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Good to see everyone.

I think I changed that's why I don't think it says mike anymore.

Like it says Mike, but it's good to be here.

Good to see you this morning on this cold.

March morning in it.

It is it was cold.

Then I'll take my ice cubes.

That's my kind of weather.

That's right, I like it.

But, you know, it always turns cold like this sometime in March about every year done.

It just, it just gets really cold.

I was late this morning because I couldn't find my glasses.

I was walking out, door didn't have my glasses and then I look 10 minutes and couldn't find it.

So I had to get a second pair.

I think I left a year ago.

I left a pair of here.

So in case I ever forgot mine, so so that's good.

But that's just a sign of getting old just what that is.

The hell I remember before I went upstairs to take a shower.

I had him.

I said my going to take them upstairs or me, or I'ma leave them downstairs and I decided to do one of them, but I just don't know which one so, but it is good to be here today and we're going to continue in the Book of Ecclesiastes.

So, if you would take your Bibles and turn to Ecclesiastes chapter 5, not remember, we are in a series searching for heaven on Earth.

And we're talkin about finding meaning and purpose in life.

This is about our I guess 5th or 6 sermon in this series.

And so today, the title of this message.

Is God is God and I'm not.

And a little subtitle down there.

I put is we need to beware of dog and cat Theology.

And how many of you have ever heard of dog and cat theology.

Well, I'll explain that in a moment.

I was listening to what your preacher or the other week.

And he made a statement that I thought was rather relevant in our culture today.

He says, if possible to go to church today and hear very little about God.

You can go to church today and hear very little about God, but he says, you can hear much about you.

About me.

And Church in some respects and not in every church.

I'm not saying this, of course all, but quite a few church has become All About Us.

We go to church and we hear sermons of five ways to have a happy marriage.

We hear sermons on three ways to have better sex.

You hear that in churches, six ways to handle depression, three ways to handle three truths about loneliness.

Now, there are people to press the gas, does the bible address at?

Yes, it does and loneliness.

The rest is that as well, but it seems the music.

And the programmes are not about worshiping God anymore.

Ministering to people, but it's about what I like, and what I I desire.

You see the church today.

It seems is driven by consumerism.

People go to church and they said, well, did I like the sermon today?

Did the did the preacher tell enough jokes.

Did he stick to the Bible?

Was it practical to my life?

Or what kind of music did they have?

Do they have a children's choir?

I want to know what they have for the Youth and people go to me exactly what they want in churches.

Are now trying to meet the needs of people and they turn to gimmicks and entertainment to try to get people to come to church because they know people want what they want.

Why?

Because church is all about me.

It's not about coming to worship a sovereign, God anymore.

I started back in the 60s and 70s when we, when we had what is called, E self-help are or the air of self-esteem.

We all want to make people feel good about themselves.

So today, and some Churches entire worship services are planned around the thoughts, and concerns of the people sitting in the pews.

Instead of all church leaders have turned to gimmicks and entertainment to try to, please people so worship.

Sometimes it's about me, my desires, my lights.

My preference is exactly what I want in Friendly Dollar Tree.

When we do Church like that, well, that bring cat theology.

Let me tell you what that is.

This is dog, theology.

A dog says, you can't me.

You feed me to shelter me.

You love.

You must be God.

Cat theology says, you feed me?

Your me.

You pet me.

You, you love me, That's the cat.

See, ology.

Well, both of those theologies are wrong.

They all just says, what you do all this for me.

You must be God because you must love me.

I must be doing something right for you to do all this for me and Kathy.

I swear you do all this for me.

I'm a key card.

I must be God myself, but so much modern Christianity looks like those God is no longer The Sovereign King of the universe.

He's just a life coach.

He's my homeboy.

He's the big cheese.

He's the man upstairs.

No, but some people do, he's just my buddy is who God is.

It seems in the culture of the church.

Today?

We see God as a means to an end and not a hand in and of him self.

So we use God to get what we really want.

All of life revolves around the individual.

And God's greatest joy.

It's for me to be mad at you hear what I just said.

I can say that in churches Across America and everyone would say Amen just about it.

God's greatest joy is for me to be happy.

Well, that's something that's called Prosperity theology or the Prosperity Gospel.

Well, Vic is the video on my okay.

I've got another video for your for your y'all to watch.