How We Misread God

Making Friends With The Lord Jesus · Sep 1, 2025 · 14m

Since we are in the business of dealing with God, we need to read Him correctly. But we go about this in exactly the way we look at Him. If we look at Him like the demon does in the gospel today--that is, he is fearful that God would destroy him--we should understand that that is because of his bad dispositions. His dispositions basically are described best by saying that he wants to displace or replace God. He likes to think that he is God, although this sounds quite ridiculous. But this was how he tempted Adam and Eve. He wanted them to fall for what he did when God required them a test…