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Subject: Is God Sovereign in the Church today? |
Bible Note: Hi Brad, I can't really say how or why people come up with whatever idea of who or what they consider "god" to be, except what is written, (Rom 1:25) "For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen." I would say that people either worship and serve the God of the Bible, or they worship and serve a god derived from creation, whether that be themselves, or a lizard, or whatever. Whether from "maudlin sentimentality", or sheer laziness, or pride, or lust, or whatever other reason, I don't know. I expect its different with different people. To tell you the truth, Pink, to me, seems to paint with a rather broad brush, and has branded us, who "profess to give heed to the Scriptures", among those who conceive of God as "a miserable caricature, a blasphemous travesty of the Truth." No disrespect intended against A.W. Pink, but I find his statement, mainly the second paragraph, somewhat sensationalistic, and not really usable, as he does not speak Scripturally, and speaks of what is in the minds of other's. I really don't know what others are thinking. Even in my church, while we teach that God is sovereign, I couldn't tell you how many times I have heard that when the Bible says we should fear God, they tell me, it doesn't really mean "fear", but it means "revere". I suppose the disciples "revered" the tempest! 2 Pet 3 14 Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, 15 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. I believe people see the patience of God as weakness, and even as approval of their sin. One day they will know the truth. Either we worship the True and Living God, in spirit and in truth, or we worship whatever it is that we want to worship, calling it whatever we want. My two cents, anyway! Love in Christ, Mark |