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Who Is Yahweh?

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The God of our Bibles is more glorious than we can even begin to imagine. And it all begins with this fact: God absolutely and simply is.

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0:00.0

Who is God?

0:07.4

I can think of no more foundational question in all of the world.

0:11.2

So who is this God, this one behind all of creation?

0:16.2

Who is this one who made you and who made me?

0:20.4

Who is this one who speaks to us through an ancient book, a book that is as alive as

0:25.8

it is old?

0:28.0

This is a beautiful topic covered by Pastor John's recent sermon.

0:31.8

He delivered in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

0:34.6

He opened that message with ten brief answers to the all-important question, who is God?

0:42.3

Have a listen.

0:43.8

Why did God identify Himself as I am who I am?

0:50.1

I absolutely am.

0:52.4

Now if we can take off our clouded spectacles of mere religious jargon like G-O-D,

1:01.1

this should come, will come as a bolt of lightning.

1:05.0

God is.

1:06.8

That's staggering.

1:09.4

What sentence could be more important in any language than God is?

1:14.8

So what did He mean when He said, I absolutely am.

1:18.4

I am who I am.

1:21.2

What did He mean?

1:22.7

I'm going to linger here longer than you think I should, perhaps, because until God becomes

1:31.3

dominant in our thinking and in our feeling, until God becomes the blazing sun at the

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