Series Foundation:
1. I Am Living 2. I Am Holy 3. I Am Eternal
Description: God wants you to get a revelation of who He is and to know Him.
Revelation comes through His Word and experience with Him.
We are transformed by His revealing character.
Exodus 3:13-14
13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said , Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
John 8:57-59
57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by .
Introduction:
Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
We live in time and space. It is linear.
God is Eternal.
Eternity can be described as going forward & backward with no ending.
Eternity is in perpetual direction having no beginning and no ending!
This is where God dwells. This is what God is.
1. I AM speaks to His Eternal Nature
“Before Abraham was, I am.”
This description being in the present tense...
Abraham had a duration
We have a duration
“When I was young” or “When I was a child”
But what God “IS” He still “IS” and “IS TO COME”
He was, He Is, He Is to come...
Revelation 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come , the Almighty.
There is no time when He began
There is no time when He will end
It’s not He will be... Because that is to say that He is not yet that thing... I AM -- HE IS!
He’s the First and the Last, but He IS!!
2. Man Cannot Comprehend Eternity
Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV) He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Methuselah - 969 years
3. God Exists Outside of Time
2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Peter commenting on the return of God...
A year in the life of man = 365,000 years to God
70 years in the life of man = 25.5 M years to God
And yet this is just a human comparison by God to communicate what time is in relation to Him.
Yet still there’s no proportion between our time & God’s eternity!
Years and days can really only measure duration of the created!
Job 36:26-30
26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
Daniel 7:9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down , and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
He is much older than measured time!
God’s Eternity Revealed In Creation
Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen , being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
4. Psalm 90
This Psalm is a prayer of Moses
Psalm 90:3-6 (Complaint of Human Frailty)
3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest , Return , ye children of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past , and as a watch in the night.
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up .
6 In the morning it flourisheth , and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth .
Psalm 90:8-10 (Complaint of Present Condition)
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off , and we fly away.
Psalm 90:1-2
1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
God is a perpetual refuge and security to His people
He is not limited to 1 Generation
God told Joshua, “As I was with Moses, so will I be with you. I will not leave you, nor forsake you.”
God is not going to be there for Moses’ generation and forget about our generation
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
He has an eternal resume from which we can draw
Remember that the Lord...
5. Only An Eternal God Could Grant Eternal Life
Hebrews 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
The eternity of God is the foundation of the stability of the Everlasting Covenant.
The Great Promise of Eternal Life!
Revelation 1:17-18
17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: 18 I am he that liveth , and was dead; and, behold , I am alive for evermore , Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Psalm 102:25-27
25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
26 They shall perish , but thou shalt endure : yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed :
27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end .
6. Eternal Words, Eternal Promises
Matthew 24:34-36
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass , till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away , but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Luke 23:38-43
38 And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
39 And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying , If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying , Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds : but this man hath done nothing amiss.
42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
7. Not A Temporary Savior
Revelation 4:8 and they rest not day and night, saying , Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was , and is , and is to come .
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
If he had a beginning, he may have an end.
And so all our promises, all our joy, all our hope would too have and ending...
It would all expire with Him
But the Bible tells us, In the Beginning God...
In the Beginning was the Word and the Word was w/God and the Word was God...
He is the 1st and the Last
The Alpha and Omega
Who Was and Is and Is To Come!
We do not serve a Temporary Savior!
But an Eternal God who reigns forever!
From Everlasting to Everlasting!
Conclusion:
Revelation 10:6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
Eternal Life!!
