Today’s Spiritual Myth:  

God Is...

People have often finished this phrase with a variety of descriptive words in order to make God understandable.

The most popular is ‘God is love,’ but is this a good way for us to picture

God. Is it true, or is it a myth? 

Source:

• Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love– 1 John 4:8

Implication:

• If God = Love and Love = God then we can _______ God if we know love.

Implication:

• If God = Love and Love = God then we can _______ God if we know love.KNOW

Problem:

• Isn’t their ___________ to God than just love

Problem:

• Isn’t their ___________ to God than just love

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The Study:The Ten Commandments

Exodus 20:11And God spoke all these words: 2“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3“You shall have no other gods before me. 4“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

The Study:• Don’t have other __________

• Don’t fixate on certain _____________ of God, or His creation

The Study:• Don’t have other __________

• Don’t fixate on certain _____________ of God, or His creation

GODS

The Study:• Don’t have other __________

• Don’t fixate on certain _____________ of God, or His creation

GODS

ATTRIBUTES

The Answer:

• We should worship, serve and follow the _________ God

The Answer:

• We should worship, serve and follow the _________ God ENTIRETY

Deut 4:24For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a

jealous God.

Deut 4:31For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your

forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath.

Deut 7:9Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is

the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.

Deut 9:3But be assured today that the Lord your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will destroy

them; he will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as

the Lord has promised you.

Deut 10:17For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord

of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who

shows no partiality and accepts no bribes.

Deut 20:4For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to

give you victory.”

Deut 33:27The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the

everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemy before you, saying, ‘Destroy him!’

Josh 24:19Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the Lord. He is a holy God; he is a jealous God. He

will not forgive your rebellion and your sins.

2 Sam 22:3my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my

salvation. He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior—

from violent men you save me.

1 Chron 17:2Nathan replied to David, “Whatever you

have in mind, do it, for God is with you.”

2 Chron 2:5“The temple I am going to build will be great, because our God is

greater than all other gods.

2 Chron 13:12God is with us; he is our leader. His priests with their

trumpets will sound the battle cry against you. Men of Israel, do not fight against the Lord, the God of

your fathers, for you will not succeed.”

2 Chron 2:5“The temple I am going to build will be great, because our God is

greater than all other gods.

2 Chron 13:12God is with us; he is our leader. His priests with their

trumpets will sound the battle cry against you. Men of Israel, do not fight against the Lord, the God of

your fathers, for you will not succeed.”

2 Chron 30:9If you return to the Lord, then your brothers and your children

will be shown compassion by their captors and will come back to this

land, for the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn

his face from you if you return to him.”

Job 33:12“But I tell you, in this you are not right, for God is greater than man.

Job 36:5“God is mighty, but does not despise men; he is

mighty, and firm in his purpose.

Job 36:22“God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher

like him?

Ps 7:11God is a righteous judge, a God who expresses

his wrath every day.

Ps 14:5There they are, overwhelmed with dread, for God is present in the

company of the righteous.

Ps 18:2The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the

horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Ps 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is the

Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance.

Ps 46:1For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah.

According to alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present

help in trouble.

Ps 48:14For this God is our God for ever and ever; he

will be our guide even to the end.

Ps 54:4Surely God is my help; the Lord is the one

who sustains me.

Ps 56:9Then my enemies will turn back when I call for help. By this I will know that

God is for me.

Ps 62:8Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out

your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.

Ps 68:20Our God is a God who saves; from the

Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.

Ps 73:1A psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel,

to those who are pure in heart.

Ps 73:26My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Ps 77:13Your ways, O God, are holy. What god is so

great as our God?

Ps 84:11For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord

bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold

from those whose walk is blameless.

Ps 89:7In the council of the holy ones God is greatly

feared; he is more awesome than all who surround him.

Ps 99:9Exalt the Lord our God and worship at his holy mountain, for the Lord our

God is holy.

Ps 115:3Our God is in heaven; he does whatever

pleases him.

Ps 116:5The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.

Prov 30:5“Every word of God is flawless; he is a

shield to those who take refuge in him.

Eccles 5:2Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in

your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let

your words be few.

Isa 8:10Devise your strategy, but it will be

thwarted; propose your plan, but it will not stand,

for God is with us

Isa 12:2Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not

be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my

song; he has become my salvation.”

Jer 3:23Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills and mountains is a deception;

surely in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

Dan 2:47The king said to Daniel, “Surely your God is the

God of gods and the Lord of kings and a revealer of

mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery.”

Dan 5:21He was driven away from people and given the mind of an

animal; he lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like cattle; and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he acknowledged that the Most

High God is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and sets over them

anyone he wishes.

Dan 9:9The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even

though we have rebelled against him;

Dan 9:14The Lord did not hesitate to bring the

disaster upon us, for the Lord our God is righteous in everything he does; yet we

have not obeyed him.

Hos 9:8The prophet, along with my God, is the

watchman over Ephraim, yet snares await him on all his paths, and hostility in

the house of his God.

Mark 12:32“Well said, teacher,” the man replied.

“You are right in saying that God is one and there is no

other but him.

John 3:33The man who has accepted it has certified

that God is truthful.

John 4:24God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship

in spirit and in truth.”

John 8:54Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory

means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your

God, is the one who glorifies me.

John 13:31When he was gone, Jesus said, “Now is

the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him.

John 13:32If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the

Son in himself, and will glorify him at once.

Rom 8:31What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be

against us?

Rom 11:23And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

1 Cor 1:25For the foolishness of God is wiser

than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger

than man’s strength.

1 Cor 10:13No temptation has seized you except what is

common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be

tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

1 Cor 14:25and the secrets of his heart will be laid bare.

So he will fall down and worship God, exclaiming,

“God is really among you!”

1 Cor 14:33For God is not a God of disorder but of

peace. As in all the congregations of the saints,

2 Cor 9:8And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you

will abound in every good work.

Gal 3:20A mediator, however, does not

represent just one party; but God is one.

1 Thess 2:5You know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover

up greed—God is our witness.

Heb 3:4For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

Heb 6:10God is not unjust; he will not forget your work

and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and

continue to help them.

Heb 11:16Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city

for them.

Heb 12:7Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating

you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his

father?

Heb 12:29for our “God is a consuming fire.”

1 John 1:5This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him

there is no darkness at all.

1 John 3:20whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

1 John 4:8Whoever does not love does not know God,

because God is love.

1 John 4:16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love.

Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

Rev 21:3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is

with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with

them and be their God.

This MYTH Is ___________BUSTED