Well, we're back in Exodus 3, but I want to start in Hebrews chapter 11. Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 6. I've called this message, The Name of God Forever. And it's a phrase which occurred in the reading that Peter read to us earlier in Exodus chapter 3 and verse 15, I think it is. This is my name, says God, forever. This is my name. I am that I am, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This is the name of God. forever. But I want to come to Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 6 where we read there, without faith it is impossible to please him, to please God. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Let me ask you a question. Do you desire life?

I'm not talking about the futile rollercoaster of health and sickness, of joy and sorrow, that is the experience in this world of friends and of isolation, of youth and of old age, of conscious life and of death, because it's the same for everybody ever born in this world. It is, as James says in his epistle in chapter 4 and verse 14, you know not what shall be on the morrow, for what is your life? What is your life? What is my life?

It is even a vapor that appears for a little time. and then it vanishes away. It evaporates away. No, what I'm talking about is, do you desire the life that our God spoke about, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God spoke about? The life that He spoke about is abundant life. It's eternal life. It's sinless life, totally untainted by sin. It's in perfect communion with God, our Creator. It's a life without sorrow, without pain, without tears, without death. It's a perfect life. It's described in Revelation 21. It's life, as I said, in intimate communion with our Creator God. It's bliss beyond imagination. It hasn't entered into the heart of man what God has prepared for those that love Him. And why do we love Him? If we love Him at all, we love Him because He first loved us. It's about the heavenly mansions that He's gone to prepare.

It's about that eternal, endless situation. You say, what is it like? I mean, let me remind you. It is going to be a new heaven and a new earth. Don't think about the most boring aspects of your experience down your life in odd situations of worship. Think about the very best and then multiply it beyond imagination. It's a new heavens and a new earth. It's what Jesus said to the thief dying next to him on the cross. Today you will be with me in paradise. It's paradise. You see, how are you going to get there? How are you going to get this life? How are you going to get it? You must be like Enoch. Go back one verse in Hebrews 11.

By faith, Enoch was translated that he should not see death. and was not found. Those that were with him one day, he just wasn't there anymore. Because God had translated him, taken him straight to heaven. For before his translation, he had this testimony.

He was pleasing to God. He pleased God. How did he please God? How did he please God? None of us can please God. In our flesh, we're sinners. How could he please God? Without faith, it is impossible to please him. You must have faith. You must have that sight of the soul to know the living God. You must come to God, it says in verse six, believing that he is.

Does that not remind you of I am that I am? What is your name? I am that I am. Go and tell them that I am has sent you. You must believe that this is the God who is I am that I am. This is the God who is the Alpha and the Omega. This is the God who is the self-existent, eternal God, who was yesterday, is today, and shall be evermore. He must believe that he is. I am that I am. And you're looking for a reward, it says there in verse six, that is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Because he says, if you seek, you shall find.

What is it to believe that God is? Do you believe there is a God? Is it just mental assent, mental agreement to the fact that God exists when so many people in this world from their intellectual speculations, debate whether there is such a thing as God, whether we need one or not. Is it just that mental existence that God is?

No, it's much more. It's much more. You must see him. How do you see him? With the eye of the soul, with the sight of the soul, and that is faith. How do you get faith? It is the gift of God. You look to him, believing all that he has revealed. But how? How do we look to him, believing all that he has revealed?

Scripture makes it plain. We start with Exodus 3. In Exodus 3, and let's go back there now, in Exodus chapter 3, to where we've been in recent weeks, back in Exodus chapter 3, we see who it was that appeared to Moses, why did he appear, and what commission did he give to Moses and to us, and that there is none other name. none other name. Who appeared to Moses? Let me remind you of this. In verse 2 of chapter 3 it's the angel of the Lord that appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of the bush and he looked and behold the bush burned with fire but the bush was not consumed.

Is this an angel like when the angel Gabriel, the archangel Gabriel was sent to Mary, the mother of Jesus, to tell her that the child that she is going to give birth to was conceived of the Holy Ghost, in Luke 1, chapter 26. Is it like that? Is it like the angel Gabriel? Because, you know, God has angels, and they are all, he tells us in chapter 1 of Hebrews, that they are all ministering spirits serving him.

