IDOLATRY IS DEATH

John Calvin said the human heart is an idol factory

idolatry is the MOST discussed problem in the Bible

Idolatry is putting something or someone in the place of God

anything you seek to give you what only Christ can give you

Joy happiness, security, peace, meaning and salvation

1 corinthians 10:6-8

Failure to trust God is sin

We do the same thing as the Israelites

We get tired of waiting

They took the gifts of God and made them into idols. (Good things can become bad)

idols are not to be managed but destroyed

Are you committed to destroying your idols or just manging them?

Is your relationship with God built on someone else? Your parents?

Exodus (2) God’s Anger and Moses’ Intercession (32:7–14)

What they could see and touch at their convenience was what they wanted—a god who would let them live as they wished and have a good time when they wanted to and who would not impose his covenant requirements on them. Theirs was a foolish choice reflecting badly on any people so self-absorbed and self-destructive as to make it.

Exodus (2) God’s Anger and Moses’ Intercession (32:7–14)

The people were, in other words, so wedded to their old culture that they could manage to justify in their minds its false religion, even to the point of the type of animals used to represent a god, even though that religion had been proved false over and over again by Yahweh’s mighty acts on their behalf right up to the present time

Exodus (2) God’s Anger and Moses’ Intercession (32:7–14)

Old habits and ways of thinking die hard; in times of stress people often revert to them even though they are useless or destructive. Such are the limits of reliance on human wisdom in a fallen world.