You have a reason to be thankful. You have a
reason to praise Him today. Amen. Our main scripture
text is going to be found in Deuteronomy chapter
6 and verse 4. Many of you can quote this scripture
text. And then James chapter 2 and verse 19.
Deuteronomy chapter 6 and verse 4. It says, The
Lord your God or our God is one Lord Here oh
Israel the Lord our God is One Lord James chapter
2 in verse 19 thou believe us that there is one
God Thou do us well if you believe that there
is one God You do well But the devil's also believe
in this one God And I would like to speak to
us today on this topic God is one God is one
Everything that we have access to is with the
understanding and knowledge that God is one.
The one true living God. The powerful God. The
miraculous God. Hallelujah. Lord, I thank you
today for this wonderful word. I pray today for
all those at the sound of my voice. Oh God. I
pray for clarity and understanding to fall upon
your people today and revelation of the one God,
the mighty God in Christ Jesus. Oh Lord, have
free course and free reign in our hearts and
in our lives today. We give you the glory for
it. One more time, let's give God a hand clap
of praise. and thank Him for His Word. Thank
you for your Word, God. Thank you for your Word.
Hallelujah. Amen. You may be seated. I thank
God for His Word. I thank God that we can find
the truth in His Word. I thank God that we can
find the way in His Word. I'm thankful today
that we can find his name in his word. And today.
I'm not preaching a philosophy. I'm not preaching
a creed. I'm not going to be preaching on any
type or off of any type of church tradition today.
I am preaching what God said about himself in
his word. Hear, O Israel, the Lord, our God is
one Lord. Hallelujah. When God speaks about who
he is, we don't get to correct him. We don't
get to reinterpret. And we don't get to divide
Him. Here, O Israel, the Lord our God is one.
If God is confused about who He is, then how
can we trust Him to save us? I came to tell somebody
today that God is not confused. He is not the
author of confusing and that we are often accused
of simplifying. the Godhead by claiming the oneness
in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah.
But I'm telling you today that it's clear in
his word that there is only one God and his name
is Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. And whenever you
finally fully understand and grasp that name,
you have access to healing power and healing
touch. You have access to... to the miraculous
power of God. Hallelujah. Scripture says believing
in one God is you doing well. You are doing well
when you're believing in one God. From Genesis
to Revelation, from the law to the prophets,
from the gospels to the epistles, the testimony
remains the same. The Lord your God is one. Hallelujah.
get a witness today of somebody that has understood
the mighty God in Jesus Christ, the one God,
the mighty God. Hallelujah. God declares his
own identity with his own word. No other interpretation
is needed. Let's just grab from the word what
it says about him. Before any theologian ever
wrote a book and before any council ever gathered
together, before any creed was ever signed into
the institutions and organizations, God spoke
and it... was written, God is one. God is one.
When God spoke, He didn't stutter. There was
no confusion there, and there was no uncertainty.
Deuteronomy 6 and 4. Hear, O Israel, the Lord
our God is one Lord, not three, not divided,
not a mystery of persons, not separate. separate
distinctions or deities, but God is one. Thousands
of years later, when Jesus was asked for the
greatest commandment, he did not update it. He
did not clarify a trinity. He did not clarify
separations, distinct separations. He did not
add to the word. Jesus simply said in Mark chapter
12 and verse 29, the first of all the commandments
is here, O Israel, the Lord, our God is one Lord.
Hallelujah, if Jesus believed God was three persons,
this was the opportune time for him to say it,
but he didn't because God, he is one. Scripture
goes even further in Isaiah chapter 45 and verse
five, it says, I am the Lord and there is. None
else. There is no God beside me. Hallelujah.
I remember telling people that you see, they
would say, see, there's a different distinction
and the son is separate from the father because
he's on the right hand. And here we find where
God said, there is none beside me. But people
would say, well, that just means that it's in
context because there's none besides him. Hallelujah.
but that still proves my point. There is none
to the left or to the right. God is one. The
Lord, your God is one. And He wants you to grasp
this concept today because He wants you to know
Him. And He wants you, hallelujah, to be a part
of Him in truth. It is not enough to just hear
the truth. It is not enough to just receive truth,
but we must walk in truth. We must buy the truth
and sell it not. Hallelujah. Once you find it,
you don't let it go. You hold on to it with everything
that you've got. Isaiah chapter 43 and verse
10 says, before me there was no God formed. Neither
shall there be And Isaiah chapter 46 and verse
9, it says, I am God. There is none like me.
