Sunday, June 25, 2017
SOMETHING OR NOTHING
Duration:48 mins 32 secs
10 WORDS … SOMETHING OR NOTHING
EXODUS 20:1-6
HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE GOD?
WHAT ABOUT THE EXCLUSIVE CLAIMS OF GOD OVER AGAINST THE CONCEPTS OF A PLURALISTIC SOCIETY?
DIFFERENT IDEOLOGIES … UNIVERSALISM … SPIRITUALITY
OTHER GODS …
Vv.2
LORD – YAWEH
GOD – ELOHIM
Vv.3
Ps.95:3; 97:9,
EXODUS 12:12
WHO ARE THESE OTHER GODS AND WERE THEY SOMETHING OR NOTHING?
3 PROMINENT OLD TESTAMENT GODS (IDOLS) …
BAAL, MOLECH, ASHTAROTH …
THE PROMINENT NEW TESTAMENTS GODS (IDOLS) …
APHRODITE, POSEIDON, APOLLO, HERMES,
VENUS-FORTUNA, ISIS, ASKLEPIOS, HYGIEIA …
I CORINTHIANS 8 (MEAT OFFERED TO IDOLS)
Vv.1-9
I CORINTHIANS 10:14-22 (WHERE DO THESE IDOLS GET THEIR POWER?)
IF IDOLS ARE NOTHING, WHY IS THERE SUCH A DRAW TO THEM?
ARE IDOLS A PROBLEM FOR YOU AND I?
OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS MOCKED IDOLS AND NEW TESTAMENT PREACHERS POINTED OUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF IDOLATRY …
ISA.44:15-20
ROMANS 1:18-25, FIRST, IDOLATRY AND THEN
IMMORALITY
NO OTHER GOD …
ANYTHING CAN BECOME A GOD …
WHAT HAS MEANT MORE TO YOUR FUNDAMENTAL HAPPINESS THAN GOD?
HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN SOMETHING HAS BECOME AN IDOL IN YOUR LIFE?
APPLICATION:
ACTS 4:10-12
JOSHUA 24:14
COL.2:15