Psalm 50:21 says, “Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such and one as thyself.” God says, “You thought I was like you.” And that’s precisely what men have done, for the most part, is in idolatry made God into their own likeness, or into imaginations that belong to their own minds. And maybe in its third level, which even Christians are guilty of, it is thinking thoughts about God that are untrue of Him. In its secondary stage, it is making the God who is into something that He isn’t. In its fullest stage, it is creating a god. It is postulating anything about God that is not right. Idolatry is simply thinking something about God that is untrue of Him.
Or we think of a pagan temple, very elaborate and ornate, with a lot of people burning incense.īut idolatry is much broader than that. When we think of idolatry we think of somebody in a mud hut with a little god on his table, or whatever, and bowing down. We might say that believing the wrong thing about God is idolatry. Now I am appalled at what some Christians assume God is. That is they have misconceptions about Him. Secondly, we preach God and declare God not only because there are people who don’t believe, but there are people who wrongly believe about God. And for this reason we desire to propagate the truth of the true God that people may know there is a God and they may know who He is. They either believe there is no God or they act like they do. They are either philosophical or practical atheists. Number one, it is because there are some people who do not believe in God. The reason that we want to propagate a right understanding of God is twofold. He’s saying the most important thing that a man has is his understanding of God, and the most important message the church has to give is the knowledge of God and I think he’s right.
For this reason, the gravest question before the church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like,” end quote. Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God. Among other things that he says in the book, a significant statement, I think, is this one, quote: “The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God. Tozer entitled The Knowledge of the Holy.
#DEFINE OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD SERIES#
We’re continuing a brief series in our morning hour on “God: Is He? Who Is He? And What Is He Like?” This is just a little hiatus from our study of 1 Corinthians, and then we’re comparing it Sunday night with a series on “Satan: Is He? Who Is He? And What Is He Like?” This morning, of course, we’ll look again at our theme, “God: Is He? Who Is He? And What Is He Like?” Have your Bible handy, we’ll be looking up some Scriptures as we go.Ī very helpful book on the nature of God is the book by A.
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