That song is my prayer. As a
matter of fact, I keep a copy of it in the leaf of my Bible. And I especially love that last
verse. Triune God, please grant our
prayer as your glory we declare. May your promised kingdom come
May your will on earth be done. If you would turn back in your
Bibles this morning to our place of reading, there in Isaiah chapter
45, and I want us to look again at some
of these verses to see if we can see a common
theme in them. And it's not simply a common
theme in these verses, it's a common theme in all of the Scriptures. I do hope that you will read
and re-read this chapter. But look with me in verse 5,
as the Lord describes Himself. He says, I am the Lord, and there
is none else. There is no God beside me. If you look in verse 6, in the
latter part, he says, I am the Lord, and there is none else. Down in verse 14, he says, in
the latter part, surely God is in thee, and there is none else,
there is no or no other, God." Then in verse 21, he says, "...have
not I the Lord, and there is no God else beside me, a just
God and a Savior? There is none beside me." And
then in verse 22, He says, "...look unto Me, and
be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and
there is none else." The word for God in these verses
signifies strength, signifies power. shows God as the mighty God. And we read these verses at this
present hour, an hour in which it is obvious that there is a
temptation in this day of religious correctness to accept and to
allow the common thinking that there are many faiths. There is a religious tide that
flows strongly and says, well, we're all going the same way. Men say there are many faiths. There are many ways to heaven. And it is the right of every
person to believe what they want. Well, men often have the right
to be wrong. And the right to be wrong does
not change that which is truly right. And if left to our own
devices, if God leaves us to our own thinking and lets us
be caught up in the thinking of our day, we will perish. We have a warning in Scripture. that there is a way that seems
right to a man. The end thereof, though, is the
ways of death." But what we find in this book, in this objective
standard, in this volume that has undoubtedly been preserved
by God, that undoubtedly came from God. What we find is that
the God of the Bible, He allows no rivals. And not only that, neither do
His true people. And even though this is true,
He does not advance his cause by the sword, nor does he advance
it by any fleshly weapon. He said, by the prophet Zechariah,
not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord
of hosts. He writes through the Apostle
Paul to Timothy, and he says, "...fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, whereunto
thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before
many witnesses." He writes to the same apostle to the church
at Corinth, and he says, "...for the weapons of our warfare are
not carnal, but mighty through God in the pulling down of strongholds,
casting down imaginations." and every high thing that exalteth
itself against the knowledge of God, bringing into captivity
every thought to the obedience of Christ." And then he writes
again by Paul to the Ephesians. And he says, "...take the helmet
of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word
of God. The Word of God. But though that
is the case, and though there is but one God, there are many
rivals in the minds of men. Many rivals that are the invention
of men. But that does not change what
we have just read stated all these many times in just one
chapter of this book. It is part of the theme of these
verses. It is part of the theme of this
book and of all the Scriptures. He said, beside me." That's what
I call this, this morning. There is none beside me. And it doesn't change, regardless
of what men believe is real, it does not change what God says
about Himself. And His people are always, according
to this same book, they are always in the minority, believing for
the most part exactly the opposite of what the majority believes. But we have to hold forth and
to hold fast this truth even for the sake of those who oppose
the truth." We have to maintain this gospel even for them who
by nature hate the gospel. We have to declare God as He
declares Himself to be, although most all still in this day have
a natural enmity against God. But mark it down. What He says
then is what He says to this day. There is none beside Me. Turn over in Ephesians chapter
4, and listen to what the Apostle Paul says in Ephesians 4, so
contrary to the thinking of this day. Ephesians 4 and verse 4,
he says, there is one body and one Spirit, even as ye are
called in one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
one God and Father of all who is above all and through all
and in you all." Now, if you read that few verses, it has
to be obvious to all who read it of the singularity that he
speaks of there. There is just one Lord, one faith,
one body, one spirit, one hope, one baptism, one God and Father
of all." And then he says this, he's above all. He's above all. And this simply means just what
we find everywhere in this book, and that is that this one God,
is not only God alone, but He's God above all and over all, and
He rules as the absolute sovereign of the universe. He rules by Himself. He does
what He pleases. Whenever anybody asks me, what
do you folks mean about sovereign grace? I always tell them, we
believe that sovereign grace comes from the sovereign God,
and sovereignty simply means this, that God can do what He
will, when He will, to whom He will, and whatever way He will,
and there's nobody that can stop Him. He's above all. There's just one God, the God
and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and one God as one person
and one Spirit, He rules and He reigns over everything. Nebuchadnezzar had to find that
out. And when he did, he had to confess
this very thing that He does according to His will in the
armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth, and nobody
