Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• The Bible tells us to worship the Creator and enjoy created things.
• When you make a good thing into a God thing, it becomes a bad
thing.
Old Testament - Idolatry
• Isaiah 40:18-31
• Isaiah 44:9-22
• Habakkuk 2:18-20
New Testament - Idolatry
• Romans 1:18-25
• You get out of untalented hell by pouring money into trainers and spending
hours upon hours in the gym
• You get out of ugly hell by getting plastic surgery and unhealthy diets
• You get out of technology hell by making poor financial decisions to get a Mac.
These functional saviors are often good things
• When we elevate something good into the status of something divine, we are
in trouble.
Idols make promises they never keep
• If I get plastic surgery, then I will find joy in everyone talking about me.
6 Common Idols
• Money Idolatry
• Family Idolatry
• Jesus is our only security, Jesus is the only name worth investing in and
Jesus is the only one that can give us rest and assurance.
6 Common Idols
• Sexual Idolatry
• people think its more enjoyable to have sex before marriage than to obey
God.
• this is an act of offering our bodies as living sacrifices on the altar of the
bed.
• Substance Idolatry
• Morality Idolatry
• People Idolatry
• Proverbs 29:25
• We need to run away from our functional saviors and run to the
only savior - King Jesus.
How Should We Respond?
• Confession - mouth and mind
• Mind - Saturate your mind with more of Jesus and less of culture.
Read your bible more.
How Should We Respond?
• Contrition - expression and emotion