Who am I (What is my identity)?

Exodus 3:11–14 NKJV

But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” So He said, “I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.” Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

Moses was shocked by God’s Words.

Immediately Moses objected to God’s command

Lack of Ability

Lack of Authority

Has God ever gave you something to do that you felt inadequate for? Made you doubt what you heard or envisioned?

God responded to Moses with two promises

Exodus 3:12 (NKJV)

12 So He said, “I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”

God gave Moses the assurance of His personal presence.

You shall serve God on this mountain

The purpose of the deliverance was that Israel might “worship God.”

The Hebrew word for “worship” is the same word for “to be a slave”

Having served as slaves to the Egyptians, Israel was now to serve the Lord, worshiping Him as His subjects.

Moses’ second objection

Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?”

He felt the Israelites would challenge his assertion that God had sent him to deliver them.

I AM WHO I AM

God told moses to tell them that I AM WHO I AM has sent you.

Moses your Identify is in ME. I AM WHO I AM.

“I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE” or “I CAUSE TO BE WHAT I CAUSE TO BE.” By describing himself this way, God was affirming his self-existence and self-sufficiency. He depends on nothing and no one. He is the Creator and Sustainer of all.

The name “Lord” is related etymologically to this Hebrew verb. Instead of the first-person singular form (“I AM”), “Lord” represents the third-person singular form (thus, “HE IS”). In Hebrew, it is represented by four consonants without any vowels: YHWH. We don’t know for certain how this was pronounced because the Jews feared pronouncing the sacred name, but it may have been said this way: “Yahweh.”When God sends you He is your credentials.

They worshiped a different gods for everything imaginable. This was such an important statement that God made to moses.

Many people claim to believe in a generic “God.” But Moses was to tell the Israelites that he had been sent by the one true God—“the Lord,” the God of their fathers. He alone is “the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,” and he is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the personal, all-powerful God who is responsible for all that exists, and he sovereignly directs all things to accomplish his kingdom purposes. Though the world is ever-changing, HE IS. If Moses needed assurance about following and obeying the One who was sending him, he got exactly what he needed.Isreal was slaves in Egypt which was full of polytheistic gods on every street corner.

Our God is a jealous God a consuming Fire. He will have no other Gods before Him.

Our Identity is in God

I am who I am because the I AM tells me who I am.

John 15:7 (NKJV)

7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.

John 15:11 (NKJV)

11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.

We are to live In Jesus’s goal in teaching his disciples things was that their joy would be complete.

Joy is internal stability in spite of external circumstances because of the knowledge that God is in control. It is a settled assurance and quiet confidence in God’s sovereignty that results in the decision to praise him. Notice that Jesus offered them his own joy. So, if your joy container is empty, Jesus will let you borrow some of his.

God’s Sovereignty Sovereignty

His absolute right to do all things according to his own good pleasure.

IN HIM

John 3:15that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 1:4In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

John 7:48Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him?

Col 1:19For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell,

John 8:30As He spoke these words, many believed in Him.

1 John 2:5But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.

John 10:42And many believed in Him there.

Col 2:9For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;

Eph 3:12in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him.

John 13:32If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and glorify Him immediately.

Col 1:17And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

1 John 3:5And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.

Col 2:7rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

1 John 2:6He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

1 John 3:6Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.

John 12:37But although He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in Him,

2 Cor 1:20For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.

1 John 1:5This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.

John 9:36He answered and said, “Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?”

John 11:45Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in Him.

John 6:56He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.

Col 2:6As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

1 John 3:24Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

Acts 17:28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

John 15:16–17 (NKJV): You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

17 These things I command you, that you love one another.

Just like a coach handpicking a player for a team, despite their doubts and fears, Jesus selects us to be part of his team. It's not about our skills or performance; it's about his deliberate, unconditional love for each of us.