 What do young adults believe about God? Our culture propagates an acceptable form of God, who is all-loving and accepting void of justice and goodness. Our culture creates for itself a God in their own image. But who really is God? And what is he like? In this video, I'm going to share with you the three lies that young adults believe about God and how to overcome them. But first, I want to give a huge shout out to my patrons on Patreon. Thank you for supporting this ministry and our mission of evangelism and discipleship. If you are not a patron already, become a Gospel partner today. You can become a bronze, silver, or gold Gospel partner. Please join us via humongous blessing. My name is Isaac, and this is The Daily Disciple, where I hope you follow Jesus daily. So I want to give you a little bit of a background on my own misconceptions about God. You know, from the time I was a little kid, I grew up in a Christian household. But you know, you'd hear about Santa Claus, and you'd hear, he knows when you're sleeping. He knows when you're away. He knows when you've been bad or good. So be good for goodness sake. So even just hearing that song will confuse a person, too. The difference is between Santa and God. God sees us when we're sleeping. God sees us when we're away. God knows when we've been bad or good. So be good for goodness sake. This is kind of... We're at the Christmas season now, so I want you, if you're a parent, or maybe you have siblings. Make sure you clarify this to your siblings, or kids, or whatever, because this could be confusing. And I was confused as well. You know, even as a young kid, hearing about the trinity, hearing God is three in one. He's like an egg where it's like there's the yolk, then there's the white, then there's the shell. And I'm like, well, God's like an egg. Like what? Or God's like a three-leaf clover where it's like, you know, one for three, one petals. But you know, not that these examples are that good or necessarily theological accurate, but you can see how somebody can be confused just at a younger age about who God really is. And I mean, even as we get older, as young adults, and I said it at the beginning of the video, you know, we all have misconceptions about who God is. And today I just wanted to dive into three of those misconceptions, three of those lies that we believe about God and hopefully bring some gospel truth into the situation, into our minds. The first lie is that God isn't there for me or isn't there at all. Now here I want to hone in on atheism. Atheism seems to be on the rise, whether it be millennials, Gen Z, young adults seem to be pulled towards atheism as something cool or trendy. Atheism seems to be trendy these days. Just type atheism into your YouTube search bar and the channel's dedicated to the lack of the existence of God is astonishing. But actually, don't search that. That stuff is trash. Atheism promises freedom from moral accountability and ultimate responsibility to God. This kind of you-do-you mentality replaces any objective standard for goodness. Though often seen as intellectuals, atheists and all people know God exists as we learn in Romans 1. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of man, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth for what can be known about God is plain to them because God has shown it to them. You see, without God, the God of the Bible, we're all reduced to meaningless molecules. If it was random chance by which we formulated out of the ooze of the Earth, there's really no meaning to our existence. We're simply chemical reactions dwelling in an organism. There's no right or wrong. There's no should or ought. There's no meaning or purpose. But you know, the interesting thing is that people don't live that way. People live with purpose. They live with this understanding of right and wrong. And why is that? Because they know God exists as we read in the Bible. So God is there and he makes that clear to all creation. The second lie is that God doesn't care about me. You know, we can often feel, especially as young adults, there's so many changes and different stresses that are coming up for the first time. It's a really trying season of our lives because there seems to be so much instability, risk and unpredictability. And we often see God up there and we're like, can God really relate to this? Can God really relate to my experience? But when we can look at Jesus and actually his trials on this Earth, when he came to this Earth fully God and fully man, he experienced those same trials, those same struggles that we all face as humans. So God's not totally disconnected from our experience. In fact, he he experienced a lot of the same things that we are going through. He can relate with us in that way. God cares about what we're going through. He cares about us when we believe God doesn't care. We kind of move back into some kind of deism, this idea that God doesn't intervene in this world, but he has simply created us and kind of left us aside. But the amazing thing is, is that that is totally wrong. God is a relational God. He wants to be with us. He cares about us. He's not disconnected from our experiences. No, in fact, he's in the thick of it. The Bible says that God is omnipresent. That means he's everywhere. He's with us at all times because God is with us. He cares about us. He's not just kind of this form of deism where he's disconnected or not involved in the world. And though he's intimately involved with what's happening, and we can know that everything is purposeful because of it. Everything is meaningful. And there's an important verse that I wanna bring up to you right now. And we know that in all things, God works for the good for those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. God is our heavenly Father. He is interested