Our Self-Existent God

"And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM [ literally, I am I WHO AM]: and He said, so will you say unto the children of Israel, I AM has sent me unto you" (Ex. 3:14). The Septuagint (the early translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek) reads the first part of this verse as "I am HE WHO IS."

This is what Jesus said to the religious, legalistic, self-works crowd when they were boasting in their father Abraham. Christ said, "Before Abraham was (began to be in time), I AM." (John 8:58).

Rev. 1:8,11, Jesus said, "I AM Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending..."

11, "I AM Alpha and Omega, the first the last..." God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. God the Self-Existent and the Eternal One, is "the living, unchanging, self-existent One, necessarily independent of all others."

All His acts are from Himself--issuing from His own will. He does not receive direction, nor does He receive or recognize the help of self-works from anyone who could be higher than Himself, revealed and manifested in The Son of His love.

God dwells in "light which no man can approach unto" (1 Tim. 6:16). That is why it says in Rev.13:8, “...the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” That is why it says in Heb. 4:3, “...although the WORKS were FINISHED from the foundation of the world." That is why it says in Eph. 2:10, "For we are HIS WORKMANSHIP, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has BEFORE (in eternity) ordained that we should walk in them.”

All of this work was done by God according to His will, in Eph. 1:5,11. God did all of this work, through Christ, without violating anyone's free will by assigning certain ones to heaven and others to hell.

Please do not receive something that a man said a long time ago, that he declares, he doesn't even understand.

Understand this, Jhn 3:16, “For God so loved the whole world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” Jhn 3:17, “For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world (the mass of humanity) THROUGH HIM might (potentially because of free will not being violated by Him!) be saved.

Christ did not come to be a Lamb slain, He came in love, as a Lamb already slain.