can stay His hand or question Him. There is none beside Him. And when you stop and think about
it, there can only be one God. The whole notion, the whole thought
of being God, being the mighty God, allows for no other God. Whoever does what he will, to
whom he will, when he will, how he will, whoever that is, he's
God. That's how God describes Himself
in this book. Turn over to the book of Nahum. The book of Nahum, and if you
can't find that very quickly, just listen to me as I read what
he says in this first chapter of the book of Nahum. In verse
2 he says, God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth. The Lord
revengeth and is furious. The Lord will take vengeance
on His adversaries, and He reserveth wrath for His enemies. The Lord
is slow to anger and great in power, and will not at all acquit
the wicked. The Lord hath His way in the
whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His
feet. He rebuketh the sea. and he maketh
it dry, and dryeth up all the rivers. Bation languisheth, and
Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. The mountains quake
at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence,
yea, the world, and all that dwell therein." Who can stand before his indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness
of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire,
and the rocks are thrown down by Him. The Lord is good, a stronghold
in the day of trouble, and He knoweth them that trust in Him. But with an overrunning flood
he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness
shall pursue his enemies. Why do you imagine against the
Lord? He will make an utter end. Affliction
shall not rise up the second time. For while they be folded
together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards,
they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. There is one come
out of thee that imagineth evil against the Lord, a wicked counselor. Thus saith the Lord, though they
be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down
when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee,
I will afflict thee no more. For now will I break his yoke
from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder. And the
Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more
of thy name be sown. Out of the house of thy gods
will I cut off the graven image and the molten image, and I will
make thy grave, for thou art vile." He'll deal with his enemies. He'll deal with all error. He'll
conquer over all that have risen up against Him, from the leader
in the devil himself, right down to the least of them. But as He does, He'll save His
people. Look at what that next verse
says. He says, even in the midst of these promises, in the midst
of these judgments, he says, Behold upon the mountains the
feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace. That's the same quote that Paul
uses in the book of Romans, talking about those sent to preach the
gospel. O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts,
perform thy vows, for the wicked shall no more pass through thee,
he is utterly cut off." That's the pledge of God. And if you
turn back to our text and look back over just a bit to Isaiah
chapter 46, Listen to what he says in Isaiah 46 and verse 9. He says, "...remember the former
things of old, for I am God." Now when you read that, the first
thing that comes to my mind is that nobody wants to remember
the former things of old. Nobody wants to remember or acknowledge
what happened to Adam and Eve when they sinned against God
and were cast out of the garden. Nobody wants to remember the
flood that came upon the earth and destroyed every living thing
with the exception of Noah and those things in the ark. Nobody wants to remember what
took place there in the cities of the plain in Sodom and Gomorrah
when He rained fire on those people and destroyed everyone. But He said, remember the former
things of old, for I am God and there is none else. I am God
and there is none like Me. declaring the end from the beginning
and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying,
my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure. Calling a ravenous bird from
the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country,
yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass, I have
purposed it, I will also do it." I'll do it. He'll do everything. that he has pledged and promised
that he will do. He will be as faithful in his
judgments as he is in his grace because he is above all. And
He is unique and exclusively God, the one true and living
God. And as such, all sin is against
Him. All sin is against God. Our whole race Corporately and
individually has sinned against God, has sinned against this
One who is described as the One with whom we have to do. And I can tell you this, my friend,
when that hour comes, And we are brought to stand before God. We will not stand before God
as we think He'll be. We'll stand before Him as He
said He is. Because there's none beside Him. And He's the offended party. And He's the one. He and He alone
is the one who determines how He'll be worshiped. You don't
decide how you'll worship God. You and I do not decide for ourselves,
nor does any other person decide, how it is that God will allow
us to approach Him. How we'll be favored by Him. And He, as God, as the Offended
One, He alone determines the basis upon which He will forgive
sins. There is not one God of the Catholic
who decides how He will forgive sins, and one God of the Baptists,
and one God of the Methodists, and one God of the Muslims, and
one God that decides how that He will forgive sins. There is
just one God. And He alone has determined how
He'll forgive sins, He determined who He would save, He determined
how He would save them, and He determined the basis upon which
He would accept them. He did it and He alone. And He did it before the world began. He's not deciding on a daily
basis. on how He's going to treat you
or me. He's not deciding on a daily
basis in various places how He'll deal with this one or that one.
