Our Accountability Before God

God is Great! That thought comes out in the Bible from the first verse to the last. He is majestic, infinite, and wonderful beyond words! This entire universe, of which we something new about every day it seems, is His creative work. The supreme difference between the teaching of the Bible and the teaching of modern thought is this - the teaching of the Bible is an infinite God and an infinitesimal humanity, except as God's goodness makes him great. The teaching of modern literature and modern thought is the opposite; that we are infinite and the idea of a deity is inconsequential to our progress and worldview. This type of thinking has crept into the sanctuaries, pulpits, and worldviews of far too many professing Christians who have either not been properly taught the Word or have come to their own finite conclusions that the God in which they claim to believe in and serve is somehow subservient to us and a handy "lifeline" for those times where we find ourselves in varied troubles or difficulty. The Scriptures tell us that this ungodly and condescending attitude towards the Holy and Reverent is a certain sign of the last days and the soon return of the Lord Jesus Christ as He promised and declared.

I want to quote from The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith in Modern English on the person and nature of the Sovereign LORD God Almighty and you tell me how far we have fallen in terms of awe, reverence, and fear of Him (Hebrews 10:31):

"The LORD our GOD is One, the only living and true God. He is self-existent and infinite in being and perfection. His essence cannot be understood by anyone but Him. He is a perfectly pure spirit. He is invisible and has no body, parts, or changeable emotions. He alone has immortality dwelling in light that none can approach. He is unchangeable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible, almighty, in every way infinite, absolutely holy, perfectly wise, wholly free, completely absolute. He works all things according to the counsel of His own unchangeable and completely righteous will for His own glory. He is most loving, gracious, merciful, and patient. He overflows with goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. He rewards those who seek Him diligently. At the same time, He is perfectly just and terrifying in His judgments. He hates all sin and will certainly not clear the guilty. GOD has all life, glory, goodness and blessedness in and of Himself. He alone is all-sufficient in Himself. He does not need any creature He has made nor does He derive any glory from them. Instead, He demonstrates His own glory in them, by them, to them, and upon them. He alone is the source of all being, and everything is from Him, through Him and to Him. He has absolute sovereign rule over all creatures, to act through them, for them, or upon them as He pleases. In His sight everything is open and visible. His knowledge is infinite and infallible. It does not depend upon any creature, so for Him nothing is contingent or uncertain. He is absolutely holy in all His plans, in all His works, and in all His commands. Angels and human beings owe to Him all the worship, service, or obedience that creatures owe to the Creator and whatever else He is pleased to require of them." (1 Corinthians 8:4, 6; Deuteronomy 6:4; Jeremiah 10:10; Isaiah 48:12; Exodus 3:14; John 4:24; 1 Timothy 1:17; Deuteronomy 4:15-16; Malachi 3:6; 1 Kings 8:27; Jeremiah 23:23; Psalm 90:2; Genesis 17:1; Isaiah 6:3; Psalm 115:3; Isaiah 46:10; Proverbs 16:4; Romans 11:36; Exodus 34:6, 7; Hebrews 11:6; Nehemiah 9:32-33; Psalm 5:5-6; Exodus 34:7; Nahum 1:2-3; John 5:26; Psalms 119:68, 145:17, 148:13; Job 22:2-3; Daniel 4:25, 34-35; Hebrews 4:13; Ezekiel 11:5; Acts 15:18 ; Revelation 5:12-14) (c) 2012, 2017 Founders Press.

Stop and think. There are nearly seven billion people upon this planet like you. You are just one out of that vast number. Not very big, are you? Hold on further. This earth on which seven billion of us live is just one part of the universe. If our sun were hollow with a hole bored into it, 1,400,000 earths could be poured into it with room to spare. But, our sun is only one of numerous stars much larger, more bright, and more powerful, set within the numerous galaxies that we have discovered thus far. God made them all with precision, accuracy, and purpose. That God whose Holy name you took upon your lips in vain and blasphemy last evening and perhaps today as you read this message; that God about how you dare to philosophize about how He ought to behave and act in order to satisfy your finite observations and assumptions - you have the audacity and nerve to go before Him with a chest full of pride and a mind with limited knowledge and comprehension of that which your senses try to even understand. You cannot be serious about such warped thinking, can you?