My hope is that this series will offer my readers a chance to consider the names, characteristics and descriptions of our God in the Word.

The remaining Names of God in this series might be considered descriptors, or characteristics of the Lord. We have reviewed the three primary Names of God, along with nineteen compound Names of God in our previous posts. As we venture through these descriptors of our God, I hope we will recognize all the many characteristics of our God that we tend to take for granted.

The Word is truly rich with descriptions of the Living God, and this effort of searching in the Word was quite illuminating. He truly is the ultimate subject of the Word, and His revelation of self-descriptions, or the accolades offered Him by His priests, prophets, kings apostles and faithful truly is a blessing.

May the Name of the Lord be praised, and by thinking on His name, may you have a blessed day.

This general passage has been referred to earlier in our discussion of “Greater than Jonah”. In that comparison, we saw that Jesus referred to Jonah in relation the the effect of his preaching, and of the repentance Jonah experienced amongst the dirty sinful gentiles. It seemed Jonah was much more successful with the dirty rotten stinking gentiles that Jesus was with the righteous, holy, blessed and perfect Jews He was addressing. Of course Jesus is much much greater, but refer to that posting for that discussion! In our verse this morning, Jesus brings up Solomon. The wisest and richest king ever produced in the nation. A man revered by Jesus audience as the wisest of all, a man who drew people to him just to hear his judgements. Jesus focuses in on the story of the queen of the South coming to see Solomon. A woman. A woman from a foreign nation. A dirty rotten stinking gentile again! But this example had her coming to Israel. She was not as the Ninevites, having a message delivered that they did not expect. This queen sought out an audience with the king. And she is going to judge the generation of religious Jews for not paying attention to the One greater than Solomon. Can you hear the mocking, the jeering and the laughter in the background? How could this itinerant rebel rousing Rabbi consider His message greater than Solomon? Or more to the point, how could Jesus compare Himself as greater than Solomon? This must have seemed completely ludicrous in the eyes of the religious man in Israel! And how dare Jesus suggest a foreigner, a dirty rotten stinking gentile, judge the righteous holy and perfect law-abiding Jew? This was just too much! But what if He was right? What if Jesus is Greater than Solomon? How humbling this would be for the religious man? If Jesus is greater than Solomon, and the religious man is not recognizing His greatness, a time will come when a great humbling will occur! How deep is the complete blindness of the religious man? If Jesus is greater than Solomon, and the religious man cannot see the truth of the Messiah, that Jesus provides all the proofs needed to know and see Him in His person, a time will come when this will be revealed! How silent is the stone cold deafness of the religious man? If Jesus is greater than Solomon, and the religious man cannot hear the words of God coming from the mouth of Jesus, he is showing he is not of the fold, that he is not one of the Shepherd’s sheep, a time will come when the Word will be clear! My friend, Jesus is Greater than Solomon, having proved His identity by His life and death, and His resurrection. Jesus is Greater than Solomon. Deal with it! On a personal note, I am convinced that religion is one of the greatest barriers to knowing the Living God. Religion, in all it’s glory, is often a tool used deaden our sense of need before the only True God, providing a system of various laws and rules that we are to obey in order to satisfy some god, or provides the religious man enough information in order to inflate our estimation of ourselves.

I would love to hear of your favorite name, characteristic or description of the Living God. Please leave me a comment, and I will include it in the list!

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