In this brief sermon, the speaker condemns a harmful theological view that treats the Bible like a remote control, suggesting believers can manipulate or coerce God by invoking scripture. He argues that God's word is not a tool for control but a standard that humans must submit to, serving as the means to understand God's nature rather than a means to command Him.
There is some really bad theology floating around out there that basically implies that you can strong-arm God into a response. It implies that you can persuade God or that you can take his word and say, Lord, you have to do this because your word says this, as if we're the ones that have control over him because we have the remote in our hands. The word of God is not a remote in our hands to control him. The word of God is the standard God has given to us to which we must submit and the way by which we come to understand his nature. But the word of God is not a means to control him.
