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Introduction
Good afternoon men!
I’d like to take a moment to share a poem from an unknown source it goes like this:
First, somebody told it,
Then the room couldn't hold it,
So the busy tongues rolled it
Till they got it outside.
Then the crowd came across it,
And never once lost it,
But tossed it and tossed it,
Till it grew long and wide.
This lie brought forth others,
Dark sisters and brothers,
And fathers and mothers--
A terrible crew.
And while headlong they hurried,
The people they flurried,
And troubled and worried,
As lies always do.
And so evil-bodied,
This monster lay goaded,
Till at last it exploded
In smoke and in shame.
Then from mud and from mire
The pieces flew higher,
And hit the sad victim
And killed a good name.
Lies, lies are powerful evil bugs that infest and devour their victims.
Typically, they grow in size and might until it destroys both the teller of lies and the ones the lies were aimed at.
In our new series, we are covering many different lies men believe.
These lies have been around for quite some time as Pastor Jeff explained last week, lies were birthed in the Garden of Eden when the father of lies, satan, deceived Eve to sin against God.
Out of a lie, disobedience was planted in the mind of humanity, sin expressed and the world tainted.
As a result, men believe lies of all kinds as time continues to progress.
Today, we are looking at lies men believe about God.
Whether it be a family member, a neighbor, coworker, or even yourself.
My hope today is to make you aware of the lies we have been told and give the the truth from Scripture concerning these lies.
Transition to Point 1: Have you or a loved one fallen into one of the lies?
Lie #1: God is not a whole lot different from me.
People in life are always comparing themselves to other things.
Many of us do it without even realize it.
Whether it be the longest drive or the best putt on the golf course, careers, home size, best deal, talent, and the list goes on.
For a competitive person, it is incredibly hard to avoid the comparison game.
Speaking from personal experience, I want to be the best, the go to expert on topics, I want to be someone others lean on because there is know one who cares more about their well being.
These things aren’t necessarily bad.
But they can be major weaknesses.
Fact is, I am not the best or the leading expert.
There is always going to be someone smarter and more talented than me.
If Tom Brady walked into this room and challenged us to a football throwing competition.
I high doubt anyone in this room would beat him.
The talent discrepancies would be clear.
Why?
We know it because Tom Brady is a professional football QB, one of the all-time greats at the position, and we are all amateurs.
Much like the separation of talent between Tom Brady and myself.
There is an infinite divide and separation between God and creation.
Isaiah writes about this separation and infinite difference between the created and the Creator in Isaiah 6:1-3
In Hebrew a repetition of a word is a way of expressing a how great something is:
Thus the seraphs claim that God is completely, totally, absolutely, the holiest of the holy.
Holiness is the essence of God’s nature and God himself is the supreme revelation of holiness.
God’s absolute holiness reveals how separate, different, or totally other he is in comparison to all other aspects of the created world.
Although the word does not mean sinless, God’s holiness means that he is separate from everything that is sinful, utterly removed from the profane world, and glorious in majesty.
God’s greatness is unmatched!
He is totally and fully set apart.
One of the dangers we can run into is to think of God in a hierarchy system.
We can think of God as the top dog with the Seraphim and us not far behind, then other creatures in descending order.
The truth is that God is totally infinitely set apart from all of creation and nothing comes close to his greatness and holiness.
AW TOZER says it this way:
We must not think of God as the highest in an ascending order of beings, starting with the single cell, and going on up from the fish to the bird to the animal to man to angel to cherub to God.
God is as high above an archangel as above a caterpillar, for the gulf that separates the archangel from the caterpillar is but finite, while the gulf between God and the archangel is infinite.
(Knowledge of the Holy, 70)
Men, we must not believe the lie that we are anywhere close to being equal to God.
Truth #1: God is holy and totally indescribable.
God is set apart and his holiness causes us to to recognize our own short-comings leading to repentance and worship.
Transition: not only do men believe the lie that we aren’t that different from God....
Lie #2: God isn’t involved in or concerned with the details of my life.
In all of God’s greatness and holiness, he cares intimately about us.
Listen to what Jesus says about our value,
Another passage that explains God’s great concern and care for us is found in Matthew 6:28-34.
What is clear is that God’s power and ability is so great that he cares for even the most minute concerns.
He is intimately involved and concerned for his creation.
We are no exception!
God is invested in everything we do.
God’s omnipresence, meaning always present, adds great weight to how we live each moment.
How we think, because he hears our thoughts, every idle or crude word, joke, expression that we say, every action we take and what we do in secret, is not secret or hidden from God.
Robert Wolgemuth explains it this way:
Coram Deo is a Latin phrase meaning “in the presence of God” or “before the face of God.”
This is how we are called to live our lives.
Every moment, every word, every decision, every act, every thought counts.
No matter how insignificant they may seem, they are done before the face and in the presence of the living God.
How many of our deeds, actions, thoughts, words, would change if we saw Jesus before us every moment of every day.
Would we lax off and allow our language to be crude, would we tell the jokes that fill our speech, would we be impatient and unruly because our schedule is delayed.
Unfortunately, I believe most, if not all of us, would conduct ourselves differently with Jesus physically before us.
Yet, Scripture is clear God is with us always because he is intimately involved in our lives and is omnipresent.
We must live our lives in that regard.
The only way for us to live that way is to abide in Christ.
John 15:4 tells us,
God is invested in us.
Thus, the truth #2 is that:
Truth #2: God is not too big or too small to be intimately involved in our life.
We have seen the truth that God is holy and set apart from and and how he is intimately involved in our lives.
But.
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