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And if you were here with us on New Year's Eve, you know that each year church adopts a theme. That's an area of emphasis for us this year. And we try to pray through that. We wanted to be prophetic in a sense, and prophetic not just in the sense of interpreting the future, but prophetic in the sense of predicting the future, but prophetic in the sense of interpreting the present. What is God doing now? And what is what he wants us to do in response to that? And our theme for this year is AI. That stands for All In Everybody. Had somebody tell me, had somebody tell me earlier that AI was the Antichrist. I said, I love Christians, but my gosh, it just means all in man. That's. That's it. But our theme is all in and Man. We've got resources to help you. We've got a devotional, we got an all in game plan. And you can go to lifechange.org or change church app to take advantage of that. Well, family, I teach in series. What does that mean? It means I take a book of the Bible or I take a character in the Bible or a theme theme in the Bible. And over a period of several weeks, we expound on what the Bible has to say about that book, character or theme, and apply it to our everyday life. I'm starting a series today that's going to go for seven weeks. And it is called name dropping. And so I want to invite your attention to the book of Exodus, chapter number three, beginning at verse number 13. And I'm reading from the new international version of the Scriptures. And it reads like this. Moses said to God, suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you. And they asked me, what is his name? Then what shall I tell them? God said to Moses, I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites. I am has sent me to you. I want to stop the reading of scripture there. And I want to tag this title to this text. I want us to think around this thought today. I believe it is a request that our Heavenly Father wants to make to you and you and I. And it is simple. Allow me to reintroduce myself. Clap your hands everywhere. On the floor, in the balcony, everywhere. Allow me to reintroduce myself. I want to leap into this lesson with a question. Have you ever had an experience or an encounter with an individual who thought they knew you, but they didn't? I'm talking about an individual who is Engaging in conversation about you, creating narratives related to you, and maybe having interaction with you like they know you. And what is dangerous about people who are operating with that sort of assumption is they rob themselves of the richness of all that you are. Because many individuals unconsciously limit you to their perception of you, not realizing that there is more to you than what they actually see. And if they were to create the space and become curious and humble enough for you to unveil and expose all that there is on the inside of you for them, they may see that there is a shift that can happen in their life because they had a proper perception of you that led to proper reception from you. And what I've learned is that there are times when. When there are individuals who are relating to you based off of incorrect information, it means that they failed to do personal investigation, so they came to conclusions about you not based on their personal interaction, but based on indirect hearsay. So sometimes people are relating to you based on incorrect information. But then there are other times when people are relating to you based on incomplete information. Information. Somebody told them what you did, but they didn't tell them why you did it. And just like, are you here? And just like it's possible to operate with incomplete or incorrect information as it relates to people, it is also possible to operate with incorrect and incomplete information. When it comes to God, I am arguing, family, that there are times not when we're operating just with incomplete, incorrect information. I'm arguing that there are times when we are operating with incomplete information. And incomplete information about God leads to something I call spiritual settling. Because the God you see is the God you get. Your perception determines your reception. Your revelation of God determines how you relate to God. Your revelation of God determines what you receive from God. So if you have a limited view of God, you'll have a limited experience with God. Not because God is limited, but you've limited his unveiling, his exposure, his interaction in your own life. But do I have anybody. It's too early. But do I have anybody in the building today who have made a decision that in 2026, you're getting ready to take the limits of God and God's gonna take some limits off you? Come on. Is there anybody in the room that says this is not the year for spiritual settling for me? Come on. My adversity is too aggressive, my stress is too strong. My weaknesses are too real, and my ops are too intentional for me to operate my with shallow spirituality. I gotta get this thing right this year. I got decisions I Need to make that require discernment. I got weight I got to carry. That requires some strength. And I got a race I need to run that requires some stamina. I am not limping in the 2027 discouraged, dismay and in despair. My Bible says that if I wait on the Lord, he would renew my strength. Strength. I'm getting ready to step into 2026 strong and I'm stepping out of it stronger. If I'm talking to you, make some noise in the building. And the enemy understands this reality. So he doesn't want us to understand God correctly or completely. Did you hear what I just said? He doesn't want us to understand God correctly nor completely. And this is why a series like this becomes incredibly