John chapter 4 verse 24 reads this like this God is a spirit and his worshipers must

worship in the spirit and in truth. The woman said I know that the Messiah called

Christ is coming and when he comes he will explain everything to us. Then Jesus

declared I the one speaking to you, I am he.

I want to stop the reading of scripture there and talk from this subject in our time together, family.

He's him.

Clap your hands, 1230.

Let's give God a hand, clap, a praise. Y'all good? You feel like

hearing some preaching? I want to start this sermon today by sharing a statement that is regularly

repeated in many of my preaching presentations.

And I say this frequently, not because I forgot I've said it.

I say this frequently because I think it's important for us to continually hear it.

So for my note takers, the statement is simple, and it is as follows.

The God you see, I thought I was at DeKalb. That is, the God you see is the God you get. In other words, my perception of God affects my reception of God. My outlook on God affects my experience with God.

The way I see God doesn't change him, but it does impact my experience with him.

And this is why I believe the scriptures are regularly and consistently reminding us and reintroducing us to who God is.

Because I believe, according to the creation narrative, that a strategy of Satan has always been to infect and to impact and to pervert our perspective of God. If you listen to the conversation

that Satan is having with Eve in the garden, he is calling into question

God's character. Did God really say? Because the enemy knows that you live at the level

of your revelation. And sometimes, come on, our revelation of God is producing

some limitations in our life. So God all throughout scripture keeps reintroducing himself

to you and to me because he knows the God you see is the God you get.

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