Exodus chapter three, Exodus chapter three, verses 13 through 15. Then Moses said to God, behold, I am about to come to the sons of Israel. I will say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you. They will say to me, what is his name? What shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, I am who I am. He said, thus, you shall say to the sons of Israel, I am, I sent me to you. God furthermore said to Moses, thus, you shall say to the sons of Israel, Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, The God of Jacob has sent me to you. This is my name forever. This is my memorial name from generation to generation. As God called Moses out of that burning bush, Moses He was unsure of himself. There's a lot that could be said about all that, but Moses says to God, he said, when I go to these people, who will I tell them has sent me? Moses got the answer when God says, I am who I am. Yahweh is God's name means to be. It means I am who I am. It means he is the eternal one. Oh, there's so much that could be said about this name. And as we think about that, this eternal self-existing one, ever living, as Brother Cockrell put it, this is a name that belongs to Him, to God, to Yahweh, the God of the Bible, to no one else. Over in this text here, he said, this is my name forever. So many men in the Old Testament, women too, their names changed, didn't they? But not God. His name doesn't change. Furthermore, He said, this is my memorial name from generation to generation. He wanted to be known by this name. And for almost 7,000 times throughout the Old Testament scriptures, we see this name being repeated. In Zechariah, Zechariah chapter 13, Zechariah chapter 13 and verse nine. I will bring the third part through the fire, refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer them. I will say, they are my people and they will say, Yahweh is my God. Throughout all the ages and even to the very end, Yahweh is his name. They will say, Yahweh is my God. Over in the book of Psalms, Chapter 95, Psalms 95 and beginning of verse one. Oh, come. Let us sing for joy to Yahweh. Let us make a loud shout to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let us make a loud shout to him with songs of praise for Yahweh is a great God and a great King above all gods. whose hand are in the depths of the earth. The peaks of the mountains are his also. The sea is his, for it was he who made it, and his hands formed a dry land. Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before Yahweh, our maker, for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, And in the day of Massa in the wilderness, when your fathers tried me, they tested me, though they had seen my work. For 40 years, I loathed that generation. I said, they are a people who wander in their heart. They do not know my ways. Therefore, I swore in my anger, they shall never enter into my rest. You see, What we find is that Yahweh is Elohim. Elohim is Yahweh. The Elohim that we read about in Genesis chapter one is God, created the heavens and the earth, is Yahweh. He has a special relationship with his people, even from the very beginning. And while Moses, in the inspiration of the scriptures, as he wrote, he said, God created and made and the animals and so on and so forth, their special relationship to man. And as we go through the Testament We begin to see other things as well. Even as we saw in Elohim being a plural Word but meaning one God We see some things here as well in Psalm 110 someone 10 verse 1 Yahweh says to my lord Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies as a footstool for your feet Yahweh says My Adonai What's he talking about? Talking about Jesus. He always says to Jesus. You see, a glimpse of the Trinity. Another glimpse that we see is in Genesis chapter 19. Genesis chapter 19. Verses 24 and 25. And Yahweh rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire, from Yahweh out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities, all the valley and all the inhabitants of the cities and what grew on the ground. Yahweh reigned on Sodom and Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from who? From Yahweh out of heaven. None of this would make sense except in the doctrine of the Trinity. Who is Yahweh? Elohim is Yahweh, yes. But as we'll see and as we Catch a glimpse of it here. The Father is Yahweh, the Son is Yahweh, Spirit is Yahweh, one God. And so in our text, in our text in Genesis chapter two, we see our covenant keeping creator Yahweh, but not just Yahweh, and not just Elohim, but Yahweh Elohim, Yahweh God, our great covenant keeping God. Man is, and I can't repeat this enough, man is different than the animals. He doesn't have the same relationship with the monkeys and the dogs and the deer and the fish as what he has with man. This was reflected in the text in Genesis 1. We see that here in chapter two, beginning right here in verse four, where it says, these are the generations, the heavens and the earth, when they were created in the day that Yahweh God made earth and heaven. This is the first time that His name is revealed in the Old Testament. It's a name that's repeated over 6,000 times in the Old Testament. Now, I've not hidden the fact that I love this translation. I love the name of Yahweh too, but maybe as many of you, you also have copies of this translation as well, but maybe you've noticed the name of Yahweh is not in the New Testament. Why is that? There are Old Testament passages quoted throughout the New Testament, so why is not the name of Yahweh there? Do not think that this is because of some Jewish superstitions. No, no, it's not. Because the Greek New Testament is just as inspired as the Hebrew Aramaic Old Testament. And what those men wrote in the Greek as they took the Old Testament and did what they did, that was under the direction, inspiration, God breathed. just as much there as what he did in the Old Testament. And so what was going on? Well, Jesus is Yahweh, and we'll see that. But there is a shift, and the translation is the Greek kurios, Lord. Jesus is Yahweh, but Jesus is also Lord, higher than even the Roman Caesar. as he worked and ministered among the Romans. He is the promised Messiah. He is King of kings and Lord of lords. What we find in the revelation of Jesus Christ the Messiah is a connection that's being made. Yes, Jesus is Lord. Yes, he is the Christ, the Messiah. But that is because he is Yahweh himself. And the connection can be made because the reference is to the Old Testament, but also because of the translation from the Hebrew into the Greek. So watch this. He is Yahweh revealed. He is Yahweh. the flesh his name is Jesus Yahshua Yahweh saves in John chapter 8 we take you through a few New Testament passages here this evening John chapter 8 We've made the connection, I hope, from the, to the left side of the book, showing that Yahweh is Elohim, but I also want you to see that Jesus is Yahweh. John chapter eight, verses 56 through 59, Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and was glad. So the Jews said to him, you are not yet 50 years old, and have you