KNOWING THE I' AM GOD

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1 KNOWING THE I' AM GOD It has been echoing in my spirit all this week, and these are the words: THAT I MAY KNOW HIM, which has turned, over and over in my spirit this week until I looked up the scripture and read it again as many times before. This time there was something there that wasn t there before. Knowing the I AM GOD is the foundation for this message. o Phil.3:1O that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his suffering; Being made conformable unto his death. If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained. Paul is not stating that it isn t possible to attain unto this, Paul knew himself very well... he knew the problems he was dealing with. It is essential that you come to the place where you have no problems to consider...that you have no problems that can magnify themselves against the attaining of the resurrection from the dead. He wasn t saying that he may live until the day when the dead are resurrected. He was stating that I may attain, or grasp hold of the resurrection in such a way that I wouldn t have to experience death. The resurrection from the dead that I wouldn t have to go to the grave. Outside of Paul s pride, which he himself stated that the thorn in the flesh had been given to keep him from being exalted above measure---he probably would have attained unto that. It was his pride that got him killed---it got his head cut off for him---it will also get yours cut off!!! He was so proud, he wanted to be able to prove to the people of Jerusalem that he was now willing to die---that was part of his pride. God wasn t concerned about that. That s why he emphatically spoke to Paul, and said: get out of the city; I m not interested in you proving that you are willing to die. o V.12:- Not as though I had already attained, neither were already perfect; But I follow after if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press toward the mark for the prize of the highest calling of God in Christ Jesus. Contained in these verses are very great and powerful keys to unlocking the mysteries of the I AM GOD!!! The first key is found in; V.10:-that I may know---that word is defined in the Greek. Being the Greek word ganosko.

2 2 The definition is: in the first allow. That I may allow him. That means that I may let him. The rest of the definition: be aware of/feel/perceive/be resolved! can speak/ be sure! understand. That I may know him. That I may allow him, that means let him and the power of his resurrection...do what is intended in making me aware of who the I AM is. Some of you haven t allowed God to make you aware of who the I AM is. That I may allow him the opportunity, to be aware of. That means to be continually conscious of who the I AM is, where he is, and what he is. Be resolved that means to come to a resolution. You get to the place where you can say this is it, and there s no need to look for anything else. Some of you aren t totally resolved to that because you re still looking; you really don t believe you have it contained within you yet. The rest of it: to be sure. That means you have to become unshakable in your resolution. When you are resolved you have to be sure that nobody can shake you no matter what happens. The devil is a liar, and even after God gives you the total truth, the enemy will say to you when you re going through a battle you re going through the battle because, you re in deception. You have to be totally resolved and unshakable in your resolution. The rest of it: can speak---not say it, but Speak IT! Anyone can say something, when you speak its thunder---it s a divine utterance, like the messenger in Rev.10:- when he opened his mouth, it was like the roar of a lion. When you speak it you re speaking something you feel. You have to come to the place that you feel the I AM GOD...and you have to feel it all the time. You have to get to know this I AM GOD. o V.13:- Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth to those things which are before. The most important step toward the I AM GOD authority is being able to forget those things which are behind. It s the most difficult thing to do. You can turn continually to the behind things until they become a total preoccupation of your mind. You re always thinking of what s in the past I ll read Paul s sentiments about what he thought of things in the past. PhiI.3:7-But what things were gained to me, those I counted lost to Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I counted all things but lost for the excellence of the knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung. That s his sentiments that I may win Christ. When you get to the place that you can consider everything that s behind you as cow manure/dung. You might as well smile, Paul said it, I didn t. When you get to the place that you can count it as nothing but dung, then you are position to get acquainted with the I AM GOD. God said he d make you the head and not the tail, didn t he?? Most people never make it to headship, because they re always looking back at that which follows, which is the tail---always looking at that which is behind. How can you ever become the head when you re always looking back at the tail. You become exactly what you meditate on. If you want to meditate on the tail, that s what you become!! I would personally rather be the head. Some of you don t understand how God talks; he talks just like people, and he talks plain enough that you can understand it. Some of you are still looking back at the tail. You, can never come to the place where you know the I AM GOD until you