That is not partial exclusivity. That is absolute
oneness. Absolute oneness. God is alone. God.
is alone. He has no divine companions. God does
not say there is no God outside of us. He says
there is none else, but beside me. If the Father
is God and the Son is God and the Holy Ghost
is God and they are distinct separate persons,
then God is not alone and there is someone beside
him. His word is clear that there is none else
beside me. No none. I am one, he claims. Hallelujah.
You've got to grasp ahold of this today. There
was a fight that came upon me in the spirit while
I'm writing this message. But you know what?
Those devils can stay mad and stay trembling
because they also believe that there is one God.
And His name is Jesus. God is alone. God never
introduces himself as a group, a family, a committee,
or a fellowship of persons. He introduces himself
as the Great I Am. The great I Am and Jesus tells
a group of Jewish people in John chapter 8 verses
58 and 59 He says Jesus said unto them barely
barely. I say unto you before Abraham was I am
Before Abraham was I am then took they up stones
to cast at him There's a reason why they picked
up stones whenever he made it clear to them that
before Abraham was I am They knew in the Old
Testament about Moses where God said to tell
them that the great I am sent you Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. And Jesus is clearly saying I am
I Am and so they wanted to take up stones to
kill him God was not just a man. He was fully
God in the flesh. We believe in the incarnation
that God came himself. in the fleshly body of
Jesus Christ. Christianity is not God sending
someone else to suffer for us. Christianity is
God coming himself and being fashioned as a man
to redeem us from our own sins. That's the God
you serve today. That's the God you come to thank
today. That's the God you come to worship today.
who humbled himself as a man and took the punishment
of sin upon that fleshly body so that you could
be reconciled unto him. Oh, hallelujah. What
a mighty God we serve today. What a mighty God
we serve today No wonder the Bible says that
those that do know their God shall be strong
and do great exploits Because if you know who
came for you You know who died for you and redeemed
you and saved you and have to give you the opportunity
to have a relationship with you How did he so
that you could be joined with him by faith? You
can know and receive the love and power of Almighty
God through the man. or the body Christ Jesus
because that body was broken and bruised. Hallelujah
for our iniquities. All the chastisement of our
peace was upon Him. Hallelujah and the Bible
says by His stripes you were healed. By His stripes
you are healed. So you can have... access to
healing today. You can have access to relationship
today. Hallelujah, because the King of Kings
and the Lord of Lords decided to come down and
make a way for you. Don't push away or reject
the message today. God wants you to know Him.
Did you know that the one and only God got so
fed up that there was no judgment for the enemy
even after people had repented. Scripture says
even after people turned away from evil, they
were still being bullied by the enemy. So the
Lord of the Old Testament decided that He would
suit up and come to their rescue. I remember
years ago, I was attempting to read the Bible
all the way through trying to follow a bread
chart, and I come across this Scripture, and
it was so revelatory for me that the mighty God
got so tired of watching the enemy of our soul
have free course even after people had repented,
that He decided to save us or make a way for
us. Isaiah chapter 59 verse 15 through 20, It
says, Yeah, truth faileth, and he that departeth
from evil maketh himself a prey. So when one
repents, turned from their evil ways, they just
made themselves a prey. Departed from evil, maketh
himself a prey. And the Lord saw it, and it displeased
him that there was no judgment. And he saw that
there was no man. and wondered that there was
no intercessor. Therefore his arm brought salvation
unto him, and his righteousness had sustained
him. For he," talking about God, for he put on
righteousness as a breastplate. He said, there
was no man that could live a sinless life and
intercede for man, so I decided to put on my
own righteousness. Because there is no man that
can accomplish this but me. And I am willing
to step in. How do I do you? Because I know that
I could walk that life and live a sinless life.
