Glory to God Alone!

For Sunday, November 14, 2021

Exodus 6:7a ESV, God speaking: “I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.”

We’ve been looking at “The Five Solas,” basic tenets of Christianity. “Soli Deo gloria” or “glory to God alone” speaks to the exclusivity of worshiping only our God. When He acknowledged being our God, no intermediaries were placed between God and mankind. Therefore when we worship the Lord, we don’t have to pray ‘through’ someone else or have someone else pray ‘for’ us. We can pray directly to our God.

Apostles, saints, ancestors and church officials may all be good people, but we don’t worship them or pray to them. Jesus opened the curtain separating God from mankind so that we can pray directly to God ‘in Jesus’ name.’ No other intercessor is required or desired.

Christians worship a unique Triune God, a Father in heaven, Jesus who walked on earth with mankind and the Holy Spirit, sent to be our helper and advocate in Jesus’ absence – three different forms of the one true God.

Salvation is accomplished solely through God’s will and action – not only the gift of the all-sufficient atonement of Jesus on the cross but also the gift of faith in that forgiveness, created in the heart of the believer by the Holy Spirit.

Christians worship only our Triune God, the one true God!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship, 3249 30th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55406