important and incredibly significant for those of us who are watch this serious about our spiritual journey. Because this series is rooted in a theological concept called progressive revelation. Everybody say progressive. That was weak. Say progressive. Progressive revelation. What does this mean? It means that God progressively reveals different aspects of himself to his people progressively over time. It means that God is so good, that God is so complex, that God is so major, that God is so magnificent, that God is so magnanimous, that God is is so great, that God is so excellent, that God is so amazing, that God is so indescribable, that God is so much God that he can't expose all his Godness at one time. So over time, he reveals and exposes different aspects of himself to his people. And for those that are serious about their spiritual journey, you will get to these strategic spots in your spiritual journey where God metaphorically will tap you on the shoulder and say, I know you think you know me, But allow me to reintroduce myself. You know the way, Maker, but I need to introduce you to the healer. You know the healer, but I need to introduce you to the provider. You know the provider, but I need to introduce you to the protector. You know the protector, but I need to introduce you to the waymaker. Allow me to show you a side of me you hadn't met yet. He engages in progressive revelation. Hallelujah. My God, I feel a little something pushing me here, and I need somebody in the room who's got enough spiritual audacity to pray the prayer that Moses prayed. And I need you to say it like you got fervor and enthusiasm and conviction. Ask the Lord. Show me your glory. In 2026. Show me signs of you that I've never seen in 2026. Restore my wonder and restore my awe. Show me your glory. Show me your glory. Show me your glory. Show me your glory. Show me your glory. Show me your glory. Show me your glory. Show me your glory. I gotta have it. I gotta have it. I gotta have it. So listen, fam, it's one thing to know he engages in progressive revelation in. It's another thing to know how. And what I'm arguing in this series is that one of the ways God engages in the act of progressive revelation is by name dropping. When I say name dropping, I don't mean name dropping in the human sense. Cause name dropping in the human use of the word is when individuals consistently and unnecessarily articulate their association with someone significant in order to present themselves as significant. Name dropping is actually the activity of the insecure. It's people who attempt, you know, I was just talking with them. I was just with them. I was just texting them. I was just hanging with them. We was just together. We was just texting. No, you were. You, you were dming. That's not the same. You don't have the number. You. Is the action of insecure people who attempt to increase their credibility by attaching themselves to those who actually have it. So instead of building their own sense of significance, they try to borrow significance from their association with people who actually have it. That's not the name dropping I'm talking about. Because when humans name drop, they use somebody else's name. You got it? But when God name drops, he doesn't have to drop anybody else's name. When God name drops, he drops his own name. And God dropping his names is the way God reveals different aspects of himself. Because the first place we go to get revelation on who God is must be scripture. And in scripture, he progressively unveils and exposes different aspects of himself by giving names. Pastor, why does he have to give a name? It's because God is not his name. Now, you can call him God. Let's not get legalistic. When you call him God, he know who you talking to. So he says, right, But God is not his name. Because the first time in scripture we're introduced to the word God is in the first sentence of the first book of the Bible, Genesis 1:1. And it says in the beginning God. And that word God there in the Hebrew, because the Old Testament is written in Hebrew except for some chapters in Daniel that are written in Aramaic. That first word, that first mention of the word God, there is a word called Elohim. And Elohim is not a name. It's a category of being. It's used to Describe God. But it's also used to describe other spiritual created beings, like the devil, like angels, like demons. It's also used in scripture to describe some idol gods who have no power. So when you say Elohim, you're talking about a category of being. Saying God is God's name is saying man is mine. I'm a man, but that's not my name. And you knowing I'm a man is not enough for you to relate to me. Because you need to know not just am I a man, what kind am I? Am I a good one? Am I an honest one? Come on. Am I a hard working one? Am I a compassionate one? Come on. So it's not just enough to know that I'm a man. I gotta know what kind. And it's not just enough to know that there is a God. I can take you to the Bible. And James says in the book of James, even demons believe and they tremble. Are we all right? You're not bored, are you? Elohim describes a category of being, but it's not his name. His names reveal his nature. He says, I'm gonna give you names because my names reveal my nature. It reveals my qualities, it reveals my attributes. It reveals what you can expect. It exposes whether or not I'm passive or powerful. It exposes whether or not I'm relational or transactional. It exposes whether or not I am faithful and consistent or reliable or whether I'm fragile and impulsive. And in the text, in Exodus 3, we get exposed to a conversation God's having with a man named Moses where he gives Moses a name. It's right here in the book of Exodus. Book