Address—C. Hendricks
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Psalm 48.
And verse 10.
According to thy name.
O God, so is thy praise.
Unto the ends of the earth, according to thy name.
Oh God, so is thy praise.
Onto the ends of the earth.
Now let's turn back to.
Genesis 1.
Genesis 1 and verse one.
In the beginning.
God created.
The heaven and the earth.
In the beginning, God created.
We must always begin with Him.
And that word God.
Elohim in the Hebrew.
Is the plural.
Noun for God.
And created is in the singular. I know these truths are familiar to most of us here, but not all.
We have a plural subject with a singular verb.
And right here at the very beginning, the very first verse in our Bible.
We have an intimation that God is a plurality.
Now, in the English language, plural means two or more.
Singular means one.
But in Hebrew.
They have a singular.
#1A dual number.
And a plural #3 or more.
So when anything is in the plural.
The minimum is 3.
Not 2 as in English.
They have a separate form.
In the Hebrew.
Language for the for the form for two.
And this is the Pearl.
In the beginning, God Elohim. It's God in the absolute.
God in the absolute, God created.
The heaven and the earth. And a little bit later in the 2nd chapter God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and so on. So God is a plurality, though you have the intimation in the Old Testament, not the revelation of it.
Of the Trinity.
The Lord Jesus, the Son came, and he's revealed to us the Trinity.
Matthew 28 in the very baptismal formula, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
It doesn't say names, it says name. God is 1 and yet three persons.
In Isaiah 6 the seraphim cry Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty.
A dual.
Indication of the Trinity, 3 Holies and Lord God Almighty, each one of those referring to God.
God is.
A plurality, a Trinity.
And here we have God in the absolute. In the beginning, God created.
The heaven and the earth.
This book.
Tells us about this wonderful God.
And how he has revealed himself to us.
In a number of ways.
Turned to the 17th chapter of Genesis.
According to thy name.
So as I praise.
He has praised, according to.
How those who are praising him know him?
And in Genesis 17 one, when Abraham was 90 years old and 9 the Lord appeared to Abram and said unto him, I am the Almighty God.
Walk before me and be Thou perfect.
Now that's a tremendous truth. He is the Almighty God.
He is omnipotent. He has all power.
There isn't anything he cannot do.
As far as power is concerned.
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There are some things he cannot do as far as morality is concerned. He cannot lie, he cannot deny himself.
He cannot do anything that would be contrary to his holy nature.
But he is almighty.
Tremendous truth.
There are those that went this morning when we remembered the Lord and worshiped Him, praised him.
I don't think.
His almightiness was expressed.
In any of the prayers and the praises.
Though that's certainly a wonderful truth, He is the Almighty God. Is anything too hard for the Lord?
No, he can do.
Everything.
He.
Just think of this being so mighty, so powerful, that he could speak.
The world's into existence.
In the 33rd Psalm it says he commanded.
And it was done, he spake, and it was done, he commanded, and it stood fast.
By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God.
God spoke them.
Into existence a being so mighty.
So all powerful that he can speak a word.
And it is.
We don't.
We don't pause. I think of the little word in the Psalms, sila.
Which means pause, stop, consider.
Meditate.
On these things.
We need to put many asilas in our lives and consider.
How great he is.
I am the almighty God.
Nothing too hard for me.
I can do.
Anything.
That is necessary to be done.
Created the world's.
Created everything that.
Has a beginning.
In the beginning, God.
The absolute.
Created and that God.
Is a Trinity.
Three persons.
One God.
Now.
In the.
I think it's in Genesis 30.
7 is it?
Let's turn over there.
We have the wrong reference.
Now I have the wrong reference. It's the passage, and I'll just refer to it. We don't have to actually turn to it.
Where he speaks of himself as the everlasting or the eternal God.
Wonderful truth.
I remember talking to a man once and he he said, well I can, I can, I can understand in my mind.
Being that.
That exists today and will live on forever.
Have no end.
But I cannot grasp or fathom.
In my mind of being, as you go back, you go back, you go back as far as you go back, there he is. He has no beginning. He's eternal.
No beginning.
No ending.
We have been created, we came into being when God brought us into this scene, and we will go on forever.
We have that which will not die.
The soul man won't die. The spirit won't die. We're going to receive a resurrection body that won't ever die.
Will go on forever, but we all had a beginning.
And it's just staggering to the mind. Try to conceive of a being God who had no beginning. He always was.
