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Idol Worship:

****Isa.40:18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him? 40:19 A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it. 40:20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.

Idolatry started with the first sin where Eve thought she was a god, where she imputed evil into God's motives for the human race, where she listen by attaching herself to another head, making herself a slave to sin. Idol worship the effort to make the unknown real, to impute human reasoning into an object so a person gives reverence to the object.

Ecclesiastes 5:2 Don't be rash with your mouth, and don't let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed."

Ezekiel 11:21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh.

With sin mankind lost personal contact with God's Spirit, they could think of God, talk about God from each person understanding of God, but they did not live in God as Adam and Eve lived in God making him real, knowing his heart and mind on all matters. When a person dies, their memoir fades quickly, headstones are put over them remainders are kept so the person remains real to us. Here Israel had contact with God through various prophets, kings and judges in its history. God mandated that certain things be built, and certain clothes be worn, laws were given, and sacrifice were done on certain dates for the nation to remain holy before God as his people.

But as a whole the nation of Israel was fleshly, where objects, things, dates, past prophets, the law, all became an idol, the worship of things by sight became more important then loving God, worshiping God. However, as than, as today those worshiping idols refuse to see the truth of their devotion to a false substitute gods.

Isaiah 29:9 Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

Isaiah 42:19 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh's servant?

Isaiah 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.

Isaiah 66:3 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:

1 Corinthians 8:4 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

The flesh imputes into things, animals, pictures, people, building, trees, creation their personality, their feelings, with each other, but why? Unwittingly, they are saying they are a god, and what they think, feel, all should feel and think the same. If they own a pet, the pet has their feelings. God is no different, they read their bibles and take examples of old and self-identify with the person assuming their thoughts and feelings are the same. But God does not feel the affects of sin, or idol worship, he does not think like us human having lust of the flesh that causes unrighteous thoughts and feelings. Those loving this world, are entice by the many gods found in every facet of life of human history. In the things they built, created governments, going to war, amazing work in technology, art, and entertainment. People even worship sports hero's projecting pride of their feeling into players, we are literally saturated with idolatry.

Rom.1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 1:19 because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them. 1:20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.
1:21 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

None should be surprise when stepping into a raging river that the power of the flow sweeps us down stream. None should be surprise that we be swept away into idolatry because of our fallen flesh in humanizing God. The projection of making God more like us, his feeling his thoughts, his actions when the flesh is an idol worshiper, and must be put to death by God's power in Christ.

Romans 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

Roman 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be. 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Gal.5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Those idols are lies, they are not real, religion, corporation, governments, sport, cars, whatever? They are not real they do not give us life, they do not teach us of God's mind. They are substitutes for not facing the truth. They are white wash graves, they are white washed walls that indeed appear beautiful, but are full of justifications for human weakness in sin.

Matthew 23:27 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

With all the substitute smoking mirror human work for; fight for, and die for still we all go back from which we came, into the earth, we cannot save ourselves by the finest art, the greatest religion, the smartest mind, we have God's truth right before us each day in life, from birth into death. What is our loving kindness? Truth Isaiah spoke thousand's of years ago, think! Think of all the things man has tried and created since he spoke these words? We are a flower having beauty but for a moment, fading into something people hid in the ground from which we came. A horror to human sight, and feared, death.

1 Corinthians 15:21 For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.

1 Corinthians 15:26 The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

Where is the hope for all those that have died, is it in some great person? Is it in something we can selfishly obtain too so people will look up to us for but a moment of time on earth? Where is mankind's gods, where is Eve? Where are those men and woman who lusted for some greatest taking and destroying the lives of others to have a fading moment of glory on earth? How myopic are we? How foolish are we? How sad is the lot of our human race? What can saving this life give us? What can fighting and lusting for something really bring us in the end of it?

Ezekiel 37:23 neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

Job 14:2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

God says to us, look up! Stop the nonsense, stop the lust for recognition, stop imputing our thoughts as my thoughts, stop, and be still, be silence. Even dumb animals know the times and season, know their master, but my people, having not know God. One cannot teach God, pick up your bibles educated God with your religion, tell him how to act, because you firmly believe you have the truth, pray to God tell him what he thinks and feels as you repeat words from your own heart.

Isaiah 30:15 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, "You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence." You refused.

Jer.17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
17:10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings. 17:11 As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

God is the creator, we cannot teach him anything no matter the depth of our feelings. Let us move away from idolatry putting it all away and put faith in Spirit and truth. God has declared the glorious Good News from heaven if we have ears of faith, he has never left his people, he has never cheated, or been like a turning of some shadow changing from light into darkness. He is the Rock, solid in every word spoken, he cannot hand us a evil serpent when asking to know Him. Let us stop making him a man because we have such strong feeling in some area of our life, let him speak truth, he will not hid, or lie to us.

Acts 17:27 that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

Rom.10:3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God. 10:4 For Christ is the fulfillment{or, completion, or end} of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. 10:5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."{Leviticus 18:5} 10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'{Deuteronomy 30:12} (that is, to bring Christ down); 10:7 or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?'{Deuteronomy 30:13} (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)" 10:8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;"{Deuteronomy 30:14} that is, the word of faith, which we preach: 10:9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10:10 For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 10:11 For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."{Isaiah 28:16} 10:12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. 10:13 For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved."{Joel 2:32}

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