3 3 can forget the things that are behind you. That is the very reason the Father has caused me to go through the things I have gone through. It is predestinated because I have to forget the things that are behind, that I may have the total of the attainment of that which is called the fullness of Christ and the resurrection of the dead. I have to do it, and so do you. Some of you are still looking back at the fiancé you were engaged to before you married the rat you married. Still looking back and wondering what it would have been like. FORGET IT! He said I m not telling you I have attained, but this one thing I am doing, I am forgetting what s behind me, for I know I will never be able to attain to the fullness of this unless I can forget what is behind me. It s something that has to be done. EVERY ONE OF YOU NEEDS TO PUT THIS INTO PRACTICE. I ll give you some tremendous steps to making this work. o Ex. 5:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midean; And he led the flock to the back side of the desert, and came to the Mount of God, even to Horan. And the angel/messenger of the Lord appeared unto him in aflame of fire, out of the midst of a bush. And he looked, and behold; the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed; And Moses said: (that tells you, you can have the total fire of God without it burning you up.) Some people it consumes.) I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said: Moses, Moses, And Moses said: here am I. And God said: draw not neigh hither; but put off thy shoes from off thy feet. For the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Where you are standing Moses. That s part of the I AM GOD. Wherever the I AM GOD stands it is Holy ground.! don t care where I stand, when I stand on it it s holy. It may not be when I move off it, but when I m standing on it, it s holy. Between V.5:- and V.11:- God commissions Moses to go and lead the children of Israel out of the Egyptian bondage. Look at what happens in V.11:-And Moses said unto God, who am I? He s already stated here in the verse we read (4) when God said Moses, Moses; and Moses said here am I...then in V.11-he says who am I?? He answered God with a very emphatic statement, and then when God told him what he had to do, he said who am I? That s what is wrong with some of God s people. Some of you made your declaration and when God tells you what you have to do, you ask who did I say I was? When it comes time to rule, then the enemy puts all those question in. o V.13:-And Moses said unto God; Behold, when I come unto the children Israel, and shall say unto them: The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you. And they shall say unto me. What is his name. What shall I say unto them? o V.14:-And God said unto Moses, (this is what you tell them) I am that I am! That is one of the most powerful revelations in the Bible, and we never knew it. This is coming to where you can know the I AM GOD. I AM THAT I AM. Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. We never knew this was a very early revelation of our oneness with God. We always assumed God was trying to reveal himself in his own person without understanding this was one of the earliest revelations contained in the Bible of our oneness with God ship. Moses asked what he would say his name is. God said that isn t important what his name is. At this point Moses, there is no special name that I m revealing here. The thing I m revealing is a

4 4 revelation...the thing being revealed is not a name---the thing being revealed was a revelation. Moses, I want you to go down with the revelation that you are who you are...they don t need to ask any questions they don t have to have a name---you are who you are---just tell them, I AM THAT I AM. One of the biggest problems God s people have is trying to impose some kind of a special recognized religion on people or something we ve accepted. That isn t the important thing. The thing you must convey to them is that you are who you are; the rest of it will follow them seeing who you are, The very first thing some of you want in do is pounce on somebody and convince them they re going to hell if they don t repent right now, and accept Jesus as their Saviour, and confess it, and confess his name, and get baptized in his name; and if they don t do it, they re going to hell...that s the first thing you want, to cram it down their throats. We know it s true, without the name of Jesus nobody can be saved, but that isn t the thing that must be imposed upon the people. The thing that has to be revealed to them is that you are who you are---the first thing they have to see---they can t see Jesus.. they have to see you!! Let them see that when you walk in you feel like God. Someone said, "That could lead to pride." There s a way to do it. I am so humbly God when I walk in. You don t have to be arrogant or stuck up...you don t have to act proud. There is a