i. I am the Bread of Life

Preacher: Alan Cameron

Verses: John 6:35

Jesus never wrote a book.  Yet no other person in history has had more books written about them.  The closest we come to biography are the Gospel accounts.  Perhaps the closest we come to auto-biography are the seven “I am” statements of Jesus in John’s gospel which raised the ire of the religious leaders.  They regarded Jesus committing blasphemy, laying claim to the revelation of God’s great name “I am who I am” given to Moses at the burning bush (Exodus 3:14,15). 

Scholars have spent the last five thousand years trying to understand the meaning of “I am who I am” and there is still no consensus.  No doubt Moses spent the rest of his life trying to figure out exactly what it meant.  By asking God to reveal his name, Moses was seeking to understand the essence of God’s character, his quintessential being.  God’s name was more than a name.  It represented his very being, his entire character and attributes.  The mystery of an eternal, unchangeable God who does not owe his existence to anyone else, eternally present embracing the past and the future is beyond human comprehension.