Jesus: The Great I Am and Our Salvation
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"Jesus was God, deity, the great I am. The I am that I am in the flesh. Who was first introduced to us in Exodus chapter 3, verse 14, with Moses and the burning bush. If you remember the story, Moses sees this bush not being consumed but on fire, and he goes up to it, and God speaks to him and says, Take off your sandals. You are on holy ground. And he goes, and God tells Moses in that story that I want you to go and rescue my people from Egypt." [00:35:44] (33 seconds)
"But it signifies his eternal, self-existent nature, that he's the creator, the sustainer, the alpha, the omega, that he is God and no one else is. And this is revealed all through the Old Testament. And then it's revealed again in Jesus by seven statements that are made where he's helping the people in his day understand that he wasn't just a man, but he was God in the flesh. This week in your devotional readings, we have, we picked up on three of those I am statements." [00:36:48] (34 seconds)
"Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father has placed his seal of approval. Then they asked, what must we do to do the works God requires? And Jesus said, the work of God is this, to believe in the one he has sent." [00:41:55] (22 seconds)
"And so they asked, what sign will you give that we may see it and believe? Will you do, what will you do? Our ancestors ate manna in the wilderness. As it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat. And Jesus said, I tell you, it is not Moses who's given you bread from heaven, but my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. And they said, sir, always give us this bread. And Jesus said, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never grow hungry." [00:42:56] (35 seconds)
"The first one is, I am the door. The second is, I am the good shepherd. In calling himself the door, Jesus was making a very clear reference that he is God's one and only single solution to the problem of sin. And there's no other access to God except through him. And the cool thing is the context." [00:46:51] (19 seconds)
"In this way, Jesus was saying to us that he is the only way to God. He is the only way to forgiveness. He is the door and the cross as the mechanism that gives us life. The Old Testament reference, this is really cool. The Old Testament reference goes back to the Passover. If you remember the Passover story in Exodus chapter 12, God tells Moses, go to Pharaoh, tell Pharaoh to let my people go, and nine different plagues have hit Egypt." [00:47:42] (34 seconds)
"Then there's the good shepherd. The good shepherd and the vine are my two favorite I am statements. The good shepherd, there's so much in it. I mean, it's just, it's chocked full of incredible truth. And when you think about the Old Testament connection, there's any number of references to God being our shepherd and we being his sheep." [00:49:55] (22 seconds)
"To me this is one of the most important spiritual disciplines of the Christian life listen to verse 27 my sheep hear my voice they know me and they follow me I can spend hours on this verse hours but to keep it simple I believe this is the key to the Christian life learning to identify and distinguish and follow the leading of God in our lives and that requires that we tune our ears to the Shepherd's voice that we know his voice and can distinguish it." [00:50:16] (32 seconds)
"The sixth I am statement, it's really a summation of everything else. Jesus is with his disciples in the upper room. He's told them that he's about to depart and they're upset about it and he says, let your heart be troubled. And he talks about there's going to be many mansions and all that good stuff. And then he says, I am the one and only way, the one and only truth, and the one and only life. And no man, no one, not even one, can come to the Father unless he comes through me." [00:58:42] (31 seconds)
"See, in this declaration, Jesus was inviting each of us and these disciples to connect to the true vine, suggesting that unlike Israel's previous failures to bear good fruit, that if we will plug in by faith, that we, through his power, would be able to bear much fruit. Personally, I find it interesting that this was Jesus' last teaching, last major teaching before going to the cross. He's been identifying himself all the way through, and he says, now that you understand who I am, don't just acknowledge it. Don't just believe it. Surrender to it." [01:02:53] (40 seconds)
"Be fully abandoned to who I am and what I desire for you. See, this was more than a call to salvation. It was a call to surrender. It was a call to live abandoned in complete dependence upon God through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. So let me kind of make it simple for you. The Christian life begins in accepting Christ as our Savior by grace through faith." [01:03:30] (31 seconds)
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"But it signifies his eternal, self-existent nature, that he's the creator, the sustainer, the alpha, the omega, that he is God and no one else is. And this is revealed all through the Old Testament. And then it's revealed again in Jesus by seven statements that are made where he's helping the people in his day understand that he wasn't just a man, but he was God in the flesh. This week in your devotional readings, we have, we picked up on three of those I am statements." [00:36:48] (34 seconds)
"Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father has placed his seal of approval. Then they asked, what must we do to do the works God requires? And Jesus said, the work of God is this, to believe in the one he has sent." [00:41:55] (22 seconds)
"And so they asked, what sign will you give that we may see it and believe? Will you do, what will you do? Our ancestors ate manna in the wilderness. As it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat. And Jesus said, I tell you, it is not Moses who's given you bread from heaven, but my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. And they said, sir, always give us this bread. And Jesus said, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never grow hungry." [00:42:56] (35 seconds)
"The first one is, I am the door. The second is, I am the good shepherd. In calling himself the door, Jesus was making a very clear reference that he is God's one and only single solution to the problem of sin. And there's no other access to God except through him. And the cool thing is the context." [00:46:51] (19 seconds)
"In this way, Jesus was saying to us that he is the only way to God. He is the only way to forgiveness. He is the door and the cross as the mechanism that gives us life. The Old Testament reference, this is really cool. The Old Testament reference goes back to the Passover. If you remember the Passover story in Exodus chapter 12, God tells Moses, go to Pharaoh, tell Pharaoh to let my people go, and nine different plagues have hit Egypt." [00:47:42] (34 seconds)
"Then there's the good shepherd. The good shepherd and the vine are my two favorite I am statements. The good shepherd, there's so much in it. I mean, it's just, it's chocked full of incredible truth. And when you think about the Old Testament connection, there's any number of references to God being our shepherd and we being his sheep." [00:49:55] (22 seconds)
"To me this is one of the most important spiritual disciplines of the Christian life listen to verse 27 my sheep hear my voice they know me and they follow me I can spend hours on this verse hours but to keep it simple I believe this is the key to the Christian life learning to identify and distinguish and follow the leading of God in our lives and that requires that we tune our ears to the Shepherd's voice that we know his voice and can distinguish it." [00:50:16] (32 seconds)
"The sixth I am statement, it's really a summation of everything else. Jesus is with his disciples in the upper room. He's told them that he's about to depart and they're upset about it and he says, let your heart be troubled. And he talks about there's going to be many mansions and all that good stuff. And then he says, I am the one and only way, the one and only truth, and the one and only life. And no man, no one, not even one, can come to the Father unless he comes through me." [00:58:42] (31 seconds)
"See, in this declaration, Jesus was inviting each of us and these disciples to connect to the true vine, suggesting that unlike Israel's previous failures to bear good fruit, that if we will plug in by faith, that we, through his power, would be able to bear much fruit. Personally, I find it interesting that this was Jesus' last teaching, last major teaching before going to the cross. He's been identifying himself all the way through, and he says, now that you understand who I am, don't just acknowledge it. Don't just believe it. Surrender to it." [01:02:53] (40 seconds)
"Be fully abandoned to who I am and what I desire for you. See, this was more than a call to salvation. It was a call to surrender. It was a call to live abandoned in complete dependence upon God through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. So let me kind of make it simple for you. The Christian life begins in accepting Christ as our Savior by grace through faith." [01:03:30] (31 seconds)
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