He determined that all before the world began. Let me read
you something out of Psalm 135. He said, "...for the Lord hath chosen
Jacob unto Himself." Now Jacob is that name that represents
the true people of God. They are described in that two-fold
name of this man. Jacob who became Israel. Jacob is what we are in ourselves
and in Adam. Israel is what we are in Christ. He said, it is the Lord who hath
chosen Jacob unto himself and Israel for his peculiar treasure. Then listen to what the psalmist
says. For I know that the Lord is great." You see, that's one
reason that I know that men and women in our day, for the most
part, they do not know the true God. They can wear His name on
a bumper sticker or repeat it in their worn clichés and in
their frivolous, flippant manner with no regard or reverence for
Him when it says, holy and reverend is His name. God. Jesus. Those two names are as common
in our day as anything that falls from the lips of men, but they
are spoken with no knowledge and no regard for who He really
is. The psalmist said, for I know
that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods, or
those who would claim to be gods. For whatsoever the Lord pleased,
that He did in earth, in the seas, and all deep places, whatever
it pleased Him. And all these people talking
about a God who wants to, but He can't, who's trying to, but
He's being held back in some way by the will and power of
men. That's not the God of this Bible. And there's only one God, and
it says whatsoever He pleased, That's what he does everywhere. Amongst angels, amongst devils,
amongst men, amongst women. He's great. And he's above all. And he does whatever he will
in heaven and in earth. And since he is immutable and
unchangeable, that's what he says he is too. These things have not and they
will not ever change." Somebody said, we need a relevant message. We need a contemporary gospel. But that's utter foolishness
because God has not changed. He's the same way He always has
been and will be, and not only that, Men and women are the same. They're the same rebel sinners.
They're the same daring, blind, ignorant sinners. They have the
same need that fallen Adam had. They have the same need that
the Philippian jailer had. The same need that that thief
on the cross had. And so when God determined all
things, when He determined all things, He determined these things
in the full knowledge of who He was and of who we are. So if He deals with us in anything
less than absolute justice in ourselves, He must be, as He
describes Himself, in this book. He says, there is none beside
me. There is none else. There is
no other God. Well, how is He? He said, a just God and a Savior. Now, I used to hear a preacher
preach sometimes. And he would speak of this very
verse in this way. He would say, God is a just God, but He's also a Savior. If you put a but between those
two things, you've missed the gospel. I'm sorry. If these things in salvation,
if God, the Savior God, if these things conflict, you miss the
gospel and you miss the grace of God. Because He says, as He
declares Himself this way, He said, I'm a just God and a Savior. And what we have need of is for
Him to teach us and show us how He can be a just God and a Savior. That is, as God alone, He is
God in the three Persons of the Godhead which are one, and yet
He manifests Himself in the man Christ Jesus. I'm satisfied that the only God
that anybody will ever see is the Lord Jesus Christ. Absolutely. And if any man, or any woman,
or any young person ever knows God in His saving glory, everybody
outside of Christ is going to meet Him in His judging glory, in the glory of
His strict and inflexible justice. But if any man or woman or young
person ever knows Him in His saving glory, in His grace and
mercy, it will be in and through the Lord Jesus Christ. It will be in the person and
through the work of that One named Jesus. But there's a problem. Just as men have set up the notions
among them that there are many gods, obviously, they've set
up the notions that there are many Jesuses. You say, well, there's only one.
That's exactly right. But Paul warned. lest any man
or woman should believe or follow or trust in what he called another
Jesus." But since the Lord Jesus Christ is God manifested in the
flesh, just as the Father declares Himself to be, so the Son declares
Himself to be, there being one in the Godhead, and He says, There's none beside me. There's just one Jesus. There's
just one Savior. There's just one salvation. Turn over to John's Gospel. To John chapter 14. And listen in John chapter 14. I spoke with somebody this week
who said that an individual had told them some true things about
their life or themselves that there was no way they could have
known. I said, well, that's not unusual.
