In the video below, Pastor Robert provides a biblical response to the question “Why do Christian say that Jesus is God, when Jesus never says, I Am God”

As you look at the following passages in the Bible, first in John 8:58 Jesus states that before Abraham was ever born, I AM. In this response to the Jews, he was with\out explicitly saying that he was God, He was implying that He was God. In addition, if you look at verse 59, the Jews wanted to stone him, or kill Jesus for saying those words, because they knew and understood that Jesus was saying that He was God.
They were not stoning him, because they thought he was crazy for saying that he existed before Abraham, they wanted to stone him because they knew that Jesus in verse 58 was implying that he is God.  If we look at Exodus 3:11-14 at Moses conversation with God, we see that God tells Moses to tell the people that I AM sent him.
There is no doubt in my mind that the Jews in which Jesus was speaking to in John 8 would have been very familiar with God’s response to Moses considering that the book Exodus would have been apart of the Torah (First Five Books Of The Bible).
Lastly, I also want to turn you attention to John 1:1-2 , and John 1:14, John 3:16 – In these passages, John is saying that the Word is GOD and that the Word was with God in the Beginning, and that the Word because flesh, who is the one and only Son of God.  The one and only son of God is Jesus Christ. So we see that the Word took on Human Form as the  one and only son of God. The name of that one and only son of God is (Jesus Christ)

Supporting Scriptures

John 8:54-59

54 Jesus answered, “If I want glory for myself, it doesn’t count. But it is my Father who will glorify me. You say, ‘He is our God,’[i] 55 but you don’t even know him. I know him. If I said otherwise, I would be as great a liar as you! But I do know him and obey him. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced as he looked forward to my coming. He saw it and was glad.”

57 The people said, “You aren’t even fifty years old. How can you say you have seen Abraham?[j]”

58 Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, before Abraham was even born, I am![k]” 59 At that point they picked up stones to throw at him. But Jesus was hidden from them and left the Temple.

Exodus 3:11- 14

11 But Moses protested to God, “Who am I to appear before Pharaoh? Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?”

12 God answered, “I will be with you. And this is your sign that I am the one who has sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God at this very mountain.”

13 But Moses protested, “If I go to the people of Israel and tell them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ they will ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what should I tell them?”

14 God replied to Moses, “I am who i am.[d] Say this to the people of Israel: I am has sent me to you.” 15 God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: Yahweh,[e] the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.

This is my eternal name, my name to remember for all generations.

John 1:1-2
In the beginning the Word already existed.
The Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
2 He existed in the beginning with God.
John 1:14
14 So the Word became human[d] and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness.[e] And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son. (NLT)
John 3:16-17
16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave[g] his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.

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