09/06/2026
This morning, the bridge of our first song sets the tone and timbre of our worship experience.
Jesus makes seven “I AM” statements from John 6-15. Sometimes those are metaphorical statements to illustrate a concept of who Jesus is that we can’t fully comprehend through our own understanding. Jesus uses elements of His good creation to help us understand His provision (I am the bread of life), His magnitude (I am the way, the truth and the life), His salvation (I am the door) and so many others. But some of His “I AM” statements aren’t even qualified with a metaphor. They are open ended. I AM. Before Abraham was, I AM.
We worship a Savior who is not only fully confident in His own identity but who has called us to take on and live according to that same identity. “I am who I am because THE. I. AM. tells me who I am.” This is not a nominal theological statement that addresses only certain people struggling with a certain burden. No, this is a statement that pumps life into the very heart of our identity as believers. While the world of unbelievers wanders aimlessly through the night, searching, clawing, grasping for something…anything to bear proudly on their chest that will satiate their longing for approval, we boldly take on the identity of the founder, originator and source of the statement “I AM.”
Why do we submit to Jesus, fully trusting in the path He has laid out? He says “I am the way.” How do we know that God’s promises are true? Jesus says, “I am the truth.” What could we look to that could possibly usurp the power of death? Jesus says “I am the life.”
Lest we forget, let us boldly declare to one another AND to ourselves that we bear the ultimate “I am,” and need no other source of identity because THE I AM said so. Amen.
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