I am who I am

Exodus 3:13-22

God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”   I will be what I will be

God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation.

But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him. So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.

And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed. Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.

How am I to explain to people who you are? Moses cannot go back simply with a subjective experience. God describes himself more clearly: "I am" is derives. And God connects himself to what the people already know: he is no stranger to his peopl. He is the God of Abraham and the rest, whose stories they know.

Why?

This is a strange experience and God gave Moses a mission to bring his people out of Egypt, but how to describe this God and what relationship with Israelite, Moses has to ask the Lord, how to explain.

The Lord is the God of many people's fathers, "I am who I am" is the name of the Lord. For God is anything and who can give or take away anything to and from us.

I will be what I will be. God can do what possible be in God's plan. It is out of our mind and our imaginations.

God's promise never fails. He promised to Israelites when they leave Egypt, they were not empty-handed.

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摩西並不認識神，所以問神一些問題，進一步認識神，不是出於惡意與抗拒。出於對神的敬畏與明白時，神願意告訴我們。我是，中文翻譯為「自有永有」，本來就存在，獨立於環境之外。永遠存在、永恆的，不受時間的限制。

耶和華：是我的名，自有永有也是我的名。這麼多代經過了，神沒有忘記神自己的應許。其中經過約500年。亞伯拉罕之約也許只是傳說，也沒有人記得。

每個基督徒也是在這最高權柄所差派，不受世界的影響。神的權柄超越埃及。

這段對話是神給摩西最基礎的神學教育，知道神的本質、神的名、神的權柄、神的大能。讓跟隨的人可以放心跟隨、與神同工。

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How?

The Lord is a mighty God, without Him I can do nothing.