Good morning once again it is time for the morning mindset edition of the

Live Build Change Podcast and I am excited to dig into the things that we have for this morning because we are talking

about God. That's an exciting topic to me because God is everything that matters. And we've been wondering, been

curious these last few episodes about what it means that God revealed himself to Moses by the name that he did.

The name God revealed was the Hebrew word Yahweh, which literally translated means I am.

And since God does nothing by accident,

everything is intentional.

We know that he had meaning, he had purpose in describing himself by that name,

by identifying himself in that way. And so what does that mean?

Well I've been talking about a few things and today I want to highlight that

I believe when God says that he is the I am that that's his name. He's saying

that everything that is not God depends totally on God. He is the primary thing in the universe.

So that means that the entire universe is utterly secondary.

It came into being by God and it stays in being moment by

moment on God's decision to keep it in being. These days you hear a lot of people talking about

the universe willing something. Oh the universe brought that to me or the

universe showed me this or that.

Folks, bivocly speaking, the universe is a created thing like a rock. It's just bigger. It's just more complex. But it's a created thing. It doesn't have the ability, the capacity to will something for you or to cause something to happen.

God is the final cause.

The universe, not being God is totally dependent on God. It's secondary.

That means that we too are totally dependent on God. We talked a few episodes back about how God is entirely independent.

And him being the Creator of all makes all creation dependent on him.

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