The I Am.

The I Am Of All I Ams.

Exodus 3.

If you’re in Lake City, Fla., one of these days and happen to run into a 50-something fellow with a sandy mustache, a receding hairline, and aviator glasses, you may be in the presence of I Am Who I Am. Columbia County Court turned down Charles Haffey first request for a new name- God. Finally, Charles was granted the name of, God.

The former Charles Haffey says he wanted a new identity because of lingering feelings of anxiety over his military service in Vietnam.

Do you know the Name of God? It is made up of four Hebrew letters.

Yud

heh

vav

heh

Put together, YHVH.

It is the most sacred of names, so sacred some refuse to say it. And yet you say it all the time.

His name and His existence was first, and your existence flows from Him.

However, you might say, “How could I say it every day, when I never knew it?”

When you speak of yourself, you say the name, I AM.

Can I give you an example?

When introducing yourself you say, “I am…….”

Why? Because His existence is first and your existence flows from His.

In, Exodus 3, Moses is on the backside of the desert.

Listen to these verses that set the table for this mornings text.

Exodus 3:1-4 “Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.” 4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.””

Notice how Moses answers Yahweh. Here I am!

Moses answers with I am twice more; however God uses this terminology in, Exodus 3 several times!

Yahweh desires that ‘we’ identify with our eternal God who is forever present!

Why? Because…..His existence is first and your existence flows from Him.

Exodus 3:13-15NIV 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.”

Yahweh, The, I Am. YHVH means, I Am.

It’s the name of the eternal, the name of God!

Think about this, When you feel happy, you say, “I am happy.” And when you’re not, you say, “I am sad.”

When you tell others who you are, you say, “I am” followed by your name.

His name is, I Am.

His name is the root of who you are, because your name is fully backed by Him.

Knowing this truth puts our lives into perspective. -He is the sovereign God, and we are His.

1 John 4.4AMP “Little children (believers, dear ones), you are of God and you belong to Him and have [already] overcome them [the agents of the antichrist]; because He who is in you is greater than he (Satan) who is in the world [of sinful mankind].”

Listen to this proclamation by God. -Isaiah 42.8-9NIV ““I am the Lord; that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols. 9 See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you.””

When someone refuses to recognize the deity of the, I AM, they actually deny their very own existence, because their name is tied to God’s name! P.H

Hear this word, His name is woven into the fabric of existence that when you speak of yourself, you must say his name.

Again, why is that? It’s because your existence comes from His existence!

He is the I am of all existence… The I am of all I Ams.

The apostle Paul preaching to the people in Athens, And Paul knew these folks sought after knowledge upon knowledge.

Acts 17.28NIV “‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’”