Abandon IDOLATRY!

 

Idolatry is a great danger. It leads us to worship things other than God. Only God deserves our worship. Nothing is more important than loving God above all things.

Idolatry is not just worshiping other gods or lifeless images. Idolatry is putting anything above God in our lives. We can idolize a person, a job, a political party, money... To avoid idolatry, we must always put God first in everything we do.

"You shall have no other gods besides me. "You shall not make for yourself any idol, any image of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth.

Exodus 20:3-4

"I am the Lord; this is my name!

I will not give my glory to another

nor to images my praise.

Isaiah 42:8

"Do not turn to idols or make gods of metal for yourselves. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:4

Their idols of silver and gold,

are made by human hands. They have a mouth, but they cannot speak;

eyes, but cannot see; they have ears but cannot hear;

nose, but cannot smell; they have hands, but nothing they can feel;

feet but cannot walk;

and they make no sound with their throat. Let those who make them become like them

and all who trust in them.

Psalms 115:4-8

Therefore, my beloved brothers, flee from idolatry.

1 Corinthians 10:14, impurity and licentiousness; idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before: Those who practice these things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:19-21

Some of the rulers of Israel came and sat down in front of me. Then the Lord said to me, "Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before them. Should I let them inquire of me? Now tell them: This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When any Israelite sets up idols in his heart, and puts an impious stumbling block before his face, and then goes to inquire of a prophet, I, the Lord, will answer him according to his idols. This I will do to win back the heart of the nation of Israel, who forsook me in exchange your idols." Therefore say to the house of Israel: This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Repent! Turn away from your idols and renounce all detestable practices! "When any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel separates himself from me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts an ungodly stumbling block before him, and then goes to a prophet to inquire of me, I, the Lord, I myself, will answer him I will set my face against that man and make him an example and an object of ridicule. I will cut him off from among my people. And you will know that I am the Lord." prophecy, I, the Lord, will have deceived that prophet and will stretch out my arm against him and will destroy him, taking him away from the midst of Israel, my people. Ezekiel 14:1-9

For the rebellion

it is like the sin of witchcraft;

arrogance, as the evil of idolatry.

Just like you rejected

the word of the Lord,

he rejected him as king".

1 Samuel 15:23

So put to death everything that belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.

Colossians 3:5

Claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made after the likeness of mortal man, as well as birds, quadrupeds, and reptiles.

Romans 1:22-23

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

1 John 5:21

"Those who believe

on useless idols

they despise mercy.

Jonah 2:8

Great will be the suffering

of those who run after other gods.

I will not partake of your blood sacrifices,

and my lips won't even mention

their names.

Psalm 16:4

Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they will not be able to save them when disaster overtakes them.

Jeremiah 11:12

The rest of mankind who did not die from these plagues did not even repent of the works of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood, idols that cannot see or hear or walk.

Revelation 9:20

"Gather and come; assemble,

you fugitives from the nations.

Ignorant are those who take

back and forth

wooden pictures,

who pray to gods who cannot save.

Isaiah 45:20

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to indulge in revelry."

1 Corinthians 10:7

Your land is full of idols.

They bow before the work

from your hands,

before what your fingers have done.

Isaiah 2:8

"'Cursed is anyone who carves an image or makes a molten idol, the work of craftsmen, hateful to the Lord, and sets it up secretly.

All the people will say: 'Amen!'

Deuteronomy 27:15

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