Sunday, January 25, 2015
I am - Before Abraham Was
Bible Questions Answered:
“Why did the people want to kill
Jesus because he said “before Abraham I was, I am..?...”
Shandra/ Lancaster, Pennsylvania U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
John 8:45-59 KJV (Be sure to
read the whole chapter.)
45 "...because I tell you The
Truth, ye believe Me not.
46 Which of you convinceth Me of
sin? And if I say The Truth, why do ye not believe Me?
47 He that is of God heareth God's
words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
48 Then answered the Jews, and said
unto Him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a
devil?
49 Jesus answered, I have not a
devil; but I honor My Father, and ye do dishonor Me.
50 And I seek not Mine own glory:
there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
51 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
If a man keep My saying, he shall never see death.
52 Then said the Jews unto Him, Now
we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets;
and thou sayest, If a man keep My saying, he shall never taste of
death.
53 Art thou greater than our father
Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou
thyself?
54 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:
55 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.
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to
see My day: and he saw it, and was glad.
57 Then said the Jews unto Him, Thou
art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
58 Jesus said unto them, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
59 Then took they up stones to cast
at Him: but Jesus hid Himself, and went out of the temple, going
through the midst of them, and so passed by.
Did the people
present, misunderstand what Jesus had said, or not understand it at
all?
No, they understood
very well what He had said!
By His saying
“Before Abraham was, I am.” He was telling them that He was God's
eternal Son in their midst!
And for calling
Himself God, they gathered up stones to kill Him.
Jesus Christ
Is God:
Isaiah 7:14 KJV
Therefore The
Lord Himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive,
and bear a Son, and
shall call His
name Immanuel*.
*
Immanuel-Hebrew: Immanuwel (Im-maw-noo-ale): With us is God.
Isaiah 9:6 KJV
For unto us a
Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be
upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor,
The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father,
The Prince Of
Peace.
Isaiah 44:6 KJV
Thus saith The
Lord The King Of Israel, and His Redeemer The Lord Of Hosts; I am The
First, and I am The Last; and beside Me there is no God.
Isaiah 63:16 NLT
Surely you are
still our Father! Even if Abraham and Jacob would disown us, Lord,
you would still be
our Father. You
are our Redeemer from ages past.
Hosea 13:4 KJV
Yet I am The
Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but
Me: for there is no
Savior beside
Me.
Micah 5:2 KJV
But thou,
Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of
Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto Me that is to be
Ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from
everlasting.
Matthew 1:23 KJV
Behold, a
virgin shall be with Child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they
shall call His name
Emmanuel,
which being interpreted is, God with us.
Matthew 28:19
KJV
Go ye
therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of The
Father, and of The Son, and
of The Holy
Ghost:
John 1:1,2 KJV
1 In the
beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God, and The Word was
God.
2 The same was
in the beginning with God.
John 1:18 NLT
No one has ever
seen God. But The Unique One, who is Himself God, is near to The
Father’s heart. He has revealed God to us.
John 5:17,18 KJV
17 But Jesus
answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
18 Therefore
the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because He not only had broken
the sabbath, but said also that God was His Father, making Himself
equal with God.
John 10:30,38
KJV
30 I and My
Father are one.
38 "...
the Father is in Me, and I in Him.
John 14:10,11
KJV
10 Believest
thou not that I am in the Father, and The Father in Me? the words
that I speak unto you I
speak not of
Myself: but The Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works.
11 Believe Me
that I am in The Father, and The Father in Me..."
John 17:11,22
KJV
11 And now I am
no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee.
Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given
Me, that they may be one, as we are.
22 And the
glory which thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one,
even as we are one:
Romans 9:5 NLT
Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob are their ancestors, and Christ Himself was an Israelite as
far as his human nature is concerned. And He is God, the one who
rules over everything and is worthy of eternal praise! Amen.
II Corinthians
4:3,4 KJV
3 But if our
gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the
god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,
lest The Light of the
glorious gospel
of Christ, who is The Image Of God, should shine unto them.
Philippians
2:5-11 NLT
5 You must have
the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
6 Though He was
God, He did not think of equality with God as something to cling to.
7 Instead, He
gave up His divine privileges; He took the humble position of a slave
and was born as a
human being.
When He appeared in human form,
8 He humbled
Himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross.
9 Therefore,
God elevated Him to the place of highest honor and gave Him the name
above all other
names,
10 that at the
name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under
the earth,
11 and every
tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God The
Father.
Colossians 1:19
KJV
For it pleased
the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell;
Colossians 2:9
KJV
For in Him
dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
I Timothy 2:5
KJV
For there is
one God, and one Mediator between God and men, The Man Christ Jesus;
Titus 2:13 KJV
Looking for
that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of The Great God and
our Savior Jesus Christ;
Hebrews 1:1-3,8
KJV
1 God, who at
sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the
fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these
last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of
all things, by whom also He made the worlds;
3 Who being the
brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and
upholding all things
by The Word of
His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the
right hand of
The Majesty On
High:
8 But unto The
Son He (God The Father) saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and
ever: a sceptre of
righteousness
is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
I John 5:7,20
KJV
7 For there are
three that bear record in heaven, The Father, The Word, and The Holy
Ghost: and these
three are one.
20 And we know
that The Son Of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that
we may know Him that is True, and we are in Him that is True, even in
His Son Jesus Christ. This is The True God, and eternal life.
Jude 1:25 KJV
To the only
wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both
now and ever. Amen.
Revelation 1:8
KJV
I am Alpha and
Omega, The Beginning and The Ending, saith The Lord, which is, and
which was, and which is to come, The Almighty.
Revelation 19:1
KJV
And after these
things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying,
Alleluia; Salvation, and
glory, and
honor, and power, unto The Lord our God:
The Jews, Scribes and Pharisees, said Jesus had a devil, and rejected
His claim of being God.
Anti-Christ:
I John 2:18,22
KJV
18 Little
children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist
shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that
it is the last time.
22 Who is a
liar but he that denieth that Jesus is The Christ? He is antichrist,
that denieth
The Father and
The Son.
1 John 4:3 KJV
And every
spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is
not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have
heard that it should come; and even now already
II John 1:7 KJV
For many
deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus
Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
Anyone who rejects Christ as God's eternal Son, image of The Father,
rejects Christ as The Truth, and is Anti-Christ.
John 8:21 KJV
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.
John 8:24 KJV
I said
therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe
not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins.
Joshua 24:15 KJV
And if it seem
evil unto you to serve The Lord, choose you this day whom ye will
serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the
other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land
ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord