Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” John 8:58

Many years before the arrival of Jesus, the book of Exodus tells how God rescued His
people from slavery. There was a pivotal moment when God revealed Himself in a burning bush. Then, the contrast between a sinful man and a holy God was clear. In reverence, Moses hid his face and removed his sandals on the ground that occupied the Lord’s presence. God proclaimed that He had seen the suffering of His people and was sending Moses to set them free. And then God revealed His name: “I AM WHO I AM.”

Years later, when Jesus declared, “I AM,” He was proclaiming that God was in His
people’s presence once again. This time He had come as the deliverer of a far different type of
slavery. Sin imprisons people away from God and brings catastrophic and eternal death to all.
But God saw the suffering of His people, and He sent His Son to set them free.

When the woman caught in sin was cruelly thrown before Jesus, He knelt on the ground.
The fingers that hold the stars in the sky now drew on the sand around the people. No one removed their sandals. No one hid their face from His presence. But the contrast between a sinful man and a holy God was just as clear. With only a few words, He exposed the sinfulness inside of each person. The only one without sin was Him. But this merciful and compassionate Judge did not shame or condemn. He lovingly set the accused woman free with the words, “Go and sin no
more.”

The deceitfulness of sin can, like the accusers, cause us to want to punish others. We stay blind to our own faults. Or, like the woman covered in shame awaiting death, sin can
leave us condemned without hope. But when we stand in the holy presence of “I AM,” and we
obey His words, we are delivered. He breaks the chains of sin and with His truth buckled firmly around us, we walk free.

 I AM, is the name of God, Ex 3:14; it speaks his self-existence; he is the First and the Last, ever the same, Re 1:8. Thus he was not only before Abraham, but before all worlds, Pr 8:23; John 1:1. As Mediator, he was the appointed Messiah, long before Abraham; the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, Re 13:8. The Lord Jesus was made of God Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption, to Adam, and Abel, and all that lived and died by faith in him, before Abraham. Bible Hub