“Just call out My name…” Ps. 116:1-2“I love the LORD, because He has heard

My voice and my supplications.2 Because He has inclined His ear to me,

Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.”

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 116:1-2Observations about David calling on the Lord:

• God’s responsiveness motivated David to continue to look to Him

• David knew he could count on God• Calling on the name of the Lord became a life-long

habit for David• This is clearly not how David got eternal life

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 116:3-4“The pains of death surrounded me,

And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me;I found trouble and sorrow.

4 Then I called upon the name of the LORD:“O LORD, I implore You, deliver my soul!”

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 116:3-4Observations about David calling on the Lord:

• David called on the Lord because his life was in danger; a time of distress

• David gives us a specific example of what he did to call upon the Lord

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 116:5-7“Gracious is the LORD, and righteous;

Yes, our God is merciful.The LORD preserves the simple;

I was brought low, and He saved me.Return to your rest, O my soul,

For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.”

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 116:5-7Observations about David calling on the Lord:

• God acts out of His nature toward us; He is gracious, righteous, and merciful v. 5

• God responds to common people v. 6• This confidence should allow us to rest and not be

as anxious v. 7

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 116:8-10a“For You have delivered my soul from death,

My eyes from tears,And my feet from falling.

I will walk before the LORDIn the land of the living

I believed, therefore I spoke.”

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 116:8-9Observations about David calling on the Lord:

• Calling on the Lord delivered David from what would otherwise have resulted in death, sadness, and disaster

• God’s deliverance provoked David to a closer, public walk with God, as His kindness toward us should do

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 116:10b-11“I am greatly afflicted.”

I said in my haste,“All men are liars.”

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 116:10b-11Observations about David calling on the Lord:

• God is the only one who is completely trustworthy• Problems can cause us to jump to conclusions and

say things we shouldn’t• All men are liars

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 116:12-14“What shall I render to the LORDFor all His benefits toward me?

I will take up the cup of salvation,And call upon the name of the LORD.

I will pay my vows to the LORDNow in the presence of all His people.”

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 116:12-14Observations about David calling on the Lord:

• David celebrated God’s deliverance (salvation)• David determined to continue to call upon the

Lord, appears to be public• David’s deliverance caused Him to publically

worship

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 116:15-17“Precious in the sight of the LORD

Is the death of His saints.O LORD, truly I am Your servant;

I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant;You have loosed my bonds.

I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving,And will call upon the name of the LORD.”

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 116:18-19“I will pay my vows to the LORD

Now in the presence of all His people,In the courts of the LORD’s house,In the midst of you, O Jerusalem.

Praise the LORD!”

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 116:15-17Observations about David calling on the Lord:

Knowing his life mattered to God caused David to worship publically and call upon the name of the Lord

“Just call out My name…” Gen. 4:25-26“And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son

and named him Seth, “For God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed.” And as

for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the name of

the LORD.”

“Call” = “Proclaim”

“Just call out My name…” Gen. 12:8; “ And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.”

“Call” = “Proclaim”Luther = “Preached”

Also, 13:4; 21:33: 26:5!

“Just call out My name…” 1 Chron. 21:24-25“Then King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will surely

buy it for the full price, for I will not take what is yours for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings with that

which costs me nothing.” So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.”

“Just call out My name…” 1 Chron. 21:26“And David built there an altar to the LORD, and

offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the LORD; and He answered him from heaven by

fire on the altar of burnt offering.”

“Just call out My name…” 1 Chron. 21:27“ So the LORD commanded the angel, and he returned

his sword to its sheath.”

God was bringing temporal wrath on Israel and when David repented and called on the Lord for deliverance

from the wrath, He saved them.

“Just call out My name…” 1 Kings 18:23-24“Therefore let them give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire under it; and I will

prepare the other bull, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire under it. Then you call on the name of your

gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD; and the God who answers by fire, He is God.”

“Just call out My name…” 1 Kings 18:24b-25“So all the people answered and said, “It is well

spoken.”Now Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one

bull for yourselves and prepare it first, for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but

put no fire under it.”

“Just call out My name…” 1 Kings 18:26“So they took the bull which was given them, and they

prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying, “O Baal, hear us!”

But there was no voice; no one answered. Then they leaped about the altar which they had made.”

“Just call out My name…” 1 Kings 18:27“ And so it was, at noon, that Elijah mocked them and

said, “Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is meditating, or he is busy, or he is on a

journey, or perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened.”

“Just call out My name…” 1 Kings 18:28-29“So they cried aloud, and cut themselves, as was their

custom, with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them. And when midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the offering of

the evening sacrifice. But there was no voice; no one answered, no one paid attention.”

“Just call out My name…” 1 Kings 18:36... Water, water, water…

“And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, “LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in

Israel and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word. ”

“Just call out My name…” 1 Kings 18:37“Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may

know that You are the LORD God, and that You have turned their hearts back to You again.”

“Just call out My name…” 1 Kings 18:38-39“Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the

burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the

trench. 39 Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The LORD, He is God! The

LORD, He is God!”

“Just call out My name…” 1 Kings 18Elijah’s calling was…

• In time of need• Public• Involved asking God for help to deliver Israel from

God’s wrath - James 5:16b-18

“Just call out My name…” James 5:16b-18“The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man

avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it

did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave

rain, and the earth produced its fruit.”

