Our Concept of God

If you can destroy a person’s Biblical concept of God or Jesus Christ, they will not know where they are going until it is too late. This is the gravest danger of our present generation. The enemy has utterly succeeded in altering how the world, and even the church, thinks about God. The Biblical view of the Godhead is absolute holiness. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit exist in a realm untouched by uncleanness or defilement. The Biblical Sovereign God cannot even look on sin. “Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity…” (Habakkuk 1:13a).

The Father hid His face when the Son of God was in the throes of dying for sin. Even the substitutional guilt that hung on Christ’s very person was more than Divine eyes could watch. For three hours perfect blackness enveloped the hill of Calvary and the rocky foundation of this earth cracked and rumbled. “And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst” (Luke 23:44-45). The Son of God cried, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46b). Sin, substitutional sin, is why HE was forsaken by His Father.

The Father’s book is the Holy Bible. It is not a book of suggestions. Every precept of the Bible is God-breathed. It is impossible as a believer to have a different concept of God than their concept of His Bible. If the Bible is changeable, God must be changeable. The smorgasbord of Bibles has created a smorgasbord of gods. Christianity used to be an absolute religion. Only the fools of the past dared to claim God and doubt His perfection. A religion of uncertainty creates a church just like the present uncertain church world. The problem is simple; our concepts of God have fallen.

It has been proven by statistics that abortion, adultery, fornication, and every major sin is as bad and sometimes worse in the church than in the secular world. That’s the end result of religious sinning. The present church really has it on the world. The world that rejects Christ will pay for their sins, but the new church world has all of God’s promises and can sin without fear or retribution. This represents a view of God that tolerates this very life that cost Jesus Christ His horrible abuse and death by crucifixion and other inhuman atrocities.

The Son of God had to be judged with the worse mutilations that sin offered. His death was not just the giving up of the ghost; it had to be equal to sin’s brutality. Isaiah said it perfectly, “As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men” (Isaiah 52:14). The Father’s hatred of sin was pictured in His Son’s marred form. Isaiah further stated, “Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand” (Isaiah 53:10).

When men teach a sinning religion, they are enemies of the cross. It is the apostasy of this closing generation and multitudes are worshipping a God they refuse to exalt as absolutely Holy. The concepts of our Sovereign God have been watered down until He appears more like a Santa Clause than the exalted Father.

More and more, I find myself weeping before my Father and my Savior Jesus Christ. Their majesty is beyond the highest possible human concept of what majesty means. Our God in three persons is transcending in the perfection of Divinity. He is “Holy, Holy, Holy” as the angels continuously proclaim. His saints have been called unto Holiness and to even consider less is to deny the power of His blood and the purity of His being.

The Apostle Paul’s concept of God Himself and the saints He has called is a perfect picture of a Biblical mindset. He declared to the Corinthian church, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty” (II Corinthians 6:14-18).

This is our concept of God that transforms a helpless sinner into a beautiful saint that will shine as a light in this corrupt world. His righteousness is available in Christ to lift you up and preserve you for Himself. He is the Light of the world and you are His reflection!