Exodus 20:25 NKJV And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.
Yesterday, I spoke about getting a question answered by Google or any artificial intelligence engine versus being taught by the Holy Spirit. In 1 Corinthians 1:29 we read that no flesh will be gloried in God’s presence.
There is a difference when the Lord does things. In Psalm 127:1, the Bible frankly states that unless the Lord builds a house, the builders toil in vain.
Now, a house is not going to magically appear because the Lord is building it. No, that is not what the Lord is telling us at all. In Exodus 20:25 and at other times, the Lord is differentiating between our work in the flesh and His work done through the Holy Spirit.
This idea is expounded by the Apostle Paul in his letter to the Church in Rome, in which he says “those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God’s action in them find that God’s Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn’t pleased at being ignored.” (Romans 8:5-8 MSG)