Repeating Names<\/b><\/p>\n
We might miss the strength of these statements (Matt. 7:21\u201323 and here) unless we realize that repeating a person\u2019s name is a Hebrew expression of intimacy. When God speaks to Abraham at Mount Moriah, as he is about to plunge the knife into the breast of Isaac, He says, \u201cAbraham, Abraham.\u201d Or when God encourages Jacob in his old age to take the trip to Egypt, He says, \u201cJacob, Jacob\u201d (Genesis 22:11, 46:2). Compare the call of Moses from the burning bush: \u201cMoses, Moses,\u201d or the call of Samuel in the night, \u201cSamuel, Samuel\u201d (Exodus 3:4; 1 Sam. 3:10). Or consider David\u2019s cry of agony, \u201cAbsalom, Absalom,\u201d and Jesus\u2019 cry of desolation on the cross, \u201cMy God, my God.\u201d (2 Samuel 18:33; Matt. 27:46). When Jesus confronted Martha, when He warned Peter, and when He wept over Jerusalem\u2014in each case we find the word repeated for intimacy\u2019s sake (Luke 10:41; 22:31; Matt. 23:37). Some pretend to have a deep relationship with Christ, but this claim is not borne out in their lives. There are many who say, \u201cLord, Lord,\u201d while in fact they live in contempt for Christ\u2019s commandments. \u201cIf you love me, you will obey what I command,\u201d said Jesus (John 14:15).<\/p>\n
Tabletalk, April, 1990, p. 18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Repeating Names We might miss the strength of these statements (Matt. 7:21\u201323 and here) unless we realize that repeating a person\u2019s name is a Hebrew expression of intimacy. When God speaks to Abraham at Mount Moriah, as he is about to plunge the knife into the breast of Isaac, He says, \u201cAbraham, Abraham.\u201d Or when … Continue reading “Repetition, significance of in the Bible”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}