“And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of  YOUR fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to 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.

And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God OF your fathers, the God OF Abraham, the God OF Isaac, and the God OF Jacob, hath sent me unto you: THIS IS my name FOR EVER and This IS my memorial unto ALL generations.” Exodus 3:13-15

 This statement was the beginning of the release of the captive Hebrews and it was the beginning statement for our faith in WHO HE IS that we are to serve. As the generations have lacked and slacked, Christianity has become a watered down form of “religion” when it was once held in the regard of the fire out of which the Lord spoke to Moses, the fire that would be a light on their journey, and the fire in whose furnace would refine hearts and souls to purification and consecration into the Lord, the fire that would appear as cloven tongues over those in the upper room on that faithful day of Pentecost as they WERE filled with the Holy Ghost and it was THAT fire that burned so passionately that the Apostles and the persecuted Christians of the early church, and others today were willing to die rather than renounce their faith in “I AM THAT I AM”.

It describes many aspects of the character of God, but one we really need to focus on in these last days is “THAT” HE IS Sovereign and what that means is that He possesses UNLIMITED, SUPREME POWER  and HAS NO EQUAL, NO RIVAL, and ALL ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY OVER THE HEAVENS, THE EARTH, and ALL THAT IS IN THE UNIVERSE, ALL THAT EVER WAS OR ALL THAT WILL EVER BE.

 When time came for Moses to go to Pharaoh, Pharaoh, posed a question, Exodus 5:2: “Who IS the Lord, that I should OBEY his voice to let Israel go? I know NOT the Lord, NEITHER will I let them go.”

Similar to what we’ve been discussing here, THIS world, the captive of THIS world, those who are victims of THIS world, and those who have no hope because all they have ever been taught is that there is NOTHING except THIS world. And that is where we have become slack and lax. By outright REFUSING the call of God and His WILL for our lives, and REFUSING His salvation, our pride and stubbornness as a society IS to blame for the ushering end of the last day conditions of our fallen world. Christians have far too long sat docile, and idle, and NO ONE wants to speak of repentance, and no one wants to speak of righteousness in our society because they do NOT want to be judged by “THAT” standard and in NOT using that divine rule, they mistakenly think they will not be judged by it either.

 I love how people who are not even saved loved to scream about “Jesus said “Do not judge” and HE did indeed say that, but He was not saying it in the context of what they are twisting it to mean and He was very clear on REPENTANCE and LEAVING those sins behind. People now want to CONDONE so that they will be CONDONED but God does not work that way. Jesus was talking about us, as CHRISTIANS, bad mouthing and coming down on the backs of our FELLOW believers when they are doing the best they can on their walk for him and I actually love Romans 14:4: “WHO ART THOU that judgest (are you to judge) ANOTHER MAN’S SERVANT?  TO his OWN master he standeth or falleth, Yea, he SHALL be holden up (made to stand): FOR GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE HIM STAND.”  

As God told US that we ARE to make His name a memorial for ALL generations, we can see where that slacking has been. There is a call BACK to true holiness, true worship, and the true FEAR of God, the desire for His fire, and the FEAR of His judgments. Because HE STILL IS and that answer to the question is this:

Colossians 1: 13-17: ‘Who hath DELIVERED us from the POWER of darkness, and hath translated (transferred) us INTO THE KINGDOM OF HIS DEAR SON: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins;

WHO IS the image of THE INVISIBLE GOD, the firstborn of every creature. For BY HIM WERE ALL THINGS CREATED, THAT ARE IN HEAVEN, AND THAT ARE IN EARTH, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, WHETHER THEY BE THRONES, OR DOMINIONS, OR PRINCIPALITIES (rulers), OR POWERS (authorities);

ALL things WERE created BY HIM, and FOR HIM; and HE IS BEFORE ALL THINGS, AND BY HIM (in Him) ALL THINGS CONSIST.”  

In our human condition something has happened that has led to the loss of fear of the Lord, we have determined in ourselves that GOD IS FOR US and not vice versa, and that is the thinking that needs changed.

Of course God IS for us, in the sense of offering salvation, and loving us, and protecting us BUT HE was NOT created, WE WERE CREATED FOR HIM and His pleasure:

Psalm 100:3-5: Know ye that the LORD HE IS GOD, IT IS HE THAT HATH MADE US, AND NOT WE OURSELVES; we ARE HIS people, and the sheep of HIS pasture. Enter into HIS gates with thanksgiving, and into HIS courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless HIS name. For the Lord IS good; HIS mercy IS everlasting; and HIS TRUTH ENDURETH TO ALL GENERATIONS.”

And there is our GENERATION red-flag again.. because we have not shared Him through the generations and we can also see with this verse IT IS ALL ABOUT HIM, as it should be:

Revelation 4:8:-11: “And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest NOT day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, WHICH WAS, AND IS, AND IS YET TO COME.

And when those beasts (creatures) give glory and honour and thanks to HIM that sat on the throne, WHO LIVETH FOR EVER AND EVER.

 the four and twenty elders fall down before HIM that sat on the throne, and worship HIM that LIVETH FOR EVER AND EVER, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, THOU ART WORTHY, O LORD, TO RECEIVE GLORY AND HONOUR, AND POWER; FOR THOU HAST CREATED ALL THINGS, AND FOR THY PLEASURE THEY ARE AND WERE CREATED.”

So we see for the verses it is time to get back to knowing who it is that worships who and the NEED for that fire and the need to bring true understanding about WHO HE IS to THIS generation! Join me next time for part 2, when we see that “Am” also means “BE” and He WILL BE EVERYTHING WE NEED and JESUS IS!

Φλογιζω Σαλπιζω NBJ 2017