We are currently studying the problem of idolatry and we noted three working definitions to help us expose idolatry in our lives. Idolatry is what we spend most of our passion, energy, emotion, and financial resources toward. Idolatry is taking the good things given to us by God and making them the ultimate thing, thinking it can give us significance, security, safety, and fulfillment. Idolatry is anything that captures our hearts and our passions so that we cannot live with it.
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Tags: colossians 3
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In our final section of John’s first letter we read the purpose statement of this letter. “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life” (1 John 5:13 ESV). This letter has intended to instill confidence in the believers of Jesus that they know they are in a relationship with God. Jesus is God. When we believe that and submit to his authority by walking in the light and joyfully keeping his commands, we know we have eternal life.
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We are in the midst of our idolatry series, keying off of the words found in Jeremiah 10:5, “Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field.” One writer declared, “Achievement is the alcohol of our time.” The idol of success is a powerful idol of our day. Everyone has to be successful.
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Tags: 2 kings 5, jeremiah 10
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