![]() Another place we can look for the question of “who am I” is King David, who also prefigures Christ, decides he wants to build a House for the LORD ( 2 Sam 7). Moses is type and shadow of Jesus Who would later come to rescue the Church (Israel) out of slavery to sin (Egypt). Notice that God’s response isn’t to tell Moses who Moses is, but who God is. This was Moses trying to back down from the call because he’s a nobody in the eyes of Pharaoh. 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?” 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.’” God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations. I know their sufferings, 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. 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. Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “ Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” 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.” The first is when God, speaking to Moses from the Burning Bush, calls Moses to rescue Israel out of Egypt.Įxodus 3:7-15 (ESV) 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. So, right at the beginning, we have an interesting question of “Who am I…?” This question pops up a few times in the Old Testament. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. ![]() Romans 5:6-11 (ESV) For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person-though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die- but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ![]() Let’s build out this nugget with some Scripture: However, it is exceedingly frustrating that the rest of the song is so “me-centric” rather than focusing on Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. This alone is enough to keep the song in the “middle category”. In this little nugget, we have Law (I was a slave to sin) and Gospel (Jesus died for me). Let’s open up with an acknowledgment of the Gospel Nugget in the song: Writer(s): Ben Fielding & Reuben Morgan Discussion Publishing: Hillsong Music Publishing (APRA) (admin. Let’s give it a listen and then work through the lyrics. ![]() Because of the Gospel nugget, this song lands in the middle category. This song does have nuggets of the Gospel, which we will point out in the discussion of the lyrics however, the song’s focus is still on glorifying “me” and “who I am”. This is a song by Hillsong Worship, who recently declared themselves to be a denomination. Today we’ll be taking a look at “Who You Say I Am” by Hillsong Worship which currently sits at #2 on the Top20 chart at 20theCountdownMagazine.
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