and involved in our lives. We can have confidence and be courageous because we are fully loved and accepted by God. Because of that, we live with purpose, knowing that the world is not just random chaos. Whoa, where'd that come from? I just wanna interrupt this program by saying, pick up my new book, A Letter to My Father, What Your Son Wants to Tell You But Doesn't. We've had fathers read this book, mothers read this book, sons, daughters. Everyone's reading this book and saying that it's really helped them. In it, I talk a lot about the different lies that I thought as a young guy, how my dad really helped me work through those lies and some lies that just digging into biblical truth I was able to find answers from. So read this book, pick it up, link in description. I think it'll help you and it really relates to a lot of the topics that we're talking about today. Thanks so much and back to the show. So the third and final lie that I'm gonna cover today, obviously there's more lies that young adults believe, but these are the three that I thought were most important to share with you today is that God cannot help me in my struggles. That's lie number three. I think, and from my own experience, I felt this from the age of 18, I'm 20 now, but I can imagine even later on, this feeling of disconnection and loneliness can kind of permeate the young adult experience. We feel oftentimes disconnected and isolated from other people. Maybe we're trying to figure out, trying to find real friendship, connections, and often relating to God that impacts our perspective of him. So we think we have to go deal with our struggles alone just because maybe that's what we've found, we've gotten accustomed to in our own personal lives, but understanding that God is always with us, that he is there for us, he cares about us, but also understanding that, look, we've separated ourselves from God by our sin. That disconnection and aloneness we often feel is because of our sin, but the amazing thing is, is that Jesus came to die to take the punishment that we deserve for that sin. And because of that, God is able to bridge that disconnection and aloneness that we feel. He's able to bridge that with his love and grace, grant us forgiveness and a relationship with him. And so God is inviting us into enter that relationship where we're not gonna dwell in isolation, try to go through these struggles that we have alone, but no, he's inviting us into this relationship where he can bear our burdens for us, where we can pray to him, where we can ask for help. In 1 Peter 5.7, it says, cast all your anxieties on him because he cares for you. And this has been a real powerful verse in my life. I talked a little bit about the book earlier, how I share some of the lies that I believed about God in that book. And from the time I was a young kid, anxiety's always been a real issue for me. I could identify the fact that even coming back from a basketball game, whether we, if we lost or won, I'd look at the standings. And I can remember just looking at the standings to where we were. And I would have this, my heart would be beating so fast. I would lie down and literally close my eyes. And I felt like I was having a heart attack. And just little things like that where throughout my, you know, whole life there's been different instances where I've just felt this crippling anxiety and fear and worry. And it's really been one of those things where I'm like, I don't know if I can do this. I would literally say when I was about to do something, maybe it was public speaking or something like this. And I know a lot of people have the fear of public speaking where I'm just like, I'm going to die. I'm going to die. And but the, but the awesome thing is, and this is what I'm coming to learn. And it's a process, right? We're not gonna, we're not gonna just totally, oh, this is what the Bible says. And this is the lie that I'm believing. Now I can just believe what's right. And my life would be great. No, it's a process because these things are kind of ingrained in us. These lies are kind of ingrained in our hearts. And what we need to do is continue like God's truth permeate us. And by reading and praying to him and asking him to bring light to this issue. And for me, that was asking him to bring light to this anxiety and say, God, give me your peace here. I know you're with me, but I'm having a hard time bringing that to the heart level. Give me peace and give me your confidence and courage to do what I need to do. Even though I may be anxious about it, even though I may be fearful, I need you to help me in this. And the reason I wanna share with you about these lies is because I truly believe that God can grant you freedom from these lies. And I just think that's gonna be amazing and a weight lifted really in your lives. God draws us to himself in repentance and frees us from sin, what we call justification. And God draws us to himself amid struggles in our lives to grow us closer to himself. This idea of sanctification. Those are three lies that young adults believe about God and I hope those are lies that you're not believing anymore. Thanks so much for watching, guys. If you like this video, give it a like down below. Subscribe to the channel. Check out our website, dailydisciple.ca. There's free resources on there to help you grow in your relationship with Jesus, helping you become an authentic, inspired and passionate disciple of Christ. That's our mission here, to help disciple you, help you follow Christ. That's our heart. If there's someone in your life that you think needs to watch this video, I encourage you right now to share this video with them and have a discussion. Let this video start a discussion with them about the lies that we believe about God. Thanks so much for watching, guys, and I'll see you next time.