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The Great “I AM”, February 10
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.
Exodus 3:14
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In Christ is life, original, unborrowed, underived. “He that hath
the Son hath life.”
1 John 5:12
. The divinity of Christ is the believer’s
assurance of eternal life.
All the communion between heaven and the fallen race has been
through Christ. It was the Son of God that gave to our first parents
the promise of redemption. It was He who revealed Himself to the
patriarchs. Adam ... understood the gospel....
Jesus was the light of His people—the light of the world—before
He came to earth in the form of humanity. The first gleam of light
that pierced the gloom in which sin had wrapped the world, came from
Christ. And from Him has come every ray of heaven’s brightness that
has fallen upon the inhabitants of the earth. In the plan of redemption,
Christ is the Alpha and the Omega—the First and the Last.
It was Christ who from the bush on Mount Horeb spoke to Moses
saying, “I AM THAT I AM: Thus shalt thou say unto the children of
Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.” This was the pledge of Israel’s
deliverance. So when He came “in the likeness of men,” He declared
Himself the I AM. The Child of Bethlehem, the meek and lowly Saviour,
is God “manifest in the flesh.”
1 Timothy 3:16
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This unconscious babe was the promised seed, to whom the first
altar at the gate of Eden pointed. This was Shiloh, the peace giver.
... This was He whom seers had long foretold. He was the Desire of
all nations, the Root and the Offspring of David, and the Bright and
Morning Star.
And to us He says: “I AM the good shepherd.” “I AM the living
bread.” “I AM the way, the truth, and the life.”... I AM the assurance of
every promise. I AM; be not afraid. “God with us” is the surety of our
deliverance from sin.
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