God’s Reassurance Through His Name — “I AM” 

     (Exodus 3:13-15) 

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 13 Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?” 

 14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ” 

 15 God, furthermore, said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘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, and this is My memorial-name to all generations.

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  The Question: “Who Are You?”

  ++Moses is not ignorant or sarcastic

  ++He knew God’s name, but he needed to know the God behind the name

  ++“Who are You… really? What are You like? Can I trust You?”

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  The Answer: “I AM WHO I AM”

  ++“I AM has sent me to you”

  ++Hebrew: “to be” - “I am… I was… I will be”

  ++“I will be what I will be”

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     God is the One who always is.

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       What “I AM” Reveals

  ++God does not depend on anything — everything depends on Him

  ++He never changes, never improves, never becomes something He was not

  ++He is fully God before Moses, at the bush, and forever

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  “I will be exactly who you need Me to be in every situation.”

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       Sufficiency of God 

  ++Uncertainty -> He is wisdom

  ++Weakness -> He is strength

  ++Fear -> He is peace

  ++Changing circumstances -> He remains the same

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   God is not just present — He is perfectly sufficient

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     The Covenant Connection

++ “The LORD, the God of your fathers — the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob”

++ “I AM” guarantees God’s faithfulness to His covenant promises

++ 400 years of bondage did not cancel God’s promise

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     ++God cannot forget His promises 

     ++because He cannot forget who He is.

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     Jesus as “I AM”

  ++Confrontation with religious leaders

  ++“Before Abraham was… I AM”

  ++Not “I was” — “I AM”

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  “I AM the Resurrection and the Life”

  (John 11)

  ++At Lazarus’ tomb — 4 days dead

  ++Jesus does not say “I will give resurrection”

  ++He says: “I AM the resurrection and the life”

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  Resurrection is not just what He does — it is who He is.

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  Coming to the Table

  ++Gave His body

  ++Shed His blood

  ++Established the New Covenant

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  What Communion Reminds Us

  ++The great “I AM” has been faithful to His covenant

  ++The unchanging God

  ++The covenant-keeping God

  ++The living God — the resurrection and the life

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  We are not remembering a defeated Savior .

  We are remembering the living “I AM.”