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WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? 

Let's say we are in a room together, and I ask your name, and you tell me that your name is 'Peter', and I say, 'Oh, hello George'.  And you tell me, 'My name is Peter', and I say, 'Yes, George, its nice to meecha.'   And, you say, 'But my name is Peter!", and I say, "No problem George.'  And, by the way, Brother George, could you please hand me that pen?"  Would Peter respond?  Yes, if he were very polite.  But, here, we have our loving Heavenly Daddy saying to us, 'My Name is Yahweh' - (6,823 times!)  We say, 'Oh, hello, Jehovah' !. And Yahweh says, 'Yes, My Name is Yahweh'. and we say, 'Oh, yes, hello, Jehovah',  Does God know Who we are referring to?  Of course He does!  Does He listen, and answer when we call Him Jehovah?  Of course He does!  By now everyone knows who we mean when we refer to George, and God knows Who we mean when we call Him by an name that is wrong.

Hyper-critical, Religious Legalism

When the enemy cannot succeed in suppressing a truth, he often gets behind the truth and pushes it to a cultic extreme. 

There are those who become legalistic, religious and wrongly critical of others - insisting that God be called ONLY by His proper Name, Yahweh. Some people are so narrow-minded that they insist that one's salvation is invalid if they have not been baptized by the exact formula, "I baptize you in the Name of Yahweh, for the remission of your sins, in the Name of His Son, Yahshua". Some insist that if you have not called on the literal Name of Yahweh or Yahshua, that you will not be saved.  Other formulas can be equally legalistic. Once again, people are forgetting that to call upon His Name, mostly has to do with calling on Him, the Person, the Character-Who HE IS! - not - what His Name is, although His Name, YAHWEH is important!  

Another problem with many 'Yahweh People' is their silly and stubborn and cultic insistence that a person MUST keep various of the Old Testament Torah Laws!!!!!  It varies with the particular group as to just exactly which or how many of the Old Testament Laws one must keep.  But I know of no Old Testament Law keepers that insist that one must stone their rebellious children to death, or that one must take a year long honeymoon, or that one should feed his wife a poison concoction if he is jealous of her, or, that we sacrifice animals.  The Bible CLEARLY TELLS US in many places in the New Testament that we are "no longer under the Law", and that the "Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus, has SET US FREE from the old (Torah) law of sin and death!!!.  Galatians tells us over and over that we are free from the Old Testament Law, and that those who try to get us to keep Old Testament Law are 'seducers' and 'bewitchers', and that we are foolish and deceived if we listen to them.  If you would like to know more of the truth about this legalistic and dangerous Old Testament Law keeping deception, write for our small book, Law, Grace and Law.

What I Call My Wife 

My wife's name is Karen Harriet Wold Bohlen. 'Karen' means 'Pure One'. She did not like her name 'Harriet' until I told her the meaning, 'The boss of the house!'.  For some one to legalistically and religiously insist that I only always refer to her by one of her proper names would be nonsense and crippling. But to NEVER use one of her proper names would also be silly. In the meanwhile I call her, 'Honey', or 'Hunzie', or 'Darling', 'Peaches", "Shnookums', 'Saint', 'Ma'am', 'Dear', 'Precious', 'Babe',  'Sweetheart', etc. In our bedroom, or in private, there are some pet names that I have for her, that I will not tell you what they are, but they are not very formal!  My favorite way of addressing God is 'Dear Darling Daddy Yahweh'!, or 'Papa Yahweh'.

The balance is to use God's proper Name sometimes, often, and appropriately, but to refuse to be religiously critical and legalistically superior over others, just because we know His Name.  Just because there are legalistic, religious, cultic people who use His Name in vain, while using His proper Name, does NOT mean that we are stop using His proper Name.  Just because a driver backs into you with his Ford car, does not mean that we are to stop driving Fords.

The most important thing, however is to walk in the Truth of what it really means to do things In His Name. In order to really do things In Jesus' Name, is to have a deeeeeeep revelation of the King's Greatest Secret!, or, of the Exchanged Life or, of having Christ within us AS our Life!  Allowing our Lovely Yahshua to live His Divine Life through us, speaking through us, walking around in our shoes, being all that He wants to be, through us, looking out through our eyes, speaking through our lips, blessing through our hands, etc., etc., is truly what doing things in Jesus' Name, really means.  If you want to know more about how to allow Christ to live His Life through you, AS your Life, get in touch with us!  715-866-4060, or see our website: 

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