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fully God and was fully man?
        
    How did the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost reveal that Jesus had been “exalted to the right hand of God”?
        
    To whom are you praying when you pray to God? How does prayer involve the Trinity?
      
    Who are you serving when you serve God? How does serving God employ the Trinity?
        

    We . . . believe that there is only one God, but under the following dispensation or “economy,” as it is called. We believe that this one only God has also a Son, His Word, who proceeded from Himself, by whom all things were made, and without whom nothing was made. Him we believe to have been sent by the Father into the virgin, and to have been born of her—being both man and God, the son of man and the Son of God. . . . And the Son also sent from heaven from the Father, according to His own promise, the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, the sanctifier of the faith of those who believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
    Tertullian (AD 160–220)

2 I A M Who I A M
    Exodus 3:1–15
    Key Point
    God revealed Himself as the great “I AM ,” meaning that what He was in the past is who He is in the present and will be in the future.
    Key Verse
    I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins.
    John 8:24
    G od called Moses to deliver the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt and lead them to the Promised Land. When Moses asked how he was going to tell the people that God had sent him, the Lord responded by saying, “I AM WHO I AM . This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you’” (Exodus 3:14). God also said, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The L ORD , 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 myname forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation” (verse 15).
    The name “I AM ” means that what God was in the past He is in the present and will be in the future. The most distinctive name the Israelites had for God was Yahweh (Jehovah), which comes from the same root as “I AM .” This name was given to Moses to convince the children of Israel that God was faithful to His covenant and that He would lead them out of bondage. The name does not disclose who He is in Himself; rather, it discloses who He is, was, and will be in relationship to the people of God.
    The name is mentioned in the New Testament when Jesus responded to the Jews, “Very truly I tell you . . . before Abraham was born, I am !” (John 8:58, emphasis added). Whereas Moses was the lawgiver who led God’s people from slavery in Egypt to the Promised Land, Jesus fulfilled the Law and led God’s people from slavery to sin to freedom in Christ and eternal life. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is the same God who delivers us from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of His beloved Son (see Colossians 1:13). Jesus said, “Unless you believe that I AM who I claim to be, you will die in your sins” (John 8:24 NLT , emphasis added).
    John records a number of other “I am” statements made by Jesus. To the crowds He said, “ I am the bread of life” (John 6:48, emphasis added). Like the manna from heaven that sustained the physical life of the Israelites, Jesus also came from heaven to give us spiritual life. To Mary and Martha, He said, “ I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die” (John 11:25–26, emphasis added). In other words, if we believe in Jesus, we will continue to live spiritually even when we die physically.
    On other occasions, Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep” (John 10:7, emphasis added), and “ I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6, emphasis added). Finally, Jesus said, “ I am