Jeremiah TiptonFounder in president of David Hernandez ministries

False gods

3 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief sermon, the speaker argues that people become like the deity they worship. He explains that if a person’s perception of God is distorted—seeing Him as angry, distant, punitive, or miracle‑less—those same emotions (anger, depression, anxiety, loss of faith) will manifest in the worshiper. The core solution offered is to ground one’s understanding of God in the Bible and the Holy Spirit’s revelation, rejecting personal hopes, preferences, or worldly compromises as bases for belief.

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You become like that which you worship. If you have misperceived God, if you have allowed distortions from your emotions, from your mind, from your surroundings to affect your perception of God in such a way that you see him as angry, you're going to be angry. If you allowed your perception of God to cause you to see him as someone who is distant and cold, you're going to be depressed. Someone who wants to punish you, you're going to be filled with anxiety. someone who stopped doing miracles, you're gonna lose your faith. Why? Because you become like that which you worship. This is why it's so important that we ground ourselves on the Word, that we not see God according to what we hope is true, that we not see God according to what we want to be true, that we not see God according to our preferences and our compromises and the things that we want to have in this world, but we see God according to the way He's revealed Himself through Scripture, by revelation from the Holy Spirit. Amen.