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NASB | Isaiah 43:12 "It is I who have declared and saved and proclaimed, And there was no strange god among you; So you are My witnesses," declares the LORD, "And I am God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Isaiah 43:12 "I have declared [the future] and saved [the nation] and proclaimed [that I am God], And there was no strange (alien) god among you; Therefore you are My witnesses [among the pagans]," declares the LORD, "That I am God. |
Subject: Blessed are They Who Know God |
Bible Note: "Blessed, indeed, are the people who know this God who is God blessed forever. It is true that God is God, and therefore he cannot be comprehended. The finite cannot comprehend the infinite; time cannot compass eternity. But there is a difference between knowledge and comprehension, and comprehension is not necessary for knowledge. Although in the very testimony that God is God the church confesses that God cannot be comprehended, she also proclaims that He is knowable, and that He is known. He is known because He has revealed Himself. He has revealed Himself not merely as god, but also as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who loves His church with an eternal and unfathomable love; who reconciles His people to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them; who delivers them from the power of sin and death; and who gives them life eternal in the knowledge of Himself. "We know God in Christ Jesus our Lord, and not merely with our head, intellectually, as theology knows Him; we also know Him with our heart, spiritually, so that we taste that He is good and the overflowing fountain of all good. We know Him and have fellowship with Him, and we hear Him tell us that we are His friends, His sons and daughters. We know Him, and in this knowledge we have eternal life. 'This is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent' (John 17:3). "Let the church of Jesus Christ in the world clearly understand her calling and emphatically proclaim -- always and everywhere -- that God is God!" --Reverend Herman Hoeksema |
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