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<b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-size:18px;font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Friends,
 today <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Jesus refers to himself as "I AM," the name God revealed to 
Moses.</b></span> So, let’s reflect on this episode from Genesis. <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>While tending 
sheep in the hill country, Moses sees a strange
sight. There an angel of the Lord appears to him in fire, flaming out of
 a bush. God sees him and calls him by name: "Moses, Moses. I am the God
 of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of 
Jacob."</b></span> This is <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>a very familiar God, one who knows Moses’ ancestors.</b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br></b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Moses
 makes bold to ask, "If the Israelites ask me, ‘what is his name?’ what 
am I to tell them?" "God replied, ‘I am who I am.’" </b></span>What does that mean?
 <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>God is saying, in essence, "I cannot be defined, described, or 
delimited. I am</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>not </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>a being,</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>but </b></span>rather <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the sheer act of </b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">to-be</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> itself."</span></b></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">"This
 is what you shall tell the Israelites:<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> I AM sent me to <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">you</span>." </b></span>The sheer 
act of being itself cannot be avoided, and it cannot be controlled. It 
can only be surrendered to in faith.<span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b> How shocking and strange <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Jesus</span>’ 
listeners must have found</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>it when Jesus took this name for
himself!</b></span></span></b></span></b></b></b></b></b></b>

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