True Christian Religion # 294
294. The spiritual sense of this commandment is that no other God is to be worshipped except the Lord Jesus Christ, because He is Jehovah, who came into the world and carried out the redemption, without which no man, nor any angel, could have been saved. The following passages in the Word show that there is no other God beside Him.
On that day it will be said, Behold, He is our God, whom we have awaited to free us. He is Jehovah, whom we have awaited; let us exult and rejoice in His salvation, Isaiah 25:9.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of Jehovah, make smooth in the desert a path for our God. For the glory of Jehovah will be revealed, and all flesh will see it together. Behold, the Lord Jehovah comes in strength. Like a shepherd will He feed His flock, Isaiah 40:3, 5, 10-11.
Only among you is there God, there is no other God besides; surely, you are a hidden God, O God the Saviour of Israel, Isaiah 45:14-15.
Am I not Jehovah, and there is no other God beside me? There is no 1 righteous God and Saviour beside me, Isaiah 45:21-22.
I am Jehovah, and there is no Saviour beside me, Isaiah 43:11; Hosea 13:4.
That all flesh may know that I am Jehovah your Saviour and your Redeemer, Isaiah 49:26; 60:16.
As for our Redeemer, Jehovah Zebaoth is His name, Isaiah 47:4; Jeremiah 50:34.
Jehovah, my rock and my Redeemer, Psalms 19:14.
Thus spoke Jehovah your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I am Jehovah your God, Isaiah 48:17; 43:14; 49:7; 54:8.
Thus spoke Jehovah your Redeemer, I am Jehovah the maker of all things, alone, by myself, Isaiah 44:24.
Thus spoke Jehovah, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, Jehovah Zebaoth, I am the first and the last, and there is no God beside me, Isaiah 44:6.
Jehovah Zebaoth is His name, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; He will be called the God of the whole earth, Isaiah 54:5.
Abraham does not know us, Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Jehovah, are our Father, Redeemer from eternity is your name, Isaiah 63:16.
A child is born for us, a son is given to us, whose name is Wonderful, Counsellor, God, Hero, the everlasting Father, the Prince of peace, Isaiah 9:6.
Behold, the days will come, when I shall raise up for David a righteous shoot, who will reign as king; and this is His name, Jehovah our righteousness, Jeremiah 23:5-6; 33:15-16.
Philip said to Jesus, Show us the Father. Jesus said to him, He who sees me sees the Father. Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? John 14:8-10.
In Jesus Christ all the fulness of the Godhead dwells bodily, Colossians 2:9.
We are in truth, in Jesus Christ. He is the true God and everlasting life. My sons, beware of idols. 1 John 5:20-21.
These passages plainly show that the Lord our Saviour is Jehovah Himself, who is at once the Creator, the Redeemer and the Regenerator. This is the spiritual sense of this commandment.
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1. 'No' is added in the margin of the author's copy.
Isaiah 40
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"Comfort, Comfort my people," says your God.
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"Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh's hand double for all her sins."
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The voice of one who calls out, "Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
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Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.
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The glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."
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The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
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The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
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The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever."
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You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Don't be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold, your God!"
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Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
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He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
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Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him as his counselor?
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Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
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Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
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Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.
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All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
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To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
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A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
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He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.
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Haven't you known? Haven't you heard, yet? Haven't you been told from the beginning? Haven't you understood from the foundations of the earth?
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It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;
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who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.
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They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
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"To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?" says the Holy One.
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Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, Not one is lacking.
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Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?"
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Haven't you known? Haven't you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint. He isn't weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
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He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
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Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
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But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
