No Substitutes Allowed

Family Values 10.0
Value 10.2 – Written In Stone
Richard ‘Soup’ Raymer | soupraymer@gmail.com
April 18, 2021

“You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind…” Exodus 20:4 NLT

MEMORY STICK
ONE – God is One, there is no other (Exodus 20:3)
TWO – TABOO (Exodus 20:4)

What’s the difference between #1 and #2?

ONE                          TWO

• No other gods…………………………No idols
• Relationship……………………………Worship
• WHO…………………………………………HOW

I. DON’T IDOLIZE ANYTHING!
• metal image or

image
• Worship objects or

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images

Slideshow is compliments of (your name) of all the images he/she looked at on his/her phone and computer last year.

3 Things Idols Will Do:

1. Idols will
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   you (Genesis 10:14 NKJV)
2. Idols will
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   you (I Corinthians 6:12 NKJV)
3. Idols will
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   you (Psalm 115:8 NLT)

• If I don’t have

_, I’m miserable.

“The heart is an idol factory” Ed Welch – ‘Motives’

You are 1 of 2 things:

- you change your surroundings

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- you become like your surroundings

II. WORSHIP

“They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the creator, Who is praised forever! Amen” Romans 1:25 CSB

3 Motives Behind Idol Worship Of God

1. We try to
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   God’s
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   (Psalm 139:7-8 NKJV)
2. We try to
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   His
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   and
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   (Job 42:2 NKJV)
3. We try to
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   God

• Someone we can manipulate

“God if You’ll heal my child, I’ll

.”
“God if You’ll get me through this, I’ll___________.”

“Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart” Psalm 37:4 NKJV

3 Benefits To Worshiping God Only:

1. It will
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   me (Psalm 93:4 NKJV)
2. It will
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   me

a. Sets you free now – (John 8:32 & 36 NKJV)
b. Sets you free from the past – (Romans 8:1 NKJV)
c. Frees you for the future – (John 14:1-3)
“not to be troubled”, “He’s going to prepare a place” and “ He’ll receive us there”

d. Frees you from people-pleasing (Colossians 3:23 NKJV)

3. It

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me (2 Corinthians 3:18 & 36)

Worship In

And In

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“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. John 4:23-24 NKJV

• No sacred

• No sacred

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III. WHAT IS YOUR IMAGE OF GOD?
• Loving grandparent
• Unpleasable parent
• Angry Step-dad

8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
John 14:8-9 (NKJV)