Sunday Sermonette: What ' s in a name?

Exodus 3 is one of the most famous passages in the Bible. By famous I mean that people have some images from it in their heads, particularly the burning bush and the declaration " I am who I am " (KJV " I am that I am). I don ' t mean that very many people have actually read it and thought about it. So let ' s give it  a good look. Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.2 There the angel of theLord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”4 When theLord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”And Moses said, “Here I am.”God has appeared to people, and spoken to them, in various ways. Often it ' s unspecified: " God said, " or " God told him, " and we don ' t know how this happened. Maybe the person just heard a voice inside his head, or maybe the words came down from the sky. Who knows? But God interacted with Adam and Eve physically, in the guise of a human who visited them and talked to them. God also " appeared " to Abraham on several occasions but we aren ' t told what he looked like, with the exception of one occasion in which he appeared as a human, along with two angels in the sam...
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