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He did not only create the earth to be inhabited by us.

Is anybody staying with me today?

He created the earth to be inhabited by his own self.

Can someone get that with me? That God literally put on flesh and blood and came and walked among us to show us what love and truth looks like, to show us how to walk in his likeness, what Christ's

likeness looks like in action, what his love fleshes out like, and that he gave

his life for us and was raised from the dead.

Throughout Isaiah 40, in several different places, God takes on the idols of the world and he's going like why would you trade me in for them things you made with your own hands and you're going to

worship them when you have got me? What in the world are you thinking?

You know, we don't carve out our wood like they did. We just go buy it. Anybody know what I'm

talking about? We just worship the things that our hands have made.

And how in the world can something we can make make us?

How in the world?

We work hard to make a lot of money because we think money can make us.

How can what we make make us? We try to make a name

for ourselves and think that name can make us. How can something we can make, make us?

Here's a thing. This is the hardship. In order to know intellectually and spiritually and physically and emotionally that no one compares to the Lord,

we have to discover that no one is like him.

And sometimes that doesn't come pretty.

Who has devastated you because they could not be Jesus for you?

See, today, do you know what would happen if we just came to a place of forgiving people

and let them off the hook because they just couldn't be a false Christ to us. They just couldn't do

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