In the Greek Septuagint, when asked by Moses to state His identity, God said "I am the 'One' or 'Being'. Tell them The 'One' or the 'Being' sent you" - NOT - "I am sending you". I'd like someone commenting to address the relevance of Jesus' "Before Abraham was, I am" response with reference to the stated exchange between Moses and God.
it’s important to understand when Jesus was baptized and received the spirit from heaven ot was then God speaking the word
“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.”
John 14:10 KJV
Jesus is God in the flesh , this only occurred for his short lifetime on earth the gospel is a record of when this happened
“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:
God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels,
preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”
1 Timothy 3:16 KJV
God is a spirit
“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
John 4:24 KJV
The gospel os when he was made a man for a short time dwelt among us and made himself known finally to mankind and the. Sent this record out to all
People beginning at Jerusalem after his resurrection
jesus word is Gods word because he is God
the wording of “the one God sent “ is a reference to the Old Testament constantly saying “ I will send you a prophet who will speak all
My words of requirement to you
him you have to hear and accept “ it goes as far back as Moses law
“The LORD thy
God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren,
like unto me; ( Moses is speaking )
unto him ye shall hearken; I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, ( what he said to Moses )
and will put my words in his mouth; and
he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”
Deuteronomy 18:15, 18-19
it’s only later that we find out God himself became a man and fulfilled these promises because there was no other one to send who was worthy No one could save us so he did it himself
Later we can see what’s happened and how this is going to come to pass
“Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and
the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor:
therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
And
the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.”
Isaiah 59:15-17, 20-21
as we move forward in scripture it comes together more and we see how Jesus has fulfilled it
“He that rejecteth me, and
receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the
word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
For I have
not spoken of myself; but
the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.”
John 12:48-50 KJV
Because Jesus is the fulfillment of what Moses had said about sending the Christ to speak his true and required words we know this because Peter co firms it when he receives the holy ghosts revelation
“For
Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me;
him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Yea, and
all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. Ye are the children of the prophets, and of
the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.”
Acts 3:22-26
Jesus was sent by God , this is spoken this way so people understand he is the fulfillment t of the one God has always promised would come the messiah , the son of God ( made flesh ) and afterwards returned to his heavenly glory the glory of the one and only God
“And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.”
John 17:5 KJV
part of Jesus becoming a man is to give man an example of a perfect man and how he relates to God he did what he did formoir benefit Ike he was in the flesh he had to become a subject like we are to God in order to teach us about the father and son relationship God desires with us he is our example of Gods children if he hadn’t lived as a man ot would t have fulfilled anything for man
ots important to know God became a man and made himself subject on our behalf he became like we are , so we could believe and become like he is
the way to grasp
It is to look at the Bible like a three part plan God appears in the ot but it’s a raging fire and darkness and no one can see him but the one chosen mediator
the gospel God appears as the son , an example of man and what man is truly created to be
and in The epistles God is the holy ghost operating within the believers
he’s always present and he’s always god th same one who created all things he foret had hidden himself because of mans sin , then he manifest himself to
Make himself known to mankknd and to save them from that sin that had seperate d man and god
then finally he offers the spirit of Gods son , his own spirit to believers that he himself should dwell on our hearts and mknds through faith in the truth of the gospel when our God proved his love for us laying down his eternal glory and taking up the infirmity of sinful man , bearing it on his shoulders suffering and dying in e sinners olace ll so we can have a new and clean relationship with him
and see him not as an unknowable mysterious diety somewhere high on a throne , but so we can truly know him what his thoughts are and what his ways are what he desires of us and what he’s warning us about , and we can understand how deep his love truly is for mankind no how very much he’s done to redeem us from our own transgressions
Jesus is God the gospel records a time when he had become man and made himself as one of us I lord we to give us hope of salvation and life
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