Exodus 3:13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
Moses anticipated the doubts of the people to whom he was sent, and, in fact, he raised his own legitimate question: Who are you? What is the name of the God of our fathers? How do we know Him? Did our God really send you? How can we know Him if we don’t even know His name? Tell us the Name so we can know Him and believe?
Knowing the Name of a person signifies that one knows the person and has at least some degree of relationship with him or her, and if we know the person we can trust him. So who is this God of Abraham? What is His name? We cannot believe an unknown. And, Moses, do you know Him?
God revealed His Name, thereby opening Himself up to a relational knowledge, so that the people can trust Him. He is Yahweh, translated as The Lord. He is ”I am that I am,” the eternally existing One. In the NT we know His name as Jesus. We confess: Jesus is Lord! Or, even better, Jesus is Yahweh! Jesus is the ”I AM.” We pray and access God in the name of Jesus. And in Acts 4:12, Peter proclaims: ”There is no other name…by which we must be saved.” Knowing Jesus, believing Him, and being baptized in His Name is Salvation, Truth, and Life.
Our response to the Gospel is “I know His Name! He is Jesus. I know Him. He is Yahweh, my Lord and Savior. I trust Him with my life.”