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<div class="SSN_title">"WHO IS YOUR GOD?"</div>
<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Assumption of question - every man has a god. Importance of question - you are becoming like your God.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. BASIC GODS OF O.T. MOLECH, BAAL, MAMMON.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Baal worship of intellect.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Modern education craze.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Education is phanasia to world's ills.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Education is good as means to an end but it is not the end.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Molech worship of flesh.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Live for pleasure, excitement, sensation.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Expressed in Epicurean philosophy.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Anything that brings pleasure is good.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Mammon worship of power.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Protagorian theory of philosophy "Might is Right."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Some say mammon is money?</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Why do they want money?</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Money is closest thing to omnipotence we possess.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Money is closest thing to impotence we possess.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE PARADOXES OF THESE FALSE GODS.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. What is the end of those who worship intellect?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. The ultimate knowledge the knowledge of God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Agnostic - cannot be known - unknowable.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Latin ignoramus.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Molech the worship of pleasure - indulges in drink.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Lust.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Dope addict classic illustration.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. He who seeks to satisfy all his appetites and desires, ends with an unsatisfiable desire.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. What happens to him who makes power his god?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Ends up a slave.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Hattie Green.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">III. MAN MAKING GODS.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Make him like themselves.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Projections of himself to immensity.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Makes him less than himself.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Eyes do not see.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Ears do not hear.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. WHEN GOD MAKES A MAN.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Makes him like Himself.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. "We with open face beholding the glory."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. "Unto the measure of the stature of the fullness."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. "Conformed to His image."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Makes him more than he ever could be.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. My religion is either man-made or God-given.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. "Righteousness."</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">V. WHO IS YOUR GOD?</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Best not to answer the question this morning.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Might be more appropriate tonight when one-eyed idol you have erected in your living room is beckoning your attention.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Tomorrow night seeking pleasure rather than Word.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Watch a man and he will soon reveal his god.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. He becomes like him.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Your very actions reveal your god.</div>
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