Part 3 | The Two Most Substantial Words Ever Spoken.
From John 8
📖 John 8:53–59 ESV “Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?” Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’ But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word. Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.” So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.
Why Abraham?
📖 John 8:37 ESV I know that you are offspring of Abraham;
📖 Matthew 23:2-3 ESV “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.”
📖 Exodus 3:6 ESV “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”
📖 Genesis 12:3 ESV I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
📖 Genesis 17:7 ESV And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Why these words?
Who Abraham vs Who Christ !
📖 John 8:58 ESV “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
What are the implications?
He been the .
📖 Exodus 3:14 ESV God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
📖 Isaiah 43:10-11 ESV “You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me. I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.”
1. We must find our in .
📖 2 Corinthians 3:5 ESV Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God.
2. We must find full in .
📖 Proverbs 3:5 ESV Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
📖 Isaiah 55:8 ESV For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
3. We must that is ALL we .
📖 Philippians 4:19 NIV And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.
4. We must Jesus !
📖 John 8:59 ESV So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.
📖 John 3:19–20 ESV And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
📖 1 John 1:7 ESV But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
📖 John 12:46 ESV I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
So who am I?
I am the of Jesus’ . He is the of my , and he has already met the I have – .
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