Different translations render this verse differently. At Matthew 4:10 (RS), Jesus said: “You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.” At Deuteronomy 6:13, which Jesus is evidently here quoting, appears the personal name of God, the Tetragrammaton.
My quote was from the New World Translation, a modern english Bible translation.
“That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.” (Authorized, or King James, Version of 1611)
There is strong evidence that Jesus and his apostles used the divine Name, Jehovah.
God's name, represented by the tetragrammaton, appears almost 7,000 times in the Hebrew scriptures. Without authorization, men removed God's name from their Bible, considering it too sacred to pronounce.
Jesus, in contrast, taught us to pray for God's name to be hallowed, or santified.
We cannot worship God acceptably without knowing his Name and the Person identified by that name. "Lord" is a title, and as such, does not serve to identify the true God, nor differentiate him from the many false gods also called lord by their worshipers.
Translated to English, “Jehovah” the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, means, “I Am Who I Am.” Deuteronomy 18: 18; “I will send them a prophet like you from among their people; I will tell him what to say, and he will tell the people everything I command. He will speak in my name etc.”
In reference to Jesus, in Acts 2: 22; Peter reveals that he was the fulfilment of the prophecy in Deuteronomy 18: 18; “For Moses said, ‘The lord God will send you a prophet, just as he sent me, and he will be one of your own people. You are to obey everything that he tells you to do etc.”
Was Jesus ‘I Am Who I Am’? No, as is revealed in Acts 3: 13; Acts 17: 31; and many other passages of scripture.
Acts 3: 13; “The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our ancestors has given divine glory to his servant Jesus.” Acts 17: 31; “For He (I Am Who I Am, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) has fixed a DAY (The Sabbath of one thousand years) in which he will rule the whole world with Justice by mean of a man he has chosen. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising that man from death.”
And so in John 8: 28; when Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, you will know that ‘I Am Who I Am’; he was revealing that he was the one who was sent to do and say only that which he was commanded by the God of our ancestors, who revealed himself to us through his earthly image, His obedient servant Jesus who spoke in his name and who himself said, “then you will know that I do nothing on my own authority, but I say only what my Father has instructed me to say etc.”
It was ‘Who I Am,” the first born of all creation who was cast out of the presence of God in order that he might witness the process through which he was created, who, through the mouth of his obedient servant who spoke nothing on his own authority, but only that which he was commanded, said in John 17: 5; “Father! Give me glory in your presence now, the same glory I had with you before this world was made.”
It was for this reason that His earthly image had to be lifted up in the same manner as did Moses lift up the image of the serpent in the wilderness, in order that all who were dying because of the venom of that great accuser of his brothers, the soul destroying poison that is coursing through their veins, in order to be saved, only have to turn their eyes to the image of the serpent that has been lift up and has received again the glory that he had in God’s presence before this world, in which we are known by Him before we were born, was created.
For I am who I am and may I never lose sight
Of the fact that I am who I am day and night
I'm not 'who I was' nor 'who I will be'
For "Who I Am" is the name that my God gave to me
So get behind me you charlatan priests and you shams
For I am true to my God, to my God "Who I Am."...By S-word.
And so dear friend, come soar with me to the outer limits of reality
For this universe though wide it seems, is but the shadow of our dreams
We are naught, but knowledge in these tents, refined through pain and punishment
We're the hive of man and 'neath His rod, we are one, We're the son of God
The past, the present, the future is He, He was, He is and He will be
For heaven is, but a position in time to where the spirit in man must climb
Eventually, when He's there at last and stands and gazes at His past
And takes the throne prepared in heaven, then all his past will be forgiven
"I am who I am,: the die is cast, cos I was created by my past
And we who we are this very day, determines His future in every way
If my past were changed, then who would I be?
One thing is certain, I wouldn't be me....By S-word.
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. But isn't being a good person and at the same time having faith in Him a mark also of being a true Christian (although we are not judged according to good works)?
