Let’s see what God can do! Have you ever been involved in picking out a name for a baby? Coming up with the right name is important, it’s like you’re writing your kids future. God has a name and his name isn’t God! Exodus 3:7 Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” 11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” 12 He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.” What did you just learn from reading that passage? Let’s just take another look; - Exodus 3:7 Then the Lord said… God speaks. - Exodus 3:7 Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen… God sees. - … and have heard their cry… God hears. - I know their sufferings… God is moved by what he sees and hears. - …and I have come down to deliver… God enters into human history. - …to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians… He will defeat all the powers of darkness. - …to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey… God is a God of great promises. - …Come, I will send you… God invites us into his story. - But Moses said to God, “Who am I”… But I will be with you… He is the God who is nearby and present. God reveals his name that he wants to be known by. Exodus 3:13 Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” 15 God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘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, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations. What is God’s name? “I am that I am.” Or, “I am who I am.” The Hebrew translation is YHWH. In our English Bibles it is always translated LORD. God’s name is Yahweh. I am that I am. Or, I will be what I will be. And who is he? I am that I am means that who God is he is always that and he is always that perfectly. As Louie Giglio once said, “if God’s name is I am, then my name is I am not.”