Transcript “You thought that I was altogether like you”

“You thought that I was
altogether like you”
Psalm 50:16-23
“You thought that I was altogether like you”
• God does not think like us
Isaiah 55:8-9
Isaiah 55:8-9
“For My thoughts are not your
thoughts, Nor are your ways My
ways,” says the LORD. 9 “For as the heavens
are higher than the earth, So are My ways
higher than your ways, And My thoughts than
your thoughts.”
We are not the standard for right and
wrong, and can’t rely on our own
feelings to determine the matter.
“You thought that I was altogether like you”
• God does not think like us
Isaiah 55:8-9
• God is not limited in knowledge like us
Romans 11:33-36; (cf. Psalm 73:9a, 11);
1 Corinthians 1:25
Romans 11:33-36
Oh, the depth of the riches both
of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable are His judgments and His
ways past finding out! 34 For who has known
the mind of the LORD? Or who has become
His counselor? 35 Or who has first given to
Him And it shall be repaid to him?" 36 For of
Him and through Him and to Him are all
things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
Psalm 73:9a,11
(9), They set their mouth against
the heavens...
(11), And they say, “How does God know?
And is there knowledge in the Most High?”
“How does God know?” (Impudence).
God knows much more than you!
1 Corinthians 1:25
Because the foolishness of God
is wiser than men, and the weakness
of God is stronger than men.
“You thought that I was altogether like you”
• God does not think like us
Isaiah 55:8-9
• God is not limited in knowledge like us
Romans 11:33-36; (cf. Psalm 73:9a, 11);
1 Corinthians 1:25
• God is not limited by time like us
Psalm 90:2; Isaiah 46:8-10
Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were brought
forth, Or ever You had formed the earth
and the world, Even from everlasting to
everlasting, You are God.
Isaiah 46:8-10
Remember this, and show
yourselves men; Recall to mind, O you
transgressors. 9 Remember the former things
of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I
am God, and there is none like Me, 10
Declaring the end from the beginning, And
from ancient times things that are not yet
done, Saying, “My counsel shall stand, And I
will do all My pleasure.”
“You thought that I was altogether like you”
• God does not think like us
Isaiah 55:8-9
• God is not limited in knowledge like us
Romans 11:33-36; (cf. Psalm 73:9a, 11);
1 Corinthians 1:25
• God is not limited by time like us
Psalm 90:2; Isaiah 46:8-10
• God is not limited in power like us
Job 42:1-2
Job 42:1-2
Then Job answered the LORD and
said: 2 “I know that You can do everything,
And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld
from You.”
This shows the absurdity of exalting
oneself against the Almighty in heaven!
“You thought that I was altogether like you”
• God does not think like us
Isaiah 55:8-9
• God is not limited in knowledge like us
Romans 11:33-36; (cf. Psalm 73:9a, 11);
1 Corinthians 1:25
• God is not limited by time like us
Psalm 90:2; Isaiah 46:8-10
• God is not limited in power like us
Job 42:1-2
• God does not sin like us
Numbers 23:19; (cf. 2 Corinthians 5:10)
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that He should
lie, Nor a son of man, that He should
repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or
has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the
judgment seat of Christ, that each one
may receive the things done in the body,
according to what he has done, whether good
or bad.
We will appear in judgment before the
One who is sinless. It is a righteous
thing with God to hold man accountable
for his actions on earth.
Conclusion
Which God do you serve? Do you
serve the god designed by the will
and wisdom of men? Do you serve
the god you have created in your own
mind? Or, do you serve the true and
living God, the God of the Bible?