I AM
This is one of the names of God that has always had me in awe.
I AM THAT I AM.
What a name!
What does it mean to you?
Have you ever thought about it deeply?
Where does this name appear in the Bible?
Ladies and gentlemen, let’s first turn to the book of Exodus.
Exodus 3:13-15 NIV – Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”
15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’
“This is my name forever,
the name you shall call me
from generation to generation.
In some translations it appears as I AM WHO I AM as we see above.
Jesus is said to have made seven significant ‘I AM’ declarations in the Gospel of John.
Let’s identify them.
• Bread of Life (John 6:35)
• Light of the World (John 8:12)
• Door/Gate (John 10:7-9)
• Good Shepherd (John 10:14)
• Resurrection and the Life (John 11:25)
• Way, Truth and Life (John 14:6)
• True Vine (John 15:1)
Other key appearances of “I AM”
• You are my witnesses, ” declares the LORD, “and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he.
• Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “I am he,” Jesus said. (And Judas the traitor was standing there with them.) When Jesus said, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
• “Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
“I am” is said to appear over 1300 times as a common pronoun-verb combination.
However, the specific instances in Exodus and John are highlighted as profound theological claims to divine, self- existent authority.
What does “I AM” mean?
In the Bible, “I AM” (Hebrew: Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh) signifies Gods self-existence, eternal nature and independence revealed to Moses in Exodus 3:14.
It denotes that God is the supreme, unchangeable source of all life, lacking nothing and existing outside of time.
• Self existence: God does not depend on anything or anyone for existence. He is the source of all existence.
• Eternal presence: God is always present, not bound by past or future.
Jesus uses this title in the Gospel of John to declare His divinity.
“Essentially, “I AM” describes a God who is, was and always will be.”
Hallelujah!!!
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This fills me with such excitement!
What a God!
What a wow!
What manner of love, that such a God would even be mindful of sinful man; to send His own Son to die on the cross for you and me??
On our knees we prostrate fall,
Crown Him, crown Him Lord of all!!!
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Thank you for joining me on this journey of discovery.
God bless you!
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