So for he put on righteousness as a breastplate
and a helmet of salvation upon his head and he
put on the garments of vengeance for clothing
and was was clad with zeal as a cloak according
to their deeds according he will repay fury to
his adversaries recompense to his enemies to
the Allen's he will repay recompense so shall
they fear the name of the Lord from the West
and his glory from the rising of the Sun when
the enemy shall come in like a flood the Spirit
of the Lord shall lift up a standard against
him and the Redeemer shall come to Zion and unto
them that turn from transgression and Jacob saith
the Lord Hallelujah, you can have freedom today
Because the mighty God in Christ Jesus came and
purchased it for you today If you've been struggling
in sin, but you've decided to repent and turn
away you can have freedom today because because
Jesus Christ purchased it for you. You can have
access to healing today because he paid the price
and he said enough is enough. This is my child,
back off, back off. Hallelujah, we can call on
the name of Jesus Christ in a time of need. Where
sin abounds, God's grace doth much more abound.
Where sin abounds, God's grace doth much more
abound. I know we're in a sinful world, but God's
grace is greater than any sin or any challenge
that you would face. Somebody needs a grasp a
hold of this one God concept and know your God
And you will be strong and do great exploits
The Bible is clear that those that do know their
God the angel of the Lord encamps around about
them So I have no doubt Today that the ministering
angels of the Lord are in this place and they
are for those that do know their God Ha you'll
toss ah John chapter 1 in verse 1 in the beginning
was the word and the word was with God and the
word was God in the beginning the word was God
John 1 and 14 and the Word was made flesh and
dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the glory
as of the only begotten of the Father so we saw
him as the only Son of God but yet that one true
living God came down from above and Revealed
himself through the man Christ Jesus to purchase
for you salvation to purchase for you healing,
to purchase for you the power of His love through
His grace. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us. We see in these passages that the one
God robed Himself in flesh. Not the Word became
a second person. Not the Word joined God in partnership.
Not a portion of God became flesh. But that one
God, the I Am, was made flesh and dwelt among
us. Paul writes it very plainly that God was
manifest in the flesh. This means that the spirit
of the one true living God was made visible in
the flesh. 1 Timothy chapter 3 verse 16. And
without controversy, great is the mystery of
godliness. God was made manifest in the flesh,
justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached
unto the Gentiles, and believed on in the world
and received up into glory. God was manifest
in the flesh. not God the Son, not the second
person of the Trinity, but God Himself. God Himself.
There is one God from the Old Testament to the
New Testament. One God, one Lord, one faith,
and one baptism. Hallelujah. If you ever want
to know who Jesus really is. Don't ask a creed.
Don't just rely on the majority. Don't be looking
for opinions of others or for explanations that
are not scriptural. Be careful trying to grab
information from AI thinking that it's accurate.
It will literally pull from sources outside of
the Bible and give you explanations because that's
all it has access to. So don't just rely on outside
sources. Don't look to philosophy. Don't just
follow the traditions of men. I've heard this
so many times. Well, my great -grandfather taught
this. Believe this. And man, he was such a great
man. I know he loved God. So there's no way he
could be wrong. So I'm just, I'm gonna follow
suit. Don't follow the traditions of man just
because it looks good. Look no further than the
Bible. Stay in the Word. in the Word. The Bible's
clear. It says men will be drawn away by seducing
spirits and doctrines of devils in the last days.
Doctrines of devils. It will appear to be right,
but it will be wrong. You've got to back up what
you believe in the Word of God. You've got to
stand strong in the faith of the Word of God
and don't move from it. Buy the truth and sell
it not. Colossians chapter 2 and verse 8. Read
this with me. Beware lest any man spoil you through
philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition
of men. After the rudiments of the world and
not after Christ. And now I don't think it's
coincidence. That verse nine goes on to say,
for in him, Jesus dwelleth all the fullness of
the Godhead bodily. In him dwells all the fullness
of the Godhead bodily. Nowhere in the Bible does
it say that part of God lived in Christ. Nowhere
in scripture does it say he's a separate entity
from the Father. It says that the Father, the
one that loves you, came. and robed himself in
flesh to die for your sins because why? He loved
you. He loved you. That's the God we serve today.
