Devotion at the Crossroads: Idols or The Lord

Jeremiah 10:1-16

September 13, 2009 – FCOCLH

Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. --Revelation 2:4-5

Modern idolatry

•	________________ They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. --Romans 1:25

•	_____________________ Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ. --
Galatians 1:10

•	Idolatry: Our attempts to create ultimate self-
worth, contentment and peace through physical things. Things that we control.

1.	Idols are ____________; God is ________ – They fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not totter.

2.	Idols are __________; God is ________ Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! "Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?" "Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?" --Romans 11:33-35

3.	Idols are __________; God is ________ Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. --Isaiah 40:30-31

a.	Idols are __________: Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, O LORD our God. Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this. Jeremiah 14:22

b.	Idols cannot answer prayers – Like a scarecrow in a melon patch, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good." --Jeremiah 10:5

4.	Idols call us to _______________; God calls us to ____________

For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. --
Matthew 23:12