It has been an ancient issue. If there is one thing that God hated most, it is the sin of idolatry. Didn’t God writes it in the tablet as the number one commandment given to Moses? The sin of idolatry has caused the people of Israel to be in bondage for 400 years in the land of Egypt. They were forced to make bricks and works with bare hands in building pyramids. Even if there were few people of God who intervene for their freedom, God made them suffer as long as they keep their idols, God won’t listen. When at last it’s time for them to move, the Israelites abandoned their idols and move where Moses leads them. In the wilderness God shows His mighty powers, providing them with pillar of clouds by day and pillar of fire by night. The greatest miracle performed in their very own eyes is dividing the red sea giving them the passage through to escape the pursuing chariots of Egypt, Did they forget their idols? During the time that Moses was communing with God in Mount Sinai for 40 days, the Israelites returned back to their idols, blaspheming God by performing all sorts of sins. This angered God and put to death those guilty of idolatry.
In this modern day, idolatry continues with more sophistication, hiding them in lieu of arts appreciation, memorabilia, souvenirs and traditions. To understand better, we should define the extent of idolatry and how God hated this sin.
Idolatry- is worshipping of an image, whether it is an image of an animal, man or non-living things as long as you kneel down , pray or lay your offering to it. It is an act of embracing an idea, concept and person whom you revered and putting him in pedestal whom you look up to, trust, serve and follow blindly.
Deuteronomy 29:18 (NIV) Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.
2 King17:40-41 (NIV) They would not listen, however, but persisted in their former practices. Even while these people were worshipping the Lord, they were serving their idols. To this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did.
Ezekiel 6:4-6 (NIV) "... I will slay your people in front of your idols. I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars... your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out."
Nations who are guilty of idolatry are still in the state of poverty and curse
Ephesians 5:5 (NIV) For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a man is an idolater--has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Jonah 2:8 (NIV) "Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be
1 Peter 4:3 (NIV) For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do--living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry."
James 4:7-10 (Phi) Be humble then before God... You are sinners: get your hands clean again. Your loyalty is divided: get your hearts made true once more. You should be deeply sorry, you should be grieved, you should even be in tears. Your laughter will have to become mourning, your high spirits will have to become dejection. You must humble yourself in the sight of the Lord before he will lift you up.
Ezekiel 36:25 (NIV) "I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols."
1 Corinthians 10:14 (NIV) Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.
God wants us to worship Him in spirit and in truth without the aid of graven images.
In this modern day, idolatry continues with more sophistication, hiding them in lieu of arts appreciation, memorabilia, souvenirs and traditions. To understand better, we should define the extent of idolatry and how God hated this sin.
Idolatry- is worshipping of an image, whether it is an image of an animal, man or non-living things as long as you kneel down , pray or lay your offering to it. It is an act of embracing an idea, concept and person whom you revered and putting him in pedestal whom you look up to, trust, serve and follow blindly.
Deuteronomy 29:18 (NIV) Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.
2 King17:40-41 (NIV) They would not listen, however, but persisted in their former practices. Even while these people were worshipping the Lord, they were serving their idols. To this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did.
Ezekiel 6:4-6 (NIV) "... I will slay your people in front of your idols. I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars... your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out."
Nations who are guilty of idolatry are still in the state of poverty and curse
Ephesians 5:5 (NIV) For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a man is an idolater--has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Jonah 2:8 (NIV) "Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be
1 Peter 4:3 (NIV) For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do--living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry."
James 4:7-10 (Phi) Be humble then before God... You are sinners: get your hands clean again. Your loyalty is divided: get your hearts made true once more. You should be deeply sorry, you should be grieved, you should even be in tears. Your laughter will have to become mourning, your high spirits will have to become dejection. You must humble yourself in the sight of the Lord before he will lift you up.
Ezekiel 36:25 (NIV) "I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols."
1 Corinthians 10:14 (NIV) Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.
God wants us to worship Him in spirit and in truth without the aid of graven images.
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