Yes, he has angels who are ministering spirits, but no, This angel of the Lord, in verse 2 of Exodus chapter 3, this messenger of the Lord, because that's what angel means, this messenger of the Lord is the Lord God himself, who speaks audible words.

God, whom no man can see and live, appeared in a thorn bush burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed. This is the invisible God who is manifest, who is made known by the only begotten Son of God. I've told you before, John 1, 18, no man has seen God at any time, but the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. He has made Him known. How should we know God? How should we come into communion with God? It is only by this One, His only begotten Son.

This One, this angel of the Lord, who appeared in a flame of fire, out of the midst of a bush, a thorn bush, A bush which would have been burned, yet it is not burned, it is not consumed. He appeared in a bush that signified the fallen nature of man. For God sent forth his Son, Romans 8, 3. God sent forth his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, yet without sin. Why did God appear? Why did God appear?

This is the pre-incarnate, before he was born in flesh, this is the pre-incarnate Word of God, who is God the Creator. Look what he did in verse 8 of Exodus chapter 3. I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, to bring them up out of that land into a good land and large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey, a prosperous, glorious place, the place of that land that was promised to Abraham and his descendants. He came down into his creation three and a half thousand years ago to deliver his people. From what? From the harsh slavery of Egypt because they had become a nation of slaves in Egypt.

The time had come. The fullness of the time had come for him to come down to deliver them. What's the fullness of the time? If you look back in Genesis chapter 15 and verse 13, we read what God said to Abram. He said unto Abraham, know of a surety. This is God speaking to Abraham another five or six hundred years before this time.

Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, Egypt, and shall serve them. and they shall afflict them. The Egyptians shall afflict them four hundred years. And also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge, and afterward shall they come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither to that land that God had promised to Abraham. For the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

When it was, they would come, and they would be the instrument of God in the judgment of those people. in that 400 plus years. Abraham's 70 or so descendants, because that's how many went with Jacob down into Egypt when Joseph was already there. So, 70 plus Joseph and his children, that was the descendants of Abraham at the start of their time in Egypt. But they had become, in that 400 years, they had become a nation, probably 2 million people. A nation that was enslaved, but God would redeem them. How would God redeem them? How does God always redeem?

It's by blood sacrifice. By blood sacrifice. What blood sacrifice? In the picture, in the picture of the recovery of the Israelites from the land of Egypt, it was the Passover. It was the blood sacrifice of the Passover because God said to the children of Israel, paint the blood of the lamb on the doorposts and on the lintel of your houses. And when I pass through the land to slay the firstborn of everyone in that land, when I see the blood, I will pass by and I will not slay your firstborn."

He would redeem them by blood, by the Passover. And he would bring them into the promised land. It took some time, but he brought them there. It was liberty that they were going to, from slavery to liberty, and it was picturing God in the person of his son, coming down to redeem his elect multitude from the curse of sin by his own blood.

Just as Paul told those elders on the beach at Miletus, the elders of Ephesus, he told them to look after the church of God, which God purchased with his own blood. Says that clearly, Acts chapter 20 verse 28. God purchased that church with his own blood. What happened in the exodus was picturing what Christ did.

When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem those who are under the law. So then what commission did he give to Moses and to us? Verse 10 of Exodus 3, come now therefore and I will send thee unto Pharaoh that thou mayest bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. Bring forth my people, bring them, set them free, set them at liberty. Pay their ransom price and set them free. Tell Pharaoh to let them go. Tell Pharaoh to let them go.

He's thinking, well, hold on a minute, God's given me a commission to go back to a situation that he knew very well, because his first 40 years, apart from his childhood when his mother weaned him and raised him, he was the adopted son of Pharaoh's daughter, and he knew the palace. We know when he got to 40 he made a choice and he went out rashly and murdered an Egyptian. And so he's saying to God who says, go to Pharaoh, he says, who am I? Who am I? I'm wanted for murder in Egypt. I'm wanted for treason there. Pharaoh will want to kill me. But God promised him, I will be with thee. He said, I will be with thee. Verse 12, certainly I will be with thee. And if God is with him, if God is for us, who can be against us?