feeling of revelation about it that speaks for itself. It s the revelation when you walk in, the revelation is there: the revelation is you. Moses was hung up too. He said: Well, who am I going to tell them sent me?? I need a name. I can t go down there without a name. That s been the problem religious people have had for years they have to have a name. What name are you going to get baptized in? It isn t important at all. Get baptized in the revelation---the revelation of what he is---who he is... NOT his name. It s coming to know: the I AM GOD. Some of you aren t getting it, but you never get anything, so it s alright some of you are just here, that s all. Someone said, "How do I know they aren t getting anything." It isn t difficult to tell, Baby! Just the way some of you are looking. I m saying I AM THAT I AM, and you re saying who am I?? Getting to know the I AM GOD is the revelation. The word is defined in the Hebrew. The Hebrew word hyah: I am hyah. It isn t a name, it s simply a revelation, That s all. I m a revelation. Who sent you? A revelation sent me here! The definition is: to exist be become come to Pass. Moses, when they ask you who sent you, you say: I exist I Be! I AM! I Will Become! I will come to Pass! Now you can understand the statement of Jesus: BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS I AM! This revelation has to take hold of you, of every one of you for you to be able to attain the total resurrection from the dead...resurrection FROM the dead, not get up out of the grave. That means you are totally pulled out from among the dead, and are placed totally in the category of the living. Then can be brought to pass the saying that is written: why seek ye the living among the dead? Understand this revelation he s giving to Moses found in 1 Cor.15; o 1 Cor.15:1O-But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain. I laboured more abundantly then them all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. By the grace of God means by the unmerited favor I AM THAT I AM. I am the

5 5 very same person that appeared in the burning bush, I' AM. I' AM THAT l AM. The am that s used here is identical to the am at the bush. This word am is the Greek word pronounced I be, de fined: I EXIST---I AM---I HAVE BEEN---IT IS I---I WAS---I WERE---WE ARE. Some of you couldn t be tickled with a feather. Paul said: But by the unmerited favor of God---I EXIST---I AM IS---I WAS---I AM TO COME---we are the God to come. The revelation continues on in o 1 Cor.9: 19-For though I be free of all men, yet have made myself servant unto all that I may gain the more; And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews. To them that are under the law as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law. To them that are without law, as without law. He s saying: I am not trying to impose anything except what I am. If you can t see it in me there s no need in me trying to give it to you. He said when I went with the people with the law, I was like them with law. Someone asked, "How that convinced them; even though he condescended to the level they were on, the revelation was deep and strong enough in him that the revelation spoke for itself." THE REVELATION WILL SPEAK FOR ITSELF!!! All you have to do is have the revelation, and when you walk in, the revelation walks in with you!! Things start happening in people they get inquisitive they get hypered up, and want to know things they never wanted to know before, and that happens without you having to say anything. It s the very presence of your revelation. I AM!!! If you talk about the past like everybody does in the world does, you will be marked right along with them. The whole world lives in the past. We ll if I would have done things a little differently back there---who cares---its over and done. Close today!! Close today out,and don t you ever look back at it again. Somebody said, "They made a mistake." Who cares if you made a mistake, you can t call it back...forget it!! Forget those things are behind. I AM!! I exist today. I have been, bless God, I AM NOW!!!, and will become what tomorrow is!!! ov.20:- But unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews. To them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law. To them that are without law, as without law; Being not without law to God, but under, the law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without Law. To the weak became I as weak. What does that mean? Because they re weak, he ll be weak right along with them? He s saying he didn t walk in with arrogant spirit among those that were weak. YOU don t have to do that. All you have to do, Honey, is just walk in, and you don t have to walk in with any messages of swelling words, and telling people how great you are. Just walk in like anybody else---the revelation is present when you re present. I AM made all things to all men. Understand the I' AM revelation is based on the unequal truth of love, that s where it is. All of Paul s statements here are contained within the scope of love. Why? Because he loved people he didn t go in with a condemning spirit. He went in with a spirit of LOVE! Understand I AM God, because I am LOVE---so are you. You are God because you are love. That s where the whole revelation is based.

