One God!

For Sunday, December 8, 2024:

Deuteronomy 5:6-7 NLT, Moses quoting what God had told him as God spoke from within the fire: “I am the Lord your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery. You must not have any other god but me.”

Mankind was made to worship. As strange as it might seem, rather than getting in the driver’s seat ourselves, mankind is more comfortable serving a higher power, a super-being, a creator of some sort. Having someone else in charge gives us someone to blame when things go wrong!

In a way, God is acquiescing to the mistaken beliefs of mankind. He said, “You must not have any other god,” but in fact there are no other gods. Our God, Yahweh, is the one supreme being, known to us in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. But that’s just one God! Anything else is simply a fictitious imagined deity, not any kind of real god.

Remember that when Moses was on Mt. Sinai receiving the commandments from the real God, these people were building a golden calf!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus In the City Fellowship