Okay, so Moses says, all right, I'll go to the Israelites and say, God has sent me to you. And they'll rightly want to know which God has sent me. Which God has sent me? Verse 14, God said, they'll say, what is his name? What shall I say unto them? And verse 14, God said to Moses, I am that I am. And he said, thus shall you say unto them, I am has sent me unto you.

I am the self-existent eternal God, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the one who has no beginning, the one who has no end, the one who is eternal. He is the God who has sent Moses to redeem them from the slavery of Egypt. It is God who has commissioned his church to call his scattered sheep out of all nations by the preaching of the gospel. That commission is given to the church to go and tell them, to go and declare that which God has revealed. that redemption from the curse of sin that would separate us from the kingdom of God, from the eternity of God, from everything that is good with God, that that redemption is accomplished by the lifeblood of God's Son. You know when on the Mount of Transfiguration, when Moses and Elijah appeared with the Lord Jesus in his glorified form to those disciples.

And what did they discuss? His decease that he would accomplish at Jerusalem. It was an accomplishment. It was that which he did to achieve a purpose, and it was effectual. It was the qualification for his eternal kingdom of the citizens that God had chosen, of the children God had given to him from before the beginning of time. What was Moses commissioned What Moses was commissioned to do pictures what the church is commissioned to do.

But the key thing is in all of this, what is his name? Who is it we're talking about? What is his name? You see, the thing is that there are many in our days who preach Jesus, who talk about salvation, But Jesus himself warned a false Christ. In Luke chapter 21, he said this to them, to his disciples. In Luke 21 and verse eight, he said, take heed that you be not deceived, for many shall come claiming in my name, saying, I am Christ. And the time draweth near, go ye not therefore after them. Don't believe them, don't believe them.

There are many false preachers preaching a Jesus and salvation, which is not the Jesus. of the Scriptures, which is not the Jesus of the I am that I am. How can we discern which is the right one? What saith the Scripture? Well, we started the service with that quote from Peter, empowered by the Holy Spirit, in Acts chapter 4, where he said, to them there, there is none other name under heaven given amongst men whereby we must be saved. None other name.

Not alternative ways, you know, it's always been told that God is at the top of a mountain and there are all sorts of different ways of approaching the top of that mountain. You can do it the way the Hindus do, or you can do it the way the Muslims do, Or you can do it the way the Armenians do, or the way the Calvinists do, but never mind. All of the fuss in this world, we'll all get to it eventually. It's all the one top of the one mountain that we're heading for.

And Jesus said no. Jesus said, no, he alone is the way to God. God says, declare my name to my people. He said it to Moses, he said, go and declare my name to my people. Go and declare I am that I am to my people. And he said in verse 18 of Exodus chapter three, look there, verse 18 of Exodus chapter three, they shall hearken to thy voice. they shall hearken to thy voice.

They were a stubborn, stiff-necked people, it proved many times, but when Moses went, they shall hearken to thy voice. Why shall they hearken to his voice? Because we know that our God is sovereign over all things. In Psalm 110 and verse 3, it says that God makes his people willing in the day of his power. Why will they listen to you, Moses? Because God will make them willing to listen to you, Moses. And in this world around, as we preach the gospel of grace, it's not by the power of oratory, it's not by the power of persuasion or gimmicks or anything else. It's that God will make His people. He says in Acts 13, 48, God's sheep will hear his voice, will hear his name, and will follow.

It was this name of God that the patriarchs called upon. If you went right back to Genesis chapter 4 and verse 26, and we're seeing the effects of sin, you know, Cain slew Abel and so it went on. And at the end of Genesis chapter 4 verse 26, Seth had been born and then he'd had a line come from him, replaced Abel, who was killed by his brother Cain, and Seth was somebody who'd believed the gospel that Adam and Eve taught him, and his children did. And it says in Genesis 4, 26, then men began to call upon the name of the Lord.

To call upon the name of the Lord. This is exactly the same as what is in Hebrews 11 verse 6. It says there that when we come to God, we must believe that he is. We must believe that he is the I am that I am. This is the same as that. Calling upon the name of the Lord. What is it to call upon the name of the Lord? In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, I think it's Juliet that says, what is in a name? What does a name matter?

