![]() Exodus 34:5-7 (KJV) 5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. This is the same thing that God said to Moses after He gave Moses the second set of tablets to him.ĩ. How can a just and holy God visit one man’s sins on his children and grandchildren out four generations?Ĩ. If we accept the jealous nature of God, we will understand that He wants all of us. ILL: Christie and the boy at Enchanted Forest Water Safari…the reaction of me and the boys…Ħ. He doesn’t want to share us with anything else.ĥ. In this case, God’s jealousy is something that we should accept as a good thing. ILL: I know of someone who once was talking to a guy whose ex-girlfriend was so jealous that she bombarded this girl with text messages until she decided that the guy wasn’t worth the trouble and stopped talking to him.Ĥ. We normally think of jealousy as a bad thing.ģ. The principle is not to see how close we can come to having an idol in our lives, but to recognize those things which can become idols and to cut them out of our lives as much as possible.Ģ. If there is something that is out of the right perspective in your life, you have to cut it out and give God back His worship.ġ8. Whatever will steal God’s worship becomes God’s enemy.ġ7. TV, money, cars, prestige…all of these can be idols that rob the worship that only God deserves.ġ6. Rather than being a biblical husband, we let our wives guide us in the direction they think we should go.ġ5. Our families – Rather than acting in a biblical and consistent way, we decide to make our kids like us so we cut them some slack. Jesus wasn’t too good to suffer at the hands of men.ġ4. We feel cheated when people are nasty to us for our faith.ġ3. We’d rather get upset and hurt when people mistreat us. 1 John 3:13 (KJV) 13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.ġ2. We do not want to listen to the Bible.ġ1. We think about the best reaction for us.ġ0. Ourselves – There are times when we don’t think WWJD. What could be on the earth, in the sky, or under the water that we might worship, even for a little while?ĩ. An idol doesn’t have to take all of God’s worship, but maybe it’s only part of God’s worship.Ĩ. It was common practice to have a god that you could see, touch, and actually bow down to and worship.ħ. That covers everything that exists, did exist, or might have existed.Ħ. ![]() ![]() Make no images of anything in the air, on the ground, or under the water.ĥ. God was specific when He made this law.Ĥ. God hates anything that steals His worship.ģ. We say without reservation that God is first in our lives and He is the only one we worship.Ģ. Today, we remove all doubt about whom we worship. The first law is that God is first, have no others before Him.ġ3. We decided last week that God has to be first in our lives. In looking at this commandment, remember that we laid the foundation first. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.ġ2. John 4:23-24 (KJV) 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God didn’t want the people to focus on a physical thing to worship.ġ0. Ancient Romans would have an altar in the corner of one room with statues that represented their ancestors, and the ancestral patron god or goddess that the family worshipped most.Ĩ. ![]() Not wanting to waste the wood (and not needing it to cook or heat anything) he carves out and image that his mind tells him is a god.ħ. He gets the tree all cut up and starts to stack it and realizes that he has room for all but a couple of pieces. a man cuts down a tree, intending to use it for fire wood. How can a god come from something he created?ĥ. Here’s a good definition of god: the supreme or ultimate reality as the Being perfect in power, wisdom, and goodness who is worshipped as creator and ruler of the universeĤ. In this passage, the prophet illustrates to utter foolishness of idol worship.ģ. Thou Shalt Not Make Thee Any Graven ImageĢ.
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