Always was.
Everything that was created in Genesis One had a beginning in the beginning, the beginning of creation. God created the heavens and the earth. Everything we see, each one in this room, everything that is within our sight or our hearing, our senses had a beginning.
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But here is this one that brought it all into a being.
Who is eternal?
Is eternal.
He's almighty.
And then?
In the 100 and.
47th Psalm.
The 147th Psalm.
I'll read from verse one. Praise ye the Lord.
For it is good.
To sing praises unto our God, for it is pleasant, and praise is comely.
The Lord doth build up Jerusalem. He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds.
He tell us the number of the stars in that. Isn't that beautiful? He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds. He comes right down to our needs down here. And then the next verse says He tell us the number of the stars.
Calleth them all by their names.
This is how great this this God is.
That he can he can interest himself in the in the very lowliest.
And those of insignificance.
As far as man's judgment is concerned, and and and Number the Stars. Count them all.
Call them all by name.
Great is our Lord, and of great power His understanding is infinite.
He is omniscient.
All knowing.
He can never know more than he knows, because he knows everything.
He can never know less than he knows because he is the same.
The unchanging God.
But we haven't looked at that yet.
We looked at him as God in the Absolute.
God Almighty, Omnipotent.
God eternal, from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Eternal God.
And here his understanding is infinite.
There's not anything that anyone, anyone can teach him.
He knows everything.
Perfect understanding.
Now let's turn back to Exodus Chapter 3.
According to thy name, so is thy praise.
Well, you know, these things that we're touching on, they're not known by the heathen.
They don't know a God that's infinite.
They don't know a God that knows everything that is almighty.
That is eternal.
They have created their own gods.
After their own minds.
And.
So these attributes of deity.
The praise and the worship that flows out to him.
Will be according to how we know him.
And how we understand him.
Now, in Exodus chapter 3 we have a very important passage.
In verse 10.
The Lord says to Moses, Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh.
That thou mayest bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.
And Moses said unto God, Who am I?
That I should go on to Pharaoh and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt.
And he said, certainly I will be with thee.
And this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee, when thou hast brought forth the people of Egypt.
The people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them.
The God of your Father's hath sent me unto you, and they shall say unto me, What is his name?
What shall I say unto them?
And God said unto Moses.
I am.
That I am.
And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am.
Hath sent me unto you. Now these are two distinct expressions. I am that I am, if you would translate that.
You would translate it. He is the same.
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He is who he is.
He does not change.
He's the unalterable, the unchangeable God.
Now the gods of the heathen, they were all changeable.
You remember the number of times that Balaam, who was that false prophet? He, he went and he went to a different vantage point and he looked at Israel. Perhaps I can curse them from here. And then God made him bless them. And then he went to another and he went to another. Why did he do that?
Well, he was laboring under the false idea that if I just try it from different positions, maybe God will change his mind.
Maybe I can convince him to curse Israel.
Maybe he'll allow me to do that.
He didn't know the true God. He didn't know the I am that I am.
He didn't know the God who does not change.
His purpose was to bless Israel and nothing could change that.
And God's purpose for you and for me this afternoon is to bless us, and nothing can change that.
Aren't you glad, aren't we happy, that we can worship Him in the absolute confidence and assurance that He is eternal, that He is almighty, that He is all knowing, and that He doesn't change?
Unchangeable the I am that I am the unalterable.
The unchangeable God it's. This is translated in other parts of the scriptures as the same.
He is the same.
And then he goes on to say, And that's the meaning of Jehovah.
He's giving the meaning of the name Jehovah.
Not Elohim.
Not the everlasting or eternal God help.
Olam it.
In Hebrew.
But Jehovah. Yahweh.
The unutterable name.
When the Hebrew scribes came to that word, they washed themselves.
Before they wrote that word.
And then they wash themselves again. I'm told this so meticulously. Did they transcribe the scriptures?
That the Hebrew manuscripts are far, far better, more accurate.
Far filled with They're filled with much less error than the Greek manuscripts.
Because they had such a reverence.
For the Word of God would to God that we had that today.
And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am.
Hath sent me unto you. Now if you would translate that word, those words I am, you'd have to translate it as the Eternal.
He is the I am the Eternal.
It's his name. It's the name for his.
Essential existence.
He is the I am. He lives in an eternal present.
