Thank you. It is surprisingly easy to create an idol, even out of good things God's given us.

Today on Truth for Life weekend, we'll learn how futile and dangerous it is to worship anything except for the one true

God.

Alistair Begg is teaching from Isaiah chapter 40.

We're looking at verses 12 through 31.

Lord, with our Bibles before us, we pray that the Spirit of God will guide and constrain my lips

and guard them, that we might, in pondering this vast panoramic display of your faithfulness and might,

see ourselves as we really are in all of our finitude, and that we

might have a fresh glimpse of you, at least, in all of your might and majesty and strength

and power, and all of your availability to us when we're prepared to acknowledge just how fainting and weak we so

readily are. We ask for your help in Jesus' name. Amen. We considered what we have here

in verse 12 of the Creator God, as He has revealed in all of His

power and majesty. In verses 13 and 14, of how this Creator God is in no need of the counsel

of others. And then we considered this great God within the framework of the nations of the world,

and how before him all of the might and majesty that is represented in nationality and in the power

of that which is there to be displayed is essentially diminished. It is dwarfed in the presence

of God. Not, of course, the God of our world, a God with a small G, where people just imagine

whatever they want when they say the word, or as we said this morning, God as a kind of principle of energy, a cosmic idea, those notions

are prevalent, but they are not biblical, and they need to be rejected wholeheartedly.

We left it off at that point, and so we pick it up with this question of the incomparability of God, and considering that

fact in itself, to whom then will you liken God? To whom will you liken God? Now, what we've noted

is that God is giving us, if you like, a picture of himself through his own eyes,

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