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  Seven Times Jesus said “I AM” A lesson by Terry Pruitt When Moses asked the God of Abraham in Exodus 3:13 what his name was, he said “I am”.   He used a Hebrew word for “I Am” which is used as the name of God in the Old Testament.   The name in Hebrew is Yahweh or Jehovah or YHWH or יהוה .   Bible Nerd Words:   In the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Old Testament there is instructions to not say Yahweh but to say the Hebrew word for LORD, Adonai.   Our English translations follow this tradition.   The ESV uses the all in CAPs word LORD when translating Yahweh.   In the Greek translation of the Old Testament, the Septuagint (LXX) translates this as a phrase “ἐγὼ εἰμί”.   This same phrase of “I am” (ἐγὼ εἰμί) is used in the Greek New Testament in the Gospel of John.   Jesus uses this phrase “I am” in a way to signify that he is the Second Person of the Trinity.   Seven different times he says I am as a revelation of who he i...

The Scriptures are changing.  I am not talking about the content or the canon.  I mean the form of the Scriptures are changing.  People may be listening to the Bible as a podcast or audio book rather crack the cover of a bound set of pages as a book.  There has been changes to the form and availability of Scripture.  The Old Testament in the ancient world was a scrolls.  The Scroll limited the length of the work.  Eventually the Scripture was recorded as a book.  The whole of the Bible could be gathered in one collection as one book.  However these were copied by hand.  The printing press changed the Bible from a hand copied book to a mass produced book.  No longer was the Bible the property of a church or a rich person, a less wealthy person could own a Bible.  People could read the Bible in their home.  They could check what their pastor was saying in the sermon.  Today many people are feasting on the Bible in throu...