Beloved, the truth is this, God fully revealed himself in the Lord Jesus Christ. We know that God

fully revealed himself in His Word, that God fully revealed himself for us in order to know what we

need to know, namely that we can be saved, that we can be redeemed, that we can be encouraged in our walk with him,

that we can be victorious over temptation, that we need to learn how to be obedient to him,

that he revealed to us enough to know that we can look forward to eternity in heaven with Jesus.

But God did not reveal everything about himself. We couldn't handle it

to begin with. And we couldn't handle it. Because God has always to be God and we are not.

What is happening today in the 21st century? Listen to me very carefully. Our culture has

working doubly hard to humanize God and deify man. We treat God like the pal down the street.

Of course, to the believer, it is absolutely true that God calls us friends.

And that is an incredible honor and a privilege.

Jesus himself said this in John 1515, I call you friends.

But listen to me, if you get invited to the house of the Queen of England, you don't come in there and then

you put your feet on the table and said, hey, get me a cup of coffee. Or I'm out of here. I can assure you

that attitude will not take you very far. And yet, that is literally how people are treating God

now.

Some would say that we are gods with a small G.

Others are willfully stripping God of His awesomeness, of His omnipotence, of His omnipresence, and of His Majesty, many of the evangelical books are coming out now saying that God does not know the future, he's just muddling his way with us.

Still, some people treat the God of the universe, the creator of the world like idol worshippers.

If you have known some Hindus, they have the statues in the closet, and then

they bring those statues out when they need something from their God, and they place it,

their statue, their God, the idol, and they bow, and they worship that idol, and when they

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