6 6 The people followed Moses because he was meek, and he was full of love. It was the I AM that was in him. People will be led out of bondage when you can speak that you are I AM, and it doesn t have to be said with words. These are words of thunder. It s a revelation. I AM THAT I AM. Moses, you don t even have to mention my name when you go down there. Some of us have the trouble of trying to convince people that we really have the message. We try to impose everything on others. That s isn t where the revelation is. The revelation is in knowing who you are...that s where it s contained, and that revelation can never be experienced until you can forget the things that are behind you. I AM THAT I AM!! You have to come to the place where you know this. Remember what it is to know?? It s to allow. Simply let God make you aware of the fact that you are the I AM. We are him. Do you understand what actually sent Moses down to lead the people out of bondage? HE DID! Someone asked, "If he sent himself." Exactly. Someone asked, "What God had to do with it." You re missing the whole revelation. Moses actually encountered a revelation that was going on in himself. He actually encountered a revelation that was transpiring on the inside of him when he saw that bush. Someone said, "It was God. Yes, it was God, and some of you still don t know God. I m getting you acquainted with the I AM GOD the God that is embodied on the inside of you, that was put there by the Christ that lights every man that cometh into the world...he LIGHTETH EVERY MAN THAT COMETH INTO THE WORLD. If I can take hold of the light of that revelation and become acquainted with it, that light will not be diminished---that light will expand and increase in, intensity, and it will increase until it not illuminates me, but it illuminates everybody that I come in contact with. Moses was encountering a revelation. Somebody said, "it was God." Sure, it was God, but how does God speak to you??? When you see a vision, when you receive a revelation, it is the God that is within you that is giving you that revelation. Some of you do not as yet know that you yourself create certain things so you can stand and look at it, so God can tell you things some of you don t know that you make things happen, even if they are adverse things, you make them happen, you create them, so you can stand and look at it...and while you re looking at it, God can talk to you. How does he talk to you? With the very power that is being exercised through you, that s created and brought into existence the very thing that s happening; and you look at it and say: oh my God what is happening? And God says take authority, and you say: take authority??.. In what name do I take authority?? Then he says I AM THAT I AM!! Moses was receiving a very shocking revelation of the oneness we have with God. God had already revealed himself to Abraham in a very explicit name, Jehovah-Jireh. When God was dealing with Moses, he said: I m not really concerned about you imposing my name on these people. I just want you to go and give them the revelation; it s in you, because Moses, when those people look at you, for 40 yrs they re going to have to look at you as God. Moses, I m going to send you down, and when Pharaoh looks at you, you re going to look like God to him too. This

7 7 revelation will be so strong, you ll be as God to him. Moses, you ll be God, and Aaron will be your prophet. God made this very emphatic of "the oneness that Moses had with him." This all happened back in the Old Testament how much more do we have in this day? How much more oneness? What most people don t understand is even though the Holy Ghost is called he---when he the spirit of truth is come---the Holy Ghost is actually the female expression of God, because it is that anointing in that spirit that reproduces. It is the uniting of the God with the spirit which you are that reproduces. God has to have some place to bring it forth. That s why the church is called a she. What is the church? A manifestation of the Holy Ghost. Someone asked, "Why He called it a He." Because the Holy Ghost is God, but it s the female expression of God---because it s contained within the church---it s the place where God plants his seed, and reproduces himself. Everything that we are, we are because he chose us to be this. It s his unmerited favor, it s his grace. I have no problem with that. The problem some of you are hung up with is whether or not you deserve it. If you re going to think about that lay down and die tonight. You deserve it, none of us deserve it. He has chosen us, this is unmerited favor, by his grace I AM THAT I AM. Don t ask me why I m God, it s because he wanted me to be. Remember I stated earlier that you become what you meditate on. If you meditate on trouble makers, you will become one. That s why trouble makers are trouble makers. They ve thought about the trouble makers so long until they become trouble makers---its very simple. Some of