Because, of course, if you remember the story, the Capulets and the, what were they called? Oh, I forgot. Montagues, the Montagues and the Capulets, that's it. They were terribly feuding. And to the Capulets, the worst thing you could be was a Montague.

And she says, what's in a name? It doesn't matter. Because, of course, Romeo was one of them and Juliet was the other one. What is in a name? Ah, ah, in the name of God is everything, is everything that defines the difference between being eternally lost and being eternally saved. I am that I am defines absolutely the being, the nature, the truth of God Almighty. How does it do it? How does it do it?

When the angel of the Lord came down in the burning bush, he pictured God sending forth his son in the likeness of sinful flesh. He pictured Jehovah Jesus, God who saves his people, Jehovah Jesus. Jesus, the name derives from Joshua, the Hebrew, Joshua, and Joshua derives from those words, God saves, God saves. His name is God saves, Jehovah Jesus, embodied the fullness of the Godhead. How do I know that? The scripture tells me. Colossians chapter 2 verse 9, in him, in that body that men and women looked upon, in him dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Jehovah Jesus embodied the fullness of that Godhead. He embodied his Eternality, if I can put it that way.

It says in Hebrews 13 verse 8 of him, Jesus Christ, he is the same yesterday and today and forever. And he manifested, he made known the true God. John tells us in chapter 5 of his first epistle, in verse 20, he says that Jesus Christ is true God and eternal life. Many times, many times, God, who was the Word, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and he manifested the truth of God.

He's the manifestation of the hidden things of God. He, many times, said, I am, I am. As in Revelation, he says, I am the Alpha and the Omega. Many times in his earthly ministry, he said, I am. God told Moses, this is my name, I am that I am. Go and tell them, I am.

Let's look at some of them. In John chapter 6, if you turn there, and I think we're going to be spending most of the rest of the time in John's gospel, but John chapter 6 and 35, verse 35 of John chapter 6, he's talking about bread because they'd been fed, the 5,000 had been fed. with literal bread and they thought, this is good, we get a free meal. Let's follow this man and get free meals. And he said, you seek me only because you ate the loaves and were filled. But he said, look for that food which lasts, endures to everlasting life, which the son of man shall give you. And they're debating about this.

And in verse 35, he says this, Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life. He spoke out of that bush when Moses said, who shall I say has sent me? And he, the word of God said, go and tell them that I am has sent you. I am the bread of life, the self-existent one, the self-existent God. I am the bread of life. Look in verse 48 of the same chapter. In verse 48, he says it again clearly, I am the bread of life. In verse 51, I am the living bread which came down from heaven.

If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I give for the life of the world, for his people in the world. Verse 58, this is the bread which came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna and are dead, for he that eateth of this bread shall live forever. He is the bread of life. Our God is the bread of life.

It says man shall not live by bread alone. When he was tempted of the devil, Jesus, the devil, he was hungry, he was fasting. And the devil said to him, your God make these stones into bread. And he said, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. That's the bread that came down from heaven. He is the word of God. who has the words of eternal life, as Peter said to him. Will you go away? In John chapter 6, will you go away? Where shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

For his people to imbibe him. It speaks in terms of literally eating his flesh and drinking his blood. But he tells us later on, he says in verse 63, the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life. If we understand the spiritual meaning of imbibing him and all that he is, of being united with him and all that he is. I know that he has satisfied God's justice in my place. That's what it is. That's what it is to discern the body and blood of the Lord.

He is the bread of life. Turn over another couple of pages to John chapter 8 and verse 12. John chapter 8. Who should I say has sent me when the children of Israel ask me, said Moses, I am that I am. Then spake Jesus again unto them, verse 12 of chapter 8, saying, I am the light of the world.

He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. He is the light of true life. John chapter 1 and verse 4, we read that, that He is the light of life. He is the light that lights every man that comes into the world. He is what gives life to all that we see around us. Your life is from Him and from Him alone. It isn't from materialistic evolution, as science falsely so-called says.

