No God But You

2 Samuel 7:21-22 – For the sake of your word and according to your will, you have done this great thing and made it known to your servant. “How great you are, Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.

Exodus 20:3-4 – “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

Exodus 10:1-2 – Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these signs of mine among them that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and how I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am the Lord.”

1 Samuel 2:2 – “There is no one holy like the Lord; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.

Deuteronomy 6:4 – Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Application:

• ·         Because God has no visible form, any idol intended to resemble Him would be a sinful misrepresentation of Him.
• ·         The memory of God’s redemptive acts is to be kept alive by reciting them to our descendants.
• ·         Rock was a metaphor to depict the strength and stability of the God of Israel as the unfailing source of security for His people.
• ·         In any event, no deity, real or imagined, was to rival the one true God in Israel’s heart and life.
• ·         The truth revealed to Israel was that God is one and that this one God created all things, sustains all things and governs all things. Israel could live serenely in the knowledge that all things and all times were under the rule of one divine King, whose ways are righteous and whose purpose with her and through her is salvation for humankind—from sin and judgment and every evil that has burdened human life. This serenity in the midst of the chaos of history remains the precious gift of faith for all who know and trust the God of Israel.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV