What if your belief struggle had more to do with incorrect beliefs? What if the reason you are having trouble believing in God is because you are believing in the wrong God?

Today we are going to reveal a wrong belief about a god who needs to be rejected. It is time to move on from the On-Demand God.

Welcome to Redemption Church. We are a mighty Church in Plano Tx. We are a church that reads the Bible and then believes God can do those amazing things in us.

Welcome to everyone in the room. And welcome to all our friends experiencing the Word of God over the the internet. God bless you all… or as we say in Texas… God bless ya’ll.

We are starting a new sermon series today called “I want to believe, but…”

Can we be honest for a moment and just admit that it is sometimes difficult to believe.

Anonymous Text Line

I want you to pull out your phone and text our anonymous text-line. Tell us what has been the hardest thing for you to believe concerning God. Maybe it is something you have overcome, or maybe it is something you still struggle with… but either way I think it would be so great to admit that we have all had “I want to believe, but” moments.

Our anonymous text-line is 214-856-0550. The text is completely anonymous. If you would like to talk through faith issues just let us know, we would love to do this… but we also think it would be so beneficial for us to simply admit that faith has not come naturally to us.

I think most people on the face of the planet would say they want to believe in God…. but..

I want to believe, but…

I am 38 years old, and over the course of my life I have seen the world change in the area of faith. Growing up it was rare to meet someone who didn’t believe in God. In the 80’s, living in the Bible belt buckle called Waco, Tx, it was all but assumed that you believed in God and belonged to a local church.

All these years later there is a very much different culture around us. I would say that there are on the extremes people who absolutely do not believe in God, and those that absolutely do believe in God, and then in the middle are the majority of people who “want to believe, but…”

They want to believe, but there is a reason they are struggling to believe. Over the next weeks we are going to be looking at these reasons.

Here is what I believe. I believe that most people are having trouble believing in God, because they have the wrong beliefs about God. I believe that you may not be rejecting the true God, but that you are rejecting the distorted view you have of God.

All our distorted views of God actually need to be rejected

Your faith struggle is a truthful & beneficial & purifying spiritual experience.

Over these 4 weeks we will be looking at 4 distorted views of God that need to be rejected.

Today we will be talking about an “On-demand god.”

In week 2 we will be discussing a “kill joy god.”

In week 3 we will be talking about a “goosebump god.”

And finally in week 4 we will reject a “heartless god.”

I know that you have friends and family that are struggling in these areas. Please bring them. Please share this sermon with them through social media.

I also want to say that in this series we will actually use less Scripture. Not because we can’t find scripture to back up our claims, but because we want to ask more questions as a way of confronting our distorted views of God.

In fact, in a very controversial act, I am going to take my text today from atheist, Richard Dawkins book “the God Delusion.”

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” – Richard Dawkins

Let’s think about this for a moment.

One God Further

Are you atheist (a theist) when it comes to Zeus , the sky & thunder god of Greek Mythology? That is to say that you don’t believe in Zeus… You have looked at the information andhave gone one god further by rejecting Zeus.

Are you an atheist when it comes to Ra the Egyptian sun god…? Do you not believe in Ra? Have you gone one god further when it comes to Ra?

This world is filled with false gods and they should be rejected when we find them to be untrue.

We mentioned some false god’s who had statues built for them… but not all false god’s have statues. There are some things we can make a god.

Materialism can become your god. I suggest you reject that god.

Pride can become your god. You should go one god further and leave behind pride.

You can begin to worship what other people think about you. You can hold your job or your family to the place of god. Even religion could become your god… There are GOOD THINGS in life that can start to be treated as GOD THINGS.

This is what we call Idolatry… When we take things that are not God, yet worship them as God.

Do not worship GOOD things as GOD things. Only God should receive your adoration.

We need to go one god further from false religious god.

We need to go one god further from idolatry.

But here is where we need to be very careful…

Be careful that your distorted view does not cause you to reject the true God.

Many people move one god further from the God of the Bible, because they have a distorted view, an incorrect belief, or a misunderstanding of scripture.

We need to reject our distorted views so that the true image of God may appear.

With this understood I want to present to you a distortion I call “On Demand God.”

On Deman