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Session 4: Giving of Living Water, God’s Eternal Son, Light of the Wor ld 97

b. They are ascribing his teaching to the evil one.

3. Divine representation: to reject a person’s appointed agent is to insult and reject the one who sent the agent, 8.49-50.

B. Are you greater than Abraham?, 8.51-53.

1. Jesus’ promise: Those who keep his word will never see death! , 8.51.

2. The crowd’s reaction: You’re insane!

a. Abraham and the prophets have died.

b. Are you greater than they, who died? Who do you make yourself out to be? , 8.53.

C. Before Abraham was, I AM: Jesus’ final exchange, 8.54-59.

1. My Father glorifies me, I do not glorify myself (of whom you say, “He is our God.”), 8.54.

a. The basic confession of the covenant: He is our God (cf. Exod. 6.7; Lev. 26.12; 1 Chron. 17.22; Jer. 31.33; Ezek. 36.28).

b. Faithful covenant keepers were said to “know God,” Jer. 9.24; 31.31-34; Hos. 2.20.

2. I know him, and I keep his word, 8.55.