True things can be told ad nauseum, and still not the truth be told. Listen to what the Lord Jesus
Christ says in John chapter 14, verse 6, "...Jesus saith unto him," and
He's talking to Thomas here, "'I am the way, the truth, and
the life. No man comes unto the Father
but by Me.'" He could have said, there is none beside Me. There is no truth beside Me.
There is no way to God beside Me. There is no life beside Me. There is no way anybody can come
to the Father, be received by the Father, accepted by the Father,
forgiven by the Father, except by Me. That's the only way. And while men say there are lots
of ways, he still says, I'm the way. Singular. While men say
there are many faiths, he says, there's just one faith. While men say there's a lot of
truth, no, he said, I'm the truth and I'm the life. He's the only
one. And if any go to heaven, if any
enter into God's presence, if any have God's favor and acceptance,
it will be in and because of Christ. Only Him. But false religions,
knowing that natural men like something that gratifies their
fallen senses, they offer all these ways and all these mediators
between God and man. They say, you've got to come
through our denomination. You've got to come through our
religion. You've got to come before our priests. And sadly,
in our day, what passes for Christianity, it mounts to this. You've got
to come our way. You've got to come down our aisle.
You've got to come to our preacher. Give us something we can see.
Give us somebody's hand we can shake. Give us somebody we can
look at. Give us something to touch and
feel. Turn over to 1 Timothy 2. 1 Timothy chapter 2. And look at what he says. In verse 5. Now, he's just been talking about
all men in this sense. He's talking about all kinds
of men. That's how this context begins. Pray for all kinds. Kings and
all in authority and various people who you wouldn't want
to pray for naturally. He says, because God's got a
people. And He's going to have every one of those people, which
are a people out of every nation and kindred and tribe and tongue,
He's going to have all of them to be saved and to come to the
knowledge of the truth. What is that truth? For there
is one God, there He is again, and one Mediator. You can't go to God for me. You
may pray for me, but you can't go to God representing me. You can't stand before God in
my place. You can't represent me before
God. There is one mediator between
God and man, the singular, definite article, the man, Christ Jesus. Not the preacher. not a priest,
not Mohammed, not Mary, not Buddha, not anybody except the man Christ
Jesus. That's very plain. And that's
very singular. Now that's not what I made up. That's the theme of this book.
One way, One truth, one life, one mediator. Turn over to Acts
chapter 4. Acts chapter 4. When the apostle Peter, after Pentecost, he and those
other apostles, they began to go out and preach. I hear people
talk about the apostolic creed, apostolic preaching. What would that be in the biblical
sense? Well, I think it's safe to say
that this is apostolic preaching, wouldn't you? Acts chapter 4, look down at
verse 12 in the midst of this message. Peter looks at those people who
had just as a people taken and crucified the Lord Jesus Christ. He doesn't build up an army and
go out to try to kill those who really had their hands on Christ
and His death, but he stands in their face and he says to
these who have taken and crucified the Lord of glory, Verse 11,
he says, "...this is the stone which was set at nought of you
builders, which has become the head of the corner. Neither is
there salvation in any other." No salvation in religion. No
salvation in all the things, the schemes, and the formulas,
and the plans. Neither is there salvation in
any other. For there is none other name
under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved." The Bible begins with God as
the Creator. And God sent forth the prophets
who spoke for Him, and the apostles who spoke as Peter did for Him
here in Acts 4, and what does He say? Whether it's Isaiah,
whether it's Peter, whether it's Paul, everyone sent from God
said there's no salvation in any other. None. The Lord's people often hear
men say, you people think you're the only ones that's right. I've
heard that a lot. Some of you have heard that a
lot. But that's not the case at all. We know that He's the only One
that's right. God's the only One that's right.
You'll never know what's right until He brings you to read His
Word, hear His Word, and see for yourselves what He says is
right. How could a multitude of people
in our day That's often the thing also spoken of. How can all these
people be wrong and these few people be right? How can all
these many people be deceived? Because they are ignorant of
what God really says of Himself. They can quote you John 3.16.
