2023 THEME: Victory!

Series: The God We Worship

TITLE: Our One True God

Scripture:  Deut. 4:15-40

I.   WHAT ARE THE LIES?                                                                        

Lies about God (for information only)

1. 1. 1. 1. (Pantheism)- universe and cosmos are one
         2. (Panentheism)- God and world are interrelated
         3. (Deism)- Supreme Being created world then withdrew from it
         4. (Mormonism)- God once a man who became a god
         5. (Christian Science)- mind and intelligence are from God
         6. (Jehovah’s Witness)- Father alone is God. No Trinity
         7. (Buddhism)- one doesn’t learn from Buddha; one becomes Buddha
         8. (Hinduism)- One impersonal god or Ultimate Reality (Brahman)
         9. (Islam)- Christians worship Yahweh; Muslims worship Allah
         10. (New Age spirituality)- you are God
         11. (Scientology)- we are immortal spiritual beings called thetans
         12. (Atheism)- denies the existence of God

II.  WHAT IS THE TRUTH?                                                        

Religion is about (DO); Christianity is about (DONE).

1. 1. 1. 1. Religion- (doing something)
         2. Christianity- (what Christ has done)

Deuteronomy 4:15-40

1. 1. 1. 1. Images (dishonor) God, they obscure His glory
         2. Images (mislead) men.

Post-modernism- (no absolute truth).

Scriptures to consider: Acts 4:12; I Tim.2:5; I John 5:12

Next Week: “The God We Worship”

Title: God is Great…God is Good?-  Romans 8:28-29, 31-32; James 1:16-18