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Ephesians 4:6 “6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”
Someone asked me what tonight’s topic was about.
They probably thought I would give them some long explanation with all kinds of sub points and such.
My response was one word: God.
Tonight’s topic is about God.
And you say, well don’t we talk about God every time we do this thing called Bible study?
Well yes we do, but here Paul makes it clear that one of the main aspects of the unity of Christian believers is this fact that we serve and worship ONE GOD.
The world isn’t at a loss for opinions about God.
Someone says to you in the parking lot of Walmart - “did you see that sunset yesterday?
God sure can paint!”
“yes, I did see that sunset and yes it was beautiful.
By the way, you said that God painted that - can I ask you how you know about the God that painted that sunset?”
What kinds of answers are you going to get when you probe a little into their knowledge of God?
You get all kinds of stuff.
You get answers like:
I believe in a higher power
I believe that we can take bits and pieces from any religion we want and that we all go to heaven
I believe that God exists, but I believe that God can be different for all of us
I believe that God exists because there is love in the world
I believe in God because my cat tells me so
Now, those are real answers that you get if you ask someone on the street.
Back to our verse for tonight.
Ephesians 4:6 “6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”
Now, if you aren’t careful you could take a verse like this and totally misapply it.
This is why our interpretation of the Bible, our “hermenutics” (not “therapeutics” as spell check suggested.)
How we think about God is vitally important.
Towns & Tozer Quotes
Now - again this is vital because if we go wrong with our doctrine of God - then we go wrong in all kinds of other places.
We “drift” theologically as Tozer puts it.
What does God have to do with unity among believers?
In first century Ephesus, they had a big problem with this.
They had all kinds of gods that you could worship or pray to based on whatever your need was.
And the most focal god was the greek goddess Artemis (known to the Romans as Diana) who was the goddess of nature, animals and fertility.
And we see this in Acts 19:23-41
What were they using the name of Artemis for here?
To make a profit!
But they also worshipped her in her “magnificence”.
Why does that matter to us? Surely we are well past the worship of a goddess that can help us with nature and with fertility.
We don’t pray to a goddess when we go hunting or when we are trying to conceive and having trouble right?
Well - we may not see it quite like that, but we are guilty of that today.
Idolatry is still in the forefront of many of the hearts of us in Western civilization.
Our society has become increasingly secularized.
There are so many ways that our society worships idols of our own making!
I don’t have to remind you of the history in the Bible of people rebelling and setting up their own gods.
What did the Israelites convince Aaron to do when they became impatient with Moses on the mountain?
Build a golden calf!
God as Father.
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