Our Unspeakable Privilege
Solid Joys Daily Devotional
Desiring God
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | September 19, our unspeakable privilege. |
| 0:05.0 | God said to Moses, |
| 0:08.0 | I am who I am, Exodus 314. |
| 0:14.0 | One implication of the magnificent name, |
| 0:19.0 | I am who I am, |
| 0:21.6 | is that this infinite, absolute, self-determining God |
| 0:28.6 | has drawn near to us in Jesus Christ. |
| 0:32.6 | In John 8, 56 to 58, Jesus is answering the criticism of the Jewish leaders. |
| 0:42.4 | He says, your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. |
| 0:49.0 | He saw it and was glad. |
| 0:52.8 | The Jews then said to him, |
| 0:55.3 | You are not yet 50 years old. |
| 1:00.0 | And have you seen Abraham? |
| 1:03.7 | And Jesus said to them, |
| 1:05.9 | Truly, truly I say to you. |
| 1:09.2 | Before Abraham was, I am. |
| 1:15.6 | Could Jesus have taken any more exalted words upon his lips? |
| 1:23.6 | When Jesus said, before Abraham was, I am, he took up all the majestic truth of the name of God, |
| 1:34.0 | wrapped it in the humility of servanthood, offered himself to atone for our rebellion and made |
| 1:41.2 | a way for us to see the glory of the infinite, absolute, all-sufficient God |
| 1:47.0 | without fear. |
| 1:49.0 | In Jesus Christ, we who are born of God have the unspeakable privilege of knowing Yahweh |
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