An idol is… “...anything that is more important to you than God, or anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God.”
- Tim Keller


Exodus 3:14, God said to Moses, “I am who I am.”


1) JEHOVAH describes who God is and what He does.

2) JEHOVAH is a personal God, not an abstract force.


Exodus 3:1, Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.


Exodus 3:2, And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.


Exodus 3:3, And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”


Exodus 3:4, When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”


Exodus 3:5, Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”


Exodus 3:6, And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.


John 8:58, Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”


“Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man’s God comes and lives inside of Him.”
- Leonard Ravenhill

3) JEHOVAH knows you, cares about you, and acts on your behalf.


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…”


Psalm 139:1-3, O Lord, you have searched me and known me! 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.


Exodus 3:8, “…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.”


Do you love God enough to trust Him?


Exodus 3:9,10, “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.”


Exodus 3:11, But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”


Exodus 3:12, 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 are you expecting from God?


Psalm 73:23,24, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. 24 You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory.


God will…
- Go with us
- Guide us
- Take us to Glory


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?”


Exodus 3:14, 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.’”


Isaiah 46:9, …I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me…


Exodus 3:15, This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.