One

Today’s society is greatly concerned about the thoughts and actions of the masses.  They are often concerned with doing what everyone else is doing, dressing how the multitudes dress, keeping up with the “Jones’”, and thinking and living the way that is most popular.

God, however is not. His Word has quite a lot to say about “one”. Since He is the only God, He only needs Himself to accomplish what He wants done. Man cannot grasp that, because his abilities are finite and he cannot function or think like God.

God quite often, despite how the world hates His dogmatism in certain areas, is more interested in individuals and His one way, rather than the multiple world’s philosophies, which are constantly changing.  Man’s philosophy that more and many are better, often does not line up with God’s desires.

This brief study on “one” shows us more about God:

• There is one God, not multiple gods such as Hinduism and other religions teach. Many religions, even “Christian” cults, may only have one god, but it is not the one that is described in the Word of God. “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Ex. 20:3
• There is only One that should be prayed to, and that is Jesus; not the dead or saints. “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;” I Tim. 2:5   Also: Mat. 23:9.
  God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are One! “I and my Father are one.” John 10:30
• Mankind was started from one man that God created: Adam. Mankind did not evolve; he was made by God. “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” Gen. 1:27   Also: Gen. 2:21.
• Sin came from one man’s sin, and was passed down to all of us! “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” Rom. 5:12
• We are all sinners!  Not one of us is even close to perfect! “They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” Psalm 14:3   Also: Rom. 3:10, 12.
• There is only one Saviour, Jesus.  He died for all our sins!  “But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;” Heb. 10:12  Also: John 11:50.
• There is only one way to heaven!  There are not “many roads” to get there. “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6
• Each one is important to God. “Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.” Luke 15:10
• Each one has to give an account of himself before God. “So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.” Rom. 14:12
• None can straddle God’s way and the ungodly way at the same time.  He only has one way of doing things! “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Mat. 6:24   Also: Mat. 23:10, Luke 16:13.
• When a man and woman marry, they become one.  “You” and “I” should become “we”. “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Gen. 2:24  Also: Mat. 19:5-6, Mark 10:8.
• Quite often, God uses only one to lead His people in His direction, as He did with Moses, Ezekiel, Joshua, Jesus, John the Baptist, and the pastor of a local church.  See: Luke 3:4, John 1:23
• In groups, even Christian assemblies, there is often at least one that is against the things of God. “Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?” John 6:70   Also: John 13:21.
• Those trusting in Christ’s payment for their sins are all members of His one church. “But now are they many members, yet but one body.” I Cor. 12:20  Also: Eph. 4:4.
• Each one in the body of Christ should get along with each other. “Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.” Philippians 2:2   Also: I Peter 3:8.

God cannot be understood, nor can His ways, with man’s faithless understanding.  His ways often are not logical to man’s understanding, because man’s thinking is very finite. Despite what man teaches, God has only one way and that is His one way.

“God wants full custody, not just weekend visits.”