Big truth: there is only one god
Foundation: God Is - God Gives
“God is” means that there is only one god in the universe. He alone is Lord over everything that exists, and He alone is worthy of our worship. This also means that every good thing that exists comes from God. All good things come from Him because goodness is a part of who He is as the one true God. It is a part of His nature and character to be good, and everything that comes from God is good. Thankfully God has not chosen to withhold His goodness from His creation, but instead gives it freely to us.
“God is” means that there is only one god in the universe. He alone is Lord over everything that exists, and He alone is worthy of our worship. This also means that every good thing that exists comes from God. All good things come from Him because goodness is a part of who He is as the one true God. It is a part of His nature and character to be good, and everything that comes from God is good. Thankfully God has not chosen to withhold His goodness from His creation, but instead gives it freely to us.
big ideas:
- God is one. There is only one God. There are no other gods.
- There is no being like God. He is the most powerful, smartest, controlling force in existence.
- Since there is only one God, He is the most important being - past, present, and future.
big Aims:
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[KNOW] Every child should know that:
• There is only one true God. • God is good and gives good gifts to His people. [DO] Every child should be able to: • Talk about God when they wake up, go to bed, and throughout their day. • Have reminders that point to God strategically placed throughout their daily line of sight. |
[FEEL] Every child should feel:
• A great sense of awe for the one true God. Thankful for God who gives every good gift. [WANT] Every child should want: • To know more about the one true God. |
Bible Story - Exodus 32
God’s people chose to stop worshipping the one true God and instead decided to make a god of their own. Moses helps the people see that there is only one God.
God’s people chose to stop worshipping the one true God and instead decided to make a god of their own. Moses helps the people see that there is only one God.
Bible Verse
Deuteronomy 6:4
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”
There is Only One God.
Moses’ sermon in Deuteronomy 6 serves as a review of all that had transpired since the Israelites left Egypt, including God’s provision for them in their wandering and their own disobedience.
God was reminding His people of His character and of their own uniqueness as His chosen people, something they had often lost sight of as they had made their way to the Promised Land.
In Deuteronomy 4:33, God asks, “Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the re, as you have heard, and still live?”
Deuteronomy 6:4
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”
There is Only One God.
- Deuteronomy 6:4 can easily be summed up as a reminder for God’s people.
- A new generation of Israelites is poised on the edge of the Promised Land forty years after their fathers’ and grandfathers’ great exodus from Egypt.
- This new generation is being reminded by Moses and introduced to the one, true God.
Moses’ sermon in Deuteronomy 6 serves as a review of all that had transpired since the Israelites left Egypt, including God’s provision for them in their wandering and their own disobedience.
- The previous generation had all passed away in the desert, an answer to their own sinful cries.2 And now a new generation of Israelites had taken their place.
God was reminding His people of His character and of their own uniqueness as His chosen people, something they had often lost sight of as they had made their way to the Promised Land.
- This uniqueness as His chosen people required their obedience and their complete love and adoration for Him.
- They are commanded to love Him above anything and anyone else.
In Deuteronomy 4:33, God asks, “Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the re, as you have heard, and still live?”
- His rhetorical question is a reference to His appearance to them on Mount Sinai decades before; He is the one true God because no other gods had appeared to them or spoken with them.
- They were uniquely His people because He had chosen them and He had chosen to appear to them in the re on the mountain and to allow them to hear his voice, something that no other god does.
big idea #1: THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD
Several months after the Israelites left Egypt, God, choosing to reveal Himself again to his people, called Moses up to the top of Mount Sinai to speak with Him.
God’s presence on Mount Sinai was magnificent.
God’s purpose in appearing to the people was for their good and His glory.
Moses was on Mount Sinai for forty days and forty nights while the Israelites waited at the foot of the mountain.10
7. Deuteronomy 6:4: There is only one God. He is the true God as is evident by His power, might, and interaction with His people.
8. Exodus 19: The people were camped in the wilderness of Sinai. God called them to come closer to the Mount Sinai so He could reveal Himself to them.
9. Exodus 19:16-25: The people had consecrated themselves prior to God coming down on the mountain. A boundary had been set to keep them from getting too close to God or they’d be destroyed. God was revealing Himself to His people in the way He chose. It was physically evident that God was coming down from Heaven as the mountain shook and thunder roared. God was coming down from Heaven to His people, something no other god had ever done.
10. Exodus 32:1: As the days passed, they began to question God.
- God was going to reveal Himself to the people by coming down from heaven in such a mighty and magni cent way that they would know without question that He was the one true God.
God’s presence on Mount Sinai was magnificent.
- The entire mountain was wrapped in smoke as God descended upon it in fire.
- The entire mountain shook. Thunder rumbled. Lightning struck. Smoke rose from the mountain as a trumpet blasted louder and louder.
- The people trembled in awe and fear. God was revealing Himself as the one true God.
God’s purpose in appearing to the people was for their good and His glory.
- Moses received laws about sacrifices, plans for the tabernacle, and the Ten Commandments while he was on Mount Sinai as the people waited below.
- They waited and waited and waited. Their faith began to fade. They began to doubt that Moses was evencoming back.
Moses was on Mount Sinai for forty days and forty nights while the Israelites waited at the foot of the mountain.10
- In their impatience they not only questioned God, but forgot who He was. They forgot His power and might.
- Not forty days prior, He had thunderously descended upon Mount Sinai and they had heard His voice, the voice of God, as He spoke to Moses.
- Yet, they forgot as they took their eyes off the smoking mountain before them and turned instead to their circumstances.
7. Deuteronomy 6:4: There is only one God. He is the true God as is evident by His power, might, and interaction with His people.
8. Exodus 19: The people were camped in the wilderness of Sinai. God called them to come closer to the Mount Sinai so He could reveal Himself to them.
9. Exodus 19:16-25: The people had consecrated themselves prior to God coming down on the mountain. A boundary had been set to keep them from getting too close to God or they’d be destroyed. God was revealing Himself to His people in the way He chose. It was physically evident that God was coming down from Heaven as the mountain shook and thunder roared. God was coming down from Heaven to His people, something no other god had ever done.
10. Exodus 32:1: As the days passed, they began to question God.