of Exodus, second book of the Bible. Exodus means exit. So the content contained in the book of Exodus is content that reveals and exposes us to how God reveals himself as the God who creates exits for his people. Come on, am I making sense? Am I making sense? Right? I said, am I making sense? Yeah. Genesis, the first book of the Bible, ends with this, with the life story. Because, like, really. And I think I'm getting ready to do a. I'm gonna do something on this in a couple weeks on blueprint. But anyway, the book of Genesis ends with a gentleman named Joseph. Right? So Genesis ends with Joseph, Right? And Joseph, you can look at this. Joseph is promoted to a place of civil and governmental leadership in Egypt. And there is a famine in his whole. Is it in his. In his old homeland. And he brings his family to be with him in Egypt so that they are preserved and protected. During the famine. But Exodus begins with saying this. There arose a pharaoh died. Which is Pharaoh's A title, not a name. A pharaoh head of Egypt dies. And there arose a pharaoh in Egypt that didn't know Joseph. Watch this. And the Bible says, I don't have time. Yes, I do. It's the twelve thirty. I got time. It's the twelve thirty. I forgot. I got time. Exodus 1, verse 6 says, Now Joseph and all his brothers in that generation died. But the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful. They multiplied greatly, increased in number, and became so numerous that the land was filled with them. Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt and said, look, these Israelites have become far too numerous for us. Come, we must deal shrewdly with them, or they will become even more numerous. And if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us and leave the country. So the Pharaoh that Joseph had favor with died. This is why you need to know the difference in favor coming from people versus favor coming through them. Let me go over here. Because if you think favor comes from them, when something happens with that Pharaoh, you're gonna think you lost your favor. But when you realize favor doesn't come from them, that favor comes through them, you recognize God's got another way to get me to what he's trying to get me to and to get through to me what he's trying to get through to me. Do I have a witness here? So text says, israel begins to multiply so greatly that this pharaoh becomes intimidated. Did you hear what I just said? It means. Here it is. Let's paraphrase it. They outgrew his expectation. They were already numerous, but they kept growing. And when they outgrew his expectation, it created intimidation. And they didn't do anything but grow. They didn't threaten him, they just grew. Somebody caught it in the back. They didn't attack him, they just grew. The only thing they did was grow. And their multiplication created intimidation. And now they become the object of retaliation. And the only thing they did was create grow. Am I preaching to anybody that's ever been through an experience where you're wondering, why am I being attacked for growing? No, I don't want to do that anymore. I've grown. No, I don't want to talk about that anymore. I've grown. No, I don't want to go there anymore. I've grown. Now, why you are you attacking me when the only thing I did was grow? So Pharaoh orders that these Egyptians harshly and shrewdly Deal with Israel. And for 400 years, they are handled unjustly, unfairly. And all of a sudden, there's a man named Moses who's minding his business. God starts setting bushes on fire, saying, take off your shoes. This is holy ground. I'm not gonna bother this. He's taking off his shoes and worshiping someone. We're getting ready to expose this, whose name he didn't even know. He's worshiping with an incomplete revelation of who he's worshiping. He took off his shoes. He's obeying a God he's got limited understanding about. And watch what God says to him, y'. All. All right? Watch what God says. He says, I have indeed seen the misery of my people. Am I in the book? Well, y' all don't know because it's not up there. Let's put. There it is. Okay, There it is. No, I want you to see this. I'm in the book. Here it is. I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. Is that in the book? He says, I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers. Is that in the book? I am concerned about their suffering. Is that in the book? He says, I've seen the misery. I've heard the crying and I'm concerned. I've seen the misery. I've heard the crying and I'm concerned. I've seen the misery. I've heard the crying and I'm concerned. I've seen the misery. I've heard the crying and I'm concerned. What's interesting is who he says this to. He doesn't say this to Israel. He says this to Moses. Did you hear what I just said? So just because God is not talking to you about the problem doesn't mean God is not working on the answer. And my question is, do you want God to talk to you about the problem, or do you want God to do something about it? Somebody throw your hands up and say, fix it, Jesus. Yes. You don't have to tell me what you're doing. Just fix it, Jesus. You don't have to make an announcement. Just fix it, Jesus. You don't have to send me a prophetic word. Just fix it, Jesus. I'm almost done. Here it is. He says, I've heard they're crying. I've seen their misery. I heard their crying, and I'm concerned about their suffering. Now watch verse 8. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land and into. I don't have time. I don't have time. A good, spacious land. You see, I'm getting ready to give them some room. Does anybody need some room? I need some room. Mentally, I need some room. Emotionally, I need some room. Financially, I need some margin. He says, I'm getting ready to bring you into a good and spacious land. It's agriculturally rich. Are y' all ready for this? A land flowing with milk and honey. Now, watch the text. The home of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites. Is they home now? But they are temporarily occupying. Y' all better come get me today. They are temporarily occupying what belongs to you. It's yours. But you're going to have to overthrow the opposition that is occupying. What I promise. This is called the Promised Land, and it represents the promises of God. But you've got some Canaanites and some Jebusites and some Hittites and some Perizzites and some Hivites that are occupying your promises. And you must be willing to overthrow the opposition so you can experience the promise. He says, now, you don't get what I promise without a fight. Now, if you too scared to fight, you too scared to get blessed, good God Almighty said, you too scared to put up a fight, you too scared to possess a promise. You better fight for your peace. You better fight for your joy. You better fight for your focus. You better fight for your clarity. You better fight for your family. You better overthrow everything that is occupying your promise. I'm almost done. Here it is. Here it is. God say in verse eight, I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians. Is that the text? So God say, I come down. That's verse eight. Now I want you to see verse ten. So go now. I'm sending you to Pharaoh. Wait a minute. Give me verse 8. God says, I have come down. Is that the text? I've come down to rescue them. Is that the text? Now go to verse 10. So now, Moses, I'm sending you now. God, you said you was going to. He says, I am. I am going. I'm sending you. Did you hear what I just said? He says, I'm going because I'm sending you as my ambassador. I'm sending you as my representative. I'm gonna do it, but I'm gonna do it through you. And some of you don't understand. Israel is waiting on you to accept your assignment. How many people are waiting on your. Yes, here it is. Here it is. Here it is. It is so. So, so, so. Moses. Moses, like, okay, first of all, verse 11. He says, now, who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt? That's verse 11. Am I in the book? Okay, now look at verse 12. Verse 12 says, I will be with you. Y' all missed it. Verse 11. Moses say, who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt? And God said, I'll be with you. Y' all missed it. Verse 11. Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt? And God said, I'll be with you. Moses. Moses assignment exposes his insecurities. The thing that God's calling him to do is reminding Moses of who he's not. And God doesn't argue with him. He just said, I'm with you. I know what you're not. And I'm not saying, you are what you're not. But I said, but I'm saying, I am what you're not. Did you hear what I. He said, I know what you're not. But whatever you're not, I am. So since I'm gonna be with you, there is no deficit. I don't know who this is for, but I want you to know that the answer to the question is, he's with you. And as long as he's with you, whatever you are not, he is. So Moses say, okay, let's make this loop here. Moses said, okay, all right, I got you. I got you. So he says, all right, I'm with it. Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you. And they asked me, what is his name? What am I going to tell them? And God said to Moses, I am who I am. He says, this is what you are to say to the Israelites. Say, I am. Has sent me to you. Now, you know the Old Testament is written in Hebrew. New Testament is written in Greek. So this word here, for I am, is a word. Yahweh. Did you hear what I just said? He says, tell Israel Yahweh sent you. This is the first time he uses this name. Because if you look at Exodus 6, verse 2, God also said to Moses, I am the Lord. Do you see that? Okay, we're going to come back to that. He says, I appear to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty. That's El Shaddai. But my name, the Lord. I did not make myself fully known to them, but by my name, The Lord, I did not make myself fully known to them. So he's saying, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob didn't even know this side of me. But your assignment requires that you have a different revelation of me than they did. Because they had their issues, but they never had to face a Pharaoh. So there's a side of me you're going to need to know. There's a revelation that you're going to need to receive that's going to anchor you in the adversity that your assignment is going to bring into your life. Now watch this. He says, I am. Give me verse two. The Lord. Y' all see that? Exodus 6, verse two. The Lord. You see that? That's all caps, isn't it? That's all caps, isn't it? Now give me verse three. He says, but by my name, the Lord. That's all caps, isn't it? So when he says, the Lord, he's saying, that's my name. So whenever you see in the Old Testament, Lord, in all caps. Whenever you see all caps, that's Yahweh, or what we say in English, Jehovah, Give me Psalms 23:1. David said. David said, the Lord is my shepherd. So because, because the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want Yahweh. Jehovah is my shepherd. Why is this important? This is his covenant name. When God uses this name, the names reveal the nature he is revealing to his people. I am the God that makes and keeps covenant. I'm not just a creator, I'm a covenant keeper. Y' all missed it. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob needed to know him as God Almighty, but Moses needed to know him as a covenant keeper. Pastor, what is a covenant? It is God voluntarily binding himself to a promise and obligating himself to act according to his nature. He says, I am obligating myself to act according to my nature. I am obligating myself to act according to my nature. Therefore, I am what I am. That's why that makes sense. Now. Whatever I am, I promise you, I'm a be it. Did you hear what I just said? He says, whatever I am, I covenant with you that I'm going to be that in my in your life. And I will never act in a way that is inconsistent with with my nature. So because I'm good, I will be good. And because I'm faithful, I will be faithful. And because I'm compassionate, I will be compassionate. And because I'm all knowing, I will always lead you with wisdom. I am what I am. Whatever I am, I will be and you're going to need me to be so much that I can't tell you everything you're going to need me to be yet. Hallelujah. So I'm just gonna give you my covenant name and then I'm gonna put a blank behind it. And then when you get in certain situations, I'mma fill in the blank. Right now you need to know I'm Jehovah. But when you need provision, I'm a right Jireh in the back. Right now you need to know Jehovah. But when you need peace, I'm a right Shalom in the Right now you need to know Jehovah. But when you feel lonely and isolated, you need to write Shamma in there. Right now you need to know I'm Jehovah. But when you need healing in your heart and healing in your mind and healing in your body, I'm gonna write right in there. Yes, that's Yahweh. He says I'm a covenant making and covenant keeping God, you need to know I'm a God of covenant. I don't break covenant. I don't break covenant. I don't break covenant. You'll sleep better at night if you know I don't break covenant. Your nerves will become calmer when you realize I don't break covenant. Did you hear what I just said? Your stress will become a weaker when you realize I don't break covenant. This is, this is his covenant document. So for some of you, these are just stories so you kind of inspired. But for those of us who have a revelation of Yahweh, this is an agreement signed in blood. Hallelujah. I said this is an agreement that has been signed in blood. And he makes a commitment to keep the contents of the covenant. I don't even have time. Didn't we just have communion? What did Jesus say? This is the, this is, this is, This is the new covenant. He's a covenant making and covenant keeping God. And here's our problem, some of our problem. You love God, you just hadn't met Yahweh. So you saved but you stressed because Elohim can't deal with your stress. Did you hear what I did? Elohim can't deal with your stress. It's Yahweh. I don't break covenant. So even when I don't know what I want to know, I lean on what I do know. And what I do know is I don't break covenant. Did you hear what I just said? All right. Psalm 23 David said the Lord is my shepherd. All right, now this evening, if we jaywalk to the New Testament, this makes what Paul says in Romans 10, 9, it make it make sense, don't it? If you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord, Paul's not saying say Jesus is boss. Paul is saying Jesus is Yahweh in human form. So every name that's in the Old Testament that describes God becomes summarized and syncretized, synchronized in one word, Jesus. So my confession is Jesus is Yahweh. So when I say Jesus, I'm saying jaira. When I say Jesus, I'm saying nisi. When I say Jesus, I'm saying, are you here? This revelation can cause a revolution because I know God, but I need to meet Yahweh. And I thought about my spiritual journey. I'm like my whole spiritual journey, I've been saying Jehovah and Yahweh and nobody even told me what that mean. Did you hear what I just said? Because when I get a revelation, this, it changes not just how I see God, but how I see me. This shifts my confidence. I become more confident when I realize he's a covenant keeping God. Do you guys realize that when David fought Goliath, before he fought Goliath, he said these words, who is this uncircumcised Philistine? What does circumcision have to do with the battle? Circumcision was a symbol of the covenant. So when he says Goliath is uncircumcised, he's saying, I'm not scared to fight him because he's got height, he's got weight, but he don't have covenant. And you will run from what you should be running to when you don't realize I got a covenant. Maybe I don't have the experience, but I got a covenant. Maybe I don't have the network, but I got a covenant. Maybe I don't have the paper, but I got a covenant. It gives you confidence. Two, it gives you clarity. There's a lot of anxiety that people have because you don't know what God wants to do. And he's made it clear in the scriptures. You don't have to worry about what I want to do. I put it here. I want to supply your needs and I covenant to do it. And it also brings not just clarity, it brings calmness. It helps ease my anxiousness because instead of focusing on the answers I don't have, I lean into the answers that I do. And what I know is you don't break covenant, so it calms me. Now we're getting ready to go. I want nobody moving. We in good time today. Here it is. Revelation creates a revolution in your life, but it also revolutionizes your worship. Yahweh, get something from me. Elohim don't get. And really quick, I want you to take about two minutes. We're going to raise this up. Some of you heard us sing this a lot, but I want you to sing it different now, from a different place, because now you've got a greater revelation of what this means. So our team's going to raise a little bit of this, and I want you to reflect on what this means now that you got this revelation. Let's raise it. Charles. Now I want you to give Yahweh a hand clap of praise. Praise, Praise Jehovah, my covenant keeping God. You don't break covenant.