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Today’s Spiritual Myth:  

Today’s Spiritual Myth:  . God Is. People have often finished this phrase with a variety of descriptive words in order to make God understandable. The most popular is ‘God is love,’ but is this a good way for us to picture God. Is it true, or is it a myth?. Source:.

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Today’s Spiritual Myth:  

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  1. Today’s Spiritual Myth:   God Is...

  2. People have often finished this phrase with a variety of descriptive words in order to make God understandable. The most popular is ‘God is love,’ but is this a good way for us to picture God. Is it true, or is it a myth?

  3. Source: • Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love– 1 John 4:8

  4. Implication: • If God = Love and Love = God then we can _______ God if we know love.

  5. Implication: • If God = Love and Love = God then we can _______ God if we know love. KNOW

  6. Problem: • Isn’t their ___________ to God than just love

  7. Problem: • Isn’t their ___________ to God than just love MORE

  8. The Study: The Ten Commandments Exodus 20:11And God spoke all these words: 2“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3“You shall have no other gods before me. 4“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

  9. The Study: • Don’t have other __________ • Don’t fixate on certain _____________ of God, or His creation

  10. The Study: GODS • Don’t have other __________ • Don’t fixate on certain _____________ of God, or His creation

  11. The Study: GODS • Don’t have other __________ • Don’t fixate on certain _____________ of God, or His creation ATTRIBUTES

  12. The Answer: • We should worship, serve and follow the _________ God

  13. The Answer: • We should worship, serve and follow the _________ God  ENTIRETY

  14. Deut 4:24For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

  15. Deut 4:31For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath.

  16. Deut 7:9Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.

  17. Deut 9:3But be assured today that the Lord your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them; he will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as the Lord has promised you.

  18. Deut 10:17For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes.

  19. Deut 20:4For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.”

  20. Deut 33:27The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemy before you, saying, ‘Destroy him!’

  21. Josh 24:19Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the Lord. He is a holy God; he is a jealous God. He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins.

  22. 2 Sam 22:3my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation. He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior— from violent men you save me.

  23. 1 Chron 17:2Nathan replied to David, “Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you.”

  24. 2 Chron 2:5“The temple I am going to build will be great, because our God is greater than all other gods.

  25. 2 Chron 13:12God is with us; he is our leader. His priests with their trumpets will sound the battle cry against you. Men of Israel, do not fight against the Lord, the God of your fathers, for you will not succeed.”

  26. 2 Chron 2:5“The temple I am going to build will be great, because our God is greater than all other gods.

  27. 2 Chron 13:12God is with us; he is our leader. His priests with their trumpets will sound the battle cry against you. Men of Israel, do not fight against the Lord, the God of your fathers, for you will not succeed.”

  28. 2 Chron 30:9If you return to the Lord, then your brothers and your children will be shown compassion by their captors and will come back to this land, for the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him.”

  29. Job 33:12“But I tell you, in this you are not right, for God is greater than man.

  30. Job 36:5“God is mighty, but does not despise men; he is mighty, and firm in his purpose.

  31. Job 36:22“God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

  32. Ps 7:11God is a righteous judge, a God who expresses his wrath every day.

  33. Ps 14:5There they are, overwhelmed with dread, for God is present in the company of the righteous.

  34. Ps 18:2The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

  35. Ps 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance.

  36. Ps 46:1For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.

  37. Ps 48:14For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.

  38. Ps 54:4Surely God is my help; the Lord is the one who sustains me.

  39. Ps 56:9Then my enemies will turn back when I call for help. By this I will know that God is for me.

  40. Ps 62:8Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.

  41. Ps 68:20Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.

  42. Ps 73:1A psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

  43. Ps 73:26My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

  44. Ps 77:13Your ways, O God, are holy. What god is so great as our God?

  45. Ps 84:11For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.

  46. Ps 89:7In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared; he is more awesome than all who surround him.

  47. Ps 99:9Exalt the Lord our God and worship at his holy mountain, for the Lord our God is holy.

  48. Ps 115:3Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.

  49. Ps 116:5The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.

  50. Prov 30:5“Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

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