Knowing God (8 of 8)
Series: Red Sea Moments
James Merritt
Exodus 33
Introduction
1. Albert Einstein is universally recognized as one of the most brilliant men to ever live. He is undisputedly recognized as the greatest and most brilliant scientist who has ever lived or perhaps ever will live. He single-handedly created modern physics which revolves around two theories he developed: relativity and quantum mechanics. He was studying college physics when he was eleven years old. They didn’t measure IQ back in his day. It is now estimated his IQ was at least 170. Yet, he made a statement about God that will make you both glad and sad. One the Bible even affirms, but the other the Bible disavows.
2. Here is the first thing he said, ‘‘Certainly there is a God. Any man who doesn’t believe in a cosmic force is a fool...’’. He just stated something that David said thousands of years before,
‘‘The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’’’ (Psalm 14:1, NIV)
That statement ought to make us glad.
3. Then, he went on to say this, ‘‘...but we could never know him...’’ That statement is not only catastrophically wrong, but it is incredibly sad, because what good is it to believe in a God you cannot know? If the Bible is true then we can come to know God. God created a world so that we would know what he has done, but God not only gave us a book, but sent his son so we could know who he is.
4. That brings us to a man we have been studying named Moses in a series we have been calling, ‘‘Red Sea Moments.’’ Moses is all of us. He was just like us. He went through things we went through, experienced things we have experienced. He had ups and downs. He had good points and bad points. One of the things that is so encouraging about Moses is this - he knew God. As we study the thirty-third chapter of the Book of Exodus, Moses makes a statement to God that we can all make and it came true for him and it will come true for you.
‘‘If you are pleased with me, teach ...
Series: Red Sea Moments
James Merritt
Exodus 33
Introduction
1. Albert Einstein is universally recognized as one of the most brilliant men to ever live. He is undisputedly recognized as the greatest and most brilliant scientist who has ever lived or perhaps ever will live. He single-handedly created modern physics which revolves around two theories he developed: relativity and quantum mechanics. He was studying college physics when he was eleven years old. They didn’t measure IQ back in his day. It is now estimated his IQ was at least 170. Yet, he made a statement about God that will make you both glad and sad. One the Bible even affirms, but the other the Bible disavows.
2. Here is the first thing he said, ‘‘Certainly there is a God. Any man who doesn’t believe in a cosmic force is a fool...’’. He just stated something that David said thousands of years before,
‘‘The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’’’ (Psalm 14:1, NIV)
That statement ought to make us glad.
3. Then, he went on to say this, ‘‘...but we could never know him...’’ That statement is not only catastrophically wrong, but it is incredibly sad, because what good is it to believe in a God you cannot know? If the Bible is true then we can come to know God. God created a world so that we would know what he has done, but God not only gave us a book, but sent his son so we could know who he is.
4. That brings us to a man we have been studying named Moses in a series we have been calling, ‘‘Red Sea Moments.’’ Moses is all of us. He was just like us. He went through things we went through, experienced things we have experienced. He had ups and downs. He had good points and bad points. One of the things that is so encouraging about Moses is this - he knew God. As we study the thirty-third chapter of the Book of Exodus, Moses makes a statement to God that we can all make and it came true for him and it will come true for you.
‘‘If you are pleased with me, teach ...
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