What is a god? What god do you serve? Are you sure?
Let’s get clear about what a god is. The definition of a god according to Merriam Webster includes the following:
“God : the supreme or ultimate reality such as…
: the being perfect in power, wisdom, and goodness who is worshipped” ”
Ok, with that said, take some time to think about, and be honest with yourself, about who or what is your god. (We all have a god, even if the god that one serves is his or her self). Who you think is perfect in power, wisdom and goodness? Who or what do you worship?
It is important for us to review what “worship” means because remember that a person gives his or her worship to the god or gods that he or she serves
Let’s at a definition of the word worship shared in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, worship is defined as:
“: to honor or show reverence for as a divine being or supernatural power
2
: to regard with great or extravagant respect, honor, or devotion”.
People can serve many gods. That is unless they serve GOD, YAWEH, THE ONE AND TRUE LIVING GOD. YAWEH does not go for that. GOD will not share HIS GLORY with another. If you say that you are a child of GOD, you need to know what GOD, YAWEH, THE ONE AND TRUE LIVING GOD requires of you. If not, you could be living a lie thinking that you are HIS when GOD’S standards make it clear that you are not. What happens when this is your reality? You are a child of satan and are subject to what satan wants to do in, through and about you. And then, as if it seemed that things could not get any worse, the child of satan dies physically, time for this creation of GOD, enters into eternal torment, hell, a place never created for this person who has chosen unwisely.
“14 Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord.
15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods;
17 For the Lord our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:” Joshua 24:15-:17 (KJV)
“21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.” I Kings 18:21 (KJV)
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;” Exodus 20:3-:5 (KJV)
“4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:
5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 (KJV)
“5 I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.” Isaiah 45:5-:6 (KJV)
“5 I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.” I Timothy 2:5-:6 (KJV)
“20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.
22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?” I Corinthians 10:20-:22 (KJV)
“21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.” I Kings 4:5 (KJV)
“2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” 2 Corinthians 11:2-:3 (KJV)
“15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.” John 14:15 (KJV)
“21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” John 14:21 (KJV)
“16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 (KJV)
“9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
Romans 10:9 (KJV)