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Before Abraham Was Born


      Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.”
    “You are not yet fifty years old,” the Jews said to him, “and you have seen Abraham!”
      “I tell you the truth,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds." (John 8:56-58)


       "Before Abraham was born"..."I am!" Before Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the 12 brothers... before Moses, Joshua, the judges, the kings, and the prophets. Before in time and before in priority; before the people and things that made Israel what it was ever came to be... I am.
         Before Christopher Columbus. Before the Pilgrims. Before the Founding Fathers, the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War and the Constitution. Before the Civil War and before all the foreign wars in which America has ever fought. Before the Greatest Generation and the Civil Right's Movement. Before all the people and things that made America what it is ever came to be...I am.
          Before all the people and things that made you what you are ever came to be...I am. Before all the people and things that are making your life right now what it is right now...I am.

“Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”
 The LORD Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress. (Proverbs 46:10-11)
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