Taking God For Granted

The problem with our world today is not with a God who has never failed and is faithful from generation to generation. The problem in the world today are the hearts of evil men who take God for granted. And today, we turn to Psalms 78, and we see a chapter in Israel's history in which, time and time again, in spite of God's goodness on their life, they took him for granted. By God's grace and through the leading of his Holy Spirit, in this generation, I pray that we do not do the same. Let's read Psalms 78:5 together.

"For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: that the generation to come might know them, the children who would be born, that they may arise and declare them to their children, that they may set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments, and may not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set its heart aright and whose spirit was not faithful to God".

Heavenly Father, through the power of your Holy Spirit and the anointing of your presence in this place, I pray that today, when we leave here, our hearts would be set right and that we would be found faithful to a God who has never failed us. In Jesus' name, we pray and ask. All of God's children said, praise the Lord.

When you read Psalms 78, it begins by saying that God was so kind to the children of Israel in that he gave them his word. And when he gave them the word, the testimony that he gave to Jacob, he commanded them, "You fathers teach these words to your children". He gave them a responsibility with the gift that he had given. And what you need to know, beginning in this chapter, is that with great gifts, comes great responsibility. The problem in this generation is with the hearts of wicked men who take a faithful God for granted. The world that we live in is filled with the kind of people that Paul warned Timothy about in 2 Timothy 3:5. He said, "They have a form of Godliness but they deny the power thereof".

These are the kinds of people that hit the campaign trail and make statements like "God bless America," and then, when they're elected, they forget God exists. These are the kinds of people that want to ban "In God we trust" and take "One nation out of God" off of anything that has to do with our nation. They want prayer out of our schools. And then they proclaim that there is no God but you must trust the science. Have you noticed how "In God we trust" has been replaced with "Trust the science"?

How many of you remember when science was something that they used to discover truth? You know, Isaac Newton, whenever he saw the apple fall from the tree, he wanted to know why. So, he used science and he proved the law of? Okay. Science used to be used to discover truth. Now, "Science" is a word that tyrants use to camouflage things that they want to control you with. Science used to seek truth. Now, science tells lies. Science tells lies like there is no longer male and female. You are whatever you feel. Trust the science. Here's the thing about trust: you are either going to bow before God and put your trust in him so that you have the courage to stand before tyrants, or you are going to bow before tyrants and put your trust in the science and have a form of Godliness but deny the power thereof.

My earnest admonition to you, church, my earnest admonition to you, America, my earnest admonition to all who are reading this transcript today, have faith in God! Put your trust in El Shaddai because he is the all-sufficient one. Humble yourself before him and worship him in the beauty of holiness. Do not be afraid or dismayed: for there is no God like our God. He is great and greatly to be praised. Church, we live in a world that is filled with darkness but our God has overcome the world! When you read Psalms 78, you realize that God gave the children of Israel a great gift and a great responsibility. And rather than take care of their responsibility, they took God for granted.

And when I read Psalms 78, I encourage you to go read the whole chapter, it goes on and on, verse after verse, of how good God was and how they continued to test him. They continued to disobey him. They continued to see what they could get away with. When I read Psalms 78, the first thing that comes to my mind is, how dare you. How dare you treat such a good God so poorly? How dare you take God for granted? Just consider four short verses in Psalms 78, beginning at verse 12. The Psalmist describes all of the marvelous things: that's his words. He said, "Marvelous things, God did in their sight".