We must worship only the Eternal God
Chapter 5
We must worship only the Eternal God
Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God Does he live in you? If anyone destroys the temple of God, God he will destroy him; for the temple of God, which you are, holy is. Let no one deceive himself; if anyone among you create wise in this century, become ignorant, so that you may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written: He catches the wise in their own craftiness. He knows the thoughts of the wise again, what are vain. So, let no one glory in men; because everything is yours: whether Paul, whether Apollos, whether Cephas, whether the world, be it life, be it death, be it the present, be it the future, everything you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
1 Corintios 3:16–23
Technology is fundamental in this generation. A large part of our The way of thinking regarding worship reflects a desire for to exchange a high concept of God's eternity for a criterion to short term called here and now. My ministry of teaching of the The word of God has not been marked by controversy with the true science. I have expressed my suspicions about a variety of perspectives whose origin is clearly based on the foundations of the pseudoscience that generally seeks to eliminate God from the universe. I could never worship a God that is not related to the eternity.
On the other hand, the answers that science provides us are answers in the short term. Scientists may be able to keep us alive for a few more years but Christians know things that Einstein I didn't know. For example, we know why we are on Earth. We can to say why we were born and we also know the value of things eternal.
I confess that I used to read theories about things like the fourth dimension. but a few years ago I stopped trying to understand them. I have nothing in against science and its intention to seek the meaning of things, its relationships and interactions. I do not intend to refute with ignorance towards scientists. My position is the following: let the The scientist will work in his field and I will work in mine. I feel so grateful like anyone else for the benefits of the research and I hope that scientists will soon discover the cure for heart diseases, as I have lost many good friends due to sudden heart attacks.
But I would like you to listen to what I have to say about the difference. essential that exists between short-term matters related to our physical being and the eternal relationship that exists between the believer and his God. If you manage to cure a person of diphtheria when they are a baby or of yellow fever in his adolescence or of a heart attack when turns fifty years old, how much have they achieved? If that person lives and reaches ninety years and is still without God and does not know why what reason was born, has simply perpetuated the life of a "turtle" of the mud." The man who has never encountered God and has not born again is like a turtle with two legs instead of four and it has no shell or tail because it simply still doesn't know about What is life about.
I feel grateful to have found a promise from the God of all grace that is related to the eternal and long-term matters deadline. I belong to an army of simple men who believe in the truth revealed in the Bible.
We are the people who believe that God created the heavens and the earth and everything in it. We believe that God made man to his image and breathed into him the breath of life and said to him: 'Now live in me' presence and adore me because that is your main purpose. Grow and multiply, and fill the earth with other worshipers.
It's true, these simple people, these believers will tell you that God created flowers to be beautiful and birds to sing in a way
that human beings could enjoy them. The scientist, with a a completely different perspective, I would never admit that fact. The scientist It maintains that birds sing for a completely different reason.
It is the male that sings and he does so only to attract the female. in order to unite and reproduce," asserts the scientist. "It is simply biological." It is at this point that I ask the scientist: "Why the Does a bird simply not scream or quack? Why does it have to sing? harmonically as if it were synchronized with a harp?
I think the answer is simple: just because God created it to sing. If I were a male bird and wanted to attract a female, I could to do acrobatics or contortions or to perform all sorts of tricks. But Why does the bird sing so beautifully? It is because the God who he is the best musician in the universe. He is the composer of the cosmos; he created the harp that is in those small throats, he covered them with feathers And he said to them: "Go and sing". Grateful, the birds obeyed and have they have been singing and praising God since they were created.
The scientist could protest and say: 'No, no.' But my heart tells me It indicates that it is so and the Bible declares the same. "He made all things "beautiful in their time" (Ecclesiastes 3:11). I insist, God made the trees so that they would bear fruit for the human race. However, the the scientist shrugs and says: "Of course the trees they produce fruit so that there are new seeds and in this way they they reproduce more fruits. We have the right to replicate: 'Why is it as necessary as the tree bearing fruit if reproduction is the only thing that Doesn't it matter, disregarding the blessing and help it provides? He made the fruit and said to the man: 'Enjoy it.'
God also made the beasts of the field for man to use them. skins for dressing. He also made the sheep with their wool to be shorn in such a way that the man could make bags and coats that they will heat it. God made the small and humble silk worm and gave it provided mulberry leaves as food so that he could get out of his shell. Men have discovered how to unravel the cocoons to produce the charming silk that we admire so much. Certainly
I am not part of the ten best-dressed men in the world but I I prefer a beautiful silk tie to any of the synthetic ones. that are elaborated in the tanks of a factory.
I find it much more charming and satisfying to believe what God speaks about all the things He has granted us so that we let's enjoy, that is to say, that everything has a purpose. In fact, the person The wisest in the world is the one who knows God the most. The only a person worthy of being called intelligent is one who understands that the Response to creation, to life, and to eternity is a response. theological and not a scientific answer. It is necessary to start with God; After that, one begins to understand everything in its context. Correct. Everything falls into place when you start with God.
I wonder if you will understand me correctly about what I am going to Say next. A good number of Christians have acquired evil. habit of being negatively influenced by those people who we consider "enlightened" because they hold titles and honors. This undue deference to intellectual knowledge and achievements needs to be balanced. As Christians, we respect study and the research. We value the long hours dedicated to progress academic but we must always keep in mind the wisdom and the instructions from God.
