Bible Matters 391: One God

In Bible Matters 373, you learned who God is.  God is the beginning and the end.  God is the Alpha and the Omega.  God is a spirit that no one has ever seen.  God is responsible for all that you see and all that you don’t see.  God created the heaven and the earth!

Genesis 1:1 – In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

In the Old Testament, the Lord and Lord God are used often next to each other.

lord – Someone or something having power, authority, influence; a master or ruler.

The Lord and the Lord God represented the almighty as having power and authority over all that is. 

Genesis 2:4 – These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

Exodus 34:6 – And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

On Team Abba, you want to know if the New Testament presents to you more than one God, or just one God.  Thomas recognized the power of God in the risen Jesus as the Son of God.

John 20:28,31 – And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.  But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. 

Verse after verse from the mouth of eight New Testament witnesses, God is referred to as the one and also one God.  The Lord our God is one Lord.  In these verses, the witnesses are giving testimony of Jesus recognizing the God almighty as one God.

Matthew 19:17 – And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

Mark 10:18 – And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

Mark 12:29 – And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

Luke 18:19 – And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.

Jesus gives testimony in the next verse that he was sent to the earth by God.  If one claims to be of God, then the life you are to live is per the will of God.  Those that want to kill Jesus, are not of God and are of the devil!

John 8:39-42 – They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.  But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.  Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.  Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.  He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

Paul recognized that it is through the power of the one, almighty God that salvation is being made available for the Jews (circumcision by faith) and the Gentiles (uncircumcision through faith.)

Romans 3:30 – Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

This salvation is being offered, as a free gift without the need for animal sacrifice, by the grace of God and the sacrifice of one man, Jesus Christ. 

Romans 5:15 – But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Hebrews 10:12 – But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

Paul testified to the Ephesians, that there is only one God, and Father above all. 

Ephesians 4:6 – One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

James, the brother of Jesus, gave testimony as to one God. 

James 2:19 – Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

When you believe in God and the offer of salvation, you live a life that gives glory to God.  His love is perfected in you. 

Jude 1:1-2 – Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

1 Peter 4:10 – As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

1 John 4:12 – No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

The rest is up to you on Team Abba.  Believe in God the Father as one God.  Keep yourself in the mercy of Jesus Christ by doing the will of God on this earth by walking as Jesus walked on this earth.  Not by walking with the devil, but by living your life, serving and worshipping only God, unto eternal life. 

Luke 4:6,8 – And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.  And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

To God be the glory in all you do, Amen.