Theme: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A GOOD PERSONAL IDENTITY
Text: “As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.” – Genesis 17:4-7.
Comment: Nehemiah the Governor recounted how God had chosen Abram because of the righteousness of his heart, and changed his name to Abraham to inherit a covenant. (Nehemiah 9:7) The entire world “look unto Jesus Christ”, “the root of David”, an offspring of Abraham, for blessings and for salvation. (Hebrews 12:2; Revelation 5:5; 22:16) The Creator cares about names: hence He dictated the names ‘Emmanuel’, ‘Jesus’, ‘John’, changed the names ‘Sarai’ to ‘Sarah’, ‘Jacob’ to ‘Israel’, etc.; Jesus Christ changed ‘Simon’ to ‘Peter’, ‘Saul’ to ‘Paul’ to foreshadow the important roles they were to play. Many Biblical names are significant, reflecting familiar relations, vocation, place or circumstance of birth, or message for the future. Initially, people bore single names, but increase in populations necessitated the repetition of names, and the use of titles as ‘prefixes’, and surnames as ‘suffixes’.
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