Today

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Todays Spiritual Myth  

• God Is...

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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? 
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Source

• Whoever does not love does not know God, because
  God is love 1 John 48

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Implication

• If God Love and Love God then we can _______
  God if we know love.

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Implication

• If God Love and Love God then we can _______
  God if we know love.

KNOW
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Problem

• Isnt their ___________ to God than just love

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Problem

• Isnt their ___________ to God than just love

MORE
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The Study

• The Ten Commandments
• Exodus 2011And God spoke all these words 2I am
  the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt,
  out of the land of slavery. 3You shall have no
  other gods before?? me. 4You 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.

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The Study

• Dont have other __________
• Dont fixate on certain _____________ of God, or
  His creation

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The Study

• Dont have other __________
• Dont fixate on certain _____________ of God, or
  His creation

GODS
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The Study

• Dont have other __________
• Dont fixate on certain _____________ of God, or
  His creation

GODS
ATTRIBUTES
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The Answer

• We should worship, serve and follow the _________
  God

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The Answer

• We should worship, serve and follow the _________
  God 

ENTIRETY
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Deut 424For the Lord your God is a consuming
fire, a jealous God.
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Deut 431For 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.
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Deut 79Know 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.
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Deut 93But 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.
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Deut 1017For 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.
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Deut 204For the Lord your God is the one who
goes with you to fight for you against your
enemies to give you victory.
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Deut 3327The eternal God is your refuge, and
underneath are the everlasting arms. He will
drive out your enemy before you, saying, Destroy
him!
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Josh 2419Joshua 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.
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2 Sam 223my 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.
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1 Chron 172Nathan replied to David, Whatever
you have in mind, do it, for God is with you.
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2 Chron 25The temple I am going to build will
be great, because our God is greater than all
other gods.
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2 Chron 1312God 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.
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2 Chron 25The temple I am going to build will
be great, because our God is greater than all
other gods.
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2 Chron 1312God 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.
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2 Chron 309If 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.
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Job 3312But I tell you, in this you are not
right, for God is greater than man.
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Job 365God is mighty, but does not despise men
he is mighty, and firm in his purpose.
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Job 3622God is exalted in his power. Who is a
teacher like him?
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Ps 711God is a righteous judge, a God who
expresses his wrath every day.
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Ps 145There they are, overwhelmed with dread,
for God is present in the company of the
righteous.
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Ps 182The 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.
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Ps 3312Blessed is the nation whose God is the
Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance.
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Ps 461For 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.
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Ps 4814For this God is our God for ever and
ever he will be our guide even to the end.
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Ps 544Surely God is my help the Lord is the one
who sustains me.
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Ps 569Then my enemies will turn back when I call
for help. By this I will know that God is for me.
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Ps 628Trust in him at all times, O people pour
out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.
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Ps 6820Our God is a God who saves from the
Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.
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Ps 731A psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to
Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
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Ps 7326My flesh and my heart may fail, but God
is the strength of my heart and my portion
forever.
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Ps 7713Your ways, O God, are holy. What god is
so great as our God?
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Ps 8411For 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.
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Ps 897In the council of the holy ones God is
greatly feared he is more awesome than all who
surround him.
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Ps 999Exalt the Lord our God and worship at his
holy mountain, for the Lord our God is holy.
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Ps 1153Our God is in heaven he does whatever
pleases him.
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Ps 1165The Lord is gracious and righteous our
God is full of compassion.
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Prov 305Every word of God is flawless he is a
shield to those who take refuge in him.
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Eccles 52Do not be quick with your mouth, do not
be hasty in your heart to utter anything before
God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so
let your words be few.
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Isa 810Devise your strategy, but it will be
thwarted propose your plan, but it will not
stand, for God is with us
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Isa 122Surely God is my salvation I will trust
and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my
strength and my song he has become my
salvation.
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Jer 323Surely the idolatrous commotion on the
hills and mountains is a deception surely in the
Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
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Dan 247The king said to Daniel, Surely your God
is the God of gods and the Lord of kings and a
revealer of mysteries, for you were able to
reveal this mystery.
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Dan 521He was driven away from people and given
the mind of an animal he lived with the wild
donkeys and ate grass like cattle and his body
was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he
acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign
over the kingdoms of men and sets over them
anyone he wishes.
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Dan 99The Lord our God is merciful and
forgiving, even though we have rebelled against
him
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Dan 914The Lord did not hesitate to bring the
disaster upon us, for the Lord our God is
righteous in everything he does yet we have not
obeyed him.
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Hos 98The prophet, along with my God, is the
watchman over Ephraim, yet snares await him on
all his paths, and hostility in the house of his
God.
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Mark 1232Well said, teacher, the man replied.
You are right in saying that God is one and
there is no other but him.
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John 333The man who has accepted it has
certified that God is truthful.
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John 424God is spirit, and his worshipers must
worship in spirit and in truth.
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John 854Jesus replied, If I glorify myself, my
glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as
your God, is the one who glorifies me.
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John 1331When he was gone, Jesus said, Now is
the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in
him.
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John 1332If God is glorified in him, God will
glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him
at once.
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Rom 831What, then, shall we say in response to
this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
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Rom 1123And if they do not persist in unbelief,
they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft
them in again.
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1 Cor 125For the foolishness of God is wiser
than mans wisdom, and the weakness of God is
stronger than mans strength.
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1 Cor 1013No temptation has seized you except
what is common to man. And God is faithful he
will not let you be tempted beyond what you can
bear. But when you are tempted, he will also
provide a way out so that you can stand up under
it.
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1 Cor 1425and the secrets of his heart will be
laid bare. So he will fall down and worship God,
exclaiming, God is really among you!
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1 Cor 1433For God is not a God of disorder but
of peace. As in all the congregations of the
saints,
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2 Cor 98And God is able to make all grace abound
to you, so that in all things at all times,
having all that you need, you will abound in
every good work.
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Gal 320A mediator, however, does not represent
just one party but God is one.
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1 Thess 25You know we never used flattery, nor
did we put on a mask to cover up greedGod is our
witness.
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Heb 34For every house is built by someone, but
God is the builder of everything.
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Heb 610God is not unjust he will not forget
your work and the love you have shown him as you
have helped his people and continue to help them.
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Heb 1116Instead, they were longing for a better
countrya heavenly one. Therefore God is not
ashamed to be called their God, for he has
prepared a city for them.
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Heb 127Endure hardship as discipline God is
treating you as sons. For what son is not
disciplined by his father?
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Heb 1229for our God is a consuming fire.
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1 John 15This is the message we have heard from
him and declare to you God is light in him
there is no darkness at all.
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1 John 320whenever our hearts condemn us. For
God is greater than our hearts, and he knows
everything.
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1 John 48Whoever does not love does not know
God, because God is love.
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1 John 416And so we know and rely on the love
God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in
love lives in God, and God in him.
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Rev 213And I heard a loud voice from the throne
saying, Now the dwelling of God is with men, and
he will live with them. They will be his people,
and God himself will be with them and be their
God.
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This MYTH Is ___________
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