An introduction to God is not complete until you know Him as Jehovah Hosu, the Lord our Maker, the God who does not only create but keeps shaping and remaking His people from the inside out. Preached on Resurrection Sunday as the final message of the Names of God series, this sermon teaches that real change does not come from willpower but from bowing before the Lord our Maker and trusting His work in you. The resurrection of Jesus, the pastor says, is the proof that corruption cannot hold what God has made.
Below you will find the full video, a structured summary of the sermon, every Scripture he uses (linked to the New King James Version on Bible Gateway), a timestamped outline, and practical steps for resting in God’s work this week.
Sermon at a Glance
This message was preached at NTC Ministries on Resurrection Sunday and posted on April 2, 2024. It closes the long teaching series An Introduction to God, in which the pastor has walked through the names by which God revealed Himself after the fall separated humanity from Him. He chose to finish on Easter with Jehovah Hosu because, he says, this name explains the resurrection of the dead and God’s plan for every believer.
The sermon moves from Psalm 95 to the meaning of the Hebrew root asah, then to the potter and the clay, the surprising law of the clean seed in Leviticus 11, and finally the empty tomb.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Speaker | The pastor of NTC Ministries (not named in the recording) |
| Series | An Introduction to God: The Names of God, part 17 (final message) |
| Main text | Psalm 95:4–6 and 1 Peter 1:23–25 |
| Key theme | The Lord our Maker remakes us from within, and the resurrection proves it |
| Length | About 58 minutes |
An Introduction to God Through His Names
The pastor begins by recalling why the series exists. The fall of man separated humanity from God, and from that time on the Lord kept revealing Himself in various ways at different times. In these last days He has spoken through His Son, and Jesus reveals all the names of God and all that God is and does (Hebrews 1:1–2).
He opens in prayer, thanking God that His Word is living and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing soul and spirit and discerning the intents of the heart (Hebrews 4:12). He prays that the anointing would destroy every yoke of bondage (Isaiah 10:27) and that people would leave greater than they came.
Why does an introduction to God begin with His names? “Those who know Your name will put their trust in You,” says Psalm 9:10. And in Psalm 91:14 God promises to deliver and set on high the one who has known His name. Even after the phenomenal experience of being born again, the pastor says, believers need God to keep revealing Himself in greater ways, so that their lives take the full effect of His purpose.
Jehovah Hosu: The Lord Our Maker
The name comes from Psalm 95:4–6, which he calls an invitation to worship. In God’s hand are the deep places of the earth and the heights of the hills; the sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land. “Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.” That phrase, the Lord our Maker, is the name he calls Jehovah Hosu.
The pastor teaches that the name comes from the Hebrew root asah, a broad word meaning to do or to make in the widest sense. He reads a long list of ways the King James Version translates it. A selection follows, grouped to show the range of what he says the Lord our Maker does:
| What the word covers | Translations he reads |
|---|---|
| Starting and shaping | to make, to fashion, to bring forth, to appoint, to become |
| Completing | to accomplish, to finish, to fulfill, to perform, to bring to pass |
| Caring and keeping | to provide, to furnish, to maintain, to keep, to dress, to trim |
| Ruling and working | to govern, to execute, to exercise, to work, to serve, to be industrious |
| Changing | to change, to advance, to become great, to bestow, to grant |
“Ain’t that incredible,” he says. Whatever needs to change in your life, you do not have to make it happen by your own strength and tears. He is not my lord and maker, and you are not yours; He is the Lord our Maker.
Psalm 95 shows this in creation. The earth was without form and void, and the Spirit of God moved over the waters (Genesis 1:2). Then God began to make and hand-mold what He had created, including man from the dust. How much more, he asks, should we expect to see the Lord our Maker at work in our own lives?
God has given a picture of what He is making us into: the Word, which James calls a mirror and the perfect law of liberty (James 1:23–25). We look into it, see ourselves as He sees us, and hold on to what He is bringing us to. Kneeling, the pastor says, gives Jehovah Hosu the opportunity to make the needed changes.
An Inside Job, Not Will Worship
Many people, even after being born again and filled with the Spirit, stay in what the pastor calls an Old Testament mentality, where their own power and strength must produce change. Yet even under the old covenant God said, “Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit” (Zechariah 4:6). He warns against what Paul called will worship: I will make it happen. Instead we enter God’s rest, because of Him and through Him and to Him are all things (Romans 11:36).
Condemnation is the opposite of this. People beat themselves up because they are not as good as God wants, and decide they must fix it themselves. “It’s an inside job,” the pastor says. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1). Rather than envying others’ gifts and talents, thank the Lord that He has a plan for you too, and let Him do it.
The Lord our Maker makes all things new (Revelation 21:5). He replaced the old temple with one made without hands, which is us. One day all that we see will be replaced, so we need not fear the world or death, because Jesus shared in death to destroy him who had the power of death and to release those held in fear all their lives (Hebrews 2:14–15).