There's an expression in the New Testament, and I'll turn you to it in a moment, that gives the New Testament equivalent to the Old Testament Word Jehovah.
And it's in Revelation One, verse 4, and I'll read it to you.
Revelation One and verse 4.
John to the seven churches which are in Asia.
Grace be unto you in peace from Him here it is from Him which is.
And which was?
And which is to come? That's the New Testament equivalent to Jehovah. That's what Jehovah means. He who is, who was, who is to come. He, He abides in an eternal present.
He is, he was, he is to come.
Jehovah Now going back to Exodus chapter 3, God said unto Moses, I am that I am.
He is who he is. He does not change. How wonderful to know that.
And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am.
I am.
The name that speaks of his essential existence.
Now.
Now and then and to come, He is the I am.
We can't.
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Grasp that.
In our minds.
We always think in terms of time.
Past, present and future. And so we have that put together in that one verse in Revelation 1/4.
There's a beautiful verse in Isaiah 50.
57 I believe it is.
Isaiah 57.
And verse.
15.
For thus saith the high and lofty 1.
That inhabiteth eternity.
Whose name is holy?
I dwell in the high and Holy place.
With him also, that is of a contrite.
And humble spirit.
To revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones, here's this infinite God.
Who dwells?
Who inhabits eternity?
We can we can understand if it said he inhabits heaven.
We can understand that he lives in heaven. That's a place. But eternity is not a place.
Eternity is.
Timeless.
He inhabits eternity. He is everywhere in time.
You cannot confine him by time.
He lives in an eternal present.
He inhabits eternity.
His name is Holy.
This holy God.
Now that's a moral quality.
Holy, but he inhabits eternity.
We always think in terms of past, present, future.
Here's a being our God.
Who inhabits eternity?
I dwell in the high and Holy place.
He dwells in the high and Holy place.
And then it says with him.
That is of a contrite and humble spirit.
This infinite God inhabiting eternity, dwelling in the high and holy place.
He dwells with the lowly.
The humble, the contrite in spirit.
To revive the heart of the contrite ones. I love the way scripture puts these two things together.
One verse beside another, or in the same verse, the thought of His Majesty.
His greatness.
And then?
How he loves to dwell with those.
That are humble.
And lowly.
Now let's turn to Psalm 102.
This Psalm.
Speaking about our Messiah, the Messiah, our Lord Jesus.
The first part of the Psalm.
Tells us of his.
Sufferings and.
His feelings.
His aloneness.
He says in verse 6, I am like a Pelican of the wilderness. I am like an owl of the desert.
I watching him as a Sparrow alone upon the housetop.
Mine enemies reproach me all the day, and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, because of thine indignation and thy wrath. For thou hast lifted me up and cast me down.
Says the Messiah speaking. My days are like a shadow that declineeth, and I am withered like grass.
But thou, O Lord, shall endure forever, and thy remembrance unto all generations, and so on.
And then we'll pass on.
To verse 23.
He weakened my strength in the way.
He shortened my gaze.
He was cut off right in the midst of his years, a young man, 33.
I said, Oh my God, take me not away in the midst of my days.
And then the divine answer comes to him.
Thy years.
Are throughout all generations.
Here is the man that was going to be cut off in the midst of his years, and now Jehovah speaks to him and says, thy years are throughout all generations.
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth.
The heavens are the work of thy hands.
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure. Yeah, all of them shall wax old like a garment.
As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.
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But thou art the same.
He's the I am that I am.
Thou art the same.
And thy years shall have no end.
He was cut off as a man on earth, but then the answer comes to him.
Thy years are forever, you are the same.
And that's the glorious person.
Of the Son of God.
We find that quoted in Hebrews one. Please turn there for a moment.
Hebrews, chapter 1.
Verse 8 But unto the Son he saith.
Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.
Here God the Father is addressing his Son as God.
He says, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy Kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows, and thou Lord in the beginning.
Has laid the foundation of the earth.
And the heavens are the works of thine hands.
The beauty of the poetical beauty of the Scriptures, the heavens are just the works of His hands.
They shall perish. Everything that we see here is going to cease. It's going to come to an end. It's not eternal.
They shall perish, but thou remainest.
They all show wax old as doth a garment.
And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up. The simile is just a.
Coat and one takes it off and he just folds it up and sets it aside. What a beautiful picture. This is the greatness of this person. He takes the universe, the creation that man thinks is so vast, and it is.
And he just folds it up and.
Sets it aside.
