I AM

I AM : M. M. Ninan
What does God say?
Exodus 3:14 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.' "
Moses asks God: What shall I tell them your name is? God says: Tell them
my name is I AM.
Now I want you to fast forward back again to the time of Christ. Jesus is
in a crowd of people and they are arguing with him.
Jesus says: John 8:56 "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and
he saw it and was glad." 57 The Jews therefore said to Him, "You are not
yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?" 58 Jesus said to them,
"Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born I AM." 59 Therefore
they picked up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself, and went
out of the temple.
Note that he didn’t say before Abraham was born I was. He didn’t say
before Abraham was, I existed. He said before Abraham existed [I am the]
I AM. (There is a lot more here –those hidden complexities- note how he
didn’t use the phrase I was the I AM, because the I AM is timeless and
only way to define the ever existing extradimensional atemporal God is
to use the present tense all the time).
But wait, what was the name of God? It was I AM. So yes Jesus never said
“I am god.” He said something much more powerful. He named himself
the very name of God.
Let me explain why this is so powerful. A while back during the Iraq
conflict, President George W. Bush flew into the middle of the war in Iraq
and met personally with the troops. OK let’s say that just before he got
out in front of the soldiers he was standing around waiting to be
introduced and someone walked up to him and asked: Excuse me who
are you? Well he could of said: I am the President. But then he could have
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