The Word of the Lord by Pastor Ed Young

 

Take just a couple of moments and turn around and get the names of three people around you right quick.  Just say “Hi,” give them your name, then get their names.  Three people.  Now what if I ask you to recite those three names you just heard?  Some of you could do it right quick, others would go, “Whoa, man…I, I cannot come up with those names.”  That’s a whip, isn’t it, to meet someone and then a second later you can’t come up with their names.  That’s crazy.

Names are unique.  Names set us apart.  What if we didn’t have names?  I thought about that.  What if we didn’t have names.  Instead of saying, “Bill,” we’d say, “Hey, short bald guy who lives down the street.”  We have names.  Names set us apart.  They distinguish us from others.

Have you ever been in this situation, maybe you’re talking with some friends and you see someone walk up and you can tell they wanna join the conversation.  You lock eyes with them, you say, “Oh, I should know their name.  I’ve forgotten their name.”  And quickly, you have a couple of choices: (a) you can say, “You know what?  I’ve forgotten your name and I’m an idiot,” or (b) you can say, to yourself, “Well, I’m not gonna say a word, and I hope they’ll introduce themselves to my friends.  Then I’ll lie and say, ‘Oh, I thought you two knew each other.’”

What if you were talking to your friends and what if God himself walked up, could you introduce God?  I was at a party this past Friday night and I was talking to the host of the party and a couple walked up and the host obviously knew them, introduced me to them, and then in about five sentences he gave me the essence of who these people were.

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