SOMETHING OR NOTHING

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