God Always Wins

By the time of Abraham, around 1700 BC, humanity has devolved so far from God that they know nothing about Him. They have created a pantheon of gods that, among other things, required human sacrifice.
In Genesis, Chapter 22, God separates Abraham from his inherited blood-thirsty gods and shows him that He is the only God and that He will supply his needs.
Abraham names God, “Jehovah Jireh,” that is: The Lord will provide.
My father, Dr. Robert H. Schuller (1926-2015) was one of the most famous pastors of the 20th century. He and I worked together for over three decades. We spoke to tens of millions of people every week through the Hour of Power, a weekly television program aired around the world, including places you wouldn’t think of like, China, the Middle East, Africa and Russia.
Dad started in 1970 when I was still in high school. I joined him after I graduated from college in 1976. He wrote books about Possibility Thinking, and I write books on Possibility Living. Our belief is that with God all things are possible. “The Lord will Provide.”
He and I were often accused of promoting a theology of prosperity. What we didn’t emphasize was that without God you can still accomplish much—but it amounts to nearly nothing. It is only “let us make a name for ourselves.”
And again, such inevitably leads to defeat.

The Ten Plagues

To break the bondage of the slave mentality that had gripped His people, God had to conquer their gods and establish his sovereignty once again. This would allow them the courage and the fortitude to follow Him and find divine liberation. To do this he sent ten plagues on Egypt while sparing the children of Abraham. In Genesis, Chapters 7 – 12, the ten plagues were:

1. The Nile River Turns Into Blood
2. A Plague of Frogs
3. A Plague of Gnats
4. A Plague of Flies
5. A Plague Against Livestock
6. A Plague of Boils
7. A Plague of Hail
8. A Plague of Locusts
9. A Plague of Darkness
10. A Plague of Death

God didn’t create these plagues because He is sadistic and cruel.
The plagues were created with pure goodness and intentionality for the purpose of unlocking the chains that enslaved humanity and conquering their slaveholder mythic gods.
Through these plagues God ultimately addressed all the powers of the nearly 1200 Egyptian gods. He humiliated them and the Egyptians who created them.
Using the plagues, God broke the will of Pharaoh and freed His people.

Before Abraham Was, “I AM"

The gospel of John, in the New Testament of the Bible, opens unlike any other gospel.
John starts out with the declaration, “In the beginning was the Word… and the Word was God… and the Word dwelt amongst us… full of grace and truth.” John 1:1-14.
John says nothing about Jesus’s birth, His mother Mary nor His home or childhood. But instead, he tells us that Jesus participated in the creation and is one with God and is the only way we can know God.
He then moves into the Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist, Jesus’s cousin, where John the Baptist declares, that Jesus is the Messiah and says, “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.” John 1:29. This statement by Jesus’s cousin is a bold statement affirming the divinity of Jesus and continues to be the thrust of Johns gospel, to exemplify the divinity of the sacrificial Jesus.
It is here, in this gospel that Jesus shares his nine “I Am” Statements.
Every statement was very clear to the Jewish leaders. When they heard him say, “I Am,” they knew exactly what he was claiming. “I am” YAWAH – “I AM” as in the burning bush. He said, “Before Abraham was I AM.” John 8:58
Jesus is referring to himself as the great I AM—I am God.
In fact, if you read it in John 8:58, what you find is that the Jews wanted to stone Him for his words because they thought his words were blasphemous. He could have said, “I was” but he said, “I am.” He's pointing to his eternality and his divinity. We see His “I am” statements throughout the Gospel.

1. I am the way . . . (John 14:6)
2. I am the true vine. (John 15:1)
3. I am . . . the life. (John 11:25 and 14:6)
4. I am the door . . . (John 10:7)
5. I am the good shepherd. (10:11)
6. I am . . . the truth . . . (John 14:6)
7. I am the resurrection . . . (John 11:25)
8. I Am the bread of life. (John 6:35)
9. I am the light of the world (John 8:12)

Against the our made up gods stands the “I Am” statements of Jesus.
Like the plagues that killed the gods of Egypt, so too the statements of Jesus annihilate the ideologies of Scientism and the pantheon of the woke.
They are our path to freedom. They are the antidote to wokeness.
They are the key to life, liberty, and happiness.
In this book I will take you through the ten Plagues of Egypt and illustrate how each plague correlates with the mythical gods of Egypt. Then I will compare those ancient deities with the woke gods of Scientism and show how the “I Am” statements of Jesus conquer the false beliefs of today just like He did in Egypt 3300 years ago.
As you read through the book, consider the gods you may have created for yourself that have held you captive. Once identified, dismantle and destroy them with the Gospel, and mediate on the verse or verses at the end of each chapter.
Free yourself from the mental, emotional, and psychological prisons that Satan's lies have allowed you to construct.
This book is about truth and stability.
May it give your spirit divine liberation.
God always wins!