JULY2019 – KEEP AWAY FROM IDOLS

JULY2019 – KEEP AWAY FROM IDOLS: What’s An IDOL/IDOLATRY – It’s ANYTHING!

Idol and
Idolatry are nouns. Meaning they are personified – which indicates they have
characteristics and behavioural acts and effects. And are not just demonic but
spirits at work passively in some people and places, thereby creating the
essence of addictions, suffering, poverty, setbacks and such likes, that leads
to further bondages. Their likeness and difference can be connotes as this:

** An IDOL is a
graven image or representation of ANYTHING that is REVERED, or BELIEVED to
convey spiritual power, essence and being.

** An IDOLATRY
is the worship of IDOLS. It connotes the WORSHIP and SERVING (rendering
services) of SOMETHING or SOMEONE other than God as if it were God.

SELAH – PAUSE
AND THINK!

“Little children (believers, dear ones), guard yourselves from IDOLS—[false teachings, moral compromises, and ANYTHING that would take God’s place in your heart]”1 John 5:21 (Amplified).

“Consider the people of Israel; are those who eat the sacrifices not partners of the altar [united in their worship of the same God]? [Indeed they are.] 19 What do I mean then? That a thing offered to idols is anything [special or changed simply because it is offered], or that AN IDOL IS ANYTHING? 20 On the contrary, the things which the Gentiles (pagans) sacrifice, they sacrifice to DEMONS [in effect], and not to God; and I do not want you to become partners with demons [by eating at feasts in pagan temples] . 21 You CANNOT drink [both] the Lord’s cup and the cup of DEMONS. You cannot share in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons [thereby becoming partners with them]. 22 Do we [really] provoke the Lord to jealousy [when we eat food sacrificed to handmade “gods” at pagan feasts]? Are we [spiritually] stronger than He? [Certainly not! He knows that the idols are nothing. But we deeply [a]offend Him.]” 1 Corinthians 10:18-22 (Amplified).

“IT WAS FOR THIS FREEDOM THAT CHRIST SET US FREE [completely liberating us]; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery [which you once removed]” Galatians 5:1 (Amplified).

Rev Chukie MORSI