“The One, The Way & The Warning”
Pastor Jason West
July 23, 2023
I. The
(Ezekiel 20:7-8)
Exodus 20:3 “You shall have no other gods before me.”
A. There is One God
Isaiah 45:21b “there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.”
1 Corinthians 8:4 “Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that ‘an idol has no real existence,’ and that ‘there is no God but one.’”
B. “Before Me”
(1 Samuel 5:3-4; Deuteronomy 6:4-5)
1 Samuel 5:1-2 “When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon.
C. A Life Changing Question
1. Joshua
(Joshua 24:14-15)
2. Elijah
(1 Kings 18:21a)
D. Jesus’
(Acts 4:12)
John 14:6 “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
II. The
Exodus 20:4-5a “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them…”
A. An Idol
1. Idols Need to be
(Isaiah 44:9-17)
2. Idols Will Not Hear Your Cry
(1 Kings 18:26)
3. Idols Are Worthless
(1 Kings 18:27)
4. Idols Require Tireless
(1 Kings 18:28-29)
5. Idols Will be Consumed by
(1 Kings 18:33-39)
1 Kings 18:30 “Then Elijah said to all the people, ‘Come near to me.’ And all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that had been thrown down.”
6. Idols Are
Acts 17:16 “Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.”
B. Confronting the Idols
1. God Doesn’t Just Want Us to Just be
(Acts 17:22b-23)
2. Remember That God is Over
(Acts 17:24-25)
3. Know That God Has a
(Acts 17:26-29)
4. Repent
Acts 17:30-31 “The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
III. The
Exodus 20:5b “for I the Lord your God am a jealous God”
A. The Warning
Exodus 20:5c “visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me”
B. The
Exodus 20:6 “but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.”