In this message, we conclude our series on Idolatry by looking at our habits, hungers, and practices.
The tricky thing about the sin of idolatry is its subversive nature. Very few people make the willful decision to become idolators, and yet the sin of idolatry is pervasive in the human heart.
Stephen Fowl notes that the people of Israel often fell into the worship of other gods, but they rarely abandoned the worship of God in a wholesale way. “Rather they tended to split their attentions between the Lord and numerous other gods.” Fowl states that the demarcation point between something that IS idolatry and something that is NOT idolatry is really hard to discern.
Idolatry is more of a process of slowly turning and directing our love and attention away form the one true God toward things that are not God. “Given this premise, it would seem more likely that believers end up in idolatrous situations through a series of small, incremental moves: a decision that seems prudent here, a wise compromise there, the acquisition of a set of seemingly benign dispositions and practices along the way.”
If the sin of Idolatry tends to take hold in a subconscious way, how are believers to remain vigilant in their allegiance to God? We look at the habits, dispositions, and practices that can aid believers in keeping single-minded focus on God and his salvation.
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