Deuteronomy is an awesome book…it is one of my favorites. It’s like listening to a pep talk…Moses is reminding the people of Israel all they have learned. You’re going to go solo, please remember...
In Deuteronomy 4:32-39 Moses reminds the people about God. He reminds with verses like this…
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of. 33 Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live? 34 Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
He is reminding them that nothing like this has ever happened…God has never done this before. No other god has done this, because they don’t exist. God, the one true God, does exist and look what He has done!
35 To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.
God wanted them to know Him…to know there is no other God. You see many time we are told, Christians are too “dogmatic”. Christians claim there is no other way to heaven. How can we have such arrogance? God said there is no other besides him. When we see Jesus in the gospel of John saying, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6) Jesus is plainly saying there is no one else. No one else is looking out for you...no one cares...becuase there is nobody else.
The world will tell there are many gods, or many paths. But in the Bible says, “There is no other besides Him…and Jesus says there is no other way to Him but through Jesus. Listen to these other two verse out of Deuteronomy…
35 To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.
39 know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other
John 14:7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Throughout history God has clearly displayed Himself. He has revealed Himself in history…then He revealed Himself in the person of Jesus Christ. He intervened into human history and walked among us. He lived and died for us! When I think about all of this I am overwhelmed! The Lord is amazing…to further think He actively intervenes into our own lives. I can barely take it in…The Lord is great.
So take time and just worship the one true God…go and worship Christ the Lord…
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