Deuteronomy
4:10,35 – Remember the day you stood
before the Lord your
God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before
me to hear my words so that they may learn to
revere me as long as they live in the land and
may teach them to their children.”…You were shown
these things so that you might know that the Lord is
God; besides him there is no other.
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.
Isaiah 43:10 – “You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he.
Before me no god was
formed, nor will there be one after me.
Deuteronomy 6:4 – Hear, O Israel:
The Lord our
God, the Lord is
one.
Application:
- · Moses insists that there is only one God.
- · Rock was a metaphor to depict the strength and stability of the God of Israel as the unfailing source of security for His people.
- · God’s work in behalf of Israel is proof of His saving power.
- · The divine call to Israel to remember the Lord’s past redemptive acts—especially how He delivered them from slavery in Egypt—is a common theme in Deuteronomy and is summarized: “Remember the days of old”.
- · The truth revealed to Israel that God is one and that this one God created all things, sustains all things and governs all things stood in radical opposition to all the religions of the ancient Near Eastern world. All of Israel’s neighbors had to come to terms in their daily lives with scores of gods, each with its own sphere of influence, its own limitations, its own petty self-interests and its own morally erratic ways. But 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.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
No comments:
Post a Comment