{"id":1018,"date":"2011-07-16T08:26:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T08:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2011-07-16T08:27:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T08:27:57","slug":"is-my-god-the-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"Is My God The God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is My God The God?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Isaiah%2041.%2021-29\">Isaiah 41: 21-29<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An idol is an image made to represent God (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Deuteronomy%204.%2015-19\">Deuteronomy 4: 15-19<\/a>). But idolatry is man worshipping himself (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Romans%201.%2022-25\">Romans 1: 22-25<\/a>). Just as an image is the work of man\u2019s hand, every man whose salvation is in some aspect dependent upon what he has done is worshipping himself regardless of if he worships an image or not. The god of man\u2019s imagination truly has no hands but man \u2019s hands and no feet but man\u2019s feet because the god of man\u2019s imagination is no greater than himself.<\/p>\n<p>The God of heaven and earth saves whom he will apart from the sinner\u2019s contribution (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Romans%209.%2016\">Romans 9: 16<\/a>). No child born of Adam has power to save himself (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Psalm%2014.%202-3\">Psalm 14: 2-3<\/a>). The very term \u201csalvation\u201d declares that the one being saved has no power to save. If one has power to save himself then he does not need to be saved. But the one being saved is entirely dependent upon another to save him. \u201cSalvation-is-of-the-Lord\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Jonah%202.%209\">Jonah 2: 9<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Acts%204.%2012\">Acts 4: 12<\/a>). The God of heaven and earth calls on every man to answer this question, \u201cIs My God THE God?\u201d-Clay Curtis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is My God The God? Isaiah 41: 21-29 An idol is an image made to represent God (Deuteronomy 4: 15-19). But idolatry is man worshipping himself (Romans 1: 22-25). Just as an image is the work of man\u2019s hand, every man whose salvation is in some aspect dependent upon what he has done is worshipping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,41,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-clay-curtis","category-the-eternal-covenant","category-total-depravity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}