“I AM The Good Shepherd”

Posted on July 27, 2021 by Sandra Bivens Smith

“I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me”
(John 10:14)

Christ knows his sheep. He knows with a distinguishing eye who are his sheep, and who are not; he knows the sheep under their many infirmities, and the goats under their most plausible disguises. He knows with a favourable eye those that in truth are his own sheep; he takes cognizance of their state, concerns himself for them, has a tender and affectionate regard to them, and is continually mindful of them in the intercession he ever lives to make within the veil; he visits them graciously by his Spirit, and has communion with them; he knows them, that is, he approves and accepts of them.

Commentary from “Matthew Henry’s Commentary of the Whole Bible”

“I AM The Door”

Posted on July 26, 2021 by Sandra Bivens Smith

I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
(John 10:9)

Belief in Jesus as the Messiah and Son of God is the only way of being “saved” from sin and hell and receiving eternal life. Only Jesus Christ is the one true source for the knowledge of God and the one basis for spiritual security.

Commentary by John MacArthur

“I AM The Light Of The World”

Posted on July 25, 2021 by Sandra Bivens Smith

Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”
(John 8:12)

God is light, and Christ is the image of the invisible God; God of gods, Light of lights. Christ in calling himself the light expresses, (1) What He is in Himself – most excellent and glorious. (2) What He is to the world – the fountain of light, enlightening every man. What a dungeon would the world be without the sun! So would it be without Christ by whom light came into the world (Joh 3:19).

Commentary from Matthew Henry’s “Commentary on the Whole Bible”

“I AM The Bread Of Life”

Posted on July 24, 2021 by Sandra Bivens Smith

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.”
(John 6:35)

Christ is so called, because he gives life to dead sinners: men in a state of nature are dead in trespasses and sins; and whatever they feed upon tends to death; Christ, the true bread, only gives life, which is conveyed by the word, and made effectual by the Spirit: and because he supports and maintains the life he gives; it is not in the power of a believer to support the spiritual life he has; nor can he live on anything short of Christ; and there is enough in Christ for him to live upon: and because he quickens, and makes the saints lively in the exercise of grace, and discharge of duty, and renews their spiritual strength, and secures for them eternal life.

Commentary from John Gill’s Exposition of the Bible

I AM Atiq Yomin – The Ancient of Days.

Posted on July 23, 2021 by Sandra Bivens Smith

“As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire.
(Daniel 7:9)

I AM El-Chuwl – The God who gave birth.

Posted on July 22, 2021 by Sandra Bivens Smith

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
(Psalms 139:13-16)

I AM El-Olam – The everlasting God.

Posted on July 21, 2021 by Sandra Bivens Smith

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
(Isaiah 40:28-31)

I AM Yahweh-Sabbaoth – The Lord of Hosts.

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Sandra Bivens Smith

In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”
(Isaiah 6:1-3)

I AM Yahweh-Ghmolah – The God of Recompense.

Posted on July 19, 2021 by Sandra Bivens Smith

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.’ For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.
(Deuteronomy 32:35-36)

I Am Yahweh-Shammah -The Lord who is present.

Posted on July 18, 2021 by Sandra Bivens Smith

Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
(Genesis 28:15)