“God Raises Up a Deliverer”

BIBLE PASSAGE Exodus 3:13–17
​STORY “God Raises Up a Deliverer”
GOSPEL CONNECTION When our Lord Jesus, the eternal Son of God, came to earth, he sometimes called himself “I AM”—the same words God used when he was talking to Moses! Jesus said, “I am the light of the world” (John 8:12) and “I am the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). Just in case we were missing the point, he told the Pharisees, “Before Abraham was, I am” (John 8:58). Jesus existed before Abraham because he has always existed, and he will exist forever. And he exists forever to deliver his people. Just as God called Moses to deliver Israel from their slavery in Egypt, God sent Jesus to deliver sinners from their sins. In Jesus, we are rescued from sin so we can live for him—the great “I AM"