Idolatry

“because our legacy is ultimately built upon that. Josiah's legacy was built upon that. Really other important thing that he did, fifth action, is that he removed idolatry. He removed idolatry. So we're walking in relationship with the Lord, we're calling other people to do that and then now we are trying to get rid of sin, anything that would cause the people to sin and I'm going to read a couple of verses that kind of describe the the cleansing process that took place. It says, "And the king commanded Hilkiah”

“teachers to our middle school ministry say that concept, and I just thought, I need to see it in scripture. I need to see it in scripture. I need to know if the Bible backs that concept and that idea up. Now, listen, I don't believe that we should just be pursuing the blessing. That in and of itself would be an idolatry, wouldn't it? If we were just seeking not God, but what God could give us. That is idolatry. That is placing value on something else as a”

“But the Bible also talks about this reality that there is the idolatry of the heart. And when the Bible talks about idolatry, it's not just talking about bowing down to statues or that's a part of it. It's talking about a matter of the heart. An idol is whatever you look at and you think, man, if I can just have that, I'll be okay. or on the flip side, maybe it's something that you already have and you say, man, if I ever lose this thing, then life will be over for me.”

“idolatry is exchanging the truth of God for a lie. There's a lot of idols tonight in the room, I just wanna say. We've got a lot of idolatry going on tonight. We've got a lot of people bound in lies, a lot of followers of Jesus bound in lies right now. That's why this conference is happening. Can I just have your permission in my final minute just to share a personal, I don't share this story very often. I have to be honest with you, I've written about the peace of God a lot. I have a study Bible coming out on the peace of God. In fact, can I just show that,”

“kinds of ideologies and all kind of thinking and all kinds of idol worship that's seeking to pull them away from the god of Israel and sometimes we can feel similar to that even if we're not transported to a different place we can feel like we live in the midst of this world where we see idolatry all around us where we hear narratives and we hear idolatry seeking to pull us away from God in his word but we can have confidence in the fact that we have a steadfast King who is the same yesterday today and forever and the same God who was faithful to Daniel to mhach and Abednego and to everyone else in the story of scripture will be faithful to”

“We studied the book of Daniel this weekend because Daniel and his friends were transported out of a godly place and into a place of a pagan culture where there's all kinds of idolatry and idol worship around them. And sometimes when we look around at the world around us and we look at the way that the world is going, we look at the idolatry of self and of money and of sex and of identity and all these things that we see in the world around us, we can oftentimes feel like Daniel, Meshach, Shadrach”

“I think he would call out maybe some idolatry in our hearts. I think there's some idolatry of ourselves and maybe some self-sufficiency in the Western American church. I think I see that. I also see some greed, maybe in some parts of the Western American church. But I think one thing in particular sticks out like a sore thumb above all else. And if I'm honest, it's been plaguing the American church for too long, and I'm sick of its filthy teeth having its teeth in the bride.”

“the less I should say we will have to deal with this idolatry issue which is an issue I mean the first two Commandments are about idolatry yes so I mean God knows the Lord knew in setting up those Commandments that this is going to be an issue for people because we're always going to want to cling to that which we can see touch feel um control yeah so but I did give a challenge last night to um before you go to bed at night the”