No matter how much education we obtain in a certain field of study, we will always have learned only small portions of the truth. By on the other hand, the simplest Christian, who may have only been carrying for a few days in the kingdom of God, he has already learned many wonderful things that they form the core of truth. That believer can confess that to know God and to know God is potentially something greater than what all the teachers in this world could ever impart, because those teachers, if they are not with God, are trying to discover the truth from the outside.
In all of this, there is a miracle; that new believer, who just a few days ago before his conversion he was a lost and condemned sinner, he becomes by faith, through grace, a child of God who is within the
truth and observe the world from that perspective. We do not pretend minimize the many achievements made by enlightened people and educated from this world that belong to the pavilion of knowledge. But studying and striving only for the things of this world is not enough because the key is always God. It is up to Him to be the center of all our activities. Ultimately all the doors are They must open through faith with a key called God.
If we want to have a satisfactory and lasting understanding of life, we must receive it from above. It begins with the confession that certainly God, who has been revealed to us through His Word, is the great pillar what sustains the universe. Once we believe that, we move on to recognize that we have discovered his great eternal purpose. God made man and the woman in His own image and then through His plan of salvation he has redeemed and restored us so that we may love and worship him for all eternity.
God said: "I created man in my image and he must be above all the other creatures. He must rule over the beasts of the earth, the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea. The redeemed man must even be by above the angels of heaven. Must enter my presence forgiven and confident. He must adore me and gaze upon my face for all the centuries.
God is the only certain foundation. The joy that security produces. it belongs to the believers. I started sharing with them when I converted at the age of seventeen. Until that moment, I didn't know. nothing about love, hope, trust, or faith in God. There is millions of people today who are as lost as they I was there because they still do not know God and are confused with Regarding existence; they lack the knowledge of the afterlife.
The Christians I am talking about are the saints, the spiritual, the children of God. They have a more beautiful perspective of the world that of the scientists because they say: 'We know what we believe; we know that we are in this world to worship and enjoy God and we also know what God is willing to do throughout
eternity for those who love it." Therefore, this kind of people knows important things that are of an eternal nature and remain hidden to the men and women who seek the answers of life and the present world in science.
The average person, without faith or hope or God, is immersed in a a personal and desperate search throughout his entire existence. No has clarity about where they are, what they are doing in this world and much less where it is headed. The sad thing about it is that life who lives lives with borrowed time and money and strengths that they don't belong to him either; he knows for sure that someday eventually he will die. It all comes down to the baffling expression that many We should admit: 'We lost God somewhere along the way.'
What happens when people lose God? I think it is quite it is evident that they spend a lot of time trying to find something more than may worship. The human being, who was made more in the image of God, that any other created creature has become a being. less similar to God than the other creatures. It's as if it had become withdrawn in a grumpy manner to live in his world and instead of reflecting the glory of God, for which it was created, prefers to reflect its own sinfulness.
It is certainly a tragedy above any other tragedy that it happens in this world that man, created with a designed soul to worship, sing and praise the glory of God, isolate oneself with stinginess and anger in his selfish world. Love has disappeared from his heart and the light of his mind. Since he has lost God, he stumbles blindly in his journey through his dark world to finally find himself only with a grave.
In a radio interview, a question was asked to a brilliant and famous Canadian author; the insightful question was about the world. modern. "What do you consider to be the most concerning mistake that we are committing in our civilization and in our society moderna?". Her answer was short and to the point. "I believe that our grossest error is the naive belief that humans
we are the special creatures of the Almighty God, to believe that we are more important than other things in the world and that God has a love especially for us.
Please, friend! Man, as he was originally created, is the beloved of God. In fact, man is the beloved of the entire universe. Since I found out that Jesus came into the world to be my savior, I have led my life by the guidance of God revealed in the Scripture. Without no matter how brilliant a man's mind is, it cannot destabilize with respect to the things of God. It throws me its earthly conclusions and their objections without causing any effect.
In fact, the differences between disbelief and faith, hopelessness and certainty, the human point of view and the perspective of God, they usually become apparent when the believer faces the death. We know that when John Wesley was leaving this world, tried to sing, but his voice was practically dead. He had about ninety years; they had traveled hundreds of thousands of miles to horse, preaching three and even four times a day, to establish a great church. It was totally Arminian in its theology but when its relatives and friends gathered around her bedside, trying with her few. forces to sing the words of an old Calvinist hymn:
I will praise my Creator while I live,
And when my soul faces death
I will use the best I have within me to worship
That's why I don't get carried away by emotion when discussing the theological stance. that each of these schools teaches. If Isaac Watts, who was a Calvinist Cristiano could write that praise to God and John Wesley, as an Arminian Christian, he could sing it with all his heart; yes both can meet and embrace in glory, why should I let go Why should I be forced to confess which school I belong to? Should I allow them to bother me with that issue?
I was created to praise and worship God. I was redeemed to be able to to adore it and enjoy it. That is the main theme, beloved brother and
sister in Christ. It is for that reason that we wholeheartedly invite men to be converted, receiving Jesus as Lord and Savior. God does not ask you to come to Christ to obtain peace of mind or to be a better man or woman in business. You were created to worship and God wants you to know the redemption that He offers so that born in his heart the desire to worship and praise Him alone.