When Moses asked God’s name at the burning bush, God answered, “I AM WHO I AM” — the self-existent Creator, not definable by anything outside Himself, whose covenant name YHWH is His memorial to all generations. This message surveys the many names of God in Scripture (Elohim, El Shaddai, Jehovah-Jireh, and others) before settling on Israel’s central confession, the Shema: “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.”
That one Lord is revealed in Scripture as three persons: God the Father, in whom all things were created through and for the Son, and the Son given the name above every name, so every tongue will confess Jesus Christ is Lord. The sermon closes where the Shema itself does — commanding parents to teach these truths diligently to their children, at home and on the road, so the knowledge of the one true, triune God is passed to the next generation.