“Just call out My name…” 2 Kings 5:11“ But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, “Indeed, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come

out to me, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place,

and heal the leprosy.’”

“Just call out My name…” 2 Kings 5:11Publically invoking God’s name for help

(in healing).

“Just call out My name…” Psalm 14:1“The fool has said in his heart,

“There is no God.”They are corrupt,

They have done abominable works,There is none who does good.”

“Just call out My name…” Psalm 14:2-3“The LORD looks down from heaven

upon the children of men,To see if there are any who understand,

who seek God.3 They have all turned aside,

They have together become corrupt;There is none who does good,

No, not one.”

“Just call out My name…” Psalm 14:4-6“Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,

Who eat up my people as they eat bread,And do not call on the LORD? There they are in great fear,

For God is with the generation of the righteous. You shame the counsel of the poor,

But the LORD is his refuge.”

“Just call out My name…” Psalm 14God is the refuge of those who call on His name and depend on Him, as opposed to those who depend on

themselves.

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 18:1-2“I will love You, O LORD, my strength.

The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;

My God, my strength, in whom I will trust;My shield and the horn of my salvation, my

stronghold.”

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 18:3“ I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised;

So shall I be saved from my enemies.”

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 18:4-5“The pangs of death surrounded me,

And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me;The snares of death confronted me.”

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 18:6“In my distress I called upon the LORD,

And cried out to my God;He heard my voice from His temple,

And my cry came before Him, even to His ears.”

Calling out to God in distress.

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 50:12-13“If I were hungry, I would not tell you;

For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.Will I eat the flesh of bulls,

Or drink the blood of goats?”

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 50:14-15“Offer to God thanksgiving,

And pay your vows to the Most High.Call upon Me in the day of trouble;

I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.”

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 50:16-17“But to the wicked God says:

“What right have you to declare My statutes,Or take My covenant in your mouth,

Seeing you hate instructionAnd cast My words behind you?”

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 50:22-23“Now consider this, you who forget God,

Lest I tear you in pieces,And there be none to deliver:

Whoever offers praise glorifies Me;And to him who orders his conduct aright

I will show the salvation of God.”

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 50• God wants our heart• God does not hear the unrighteous• We can call upon Him in the day of trouble

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 55:16-17“As for me, I will call upon God,

And the LORD shall save me.Evening and morning and at noon

I will pray, and cry aloud,And He shall hear my voice.”

Verbal, out loud, multiple times a day.

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 86:3-5“Be merciful to me, O Lord,For I cry to You all day long.

Rejoice the soul of Your servant,For to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon

You.”

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 86:6-7“Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer;

And attend to the voice of my supplications. In the day of my trouble I will call upon You,

For You will answer me.”

God’s help comes to us with forgiveness, mercy, and in the day of trouble!

“Just call out My name…” Ps. 91:14-15“Because he has set his love upon Me,

therefore I will deliver him;I will set him on high,

because he has known My name.He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;

I will be with him in trouble;I will deliver him and honor him.”

“Just call out My name…” Joel 2:28-29“And it shall come to pass afterward

That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,

Your old men shall dream dreams,Your young men shall see visions.

And also on My menservants and on My maidservantsI will pour out My Spirit in those days.”

“Just call out My name…” Joel 2:30-31“And I will show wonders in the heavens

and in the earth:Blood and fire and pillars of smoke.

The sun shall be turned into darkness,And the moon into blood,

Before the coming of the great and awesomeday of the LORD.”

“Just call out My name…” Joel 2:30-31“And it shall come to pass

That whoever calls on the name of the LORDShall be saved.

For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance,

As the LORD has said,Among the remnant whom the LORD calls.”

“Just call out My name…” Acts 9:13-14“ Then Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from

many about this man, how much harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem. And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your

name.”

This is how Christians were known…it was public! It was habitual! (1 Cor. 1:2)

“Just call out My name…” Acts 19:11-12“ Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of

Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases

left them and the evil spirits went out of them.”

“Just call out My name…” Acts 19:13-14“ Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus

over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” Also there

were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so.”

“Just call out My name…” Acts 19:15-16“ And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know,

and Paul I know; but who are you?”Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on

them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and

wounded.”

“Just call out My name…” Acts 19To cast out demons, these unbelievers called on the name of the Lord. But, first one must believe with

their heart.

“Just call out My name…” 2 Tim. 2:20-21“But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor. Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor,

sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.”

“Just call out My name…” 2 Tim. 2:22“Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness,

faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”

To grow as a believer, we must depend on the Lord, call upon Him for help

“Just call out My name…” Rom. 10:9-15• Believers and unbelievers fall under God’s wrath

and are enslaved by their sin• It is believers who can call on the name of the Lord

and be delivered from God’s wrath and their sin

“Just call out My name…” Rom. 10:9-15• Calling on the name of the Lord was often public• Calling on the name of the Lord was often in times

of distress and trouble• Calling on the name of the Lord started with an

understanding of what God is like; His mercy, His power, His grace

• Calling on the name of the Lord was habitual

“Just call out My name…” Rom. 10:9-15• Calling on the name of the Lord was often done

multiple times• People who call on the name of the Lord are

delivered!