seen Abraham? Jesus said to them, truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am. Therefore, they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple. When Jesus said what he did here, they weren't trying to kill a smart-aleck young man. No, they understood exactly what he meant when he said, your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it and was glad. And when he said before Abraham was, I am, he was declaring himself to be Yahweh. they felt He was being blasphemous, and that's why they wanted to kill Him right then and there. There are many times in the New Testament where a New Testament author took an Old Testament text and applied it to Jesus. And so, in Matthew 3, These are good texts to write down and keep in mind in case you run into the so-called Jehovah's Witnesses and others. In Matthew 3, verses 1 through 3, it says, Now in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is the one referred to by Isaiah the prophet, saying, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make ready the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. So John the Baptist comes and he's preaching and he's saying, to repent. He said, this is the one referred to by Isaiah the prophet. What's he talking about? Well, uh, in Isaiah chapter 40 in verse three, Isaiah chapter 40 in verse three, A voice is calling, prepare the way for Yahweh in the wilderness, make smooth in the desert a highway for our God. You see, so in the New Testament where it says, make ready the way of the Lord, understand that reference there is Yahweh. Isaiah 40 in verse 3 make ready the way of the Lord make ready the way of Yahweh Over in Romans chapter 10 Romans chapter 10 Verses 9 through 13 Very familiar passage of scripture. For with the heart, a person believes. Romans 10 verse nine. For with the heart, a person believes, leading to righteousness, and with the mouth, he confesses, leading to salvation. For the scripture says, whoever believes upon him will not be put to shame. For there's no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on him. For whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Now, in your legacy standard Bibles, you'll notice that that phrase, whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved, you notice that's all in capital letters. That means it's a quote from the Old Testament. Other translations do the same thing. What's that a quote from? Well, it's a quote from Joel 2. Joel 2. What was Paul doing there when he wrote to the Romans? Joel 2 in verse 32. And it will be that everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be delivered. You see, that's what he was quoting from. Matthew, Jesus is Yahweh. Paul, Jesus is Yahweh. In Philippians chapter two, another reference, Philippians 2, verses 9-11. This is another excellent example here. Philippians 2, verses 9-13. Therefore, God also highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow. Those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. That's a reference. We won't turn there, but you can go back there and read it from Isaiah 45, verses 18 through 25. Again, where he says, Lord, there, that is Yahweh. That name that is above every name, Jesus is Yahweh. Every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Yahweh. the glory of God the Father Peter in first Peter chapter 3 first Peter chapter 3 Verses 14 and 15. But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. Do not fear their fear. Do not be troubled, but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts. Always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you yet with gentleness and fear. This is coming from Isaiah chapter 8, Isaiah chapter 8 and verses 12 and 13. You are not to say it is a conspiracy in regard to all that this people call a conspiracy. You are not to fear what they fear. You shall not tremble. It is Yahweh of hosts whom you shall regard as holy. He shall be your fear. He shall be your cause of trembling. And so these passages all point to Jesus being Yahweh. What's that all mean to our text? Well, for one thing, we already saw how that God the Father was present at the creation. We saw how that the Spirit of God was there. We see Yahweh there. Well, guess what? Jesus is the creator. He is God. He is Yahweh. We don't see Yahweh as the name directly in the New Testament, but yet we do. Revelation chapter 19. Revelation chapter 19. Again, verse one. After these things, I heard something like a loud voice of a great crowd in heaven saying, hallelujah, salvation and glory and power belong to our God because his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her sexual immorality. He has avenged the blood of his slaves shed by her hand. The second time they said, hallelujah, her smoke rises up forever and ever. The 24 elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne saying, amen, hallelujah. The voice came from the throne saying, give praise to our God, all you, his slaves, you who fear him, the small and the great. Then I heard something like the voice of a great crowd, like the sound of many waters and sound of a mighty peals of thunder saying, hallelujah for the Lord, our God, the almighty reigns. He said, well, I don't see the name Yahweh here. Hallelujah actually means praise Yahweh. Praise Yahweh. In fact, more precisely, it means praise YAH. In Psalm 150, we kind of begin to bring this to a close. Psalm 150, there is a derivative of God's name, a variation here, name of Yahweh, 150th Psalm, verse one says, praise YAH, praise God in His sanctuary, praise Him in His mighty expanse, praise Him for His mighty deeds, praise Him according to the abundance of His greatness. Praise Him with trumpet blast. Praise Him with harp and lyre. Praise Him with tambourine and dancing. Praise Him with stringed instruments and pipe. Praise Him with resounding cymbals. Praise Him with clashing cymbals. Let everything that has breath praise YAH. Praise YAH. If Yahweh is God's personal covenant keeping name, YAH is His intimate name. And if you have a legacy standard Bible with footnotes there, you'll see there's a footnote by praise YAH and it says, or hallelujah, hallelujah. And so in the context of our text from Genesis, Jesus is Yahweh, Elohim is Yahweh, Jesus is Yahweh, the Father is Yahweh, the Holy Spirit is Yahweh. And as we saw before, the Father is Elohim, Jesus is Elohim, the Holy Spirit is Elohim. And so when we get to our text, we read of Yahweh Elohim. We begin to see this in this text in Genesis 2 and verse 4 and over 6,000 times. God has revealed his name to us. We ought not to forget it. We ought to rejoice in his name and who he is. Not only do we see his name, but in the Hebrew, names meant something. We see his character revealed more clearly as we navigate through the text of the scripture. Let us say with the Psalmist, and we'll close with this text, Psalm 34, verses one through three. Psalm 34, verses one through three. I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul will make its boast in Yahweh. The humble will hear it and rejoice. Oh, magnify Yahweh with me. Let us exalt his name together.