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I Am: Revealed Series
Contributed by Ryan Loyd on Jul 25, 2014 (message contributor)
Summary: God wants you to get a revelation of who He is and to know Him. Revelation comes through His Word and experience with Him. We are transformed by His revealing character.
Series Foundation:
1. I Am Living 2. I Am Holy 3. I Am Eternal
4. I Am Almighty 5. I Am Unchanging
6. I Am Love 7. I Am Revealed
Description: God wants you to get a revelation of who He is and to know Him.
Revelation comes through His Word and experience with Him.
We are transformed by His revealing character.
13 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?
14 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.
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 .
Introduction:
Good series, dig in, particularly fruitful in worship
When you think of His love
“Think about His love...Think about His goodness”
You can’t help but have a song in your heart
Thats because who He is, affects who I am and how I approach my life -- thats what I want to teach on today...
I Am Revealed
Revelation 1:1, 3, 10-18
1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ,
He loved us enough to reveal Himself to us
He loves us enough to call us to Him
He loved us enough to call out to us
Voice in the Garden - Friend of Abraham --
Burning bush - Red Sea - Pillar & Cloud -
King of Israel --4th in Fire -
And ultimately Unto us a child is born!
And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
He has been revealed!
1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
The revelation of Jesus is the central theme of this book and all the prophecies surrounding are pointing to Jesus bringing in His eternal Kingdom
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
11 Saying , I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest , write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
He has revealed Himself to us!
1. Consider In Your Hearts
35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;