No. But naturally, in our fallen state, we all walk in darkness. As Isaiah chapter 9 verse 2 says, the people that walked in darkness. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light. Upon them the light of God has shined. The light of God, which is the light of life. God is manifest. God who gives life, who is light, he manifests himself. It says in Malachi chapter 4 and verse 2, the sun, S-U-N, sun, like that big bright shining object in the sky, the sun of righteousness, has arisen. That is our Lord Jesus Christ, because he gives light, and he shines light, and it's only him that shines light, for he shines in the hearts of his people to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God. Where, where do we see that light of the knowledge of the glory of God?

In the face of Jesus Christ. He says, I am the light of the world. I am. There is none other name under heaven given whereby we must be saved. I am the light of the world. In John chapter 10, turn over a couple more pages, John chapter 10 and verse 7. In John chapter 10 and verse 7, who should I say sent me unto them? And God said to him, say, I am that I am. I am has sent me.

In John chapter 7, Jesus said to them again, verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. I am the door of the sheep. The door of the sheep? The way the sheep of God, the way the people of God go into the kingdom of God, into the sheepfold of God. If you would enter the sheepfold of God, if you would enter the kingdom of God, If you would enter the paradise of God when you die, you must come through the door. There is only one door. There is no other way in. There are no alternatives. There's no different path up this mountain to God. It's only through him, Jesus Christ, and the redemption that he has accomplished.

In verse 11, he says this. He says in verse 11, another I am. He says, John 10, verse 11, I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. He is the good shepherd. This is the I am who is the good shepherd of his sheep. Now what does that tell us? It tells us that God has a chosen people. God has his sheep whom he chose. He has his sheep for whom he is the good shepherd.

And he gives his life for whom? Who does he give his life for? He gives his life for those sheep. Ah, lots of people say he gives his life for everybody that ever lived. If he did that, nobody would go to hell. But he didn't. His word says he gives his life for his sheep. He gives his life for his sheep. He said to some, you are not of my sheep. That's why you don't believe. It's not the other way around. It's not that if you believe you would become one of my sheep. No, you're not of my sheep. That's why you don't believe. He has his sheep chosen in Christ from before the foundation of the world. And it's for them that he gave his life.

Those preaching another Jesus, the Jesus that they preach is not the Jesus of Scripture. They're preaching a false Christ. You say, but they sound like they're saying the right thing. I know they do, they put their signboards up outside their churches, it sounds so good, look at their websites, you know, all of those good things, but they're preaching another Jesus. They're preaching another Christ.

And the Christ that they preach is utterly incapable The Christ that they preach is as dead as a dumb idol. You know, there's lots of places in the Old Testament where God rebukes his people for tending to idolatry, and he says, look at the futility of it. They get their tree, they chop it down, they carve an idol out of it, and then they bow down to worship it. But it can't speak, it can't do anything, it can't make any difference to anything.

And that's the Jesus that false religion preaches. It's a Jesus who is incapable of saving anybody from their sins, because the Good Shepherd is the one who gives his life for his sheep, the ones the Father gave to him before the foundation of the world.

Verse 14 says exactly the same thing. I am the Good Shepherd, and know my sheep, and have known of mine. His sheep hear his voice, verse 27. His sheep hear his voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. You see, the true God of scripture, the true Jesus Christ of the gospel of grace is the one who is the Jesus of his sheep, the good shepherd of his sheep. Look in chapter 11. In chapter 11.

And verse 25, this is when Lazarus died. And when Lazarus died, the sisters of Lazarus obviously were totally heartbroken because their brother had died. And they say, if only you'd been here, Lord, he wouldn't have died. And Martha said to him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

And verse 25, Jesus said unto her, I am. the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. I am, who are you? I am that I am, the alpha and the omega, the same yesterday, today and forever. Jehovah Jesus, Jehovah God saves. Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, yet shall he live.

Is that not? For mortal beings like we are, we know it's appointed to man to die once and then the judgment. How are we going to be right with God? How should a man be just with God? Our Lord Jesus Christ, who is our Jehovah Jesus, who is our God saves Jesus. He said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.

Turn over to John 14. I know I'm skipping through these very quickly. you could spend an awful lot longer. One of our brothers did a series, and it was a different sermon on every one of these, and we might do that one day. But John 14, verse 6, Thomas said, we don't know the way.

