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Hello. This is Pastor Don Willeman of Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective.
If a stranger were to approach you on the street and ask you to describe yourself, what would you say? What is the most important thing about you? What is your most defining characteristic?
Well, the late author and pastor A.W. Tozer (1897-1963) suggested that the most important thing about a person is what they think about God. I think he is right. Your view, your conception, your idea about your Creator is more critical to who you are than anything else. In other words, how you answer the questions: “What do you think about God? Who do you think God is? And what do you think God is like?” says more about you than anything else. It reveals more of your soul, who you really are, than any other factor.
In similar fashion, it was the great theologian John Calvin who suggested in the opening lines of his most famous work (The Institutes of the Christian Religion) that truly knowing ourselves and truly knowing God are totally intertwined. We cannot know ourselves without knowing God and we cannot know God without having an accurate knowledge of ourselves. This only stands to reason, for, after all, we are made in the divine image.
So, have you thought lately about your understanding of God? Upon what do you base your ideas of Him? How well do you understand the One who made you and the One you claim to worship? Do you really know God?
Something to think about from The Kingdom Perspective.
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was a formless and desolate emptiness, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters….
Then God said, ‘Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.’ So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’”
~ Genesis 1:1-2, 26-28 (NASB)
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Transcript:
Hello. This is Pastor Don Willeman of Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective.
If a stranger were to approach you on the street and ask you to describe yourself, what would you say? What is the most important thing about you? What is your most defining characteristic?
Well, the late author and pastor A.W. Tozer (1897-1963) suggested that the most important thing about a person is what they think about God. I think he is right. Your view, your conception, your idea about your Creator is more critical to who you are than anything else. In other words, how you answer the questions: “What do you think about God? Who do you think God is? And what do you think God is like?” says more about you than anything else. It reveals more of your soul, who you really are, than any other factor.
In similar fashion, it was the great theologian John Calvin who suggested in the opening lines of his most famous work (The Institutes of the Christian Religion) that truly knowing ourselves and truly knowing God are totally intertwined. We cannot know ourselves without knowing God and we cannot know God without having an accurate knowledge of ourselves. This only stands to reason, for, after all, we are made in the divine image.
So, have you thought lately about your understanding of God? Upon what do you base your ideas of Him? How well do you understand the One who made you and the One you claim to worship? Do you really know God?
Something to think about from The Kingdom Perspective.
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was a formless and desolate emptiness, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters….
Then God said, ‘Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.’ So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’”
~ Genesis 1:1-2, 26-28 (NASB)