They wax old as doth A garment, and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed.
But thou art the same.
And thy years shall not fail.
Thou art the same.
The unchangeable one the I am.
That I am.
We get it again in Hebrews 13.
And we're talking now about the person of the Son, We call him oftentimes referred to as the second person of the Trinity.
I don't like that first, second and third as though one is higher in rank than the other. That's not the thought.
It's simply because we say it that way. Father, Son and Holy Spirit, we know this verse so well. Verse 8. Jesus Christ.
The same yesterday.
And today, and forever.
You know, I noticed just recently looking at that verse, I said that's not a complete sentence.
There is no verb in the sentence.
It's as though he was going to say something more.
And he says Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. And then he stops.
And he says there is no more.
There's nothing more to say.
He is everything.
He is the same.
Yesterday, today, and forever, Him who is and who was and who is to come.
Jehovah the I am.
The I am.
Eternal God.
Become a man.
Mystery of Mysteries.
God manifest in the flesh.
The I am.
Did he ever claim to be that? Well, we know he did. Turn back with me to John Chapter 8.
John's Gospel, chapter 8.
I'm not presenting this afternoon anything we don't know.
In our intellect.
What I'm trying to do is to present something we do know that we should consider more and more.
As we go on our way.
John's Gospel, chapter 8.
Verse 21.
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Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way.
And ye shall seek me.
And shall die in your sins. Whither I go, ye cannot come.
Then said the Jews, will he kill himself?
Because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.
He said unto them.
Ye are from beneath.
I am from above.
Ye are of this world.
I am not of this world.
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins.
For if you believe not that I am he.
Ye shall die in your sins.
And you'll notice that he is in italics. It's not in the original. What he says is if you believe not that I am.
Ye shall die.
In your sins.
He is Jehovah.
He is the self existent 1.
The one who has eternal being, who is unchangeable.
He said if you don't believe that I am.
He lived perfectly what he spoke.
For this, 'cause he said to Pilate, came I into the world to bear witness unto the truth.
And. Pilate said with a sneer and a scoff. What is truth? There's no such thing as truth.
Everything's relative, everything's negotiable.
He was a politician. He didn't deal with truth.
But here he was, standing in the presence of the truth himself.
The truth himself.
Who art thou altogether? And absolutely what I say to you. That's who he was.
The truth.
The perfect expression of God the Father. The very words that he spoke were the Father's words. The very works that he wrought were the Father's works.
His whole pathway was a manifestation of.
Revelation of the Father.
He says in John 15, He that hateth me, hateth my father also.
You can't hate me and love the Father.
And then he goes on to say.
I have many things to say and to judge of you.
But he that sent me.
Is true.
And I speak to the world, those things which I have heard of him.
They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
Then said Jesus unto them, When you have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am He.
And that I do nothing of myself.
But as my father hath taught me, I speak these things.
And he that sent me is with me.
The Father hath not left me alone.
For I do always those things that please him.
These statements are absolutely tremendous.
I often say to someone that says he doesn't believe the Bible, I said.
I say just read John's Gospel.
Just read the fourth book in the New Testament.
Just read it and see if it does not speak to you.
We were talking about this just the other day at the table.
That this book is just a bunch of fables and man has invented it.
That would have been an impossibility.
That the mind of corrupt, fallen, sinful man could ever have invented the life of Jesus.
That would have been as great a miracle as the truth.
That He came from heaven's glory to reveal God to us.
According to thy name, so as thy praise, and so the more that was learned and known of God.
The greater the praise ascended to him.
While he's revealed to us the father's name.
He's brought us into the nearest relationship possible.
For man.
And now we worship the Father.
We worship the Father.
The highest form of worship.
Let's go on.
He that sent me is with me. The Father hath not left me alone, for I do always those things that please Him.
As he spake these words, many believed on him.
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him. If he continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed?
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And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
They answered him. We be Abraham's seed. We're never in ******* to any man.
How sayest thou you should be made free?
Jesus answered them. Just think of it. These Jews said we were never in ******* to any man.
They were in ******* for many, many years in Egypt.
At this very time they were in ******* in Babylon, they were in ******* in Medo Persia, they were in ******* to the Grecians, they were in ******* to the Romans, and in this very time they were under the power of Rome. And we were never in ******* to any man. He completely ignores that.
And he goes to something that was far deeper than just ******* to another earthly power.
