And God said "I am who I am"
Sunday, January 4, 2026
Reverend Larry Deering
Exodus 3:14-15
God said to Moses, "I am who I am. Or [I will be what I will be] This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I am has sent me to you.'"
God also said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites, 'The Lord, The Hebrew for [Lord] sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for [I am] in verse 14. 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, the name you shall call me from generation to generation.
John 8:58-59
"Very truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!"
At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.
Exodus 6:3
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, Hebrew [El-Shaddai] but by my name the Lord I did not make myself fully known to them.
Isaiah 42:8
"I am the Lord; that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.
Jeremiah 23:5-6
"The days are coming," declares the Lord, "when I will raise up for David Or [up from David's line] a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land.
In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The Lord Our Righteous Savior.
John 6:35
Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
John 8:12
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
John 10:9
I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. Or [kept safe] They will come in and go out, and find pasture.
John 10:11
"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 11:25
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;
John 14:6
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 15:1
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
John 15:5
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Revelation 22:16
"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you The Greek is plural. this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star."
John 18:5-6
"Jesus of Nazareth," they replied. "I am he," Jesus said. (And Judas the traitor was standing there with them.)
When Jesus said, "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground.
Revelation 22:13
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Colossians 2:9
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
2 Timothy 2:13
if we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot disown himself.
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Revelation 1:8
"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty."
2 Corinthians 1:20
For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so through him the "Amen" is spoken by us to the glory of God.
John 14:16-17
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—
the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be Some early manuscripts [and is] in you.
1 Corinthians 6:19
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
Exodus 3:8
So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
John 14:2-3
My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them."
Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?"
Jesus replied, "Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
"All this I have spoken while still with you.
But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
"You heard me say, 'I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
