I, Even I, Saith the Lord of Glory, And There Is No God With Me - Part 1363

"For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves [being] judges .... for the Lord shall judge His people and repent Himself for His servants, when He sees that [their] power is gone, and [their] power is gone, and [there] is none shut up, or left. And He shall say, "Where [are] their gods, [their] rock in whom they trusted, which did eat of the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you, and be your protection. See now that I, [even] I, am He and there is no god with Me. I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; neither [is there] any that can deliver out of My hand. For I lift up My hand to heaven, and say, "I live forever." (Deuteronomy 32:31-40)

"And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their Redeemer." (Psalm 78:35)

"Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: He gathers together the outcasts of Israel. He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. He tells the number of the stars; He calls them all by their names.

Great is our Lord, and of great power: His understanding is infinite. The Lord lifts up the meek: He casts the wicked down to the ground. Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.

He gives to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry. He delights not in the strength of the horse: He takes not pleasure in the legs of a man. The Lord takes pleasure in them that fear Him, in those that hope in his mercy.

Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.

For He hath strengthened the bars of thy gates. He hath blessed thy children within thee, He makes peace in thy borders, and fills thee with the finest of the wheat. He sends forth His commandment upon earth: His Word runs very swiftly. He gives snow like wool. He scatters the hoarfrost like ashes. He cast forth His ice like morsels; who can stand before His cold?

He sends out His Word, and melts them. He causes His wind to blow, and the waters flow. He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for His judgments, they have not known them.

Praise ye the Lord." (Psalms 147:1-20)

In the new testament, what is written? Note that the Jew referred to here is also recognized as the circumcision. The oracles are the sayings of God. Deuteronomy 4:5-8 elaborates on this point.

"What advantage then hath the Jew? Or, what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect. God forbid: yea, let God be true and every man a liar, as it is written, "That thou might be justified in thy sayings, and might overcome when thou art judged." (Romans 3:1-4; Hebrews 4:2; II Timothy 2:13; John 3:33; Psalm 62:9; Psalm 51:4)

"But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance? (I speak as a man). God forbid. For then how shall God judge the world? For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto His glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner? And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and, as some affirm that we say,) "Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just." (Romans 3:5-8; Galatians 3:15; Genesis 18:25; Romans 5:20)

"What then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise, for we have before proved Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin. As it is written ... 

"There is none righteous, no, not one. There is none that understands, there is none that seek after God. They are all gone out of the way. They are together become profitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit, the poisons of asps is under their lips; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and misery are in their ways, and the way of peace have they not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes." (Romans 3:9-18; Galatians 3:22; Psalm 14:1-3; Psalm 53:1; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Psalm 5:9; Psalm 140:3; Proverbs 1:16; Isaiah 59:7-8; Psalm 36:1)

Now we know that what things the law saith to them who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. (Romans 3:19-20; John 10:34; Job 5:16; Galatians 2:16)

But now ...

But now in this current dispensation of grace, whereby we live, "the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all that believer: for there is no difference: for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." (Romans 3:21-24; Acts 15:11; John 5:46; I Peter 1:10; Colossians 3:11)

"Whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God, to declare, [I say] at this time His righteousness, that He might be just, and the justifier of Him which believes in Jesus.

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? Nay, but by the law of faith.

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also. Seeing [it is] one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith, do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." (Romans 3:25-31)

In other words, to him that works not, but believes on Him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. (Romans 4:5) How do we know? "For the promise that He should be heir of the world was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect. Because the law works wrath, for where no law is, there is no transgression. Therefore, it is of faith that it might be by grace to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is father of us all ... who against hope believed in hope, that he might be the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken -- So shall thy seed be." (Romans 4:6-18)

"Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." (Romans 5:1) 

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Stand in the offering plate.