And he says, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin, And the servant abideth not in the house forever, but the Son abideth ever, if the Son therefore.
Shall make you free.
He shall be free indeed.
The Sun.
The Eternal.
If he makes you free.
You shall be free indeed. Well, we don't have time to cover all of these verses.
And let's start at verse 48. I want to touch on the end of the chapter then said the Jews.
Answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hasta devil?
Jesus answered I have not a devil.
But I honor my father, and ye do dishonor me.
And I seek not my own glory. There is one that seeketh and judgeth.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast the devil, Abraham is dead, and the prophets, and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
I thought greater than our father Abraham greater.
Infinitely greater.
But they didn't know who he was.
I thought greater than our father Abraham, which is dead, and the prophets are dead, who make us thou thyself.
Jesus answered. If I honor myself, my honor is nothing.
It is my Father that honoreth me, of whom ye say that he is your God.
He made it very clear whom he was speaking about. When he called him my father, he said he's your God.
Yet ye have not known him.
But I know him, and if I should say I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you.
But I know him and keep his saying.
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.
Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet 50 years old.
And hast thou seen Abraham?
And Jesus said unto them.
Verily, verily, I say unto you the most tremendous statement.
Before Abraham was. He doesn't say I was.
He says before Abraham was before he was born.
Before he even existed.
I am.
I am.
The Jehovah.
He is the I am.
The force of that.
The tremendous.
Power of his words.
How dare he say such a thing?
Then took the up stones to cast at him, and Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them.
And so passed by.
Before Abraham was.
I am and again in John 19.
18 Excuse me, John 18.
Turn to that briefly. John 18 when they went to take him.
Verse 3. Judas then having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees.
Comethither with lanterns, and torches, and weapons. Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth and said unto them, Whom seek ye?
They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus saith unto them.
I am he.
And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them. As soon then, as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward and fell to the ground.
Then ask ye them again whom seek ye.
And they said Jesus of Nazareth.
Jesus answered. I have told you that I am He. You notice that he again is in italics. He's claiming to be the I am.
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If therefore, ye seek me, let these go their way.
And they went backward and fell to the ground. The power of that name.
The I am.
Now in the little time that is left, I want to.
Just look at the number.
A number of instances, they may not all come to my memory.
Where he speaks of himself as the I am going back to John 6.
John 6.
Verse 35.
And Jesus said unto them.
The bread of life.
These positive, succinct, short, terse statements from the Lord Jesus contain a volume of truth.
He says I am the bread of life. Think of a mere man saying such words as these. Every one of these I am expressions tell out who he is in one or other aspect of his.
Of his being the bread of life, the one who gives and sustains life, the giver of life, the sustainer of life, bread of life.
And then he says, He that cometh to me shall never hunger.
And he that believeth on me shall never thirst. What a sweeping statement.
We read through these verses so often, so quickly, without pondering them.
The immensity of the statement. There's no honest person that can read John's gospel.
Honestly, go through it carefully.
He will have to come to one of two conclusions.
Either he is everything that he claimed to be.
Or he's the greatest impostor ever, ever, ever.
There is no middle ground.
You can't take the ground of the Christian Scientist that says he was a good man, but he's not God.
You can't take that ground.
If he was a Goodman, he spoke the truth, and if he spoke the truth, he is God.
Because he claimed to be Jehovah, He claimed to be the Eternal. He claimed to be the I am the same.
Yesterday, today, and forever.
Here he says, I am the bread of life.
He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. One who fully satisfies the hunger and the thirst of the soul.
Verse 38 I came down from heaven.
Not to do mine own will.
But the will of him that sent me. How can someone hear words like this and say this man?
Who's uttering those words?
Is either the most unique person?
Or he's a madman.
I came down from heaven. I didn't come down from heaven. You didn't come down from heaven. We were born on earth. Here was one that could say I came down from heaven.
Not to do mine own will.
But the will of him that sent me?
This is the Father's will which hath sent me. That all which He hath given me I should lose nothing.
But should raise it up at the last day.
This is the will of him that sent me, that everyone that seeth the Son, seeth the Son by faith.
Who he is when it pleased God to reveal his Son in me, Paul says.
He revealed his son. He saw the son.
I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. He saw the Son and he preached. Paul preached that Jesus is the Son of God.
This is the will of him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son and believeth on him.
May have everlasting life, eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
I am the bread of life.
Now in the.
In the 8th chapter.