you sit all day wondering who s doing what. You know why it works that way? When you meditate on trouble makers, you become a trouble maker trying to straighten out the trouble makers. FORGET IT! Some of you sit all day wondering who s doing what. I wonder if Pastor White is dating. I wonder who he is dating. You weirdo, are you going to let something like that; preoccupy your mind?? I don t think one ounce about what you re doing. I won t let my time be occupied with who s doing what. I have, greater things to think about. I have to think about who I am. If I was dating it wouldn t be any, of your business anyway. Someone said, "If they thought I was, bless God, they would lose confidence." Well just lose it, and get out of here, so I can move on with my life without you being around. I never stop to think about what you re doing. It is my business to let you see who I AM, so you can receive the revelation of who you are. I am too busy giving you the revelation of who you are to think about what you re doing. I m not concerned about what you re doing. When you get the revelation of who you are, you ll do what you re supposed to do. No wonder some of you can t get healed, always thinking about something that doesn t have any credence at all in relation to the particular thing that s happening in your life. Forget those things. Quit making a tail of yourself by looking back at the tail. Someone said, "That isn t nice. God said it, tell him. He said I want you to be the head not the tail. Are you ready to be the head?? We have had enough suffering days. Paul said that I may know him and the power of His resurrection. We already know about the suffering, we ve already had that. Are you ready now to know him in the

8 8 power of his resurrection. We have a house full of beautiful people here, look around and see the beautiful people. If you re having any trouble, get your mirror out. Some of you are so hung up, every time a female comes in here that you don t know, hum, I wonder if that s Pastor White s girlfriend. That s no more in the spirit than the man in the moon...and so what if it was, I told you when I went through this, when the time comes and God wants me to have somebody, I won t be ashamed of it. When God gives me somebody. I ll bring them right here and introduce them you won t have to wonder. I don t have anything to be afraid about. I ve had enough days of being afraid. You don t scare me at all, everybody always running and hiding, quit being afraid---be God. I AM THAT l AM!! Give this revelation to others. This is the God that was, and is, and is to come. Tell others you know who they are by the spirit, you recognize them as God. Now you understand what the Bible means where it says: henceforth know we no man after the flesh. We are to recognize one another by the spirit. When you start seeing this revelation, it will remove your animosities, hatred, bitterness; you don t look at flesh any more. o 2 Cor.6:16-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, think about it! When you take a step, God is taking a step. God said I will walk in them. If you ll get a hold of this you can t step out in front of an automobile. You think God is going to commit suicide?? You get a hold of this Honey, the truth of this message, you can t stumble and break your leg. Do you think God is wanting to hurt himself?? He said, I will walk in them. That means God has no trouble climbing stairs. God doesn t have to go up the stairs all bent over, and one step at a time, hanging on, and dragging the body. You can tell by someone s step if God is walking in them. Do you know that God is walking inside of you?? As you walk keep in mind that God IS walking in you. o Ps.46:1O-Be still and know that I am God. You can never learn anything about the I AM GOD until you get still. God spoke to me that you have to clean out all your thoughts and questions about other people to get to know the I AM GOD. If everyone in this house would totally clean out your mind of everything that you re wondering about somebody else, and quit wondering who s cheating who, who s being true, who don t really care anymore, get it out of your mind, quit wondering about people. I m hitting home, I can see that. Some of you will allow your mind to be occupied with things that don t amount to a hill of beans. If you see two people together, you wonder if they re married. That s little bitty minds that do that. Someone said, "I m talking about them." Right! Clean your mind out. Get to know the I AM GOD. Be still! Be aware of the fact that if you really come to the place that you know the I AM GOD---let me go back over the statement God made to Moses when Moses said: I need a name. He was saying the same thing religious people have been saying all these years. What name were you baptized in? Moses said I need a name so that when I go down to them I can tell them who sent me. God said, Moses, not really concerned about you telling them a name. What I want you to do is give them the revelation. The revelation I want you to deliver to them is I AM THAT I AM. That is not a descriptive statement concerning your attributes like some of you think. This is how most of you take that statement, well I am what I am, and bless God, I am not nothing else. I am what I am, and if you don t like it that s too bad. That is NOT what God was telling Moses to tell them, He said. I AM THAT I AM. That is not a descriptive statement of Moses attributes it s a descriptive statement of his identity---not his identity. I AM THAT I AM. I AM THE I AM GOD! That s a revelation. Moses, if you go and give

