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“<strong>THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM”  ISAIAH 43:11</strong>
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The Israelite were commanded not to make any “graven image” of God. Why? Because God made us, we didn’t make Him. A god you can make is a god you can control and make do whatever you wish. The ancient Greeks had a host of gods, all created by men. Some demanded human sacrifice; others permitted prostitution, and even promoted it in their temples. When we reverse the order and start to create God in our own image (according to our own imagination) we get the following things: 1) A god who is liberal or conservative, a hawk or a dove; a god politicians conveniently pull out of a box at election time to garner votes even though they don’t truly serve him. 2) A flexible god who permits you to do whatever you want, and you can then say, “I just felt led to do it.” 3) A god who promises to bless his children but never discipline them. 4) A god who can keep in his place until you need him. 5) A god who is not supreme, but happy to be one of many deities offering many ways to heaven. Not so! God says, “I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me there is no savior.” Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (Jn 14:6 NKJV). Jesus doesn’t need a makeover to bring Him into alignment with the internet and the space age. He is Lord! Indeed, if He is not Lord over all, He is not Lord at all!

“For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality no takes a bribe. He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. Therefore love the strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and make oaths in His name. He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen” (Deuteronomy 10:17-21 NKJV)

“In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.” (Jn 1: 1-4 NKJV