Not one third of the Godhead is mentioned in
God, but all the fullness of everything of what
that makeup is. is in Christ Jesus dwells in
that body not a role not a manifestation only
but all the fullness Isaiah even prophesied about
this in Isaiah chapter 9 and verse 6 for unto
us a child is born unto us a son is given and
the government shall be upon his shoulder and
his name shall be called wonderful counselor
thee mighty God, the everlasting father, the
prince of peace, the mighty God. There will be
a child that is born and his name shall be called
wonderful. His name shall be called the mighty
God. His name shall be called the everlasting
father. That alone doesn't fit any Trinity. By
definition If you look up that word and I'm not
wanting to pick on people today, I just we just
need to be safe We need to have the truth. I
Am the way the truth and the life Jesus says
no one man comes to the Father except by me.
He's not talking about a second or a third person,
he was saying, but except through this body,
except through its body be put on a tree and
hung and punished for your sins, you're not coming
to the Father. You're not coming to me. There's
not a way. But the scripture fits incarnation
perfectly. So who does Jesus say he is? John
chapter 4 verse 7 through 9. If you had known
me, if you had known me, you should have known
my father also. And from henceforth you know
him and have seen him. Philip saith unto him,
Lord, Philip's still thinking he's not necessarily
God in the flesh. Philip's saying, Lord, show
us the Father and it will suffice with us. Verse
9, Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long
time with you? And yet hast thou not known me,
Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father.
And how sayest thou then, show us the Father?
Jesus didn't respond to Philip by saying, you
can't see him anymore. Jesus didn't say, well,
Philip, he's a different person in heaven on
the throne, but we are one in unity and I am
submitted to him. Jesus said, when you have seen
me, you have seen the Father. Have you not known
me? here this entire time and if you don't believe
me for my words believe me for the work's sake
he tells many people that if God has brought
you this far and he has kept you believe him
for the work's sake hallelujah when you have
seen me You have seen the Father. That is either
the greatest deception ever spoken or the clearest
revelation ever given to man. Jesus did not say,
I look like the Father, I act like the Father,
I represent the Father. He said, you have seen
Him and you know Him. God is eternal. The Son
was not eternal. And I know there's some heavy
contradictions here. Bear with me. God is not
affected by time, space, or matter because He
created it. I didn't come up with that. I come
across a brilliant individual that had mentioned
that. And it's very profound. But it fits nicely
right here. God is not affected by time, space,
or matter because He created. If He was affected
by those things, He wouldn't be God. God does
not exist because of time, space, or matter,
because He formed it. He spoke it into existence.
So therefore, the Son, that body, was not eternal
in that moment. He just wasn't. Those that believe
in a trinity have to say that the Son of God
was there with the Father in the beginning, already
existing with the Father. then was born. They
have to say this because He is separate from
the Father, but one in unity with the Father,
co -eternal, co -equal with the Father. Did you
grasp what I said there? In order to believe
in the Trinity and that the Son was separate
from the Father, He had to be eternal. But that
the God we serve, the one God is eternal. But
that flesh was not It was not and matter of fact
it didn't exist until it was born into time space
or matter The Bible never speaks of the term
eternal son Never speaks of co -equal partners
Co -eternal you will not find it in Scripture.
