Name Dropper | Part 4 | Joel Malm
Channel: CCSeguin
Date: 2024-03-26

Name Dropper | Part 4  | Jehovah Shalom - God Our Peace

The name of God was so powerful to the ancient Hebrews that they wouldn’t 
even say it. But through Jesus we’re told, “everyone who calls on the name 
of the Lord will be saved.” (Romans 10:13) God’s name brings salvation and 
strength. 

A name dropper is someone who uses another person’s name to get access 
to something they wouldn’t otherwise be able to get. As Christians, we’re 
invited to use God’s names in our time of need.

God is so powerful that He goes by many names: El Shaddai (Almighty), 
Jehovah Shalom (peace), Jehovah Rapha (Our healer) In this series, we’ll look at 
the power of calling on God’s many names and attributes to face the 
challenges of life.

SERMON NOTES

Name Dropper 
Week 4
Jehovah Shalom – God Our Peace

Judges 6:1-24
The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and for seven years he gave 
them into the hands of the Midianites. 2 Because the power of Midian was so 
oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain 
clefts, caves and strongholds. 3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, 
the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country. 4 
They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did 
not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. 5 
They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It 
was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to 
ravage it. 6 Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the 
Lord for help

7 When the Israelites cried out to the Lord because of Midian, 8 he sent them
a prophet, who said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought 
you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 9 I rescued you from the hand
of the Egyptians. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors; I 
drove them out before you and gave you their land. 10 I said to you, ‘I am 
the Lord your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land 
you live.’ But you have not listened to me.”

11 The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that 
belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat 
in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. 12 When the angel of the Lord 
appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.”

13 “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the Lord is with us, why has 
all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us 
about when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now 
the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

14 The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save 
Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?”

15 “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan 
is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”

16 The Lord answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the 
Midianites, leaving none alive.”

17 Gideon replied, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign 
that it is really you talking to me. 18 Please do not go away until I come back
and bring my offering and set it before you.”

And the Lord said, “I will wait until you return.”

19 Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat, and from an ephah[a] of flour
he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a 
pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak.

20 The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, 
place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so. 21 Then
the angel of the Lord touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the 
tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the 
meat and the bread. And the angel of the Lord disappeared. 22 When Gideon
realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign 
Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!”

23 But the Lord said to him, “Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to 
die.”

24 So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace.

Key Point: 

True peace doesn’t come from absence of conflict, it comes from awareness of His presence.

Key Point: 

We fight for peace, from peace. 

Philippians 4:6-7
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and 
petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of 
God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your 
minds in Christ Jesus.