Getting Rid Of Idols Essay: Getting Rid Of Idols

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Getting Rid of Idols
The ads for presidential candidates are already being run in our country. Men and women are doing all they can to show themselves worthy of the office of President of the United States. While these individuals are running for office, a position of authority, we must always be reminded that God is not “running” for God. God has always been and He always will be (Gen. 1:1; Psa. 90:1-2). Men need to acknowledge the lordship and sovereignty of God not for His sake but for their own. Idolatry is the practice of worshipping someone or something besides the true God of heaven. Idolatry often takes something not evil in and of itself and makes it an ultimate thing.
God’s people found themselves in captivity in Egypt after the death of Joseph and the Pharaoh that had knowledge of the good done by children of Israel (Ex. 1:8-14). God saw the oppression of His people and sent Moses and Aaron to deliver His people from slavery (Ex. 3:10, 4:14-16). …show more content…

The strangers that inhabited Samaria after Assyrian captivity of Israel would not let go of their idols though they claimed to fear the Lord (2 Kings 17:41). During this same time Isaiah prophesied to Judah and often rebuked them for their idolatrous ways. Isaiah goes to great measures to show that Jehovah is the one and only true God and to serve any other is pure folly (Isa.41:4,42:8,43:11,44:6-19,45:5). Israel would go into Assyrian captivity in 721 B.C for their idolatrous behavior and Judah would go into Babylonian captivity in 586 B.C (three separate invasions) for their idolatrous practices as well (2 Kings 17:18-24, 25:2, Jer. 52). Idolatry did not die in the Old Testament. Just because men may not bow down to wood or stone, though some still do, does not mean idolatry is dead. What are some of the idols we need to get rid of

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