9 9 them this revelation you don t really need a name. All you have to have is the demonstration of power, that s all. Paul said when I come to you I didn t come with enticing words of man wisdom, but I came in the demonstration of power. Before you can get to the place that you know the I AM GOD you have to go through; the process of causing ALL outer activity to be still---totally still. That s something some of you never do. You go home and flop in the bed just the way you ve been all day; instead of taking time and let the connection between the outer self become acquainted with the inward I AM GOD. You fall into bed: oh my god, rough day...wwhhooaahh.. you need to get still, Honey. Take some time and get still. Let this outer man get still and get acquainted with the God that is one on the inside of you. That s how you get to know the I AM. I AM! Somebody said: what AM you?? I am anything I need to be at any time I need to be it, for whatever reason it is that demands it.. I am everything!!! I know the I AM GOD. I know the God on the inside of me. I ve taken time enough to get acquainted with him. We have such a separation here that has been brought upon us by religion between the inner self and the other self. They have them so separated that most Christians never get to know the inner God, because they re always battling with the inner self. One of these days I m going to lay this old outer self down, and my inner self is going to move out. You don t know one ounce about the inner self or the outer self. You have to introduce these together because they have to become one. My body has to become one with my inner God. You have to get still for that to happen. BE STILL---quit hassling. Some of you have no plans of ever getting to know the God on the inside of you. When you get acquainted with the God in you, you don t have to send your prayers anywhere. THE I AM GOD ON THE INSIDE OF YOU WILL MAKE IT COME TO PASS. See the importance of that meditation?? You become what you think. Paul said everything that s behind me is nothing but a pile of cow manure. Someone asked, "If he really said that?" Yes, he said it s nothing but dung. That was his perfect sentiments about everything that s behind- --nothing but dung. Why in the world are some of you looking back at in a pile of cow manure?? You re looking back at dung. Why look back at dung??? I think you missed my former statement. I said you become what you think! That s why some of your lives are such a mess. You have become what you think on. Paul said forget it! You can NEVER be God thinking about what s behind you. You have to get your eyes on that which is before you...reach out and get a hold of it. He said I m reaching forth to what s ahead of me. Someone said, "I shouldn t talk like that in church." Well, it s in the Bible. Some of you don t know what s in the Bible. There s allot of things in the Bible some of you never knew was there. You have to forget about everything that s behind you, and get acquainted with the I AM GOD. Some of you are still thinking what life would have been like if you would have married the one you were going with before you married the old goat you have. Forget it! Forget those things which are behind! If you aren t happy, reach for those things which are ahead, reach out, create a new world for yourself. I am acquainted with the I AM GOD that s on the inside of me, and if things are not right the way they are, I ll create a new world for myself. I have the power to do it. CREATE YOUR BLESSING! Some of you have lived in the

10 10 world you re living in for so long, you don t know there can be anything different, You have to get to where you know the I AM GOD---he s on the inside of you. Speak that you are that you are I A M THAT I AM!!! Let your bondages melt away through coming to know the I AM GOD on the in side of you. Let yourself be healed right now.. let the miracle be done...let the trouble be dissolved. God is going to make sure some of you come to the place where you have nothing to lean on except the power that is on the inside of you. It has to be to force you to use that power---to get you to the place where you can depend on the God on the inside of you. Don t get yourself into a rut or pattern, or anything that you have to lean on, outside of God that is inside of you. Praise God! Praise God! Praise God!