"I Am" is the "First
Person Singular of the
Present Tense to Be."
"Christ in You" is the
"Aware Presence of Being
I Am" Here and Now.
***
"Christ" is the "Aware
Presence of Being I Am"
And "not a person."
The "I Am" that spoke
To Moses from the burning
Bush lives within All.
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Jesus died to save
Us All from our delusion
Of self-existence.
Jesus Christ was the
Great Exemplar and never
The Great Exception.
[Rich Note: I shared a Dr. Wayne Dyer video titled "Understanding the Power of the Words I Am" recently, and while accompanying comments on the original post were mostly positive, there were two, I am sure, well-intention though misguided comments, that suggested a distinct lack of understanding with respect to what God's own self-declared Name and Nature as "I AM" necessarily implies.
Hopefully, the following Scripture passages, viewed in close proximity to each other, with related expository comments, may serve to expand the self-limiting conceptual envelope of the "2000 year old, dogmatically accepted, carnally-derived, self-serving interpretation" (i.e. that "Jesus is a special exception and substantially other than the I am as a human being," etc.) of St. Peter's, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God," answer to Jesus', "But whom say ye that I Am?" question.
Here are the two references comments:
(1) "Blasphemy..." (How dare you profane God's self-declared Divine Name and Nature as "I AM" (Awareness of Being, Consciousness or Divine Mind) by ascribing that most Holy Name (or Word) to one "only made in image and likeness" of God Almighty? -- paraphrased, but representative of the line of thought expressed.)
(2) "I don't know what he said, but man is not the great "I am"
..... God spoke the words to Moses in the Old Testament. God is
"I am"( everything we need-) fill in the blank."]
[Rich Note: Actually, it is best to never "fill in that blank" and, thereby, declare in the Name of the Lord that "I am this or that" or any other lessor state of being.]
Obviously, "a particular man" (human being or personage) is not and never could the "Great I AM" as God so clearly declares in Hosea 11:9 KJV: "...I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee..." However, having granted that "man (and certainly not as he still carnally imagines himself to be) is not God," let us look a bit further and deeper into what "...the Holy One in the midst of thee..." necessarily means in the case of an Absolute God.
If "man is made in the image and likeness of God" and God's Name (which indicates the Nature or Essential Vibratory Quality of what is Named) is "I AM" (the "First Person Singular of the Present Tense to Be" or Being) and, further, "God is Light," then "God, Christ (as the Godhead fully embodied in the personage of Jesus) and Man," All have the same Name (I AM/I Am/I am) and Nature (Light) of God.
This is much akin to a "wave" being "one with" and so having the same "name and nature" (water) as the "Ocean," but as a "particle state wave" and not as the "Quantum State Ocean." So too is a particle state ray of the sun, as a quantum field of light and energy as sunlight, one with the sun, in both name and nature as light. Yet, neither is that particle state ray of sunlight the sun in its quantum totality; though it can project a potentially perfect image of that self-same sun in still (mental) waters as light.
(1) Ye Are the Light of the World:
" In him was life; and the life was the light of men." John 1:4 KJV
"That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." John 1:9 KJV
"This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." 1 John 1:5 KJV
"Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." John 8:12 KJV
"As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world." John 9:5 KJV
"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid." Matthew 5:14 KJV
"Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 1 Thessalonians 5:5 KJV
(3) "I Am" Called By Thy Name:
"Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts." Jeremiah 15:16 KJV
"Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain." Exodus 20:7 KJV
Seen in this light, we take the Name ("I am") of the Lord in vain every time we say; "I am sad, sick, tired, lacking, separate, unhappy, depressed, confused, a sinner...or anything else less then God and so unworthy of the Name. And, unwittingly, we do so solely on the basis of the "partial, incomplete and imperfect" report of "relative, self-reflective (read carnal) thought, sense and feeling." Which, in and of itself, "...is a liar and the father of it..."; a carnal lie of "separate self-sense" that both projects and reflects in its own "flawed, incomplete, imperfect, self-imagined (both individual and collective), vain and partial perspective (perception and conception) of existence and being.
(4) Ye are Children of God:
"Ye are the children of the Lord your God..." Deuteronomy 14:1 KJV
"I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High." Psalm 82:6 KJV
"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9:6 KJV
"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:" Romans 8:16 KJV
"And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him , that we may be also glorified together." Romans 8:17 KJV
"Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." Romans 8:21 KJV
"For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God." Romans 8:19 KJV
"Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world." 1 John 4:4 KJV
"To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:" Colossians 1:27 KJV
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." James 1:17 KJV
A Child (of God) has the same Name (I Am) and Nature (Light) as Its Father (as the Father of Lights).
(5) Ye Are the Temple of God:
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" 1 Corinthians 3:16 KJV
"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" 1 Corinthians 6:19 KJV
"And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them ; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." 2 Corinthians 6:16 KJV
"Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you." John 16:7 KJV
"But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." John 14:26 KJV
(6) Greater Works Than These Ye Shall Do:
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." John 14:12 KJV
If Jesus, as the Historically Personified Son of God, declares that "I am" destined to do greater things then He, then "I as I Am in Spirit and Truth" must also be a Son or Child of God (as Scripture repeatedly declares).
(7) Let this mind be in you:
"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:" Philippians 2:5 KJV
If Jesus knew God, and only God can know God, then it must have been God (or the Mind of God) in the man Jesus Christ Knowing Himself. And that is the same Mind (the Mind, Consciousness, Awareness of God I Am or "Christ in You") all mankind is called to "let be in us."
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