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Am I A God?
I. The Historic setting.
A. The city of Tyre was one of the most beautiful and richest
cities in the world.
1. The king of Tyre was very wise and a shrewd business
man who had increased greatly the riches of Tyre.
2. As the people began to laud him for his great wisdom,
they began to hold him up and worship him as a God.
3. The problem was he began to believe it and began to
declare that he indeed was God. His heart was lifted up
and he was saying that he was God.
B. The city of Tyre is soon to be destroyed, and the king of Tyre
slain. The prophet asks, "When you are slain will you say to
the man ready to slay you that you are God?"
II. The fallacy that man is a god goes back into the history of man.
A. Today we hear many voices declaring the man is a god.
1. The new age movement with it's demonic channeling is
bringing this enlightened truth to man.
a. As the demons speak through the channelers the
consistent message is to discover the truth of
your deity.
b. We hear constantly the message of the human
potential.
c. School children are taught to meditate and find
the help from the powers within themselves.
d. We have programs designed to elevate the self
esteem of the child.
e. The rich, the beautiful and the talented
Hollywood movie stars who are leading the world
down the tube to moral corruption are
worshipped as gods and goddesses.
2. The guru's, the professed holy men of India, have
brought this enlightenment to the Western world, and
the rich and famous, and jaded people of the West, as
they try to fill the void in their lives, flock to
their Ashrams in India to sit at the feet of these
god men to learn how to ascend into godhood.
3. For a long time the Mormons have been telling their
adherents how to become gods. If you will follow
faithfully the tenants of Mormonism, go through the
temple rites, that Joseph Smith borrowed from the
Scottish Masonic Order, you will become gods, and will
be granted some planet in the Universe to start and
watch over your own world.
4. Not to be outdone many heretical Charismatic evangelist
have taken up this doctrine of demons, and are now
proclaiming that we are gods.
a. This was a natural progression of thought from
their faith teachings.
b. They taught that if you exercised the proper
faith that you could have whatever you wanted.
That God in some way was obligated to grant
your every faith spoken word. Thus riches,
healings, power, was all available to you by
you claiming it in faith.
c. Nothing was said about the will of God. To them
the prayer, "Thy will be done." was scoffed at
as a cop out.
d. God became as the magic genie who was bound to
respond to your demands as you created your own
reality through words of faith.
e. If I am the one who is now in control of
running things according to my desire and
wishes, and God is running the errands for me,
then that makes me God, and He with His super
power fulfills my whims.
f. If the prophet today were writing to some of
these people who have purchased their Rolls
Royces in faith, their lavish diamonds, he
would probably say to them "Are you going to
say to the bankruptcy judge that you are god?"
II. There is nothing new about this lie.
A. In verse 12 as Ezekiel takes up a lamentation for the king of
Tyre, the text takes on an interesting form, for it goes behind
the scene, and describes the origin of the you are gods
message. The king of Tyre suddenly becomes Satan, or Lucifer.
1. He is described as the seal of perfection.
2. Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
3. As having been the Eden the garden of God.
4. Covered with precious gems.
5. A ruling cherub.
6. Having been in the holy mountain of God.
7. He is to be cast out of the mountain of God and
destroyed.
8. Isaiah 14 tells us of the sin that caused him to be
brought down. "How art thou fallen from heaven, O
Lucifer, son of the morning. For you have said in your
heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my
throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon
the mount of the congregation in the sides of the
north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds:
I will be like the Most High."
B. When God created man, He created man in His own image, and
likeness. Whatever that may have entailed.
1. Man through sin fell from that image and likeness.
2. What temptation did Satan use to lure man into sinning?
"You shall be as gods." The very same temptation that
he had succumbed to.
3. It has been such a successful line through the ages
that he has not changed it.
4. I am not suprised at the lie, only at the variety of
messengers who are spreading the lie.
C. There is something in man that desires to be like God. Perhaps
that desire goes back to the Garden of Eden when man fell from
the likeness of God.
1. There is a vast difference between the desire to be
like God, and the declaration that you are god.
2. In Isaiah 46:8 God asks, "Is there a God beside Me?
There is no God, I know not any." When these men who
are claiming to be gods, as they come before the Lord
seeking and entrance into His Kingdom on the basis of
the healings and miracles done in His name, will they
be those to whom He declares, "Depart, I never knew
you."?
He said that He did not know any God other than
Himself.
3. Man takes this desire of his fellowman to be like god,
and exploits it, but being a god takes a lot of money,
it will cost you a lot, your money is a false god that
keeps you from being like god, so you must give all of
your money to the guru, who only is able to handle the
pressures of having wealth, for he is already god.
4. The desire to be like God I believe is planted in the
heart of man by God.
a. In my heart I want to be like God, I want to be
pure as He is pure, holy as He is holy, true as
He is true. Gracious as He is gracious,
forgiving as He is forgiving, merciful as He
is merciful.
b. To this end He has given me the indwelling of
His Holy Spirit that He might conform me into
the image of Jesus Christ.
c. John tells us that we are now the sons of God,
but it does not yet appear what we are going
to be, but we know that when He appears, we
shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He
is.
d. Paul tells us that as we behold the glory of
the Lord we are being changed from glory to
glory, into that same image by the power of
His Spirit working in us.
5. Like God, yes, God please make it a reality in my life.
6. A god? never, that is a lie from the pit of hell, you
are a man, and your glasses, or contacts, your decaying
teeth, and your wrinkled skin, and death in time will
prove it.
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