You're telling us the way to heaven, the way to eternal life, and we don't know the way. And Jesus said unto him, I am. the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father but by me. He is the only way. There is none other name. under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved, the way, the truth, and the life, the only way to eternal peace with God. You can be nice, you can be social, you can have all sorts of things of this world, but you're lost unless you know this one who is the way, the truth, and the life to eternal peace. By virtue of his accomplished redemption, of his people from the curse of the fall, he is that way to eternal life.

John 15. John 15, verse 1. I am, he said, he said, I am the true vine and my father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away. and every branch that beareth fruit he purges, that it may bear more fruit. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in me. He is the true vine. He's picturing that living union. Like a vine branch that bears grapes, only does so because it's connected to the rootstock that supplies it with sap.

It pictures that living union between God and his people, between God manifest, between I am that I am, between Jehovah Jesus and his people. That living union between his people and God himself. And the sap is God's spirit, enlivening that union in the believer's experience.

False religion says that Jesus is less than God manifest, you know, like the Jehovah's Witnesses do. And they point to texts like John 14, 28, where Jesus said, the Father is greater than I. You know, he only said that there because it was, as Hebrews says, for a little while, he was made a little lower than the angels. When he laid his glory aside and became came down to this earth and laid that glorious side and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. In that respect, when he was a little lower than the angels, the Father is greater than I, yet in him dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He is our great God. He is God manifest.

But look at Isaiah chapter 43. Isaiah chapter 43. I remember as a young believer reading these words, especially Isaiah 40 to 45, always powerfully struck me. I didn't have to read a commentary to tell me what to believe about these chapters of Isaiah. It was as plain as could be possible before my eyes.

In verse 10, here is God speaking by the prophet Isaiah to his people. He says to them, his people, you are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen. The people are the servant of God, the Redeemer, the Messiah is the servant of God, that you may know and believe me and understand That I am He.

That I am. That I am the one true God. Before me there was no God formed. Do you know who's speaking? It's our Lord Jesus Christ. It's the Word of God manifested. Before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. Look who's speaking. I, even I, am the Lord. He is speaking. It is our Saviour who is speaking because beside me there is no Saviour. I have declared. I have saved, I have showed, when there was no strange God among you. He was no strange God.

He's the true God, manifest. Therefore, ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God. As it says in 1 John 5, verse 20, as I quoted before. You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God. This is God the Word. In the beginning with God, the Word was God. This is God the Word, God the Son, declaring that he is, I am that I am. He declared it to the Samaritan woman. In John chapter 4, verse 26, she said to him, well, we're all sorts of religious things, but we know that when Messiah comes, when God comes as the promised Messiah, then he will tell us all things.

And Jesus said to her quite plainly, I that speak to you, am he, I am. He said, I am he. To the arresting mob in the garden of Gethsemane when Judas Iscariot betrayed him in John chapter 18 and four to six, they came and he said to them, who is it that you're looking for? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth. And he said, I am. The he in your Bibles is put in italics, and it's put in by the translators. But he said, I am. Who are you? I am that I am. And do you know what they did?

They fell backward. I don't know why, I don't know what they saw, but they saw in that statement of his, that declaration of his godhood, of his deity, I am, and they fell backward, exactly as Psalm 27 says. When my enemies came upon me, they fell backward. They fell backward in that garden.

Those Roman soldiers, that band of the Pharisees' thugs come to arrest him. They said, who are you looking for? Jesus. He said, I am. And in those words, They fell, that band of strong thugs fell backwards at that word. This is the one name given under heaven by which we must be saved. There isn't any other. Has he given you faith to see, to believe, to trust?

Jesus said this in John 8, 24, I quoted it before but I'll quote it again. Jesus said this, if you believe not that I am, You shall die in your sins. Hear that? He said, if you believe not that I am, meaning that I am true God, you shall die in your sins. But let me remind you.

He is the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, he said, though he were dead, yet shall he live. It is he that says in Isaiah chapter 45, he that says, look unto me, look unto me and be you saved, or the end of the earth. For I am God and there is no other. This is our Jehovah Jesus who says this. This is the one name given among men upon which we must call for salvation. Amen.