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AGAINST IDOLATRY
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Acts 17:22-34

Luke 18:24-25

 

“How hardly shall they
that have riches enter

into the kingdom of God!”

 

AGAINST IDOLATRY
 
Many of today’s popular messages from the pulpit are rich with the idea of health and wealth. The prosperity gospel is so attractive that without it, sermons are judged as boring and bigoted. What we need to do is to revive that kind of preaching that brings hard-hitting messages against sin. One of the reasons many are taken in by movements cooperating with the Roman Catholics is the lack of preaching against idolatry.
 
Worship in ignorance: The people in Athens were very religious but ignorant of the truth. They worshipped idols which they admitted they did not know. However, God demands that man worship Him in truth, which is according to the Bible. Paul explained that God is man’s Creator and He must not be represented by statues and images created by man. He is Spirit and He must be worshipped in spirit and in truth.
 
Worship by repentance: The idea of repentance is not just sorrow for sin but a change of mind in respect of one’s sins, God and self. Repentance is part and parcel of saving faith. A faith that saves receives Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour and as God’s perfect provision to take away sins and set man free from condemnation. It also acknowledges that He will be man’s righteous Judge when He comes again. Paul’s preaching highlighted the fact of Christ’s resurrection (1 Cor 15:19).
 
“There were some who were ordained to eternal life, to whom the Gospel came in power, and they received the love of the truth, and their hearts and affections were knit unto the apostle; and they followed him, and kept to him, and privately conversed with him, and believed his doctrine, and in Jesus Christ, whom he preached unto them; to these the Gospel was the savour of life unto life, when to the scoffers and mockers it was the savour of death unto death: and this is the fruit and effect of the Gospel ministry…” (Gill).
 
We have to continue sharing the Word of God with all power and boldness, trusting in the Spirit of God to accomplish what He has ordained.
 
THOUGHT: Do I love the treasures of this world?

PRAYER: Father, search my heart and know my thoughts.

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