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The Great I AM

• Folsom Point church of Christ
• December 7, 2008

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Names for I AM

• Jehovah Roi
• The Lord is my shepherd He is the God of guidance

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Names for I AM
Jehovah Shammah The Lord is there, the God of
presence
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Names for I AM
Jehovah Nissi The Lord is my banner, the Lord
of victory
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Names for I AM
Jehovah MeKaddishkem I am the Lord who
sanctifies you, the God of holiness
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Names for I AM

• Jehovah Jireh
• The Lord who provides the God of benevolence

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Names for I AM

• Jehovah Shalom
• The God of peace, hope

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The Great I AM

• Shepherd
• Presence
• Victory
• Sanctification
• Holiness
• Benevolence
• Peace
• Hope

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YHWH

• God said to use His name (Exo 3)
• LORD instead of YHWH
• Psa 81 Oh Lord, our Lord
• Oh YHWH, our YHWH

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Some observations

• This is My permanent name, forever
• Use My Name

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Yahweh means that God
always is

• Psa 902 Before the mountains were born Or You
  gave birth to the earth and the world, Even from
  everlasting to everlasting, You are God
• What does Gods nature suggest?
• Eternality is always recognizable
• Eternality is a great comfort (Psa 910 And
  those who know Your name will put their trust in
  You, For You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who
  seek You)

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Yahweh means that God
never changes

• Exo 63, Didnt they know Him as Yahweh?
• Promise as possession (1 John 511-13)
• Do we use His personal name?

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Some Comforting Realizations

• Where is the place that I AM
  does not reign?
• What is your Egypt?

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Some Comforting Realizations

• 2. Who is able to frustrate the purposes
  of I AM?
• Who is your Pharoah?
• For I know the plans that I have for you,
  declares the LORD
  - Jer 2911

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Some Comforting Realizations

• 3. If He is the I AM, then what is the need that
  He cannot meet?
• Good shepherd
• Good physician
• Bread of life
• Light of the world
• Resurrection and the light

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You shall not take the name of the LORD your God
in vain Exo 207

• What does this text mean?
• Do we worship I AM?

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• There is beyond the azure blue
• A God concealed from human sight
• He tinted skies with heavenly hue
• And framed the worlds with His great might
• There is a God, He is alive
• In Him we live, and we survive
• From dust our God, created man
• He is our God, The Great I AM
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• Our God, whose Son up on a tree
• A life was willing there to give
• That He from sin might set man free
• And evermore with Him could live
• There is a God, He is alive
• In Him we live, and we survive
• From dust our God, created man
• He is our God, The Great I AM

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