His Name

Garvin: The BOOK OF EXODUS 3:13-14

Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”

God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I Am has sent me to you.’”

Amen to the WORD!


Palmer: God revealed himself to his people Israel by making his name known to them. A name expresses a person's essence and identity and the meaning of this person's life. God has a name; he is not an anonymous force. To disclose one's name is to make oneself known to others; in a way it is to hand oneself over by becoming accessible, capable of being known more intimately and addressed personally.


Garvin: In our reading this morning God calls Moses from the midst of a bush that burns without being consumed: "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." God is the God of the fathers, the One who had called and guided the elders in their journeys. He is the faithful and compassionate God who remembers them and his promises; he comes to free their descendants from slavery. He is the God who, from beyond space and time, can do this and commands all to do it, the God who will put his almighty power to work for this plan.


Palmer: In revealing his mysterious name, (YaHWaH or "I AM, I AM HE WHO IS", "I AM WHO AM" or "I AM WHO I AM") God says who he is and by what name he is to be called. This divine name is mysterious just as God is mystery. It is at once a name revealed and something like the refusal of a name, and hence it better expresses God as what he is - infinitely above everything that we can understand or say: he is the "hidden God", his name is too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words, and he is the God who makes himself close to men of the morning prayer line and all creation.


Garvin: The revelation of the name "I AM WHO AM" contains the truth that God alone IS. God is the fullness of Being and of every perfection, without origin and without end. All creatures receive all that they are and have from him; but he alone is his very being, and he is of himself everything that he is.


Palmer: Did you know that out of respect for the holiness of God, the people of Israel do not pronounce his name. In the reading of Sacred Scripture, the revealed name (YHWH) is replaced by the divine title "LORD." It is under this title that the divinity of Jesus will be (and is) acclaimed: "Jesus is LORD."


Garvin: The divine name, "I Am" or "He Is", expresses God's faithfulness: Despite the faithlessness of men's sin and the punishment it deserves, he keeps "steadfast love for thousands" by going so far as to give up his own Son for us, God reveals that he is "rich in mercy.” By giving his life to free us from sin, Jesus reveals that he himself bears the divine name saying, "When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will realize that "I AM" he and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me."


Palmer: Let us pray: 

Heavenly Father, Savior Son, and Great Redeemer Holy Spirit-

We bow before You and exalt You for who You are and for all that You have done for us in Your Son Jesus Christ. You are love, and in love, You gave Your Son for us. You are just and You made Him our substitute and allowed Him to stand in our place. You are sovereign, and by Your power You raised Him from the dead. You are gracious and by Your Spirit You drew us to Christ, made us alive in Him, and pardoned our many sins. You are faithful, for all the times we have doubted You, and for all the times we have failed You, You have kept us, and You will never let us go.

Father LORD, we exalt Your holy name. Right now, the angels that surround You cry out, Holy Holy Holy! And gladly we join them in worship.

Through Christ our Savior we pray -


Amen Jesus. Amen. AMEN!!!

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