Even the baptism of fire, he says, is Jehovah Hosu burning away the old, including the little habits we excuse with “that’s the way I am.”
He contrasts two names. Elohim celebrates God as Creator, causing something to appear from nothing. Jehovah Hosu celebrates the Lord transforming what He created. That is why the church school’s motto is “good, better, best, I’ll never rest until my good is better and my better is best,” not because of our strength but because God is at work in us.
To kneel shows submission. One day every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord (Philippians 2:10–11), but at the judgment it will be too late. Now is the day of salvation (2 Corinthians 6:2). He points to Jesus’ parable of the Pharisee who thanked God he was not like other men, and the tax collector who bowed and asked for mercy and went home justified (Luke 18:10–14). The better response to one another is, “God’s not done with you yet.”
The Potter, the Clay and a Work in Progress
“You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our potter; and all we are the work of Your hand” (Isaiah 64:8). The potter’s primary desire, the pastor says, is to mold us into His perfect image. If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away and all things have become new (2 Corinthians 5:17). If you have another breath on this earth, he adds, God is not done with you yet.
God predestined us to be conformed to the image of His Son (Romans 8:29). That work is not only spiritual. It reaches the soul, mind, will and emotions, the body and our relationships. The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy, and corruption wants you to deteriorate into nothing, but Jesus came that you may have life more abundantly (John 10:10).
The pastor uses the body as a picture of Jehovah Hosu at work: it keeps renewing itself without our effort. He does not have to try to make his cells renew, and he does not have to strain to make himself a better person either. He is confident Jesus is doing that work, and he looks forward to being better tomorrow. God never slumbers or sleeps (Psalm 121:4), and His plans for us are for a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11).
When we bow and yield, we enter His rest, so much so that people may think we do not care. The disciples said the same of Jesus asleep in the storm (Mark 4:37–40). He rebuked the wind, asked where their faith was, and immediately the boat was at the other side (John 6:21). The pastor recalls God’s word through a prophet that He would work a work we would not believe if we were told (Habakkuk 1:5). Just trust Him; He will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4).
The Incorruptible Seed
Next the pastor takes a long passage from the law, Leviticus 11:29–37. The mole, the mouse and various lizards are unclean, and whoever touches one when it is dead is unclean until evening. Any clay vessel it falls on must be broken, even an oven.
Then comes verse 37: if any part of such a carcass falls on seed for sowing, the seed remains clean. The pastor explains that the seed holds its life-giving portion inside a protected environment. Sow it, and the outside dies while the inside comes up and brings life. “Corruption cannot have any effect on the seed that brings life,” he says.
That is exactly what 1 Peter 1:23–25 says of believers: born again not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever. All flesh is as grass and its glory as the flower of grass, which withers and falls away, but the word of the Lord endures forever. That incorruptible seed is where our change comes from. Even in the midst of chaos and tragedy, he says, we will rise up, blossom and bear fruit to bless others.
This is why God can say He will remember our sins no more (Hebrews 8:12). Even the old covenant promised to remove our transgressions as far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:12) and cast them into the depths of the sea (Micah 7:19). So set your affection on things above, because you are risen with Christ and your life is hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:1–3).
David, who came to know the Lord our Maker, could say that by God he could run against a troop and leap over a wall (Psalm 18:29). In the new covenant, nothing, not death nor life, angels nor things present nor things to come, can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:38–39).
Death Could Not Hold Him
Jesus’ enemies thought they had corrupted Him and finished Him. But He was the Word of God, living seed that could not be corrupted. When the women came to the tomb, the stone was rolled away and the angels asked why they sought the living among the dead (Luke 24:5–6). “O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?” Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:55–57).
The pastor describes the tomb as Pilate secured it (Matthew 27:62–66). He teaches that a Roman guard unit was sixteen soldiers, that the stone was sealed with cord and wax pressed with a signet ring, and that guards who failed faced death by fire. Rome had no motive to fake a resurrection, and the disciples were too afraid to come near. So who raised Him? And why did the soldiers have to be paid to say His body was stolen (Matthew 28:12–13)?
Jesus answered that Himself: no one takes My life from Me; I lay it down and I have power to take it again (John 10:17–18). He was the pure seed, buried in the earth, coming up to produce resurrection life, and the Lord our Maker passes that same life to everyone who believes.
If you had faith as a mustard seed, you could move a mountain (Matthew 17:20), and Peter wrote to those who had obtained the same precious faith he had (2 Peter 1:1), the faith that saw people healed as his shadow passed (Acts 5:15). Those who wait on the Lord shall mount up with wings like eagles (Isaiah 40:31).
