After a lengthy interview (conversation) with a woman from Samaria … our dear Lord Jesus identified Himself as follows … “I that speak to thee am He.” (John 4:26)

She (in verse 25) had just brought up the Subject of the “Messiah!”

The word order in a Greek sentence (while saying the same thing as our English Bibles) often varies. Jesus’ Answer to the lady was (again in Greek, literally and sequentially) … “I AM” the Messiah!

This then is Jesus’ First “I AM” Statement in the Gospel of John.

When teaching this verse Wednesday (it’s on YouTube, the video class, under yesterday’s date, August 18, 2022) I failed to give the full list of Jesus’ great “I AM” Proclamations, Identifications!

So, here they are. Worship with me …

John 6:35 … “And Jesus said unto them, I AM the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.”

John 8:12 … “Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I AM the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”

And John 8:58, the favorite of many Christians, though each is vitally important … “Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM.” Our timeless, eternal Saviour!

John 10:7 … “Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I AM the door of the sheep.”

John 10:11 … “I AM the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.”

John 10:36 … “I AM the Son of God.”

John 11:25 … “Jesus said unto her, I AM the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.”

John 14:6 … “Jesus saith unto him, I AM the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

John 15:1 … “I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.”

And again in John 18:6, at Jesus’ Arrest … “As soon then as he had said unto them, I AM he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.” (Jesus succinctly said, to identity Himself, “I AM” He! Whereupon over six hundred soldiers fell over backwards onto the ground! Illustrating the sheer Power of “I AM!”)

What a list!

Better yet, WHAT A SAVIOUR!

Oh, by the way … God identified Himself in the Old Testament to Moses as the Great … “I AM.”

Exodus 3:14 … “And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.”

Only one deduction can be made, and every honest person knows so … OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IS GOD!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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