When Moses asked God what His name is, God said, “I Am.” No matter how far back we go or how far into the future we look, God is always there. He has many other names, but His name, “I Am,” brings before us that He has always existed.
When the Lord Jesus was here, He said, “Before Abraham was, I am.” The Jews, who knew the Old Testament scriptures, said, “Thou, being a man, makest Thyself God” (John 10:3333The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. (John 10:33)). Was the Lord Jesus really God? Yes, He is! God’s Word declares that He is, and we believe God. Also, when we read about how He was born, the miracles He performed, the words He said, His death and resurrection, we can come to no other conclusion!
Have you ever sung this lovely hymn?
Thou art the everlasting Word,
The Father’s only Son;
God manifest, God seen and heard,
The heaven’s beloved One;
Worthy, O Lamb of God, art Thou
That every knee to Thee should bow.
The Bible records other names for the Lord Jesus Christ which could never be true of any mortal man but which are all perfectly true of Him. See if you can find a few examples of these lovely names.
1. Who is “the way, the truth, and the life”? John 14:___
2. Because Jesus is the light of the world, what will we have if we follow Him?
John 8:___
3. By whom may a person enter in, be saved and find pasture? John 10:___
4. Who is the resurrection and the life, and he that believes in Him, though he were dead, yet shall he live? John 11:___
5. How is it that he who comes to Jesus will never hunger or thirst?
John 6:___