"I tell you the truth," JESUS answered, "before Abraham was born, I AM!"
John 8:58

Imagine being in the crowd JESUS was speaking to when HE said these words, ""I tell you the truth," JESUS answered, "before Abraham was born, I AM!"

The first thing you would do would be to look around at the faces in the crowd in astonishment.  Before Abraham?   Something just doesn't add up!  JESUS is just a young man, how could he be 'before Abraham?'

In this short sentence JESUS spoke the truth to the Jews.  HE might just have well said; "I AM the ETERNAL!"  These words made the crowd so angry they decided right then and there to stone HIM.  JESUS slipped away, leaving the temple grounds.

JESUS was the ETERNAL ONE.  HE was CREATOR.  HE was the LIVING GOD.  HE was the ALMIGHTY.  The truth is; ^"JESUS CHRIST is the same yesterday and today and forever."  is the same yesterday and today and forever."  Hebrews 13:8

JESUS is the gift to the world.  Without HIM, there would be no existence, no presence, no love of any kind!  If the world ever needed anyone, it has always needed JESUS.  

"Every good thing  you are, have, or ever will become, is because of the I AM!"  1 Timothy 4-10