They think that's a theological degree or something. But they
don't really know the truth of this book. Preachers have hidden
it from them for so many years. Mom and Dad hid it from them.
Teachers hid it from them. All these Sunday school teachers
and Bible school teachers and all, they hid it from them. Because
it's easier to tell men and women what they want to hear about
God, rather than what He says about Himself. Give me some options. No. There are none. Beside Him, there's none else. None else. They say, you're so narrow. Well,
we're just as narrow as He is. We only know of that one narrow
way that leads to life. And sadly, somebody said years
ago, that narrow way is in the middle of the Broadway. Going
the other way. Going the other way. You see,
God's salvation, which is all by His grace, is all in one outside
of us. It is through His doing, and
most particularly through His sufferings on the cross, because
His mediation is based on His blood. Let me read you this in Hebrews
10. Paul is contrasting here all
those priests, all their offerings, all their continued, repeated
sacrifices. Why? Because they never put away
sin. Then he says, but this man, Hebrews
10.12, but this man, after he had offered One sacrifice for
sins. One. If He offered that one sacrifice
for sins, that means that all those sacrifices that pictured
it, they never made atonement. And that means that any sacrifice
that you and I might imagine making, that won't suffice either. He offered the one sacrifice
for sins forever. And there's none beside it. Hebrews
emphasizes how in contrast of all those priests and sacrifices
and all that bloodshed, all those many times, Hebrews answers and
offers this. He did it once. because of who
He is, because His blood is sinless, precious, and He offered Himself
as a substitute for His people. But this man, after he had offered
one sacrifice for sins forever, he sat down on the right hand
of God. There was no chair of holies
in the tabernacle, because that work was never finished. But
he did it once. There's just one sacrifice for
sins. We don't have that. We don't
have anything. So as exclusive as he in the
matter of salvation, he said, if you believe not that I'm he,
you'll die in your sins. Well, aren't there some other
options? Isn't there a contingency plan? No. There's none beside
me." And men and women in our day, they
make a bad mistake. They interpret God's silence
in the face of all the idolatry of the day as His approval. They interpret His waiting in
judgment to be approval, or maybe his non-existence, but he waits
that he might be gracious to his elect. As he waits, even
the wrath of man shall praise him, and the remainder he restrains. He rises up to save, and he'll
rise up to destroy his enemies at their appointed times. Because He always has. Always
has. And we need to make sure we know
this, His salvation is all of grace. Now there are a lot of
folks saying that. On the one hand, and then they
turn and deny it. Even to the point that they make
faith a Savior. Faith is not the cause of salvation. Faith is not the condition of
salvation. Faith is the consequence of being
saved. Jonah had to find it out. He
confessed, salvation is of the Lord. Salvation is of the Lord. and equal to and maybe even greater
are the enemies of God and His people who seek in their subtle
ways to mix law and grace." They say, we believe that salvation
is by grace. We believe in sovereign grace.
No, you believe what you preach. You believe what you emphasize.
You believe what you think is the most vital, important issue
of the day. I'll tell you what I believe
is the most important and vital issue of the day. It's the glory
of God in salvation. The glory of Christ and Him crucified. And one subtle thing that men
do in our day and it is so deadly and so sad, is they allow a salvation that precedes the truth of the
gospel. Now, one of the most subtle errors
and dangers of our day, and there are very many popular, I'd say
when a man's name gets on a Bible, he's pretty popular, isn't he?
But they say things like this, that we have many brethren who
never heard the truth, who claim to be saved apart from the truth
of God's sovereign grace. But it's just not true. I'm sorry. Saul of Tarsus believed what
most Armenians in our day believe, and maybe even stronger. But he said, I was before a blasphemer. And these Ephesians who were
Gentiles, who every one of them had a religion, he says, You didn't trust Christ. He said, in whom you trusted
after that you heard the Word of Truth. Do you know what He
calls the Word of Truth? The gospel of your salvation. Now, a long time ago, from the
time I was hardly able to remember, My folks drug me into Sunday
schools and Bible schools and to preaching and all these kind
of things. It didn't matter what kind of
weather. It didn't matter how long it
took. It didn't matter any of these
things. We had to go to church. But all I ever heard was the
gospel of how to be saved. We can tell you how to be saved.
