As a matter of fact, let me share something with you. Sunday morning is the greatest hour of idolotry in America. Did you know that? Now people always come to me when I say, 'You hated God' and they'll say, 'No I didn't.'
I'll say, 'Yes, you did.'
They'll say, 'No I didn't. I loved God.'
'No you didn't.'
'What do you mean I didn't love God. I loved God.'
'No, you didn't love God. You loved a figment of your own imagination.'
You know pastors will sometimes ask me to come and teach on the attributes of God and I'll say 'You probably don't want me to do that.'
They'll say, 'Why?'
'Because it'll probably split your church.'
'Teaching on the attriubutes of God will split my church?'
"Yes, it will. Because if I start teaching on the love of God - fine. But if I start teaching on the justice of God, the holiness of God, the sovereignty of God I'll make it about three days in most churches - if that long - and you know what will happen? People will start standing up and go, 'That's not my God. I could never love a God like that!'"
That's why people all over America today are sitting in churches and they are committing idolotry. Because they are not singing to the God of the Bible, they are singing to a god they made with their own minds that looks more like Santa Clause than he does Yahweh.
Richard Owen Roberts once mentioned that AIDS was the judment of God. And some lady got so angry she couldn't see straight. She stood up and said, 'AIDS is not the judgment of God.'
He said, 'Ma'am, what's your proof?'
She said, 'Because little babies die of AIDS. Therefore AIDS is not the judgment of God.'
Richard Owen Roberts said, 'How many little babies do you think God killed when He flooded the earth in the time of Noah?'
You don't love a God like that, do you? He's not politically correct. You think about it. We're talking about God.
As C.S. Lewis always said and I'm fond to repeat, 'He's not a tame Lion.'
That's another thing young people don't quite understand. You've got so many charlatans who say God is here and God is there and God showed up here last night. I dare say that He doesn't show up much, because when God really shows up, it's not to tickle. The presence of God is as terrible as it is wonderful.
-Paul Washer [excerpts from Man Apart from God and What is the Gospel?]
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Hello, I once found the excerpt on Youtube that included the part about Richard Owen Roberts, but since I have forgotten the videos name and cannot find it on youtube. Would you be able to send me a link. Would be greatly appreciated!
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