Sermonette: The Temple of the Lord <\/p>\n
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description: (hide) David Grabbe, reflecting that the scattering of God’s people, including the recent Diaspora of the former Worldwide Church of God, has historically been caused by idolatry, suggesting that, as Judah had placed greater trust in the "temple" before God, many placed greater trust in the "church" than in God. As Judah placed greater trust in the temple of the Lord than the Lord of the Temple, the recent scattering of the Greater Church of God stemmed from smugly assuming that "being in the church" would make questionable or marginal behaviors acceptable or condoned by God. If our confidence is in ourselves as the spiritual "temple of God, "we are practicing another form of idolatry. We cannot place our trust in anything (church, other people, or ourselves) other than God. If we do, we are practicing idolatry, inviting the disapproval of Almighty God. <\/p>\n
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Sermonette: The Temple of the Lord Keeping the Right Perspective #730s David C. Grabbe Given 23-Jul-05; 15 minutes listen: description: (hide) David Grabbe, reflecting that the scattering of God’s people, including the recent Diaspora of the former Worldwide Church of God, has historically been caused by idolatry, suggesting that, as Judah had placed greater trust … Continue reading “Sermonette: The Temple of the Lord”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}