Unbelievable
April 11
Paul Basden
Part of Unfiltered - April/May 2021

Our goal is to learn how to be

to God, with no façade or pretending
God doesn’t love the ideal you. God loves the you.

What’s so unbelievable?

God has given each of us the incredible honor of creation alongside him

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” (Genesis 1:26, 28, NIV)

God is

Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory in the heavens. (Psalm 8:1, NIV)

In comparison, we humans look really

When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them? (Psalm 8:3-4, NIV)

Yet … God has placed us

all creation

You have made them a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor.
You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their feet:
all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. (Psalm 8:5-8, NIV)

“For He seems to do nothing of Himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures. He commands us to do slowly and blunderingly what He could do perfectly and in the twinkling of an eye.” (C. S. Lewis)

God, we

before you

Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! (Psalm 8:9, NIV)

Why do we have such a hard time believing this unbelievable truth?

False voices:
Atheism
Narcissism
Fundamentalism

Dilemma: when we reach too

(“I am God”) we fall so (“I’m an animal”)

What will happen if you believe this unbelievable truth?

God will help you find your in life

Your role is to influence everyone around you for

and for

Your role is to create

that honors God

  • Culture is when we cultivate raw materials to make life better for

God will help you find

in your life

God will use you to bless as you live out your role