"I AM" - Part Two

In my last blog post titled "I AM" - Part One, we learned that the "I AM" is the eternal God who is co-existent with eternity. I quote from paragraph four. "Eternity does not exist without the true and living God! Without the true and living God there is no eternity!"

Let's have another look at John 8:58 where Jesus was speaking to the Jews in the Temple precincts at Jerusalem. "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM." Jesus Christ here affirms His deity. As God the Son, He existed before Abraham was born. He is God revealed in human flesh as the man Jesus of Nazareth.

John 1:1-5 informs us that, "(1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (2) He was in the beginning with God. (3) All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. (4) In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. (5) And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it."

What is a word? What are words?  They are the visible and audible expressions of our thoughts. They are the means of us communicating our thoughts to one another. So the Word is God revealing Himself to you and me through the Son.

Hebrews 1:1-3 tells us, "(1) God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, (2) has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; (3) who being the brightness of His glory and the express [exact] image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high."

Are we beginning to grasp the wonder and the glory of the Son, the "I AM" who came to reveal the true and living God? This is the One who became man in order to reconcile us back to God and redeem our souls. The Triune God has chosen to reveal Himself to you and me in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah [Christ], the son of Man, the Son Of God, God the Son.

The eternal Triune God has revealed Himself to us in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews, KING of KINGS and LORD of LORDS. God in the person of the Son walked among mankind. God in the person of the Son paid the penalty for our sins at Calvary.

In the last book in the Bible, the Book of Revelation, in chapter 22:13 we read concerning the Lord Jesus Christ these words; "I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last."

In Colossians 1:15-18 we are informed concerning the Son that, "(15) He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. (16) For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on the earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. (17) And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. (18) And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the first born from the dead, that in all things He may have the pre-eminence."

 

Jon Peasey

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[All Scriptures quoted are from the New King James version; unless otherwise noted. Words enclosed in [ ] are inserted for clarity. Words in bold type emphasise a point. You may notice some verses are quoted with ... at the beginning, ending or elsewhere in a verse. Only the relevant part or parts of the verse, that relate directly to the current subject matter is quoted.]

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