Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and will satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible and on today's edition of the word for today.

Pastor Chuck continues with creating gods and graven images as we pick up in Exodus chapter 20 verse 4 and now

with today's message here's pastor Chuck.

Many men have been guilty of making their own gods.

And a man when he makes his own God usually starts out with this premise.

If I were God, this is what I would be. This is what I would do. This is what I would do. This is how I would respond.

This is how I would respond. This is how I would react. And so the Greeks made their own

gods and in your Greek mythology, you have their concepts of God, which are really an expression of what they would be if they were God. Now some fellow having been in love with a girl and another

suitor won her away from him if I were God. You know I could live up there and I could bring magic

potions and I could use my powers and then she would be mine instead of it.

And so you have your gods that are intertwining themselves and the love affairs of man and all of these kind of things,

because if I were God, I would use these powers for an advantage in my relationship with men.

And thus, you find that is sort of a basis of your Greek mythology.

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