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“Moreover”

Exodus 3:15

In Exodus 3:15 our great God and Savior gives us one of his great “moreover” words. In verse 14 he tells us what he is in himself. Here he tells us what he is to his people. — “And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.”

It is as though the Lord said, “I have told you all that I am, the only eternal, self-existent, self-sufficient, unchanging, immutable, constant, faithful One. I am now what I have always been and what I shall forever be. ‘I am the Lord, I change not.’ And, ‘moreover,’ all that I am is yours. I am your God. I have made myself your God, bound to you by my own covenant. I am the sovereign God who chose Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in sovereign mercy. I am the God who has pledged himself to the salvation of my people by an unconditional promise of unconditional grace.

The Triune God

Here is a threefold declaration of covenant grace from the three persons of the Holy Trinity. The Lord God does not say, “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” — He says, “I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” He did not say that just to fill up space. There is much more here than is commonly observed. We worship one God in three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost (1 John 5:7). The Lord Jesus Christ is himself God, the only God our Savior. All the fulness of the Triune God dwells in the God-man, our Savior (Colossians 2:9-10). Yet, all three Persons in the Godhead are engaged in the salvation of our souls (Ephesians 1:3-14). And the work of one is just as essential and just as glorious as the work of the others.

Revealed in Christ

Yet, the triune God is revealed and known, worshipped and adored only in the Person and work of our blessed Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ (John 1:18). And all that God is, as well as all he does for us in and by Christ, is ours because of a covenant made before the world was, an everlasting covenant full of divinely glorious, sweet “moreovers” (Ezekiel 37:26-28; Romans 5:1-21; 8:28-32).

Moses asked the Lord to show him his name; and the Lord Jesus said, “I AM THAT I AM,” the covenant God of Israel. We have a fuller declaration in Matthew 1:21. — “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” — “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). — “And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee” (Psalm 9:10). He whose name is I AM THAT I AM, JEHOVAH-JESUS, is able to save. He declares, “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?” (Jeremiah 32:27). — “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them” (Hebrews 7:25). And he will do it! — “Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness” (Psalm 29:2).

Don Fortner

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