The Idols Of The Day.

Idols Of The Day.

Colossians 2:8 KJV 1900

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

This morning I like to speak to you about a “Big Problem” that’s going on in the world today.

And that’s people worshipping the “Idols of the Day.”

What is defined as an Idol?

“A representation, symbols, or object worshipped broadly, or an object of extreme devotion.

An idol is anything you put before God!

In the Ten Commandments it tell us not to worship any thing, but God.

Exodus 20:3–4 KJV 1900

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

Today, this generation of “Born Again Christians” are Worshipping Idols.

“Remember anything you put before God is an IDOL!”

Here are the idols of the day.

Family

Birthdays

Children playing sports

Sports

Television

Movies

Hunting

Fishing

Camping

Cell Phones

The average US adult will spend 2 hours and 55 minutes on a smartphone.

Facebook

Twitter

The average user spends 2 hours and 24 mins per day on social media.

50.1% of the time spent on a mobile device is the uses of social media.

Video Games

Video gamers spend an average of 7 hours and 7 minutes a week playing video games.

Internet

Americans surfing the internet has risen from 9.4 hours to 23.6.

Of that, time spent online the internet at home has risen from 3.3 to 17.6 hours a week.

That’s a lot of time spent on playing.

How much time is spent reading the Bible?

The average US adult who says they read the Bible daily dropped from 14% to 9%.

According to the State of the Bible 2020 report.

A decrease of 5 points in a single year.

The annual survey’s 10 year history.

between 2011-2019, daily Bible readers had held steady at an average of 13.7% of the population.

The decline continued during the the initial months of the coronavirus pandemic.

By June, the percentage of daily Bible readers had drooped 8.5 percent.

This is really sad.

We know how church attendance drop.

Psalm 115:4–8 KJV 1900

Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: Eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: Noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: Feet have they, but they walk not: Neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; So is every one that trusteth in them.

How much time are you spending worshipping God.

We are in the “Last Days”