To Martha at Lazarus’ tomb Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25–26). It is the Father’s will that He lose nothing of all that was given Him, but raise it up at the last day (John 6:39–40), and no one can snatch us out of His hand or the Father’s (John 10:28–29).
He recalls a Christian couple he counseled who were gripped by fear because their church told them to get their lives right by crying and wailing at the altar; it only got worse. That, he says, is the fruit of self-effort religion. Perfect love casts out fear (1 John 4:18); it is why martyrs could face death with joy. God has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection, to an inheritance that is incorruptible (1 Peter 1:3–5). It is Christ in you, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27).
Bowing Before the Lord Our Maker This Week
To close this introduction to God through His names, the pastor’s counsel is to stop striving and start thanking. Instead of complaining about the corruption you see in and around you, find the blessing God has promised in Scripture and thank Him daily for what He is doing. Here are practical steps from this message:
- Kneel before Him. Make Psalm 95:6 a daily prayer, giving the Lord our Maker room to make the changes you cannot make yourself.
- Look in the mirror of the Word. Read Scripture to see who He is making you into, and hold on to that picture instead of condemnation.
- Thank Him for healing. If you are not well, thank God daily that by the stripes of Jesus you were healed (1 Peter 2:24).
- Bow, then use the name. When troubling thoughts return, use the name of Jesus as you bow before Him, thanking Him that He is cleansing and renewing you.
- Encourage others. Tell people around you that God is not done with them yet, instead of comparing gifts.
- Bring your doubts to Jesus. Like Thomas (John 20:27), let Him meet you where you are.
He closes with an invitation to receive Christ, praying for a new heart and spirit (Ezekiel 36:26) and fullness of joy in His presence (Psalm 16:11), then prays the priestly blessing over the church (Numbers 6:24–26).
Timestamped Outline
- 0:00 Finishing the series on Resurrection Sunday
- 1:10 Those who know Your name: Psalms 9 and 91
- 3:24 Psalm 95:6: kneel before the Lord our Maker
- 4:30 Not will worship; the root word asah
- 5:44 The many meanings of the word
- 7:18 Psalm 95:4–5: His hands formed the land
- 9:36 An inside job, not condemnation
- 10:44 He makes all things new; fear is gone
- 12:47 Elohim creates, Jehovah Hosu transforms
- 15:03 The Pharisee and the man who bowed
- 17:14 The potter and the clay
- 19:45 A new you every day
- 21:06 Jeremiah 29:11 and Jesus asleep in the storm
- 23:35 Leviticus 11: unclean creeping things
- 26:51 The seed stays clean
- 28:11 1 Peter 1:23: incorruptible seed
- 30:33 Risen with Christ: Colossians 3
- 31:34 He is risen
- 32:54 The sealed and guarded tomb
- 35:39 John 10:17–18: power to take it again
- 38:23 The same faith
- 39:27 I am the resurrection and the life
- 41:42 A family gripped by fear
- 43:59 1 Peter 1:3–5: a living hope
- 50:16 Invitation and prayer of salvation
- 54:22 Prayer for the sick and blessing
Frequently Asked Questions
Does trusting the Lord our Maker mean I stop trying?
Not in the sense of doing nothing. The pastor still holds up the motto “good, better, best.” The difference is the source. He warns against will worship, trying to produce change by sheer strength and tears, and calls believers to bow, yield and thank God for what He is doing. Effort flows from confidence in God’s work inside you, not from condemnation or fear of failing Him.
What if I have prayed in Jesus’ name and nothing changed?
The pastor addresses recurring thoughts and sleepless nights directly. Use the name of Jesus, he says, but not as a tool wielded in your own strength. Use it as you bow before Him, thanking Him that He is cleansing and renewing you by the seed of His Word. The work is His, not yours, and thanksgiving keeps your focus on what He has promised.
Why did he save this name for Resurrection Sunday?
Because the resurrection is where Jehovah Hosu is seen most clearly. Jesus was the incorruptible seed: buried in the earth, untouched by corruption, rising with resurrection life. The pastor teaches that the same life is passed to everyone who believes, so the empty tomb is the guarantee that God will finish what He began in you and will not lose anyone the Father has given Him.
Scripture References
All passages open in the New King James Version on Bible Gateway:
- Psalm 95:4–6 — kneel before the Lord our Maker
- Psalm 9:10 — those who know Your name
- Zechariah 4:6 — not by might nor by power
- Isaiah 64:8 — the potter and the clay
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 — a new creation
- Leviticus 11:29–37 — the seed remains clean
- 1 Peter 1:23–25 — born of incorruptible seed
- John 10:17–18 — power to lay it down and take it again
- John 11:25–26 — I am the resurrection and the life
- 1 Peter 1:3–5 — a living hope
How this summary was made: written with AI assistance from the sermon’s own transcript and checked against the Scriptures listed above.
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