Beside Me, There is No Other God - Part 520

"Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts, "I am the first and I am the last and beside me there is no other God. And who, as I shall call, and shall declare it, and set in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? And the things that are coming and shall come, let them show unto them. Fear ye not, neither be afraid; have not I told thee from that time and have declared it? Ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? Yea, there is no God, I know not any." (Isaiah 44:8)

In other words, if "In the beginning God" is not enough, then God made His existence abundantly clear in Isaiah. There is only one God and His name is Jesus. Indeed, this message is confirmed repeatedly throughout the New Testament. In I John 5:6-7 -- the only time that the word three is used in reference to God -- states:

"This is He that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one."

In John 1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God." As we read further in the chapter, it states, "And the Word became flesh." The same God who created us loved us so much that He would become flesh so that we might have life and have that life more abundant.

In John 14:10. Jesus said to Philip, "He that hath seen me has seen the Father" it was so that we would know in whom we have salvation. In whom we should pray. In whom we should be grateful to for providing us with His abundant grace.

This is why there is only one mediator between God and man - Jesus. These verses also reconfirm that there is only one way to God and that is through Jesus. He is before all things and by Him all things exist. In Jesus did all the fullness of God dwell. Salvation is in Jesus.

"For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God, for which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." (II Corinthians 4:15-18)

This is why we are at peace in Jesus. For the same God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness in the beginning of time - as recorded in Genesis -- now shines in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus -- so that we would have this treasure -- His treasures -- in our earthen vessels -- so that the excellency of the power is of God. His epistles written in our hearts.

Yes, Jesus loves you! Stand in the offering plate!