We can tell you what to do to be saved. We can tell you where
to come to be saved. That's not the gospel. The gospel
is the gospel of your salvation. The gospel is the gospel, the
good news that God has saved you through the doing and the
dying of the Lord Jesus Christ. Those He saves, He saves by bringing
them to the knowledge of the truth. Paul said, I was before a blasphemer. He said, He's the only one. No
other foundation can any man lay than that which is laid,
which is nothing less than Jesus Christ. And Christ said, you'll
know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. I'm sorry,
if you don't know the truth, you're still yet in your bondage.
And if you do know the truth, thank God for it, but don't attach
it to all the dead works of false religion. It's the truth that
makes us free. It's the truth of who God is. They never told me who God really
is. They just said as if He was some
cyclops. He had one feature. God is love. God is love. This is what we're
going to tell everybody. God is love. My friend, God is
love. But he's a consuming fire outside
of the Lord Jesus Christ. The love of God is in Christ
Jesus, and all who are not in Christ Jesus are yet under his
wrath. There's just one God in this
book. Paul says to Timothy, in meekness, instructing those that
oppose themselves, if God, peradventure, will give to them repentance
to the acknowledging of the truth. When He gives us the gift of
repentance, we acknowledge the truth as it is in Christ Jesus. God is who He says He is. A just
God and a Savior. Christ is the only righteousness
there is. Salvation is all of God. He purposed it. He purchased
it. He produced it. He perpetuates
it. That's the truth. And oh, it
does have a liberating effect. One of the worst things a person
can do is try to drag along an old profession of religion. Nothing
but bondage. Nothing but the filthy rags of
self-righteousness. We're to maintain this truth. But we're not going to start
a crusade. As a matter of fact, a great part of the animosity
among a lot of people on this earth to this day stems out of
a former day when men and women, men as soldiers, took the sword
and in the name of Christ tried to advance the cause of Christ. No. No. Our weapons are not carnal. We're
not going to take up that kind of fight. We're not going to
engage in that kind of a crusade, but we're to fight the good fight
of faith. And in the face of whatever men and women want to
preach and believe, in the face of all the faiths and all the
various many ways that lead to destruction, we're going to hold up the banner.
The banner of God in Christ, which says, there is none beside
me. We're going to declare this record.
As John said, that God hath given unto us eternal life, and this
life is in His Son. He that hath not the Son hath
not life. Period. End of story. But do you know what this God
says? Look down at verse 22. Isaiah
45 and verse 22. He says it again there, I'm God
and there is none else. But what else does He say? He
says, look unto Me. Christ said, come unto Me all
you that labor and are heavy laden. He says, look unto Me.
I'm the only one that is. I'm the only Savior there is. I'm the only way that God can
save sinners. So look unto Me. Look away from
yourself. Look away from your works. Look
away from all that you've done. Look away from all religious
experiences. He says, look unto Me and be
ye saved, all the ends of the earth. He's the One. And He's the only One. Look unto
Me, and be ye saved, because there's none beside Me.
What if He'd say, don't look anywhere, because there is no
salvation? He would still be just? But by
His sovereign grace, He's looked to Christ and a people in Christ. And He says, look unto Me and
be ye saved. Your looking doesn't save you,
but look unto Me as your Savior. Because besides Me, There is
no other. Oh, it's the nature of a sinner
to just grump and complain and rebel and say, well, I don't
like to have anything in which I don't have various options
and choices. But when the Lord deals with
our heart, we bow before Him and we're thankful that there
is a way. And He's all the way. Look unto Him. Our Father, this
morning we praise You for the great, sovereign, gracious, and
glorious God. We thank You, our blessed Father,
for Your purpose and choice of a people in Christ. We thank
You, our blessed Lord Jesus Christ, for Your coming into this world
shedding your blood and dying for your sins, establishing righteousness
which is imputed to each one of your people. We thank you
for your Spirit. Blessed Holy Spirit that came
to us, gave us life and faith and took the things of Christ
and showed them to us. Lord, we confess not only this
singularity, that there is none beside you, but we speak it in
awe of your glory. There truly is none like you.
There never has been and there never will be one like as you
are, a just God and a Savior. through Christ crucified. We
thank you and we pray that you'd give eyes to see, faith to believe
on Him this day to all who hear. Amen.