In the 8th chapter.
Verse 12 Jesus then spake Jesus again unto them, saying.
I am the light of the world.
He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness.
But shall have.
The light of life.
Ponder that verse. Ponder these verses. These I am statements of the Lord Jesus.
I am the bread of life. I am the light of the world.
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He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness.
But you'll have the light of life.
And in the 9th chapter.
We have again.
In verse 5, verse four, he says I must work the works of him that sent me. While it is day. The night cometh when no man can work as long as I am in the world.
I am.
The light of the world.
The light of the world.
And then we go to the 10th chapter.
And in verse.
9.
He says.
I am.
The door.
By me if any man enter in.
He shall be saved.
And shall go in and out.
And fine pasture I am the door.
The way of entrance.
Into the presence of God, The way of entrance into God's blessings.
The way of entrance into salvation.
I am the door.
Again, in chapter 10 he says in verse 14, I am the Good Shepherd.
And know my sheep.
And am known of mine.
Verse 11 I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd giveth his life.
For the sheep.
The Good Shepherd.
He is the bread of life.
He is the light, He is the door.
He is the Good Shepherd.
And in the 11TH chapter he says.
In verse 25, Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection.
And the life.
He that believeth on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and he that liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Believe us now this.
Now she was over her head in this statement was beyond her and so she answers.
She saith unto him, Ye Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God, the Son of God which should come into the world.
And then she calls.
Mary, Martha wasn't up to this.
The resurrection and the life.
He is the resurrection.
He's the one that could speak and Lazarus would come forth.
He's the one that will speak one day, and all that are in the grave shall come forth.
Those that have done good to the resurrection of life. Those that have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
Those two resurrections separated by 1000 years or so.
But he is the resurrection.
And he's the life.
And without him there is no life.
All of these statements.
Of his.
I am. I am.
The Eternal 1.
The self existent 1.
The Unchanging.
The infinite God.
The one that knows everything.
The one who is omnipotent. The one who can do anything.
The one who is omnipresent.
The one who is everywhere.
Can we hide from God?
No.
He understands our thoughts afar off.
We think in terms of.
Time and space and.
Distance and.
But here is a being.
That inhabits eternity.
The heaven is his throne, the earth is the footstool of his feet.
He is everywhere and knows all things. Satan is not omnipresent.
Satan doesn't know everything. We sometimes get the mistake that Satan is everywhere. Sometimes you read some of these stories that Satan sees each one of us. Whatever we're doing. Well, he's not. He's not everywhere. He's not omnipresent. He's not God. Only God does that.
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Only God has that attribute.
Satan doesn't. He's limited. He's just a creature.
And we're never told to fear him.
Only to fear God.
Well, we've just meditated a little this afternoon. I've.
Meditated some on these precious things.
How great he is.
Just close with a verse in Hebrews 7.
Hebrews, Chapter 7.
And verse 4.
Now consider.
How great this man was.
Consider how great he is.
Glory of that person.
He used the I am.
Here's everything.
All we need.
The Sustainer, the upholder of the universe, the one who is interested in the very minutest detail of your life and mine.
The one that loves you with an everlasting love.
The one who is, I am.
Eternal will.
The unchanging mind.
He'll never change his mind about you.
Set His love upon you today. That's forever.
No one can change his mind.
That's how God.
According to thy name, so as I praise.
We know him now in a fullness that they didn't know in the Old Testament.
And our worship should be deepest, deeper than the angels.
We are redeemed sinners.
He's the God of all grace.
The God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory. After that ye have suffered a while perfect, establish strength and settle you to Him, the glory both now and forever. Amen.
The God of all grace.
You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich, yet for your sakes it became poor.
That we through his poverty might be rich. The I am the eternal one, the self existent. 1 He became poor.
To reach the likes of us.
Brother said to me once, why did he have to become just like us?
Why is that so important? I was stressing his humanity.
He had to be spirit, soul and body blameless.
Holy.
The only difference is was in the state of his humanity. It was holy. Ours is sinful, but he's just as human as you are.
Just as human as I am.
Without sin.
But that doesn't change his humanity.
That just changes the state of it.
Holiness.
And we're going to be just like him.
Without sin, the flesh will be forever gone. When we get to glory, we'll be just like Him, the one in whose presence will spend eternity.
Can you grasp that?
This eternal being.
A man.
Praise his name forever.
And ever and ever.
Let's give them thanks.