It says in Luke chapter 1 verse 35 that holy
thing which shall be born of thee shall be called
the Son of God. That holy thing that will be
born, that holy thing that is now stepping into
time, space, and matter to save His people will
be called the Son of God. So it's right to call
Him the Son of God. Psalm chapter 2 and verse
7 says, This day have I begotten thee. To be
born means to have a beginning in time, space,
and matter. The Son exists because God entered
that time. God became a Son for a purpose. God
became the Son for redemption. And Jesus praying
was God in the flesh, not two gods having a conversation
with each other. People say Jesus prayed so he
must be a different person. No, he prayed because
he was fully man. The body, just like your body,
had to be submitted to the Spirit of God, had
to be brought under subjection. Second Corinthians
chapter five, verse 19, God was in Christ. God
was in Christ. Fully man and fully God. Philippians
chapter two, verse seven and eight. but made
himself of no reputation and took upon him the
form of a servant and was made in the likeness
of men and being found in fashion as a man, humbled
himself and became obedient unto death, even
the death of the cross. Jesus humbled himself,
God humbled himself and fashioned himself like
a man and was obedient to death, even the death
of the cross. Prayer is humanity submitting to
deity. If praying proves Jesus isn't God, then
none of us can call Him God at all. The Bible
says in Hebrews chapter 5 and verse 8, it says,
Many of the prayers that Jesus said were him
quoting scripture while fulfilling the very scriptures
he is said to be praying. Here's an example of
this. Mark chapter 15 and verse 34. And at the
night hour Jesus cried with a loud voice saying,
Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani, which is being
interpreted, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me? And you always hear, there's the separation.
And he's quoting Psalm chapter 22 verse 1. He's
fulfilling scripture. My God, my God, why hast
thou forsaken me? And if you were to go on and
read the rest of that passage, I would encourage
you to do so. He was stricken and he was beaten
and he was bruised and pierced. It goes on to
say, Your God was fulfilling scripture while
hanging on the cross and reminding you that I
have come to fulfill my purpose I've come to
fulfill the purpose and saving and redeeming
my people by taking on the punishment and feeling
that forsakenness I did that for you and The
Holy Ghost is Jesus in us The Holy Ghost is not
a third person of the Trinity. 2 Corinthians
3, verse 17, Now the Lord is that Spirit, and
where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Jesus said in John 14, 16 through 18, and I will
pray the father and he shall give you another
comforter that he may abide with you forever.
Even the spirit of truth whom the world cannot
receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth
him. But you know him, for he dwelleth with you,
and he shall be in you. I will not, I will not
leave you compelous. I will come to you. So when
you receive the Spirit of Almighty God, it's
not some third person of the Trinity It's the
mighty God the hallelujah that was given unto
men for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ Because
the body or the spirit of God does not dwell
in temples that were made by men Hallelujah God
released his spirit into mankind. That's why
the scripture says no you not that you are the
temple of God Hallelujah! When you receive this
Holy Ghost, you receive Jesus Christ. He said,
I will come to you. I will not leave you comfortless.
Paul states in Colossians chapter 1 verse 27,
To whom God would make known what is the riches
of glory of this mystery among the Gentiles,
which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. When
you receive the Holy Ghost, you receive Christ
in you, not a separate person, not a separate
distinct person. There is one God, one Spirit,
and one Lord. God is one. And I'm moving to a
close if you all stand with me today. 1st Timothy
2 and 5. First Timothy 2 and 5. For there is
one God. For there is one God. And one mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. Mediator
does not mean the second divine person. in a
trinity. It means God reached man through humanity,
through the body of the man Christ Jesus. He
brought us together unto Himself. The Bible's
clear that He says that He'd come to reconcile
the world unto Himself. reconciling you to Him.
You who were separated by sin. God became that
mediator. He said, I'm going to put on my righteousness.
I know you can't do it ma 'am. I know you can't
do it sir. But I'm going to put on my righteousness.
And I'm going to show up for you. I'm going to
fight for you. I love you, and I know God loves
you. The Bible is clear. It says that there is
no greater love than this, than a man would lay
down his life for his friends. And the God that
is love, Decided I'm gonna lay the life down
for them There are times when we are called to
repent and to die out to self But the Bible says
to present your bodies a living sacrifice a living
sacrifice He took the death's part for you And
today I'm opening up the altars for an individual
that maybe you were confused about the whole
thing and didn't really fully understand the
mighty God in Christ Jesus. But with clarity
of the Word of God today and understanding, you
can come boldly before His throne of grace calling
on Him and His name. His name is Jesus. And so
the altars are open today. If you would like
to recommit your life. If you would just like
to thank Him. Because God, you did that for me.
You love me with such a perfect love. Such a
perfect love and a pure love that you laid down
that body. That you beat that body. that you
crushed that body under the weight of the cross
and blood was spilled so that I could be reconnected
to you.