XVDHMAK@VCUVM1 (Michael Kline) (01/17/90)
Part 5. How do the three persons of God reveal themselves to us?
GOD USES THE DIVINE NAME I AM (I AM THAT I AM) (EGO EIMI) ===========>
God - Exodus 3:13,14 - "And Moses said to God, Behold, when I come to
the Israelites and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you,
and they say to me, What is His name? What shall I say to them? (14)And God
said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM and WHAT I AM and I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE;
and He said, You shall say this to the Israelites, I AM has sent me to
you!"
Isaiah 43:10 - "You are My witnesses, says the Lord, and My servant
whom I have chosen, that you may know Me, believe Me and remain steadfast
to Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed,
neither shall there be after Me."
Deuteronomy 32:39 - "See now that I, I am He, and there is no god
beside Me; I kill and I make alive, I wound, and I heal; and there is none
who can deliver out of My hand."
Jesus Christ, the Son - John 8:24 - "That is why I told you that you
will die in (under the curse of) your sins. For if you do not believe that
I am He (Who I claim to be) - if you do not adhere to, trust in and rely on
Me - you will die in your sins."
John 8:28 - "So Jesus added, When you have lifted up the Son of man (on
the cross), you will realize (know, understand) that I am He (for Whom you
look); and that I do nothing from Myself - of My own accord, or on my own
authority - but I say (exactly) what my Father has taught Me."
John 8:58 - "Jesus replied, I assure you. I most solemnly tell you,
before Abraham was born, I AM."
John 13:19 - "I tell you this now before it occurs, so that when it
does take place you may be persuaded and believe that I am He - what I say
I am, the Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah."
John 18:5,6 - "They answered Him, Jesus the Nazarene. Jesus said to
the, I am He. Judas, who was betraying Him, was also standing with them.
(6)When Jesus said to them, I am He, they went backwards - drew back,
lurched backward - and fell to the ground."
Well, this concludes this "study". Like I said, most of it was from my
CARIS notes. It doesn't deal with the "drive" that Christians have to
witness, etc., but it shows, as best as possible, the God we Christians
worship, and hopefully explains why another god would simply be settling
for "second best". Why link with a god who is now god when the One True God
says in Matthew 11:28 - "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden
and over burdened, and I will cause you to rest - I will ease and relieve
and refresh your souls.".
Also, John 3:16-18 - "For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the
world that He (even) gave up His only-begottened (unique) Son, so that
whoever believes in (trusts, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish -
come to destruction, be lost - but have eternal (everlasting) life. (17)For
God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge -to reject, to
condemn, to pass sentence on - the world; but that the world might find
salvation and be made safe and sound through Him. (18)He who believes on
Him - who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him - is not judged (he who trust
in Him never comes up for judgement; for him there is not rejection, no
condemnation; he incurs no damnation). But he who does not believe (no
cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already; (he has already been
convicted; has already received his sentence) because he has not believed
on and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. - He is
condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ's name.
In His Love,
Michael A. Kline, Sr. SSE
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