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Capturing the Heart
Ezekiel 14: 1-6
Understanding Idols and
Idolatry
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+Idolatry is False worship of substitutes
for the living God
You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make for yourself an image in the
form of anything in heaven above or on the earth
beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bowdown to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your
God, am a jealous God,. (Exodus 20:16)
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+Idolatry is:
!Misplaced trust in a greater power
But those who trust in idols,
who say to images, You are our gods,
will be turned back in utter shame. (Isaiah 42:17)
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+Idolatry is:
!Misplaced service of a greater power
Even while these people were worshipping the
LORD,
they were serving their idols.. (2 Kings 17:41)
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!Misplaced love as for a Spouse
I remember the devotion of your youth,
how as a bride you loved me
and followed me through the wilderness,
through a land not sown. (Jeremiah 2:13)
And the
LORD
said to Moses: You are going to rest withyour ancestors, and these people will soon prostitutethemselves to the foreign gods of the land they areentering. They will forsake me and break the covenant Imade with them. (Deuteronomy 31:16)
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+Idols capture our hearts in
!Misplaced trust
!Misplaced service
!Misplaced love
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+Idols capture our hearts and they
!They dehumanise us
They have hands, but cannot feel,
feet, but cannot walk
norcan they utter a sound with their throats.
Those who make them will be like them,
and so will all who trust in them. (Psalm 115:18)
We become what we worship (G.K. Beale)
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!They deceive and ensnare us
They worshipped their idols,
which became a snare to them. (Psalm 106:36)
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Capturing the heart
What are our Idols?
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+Idolatry as a metaphor
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No one can serve two masters. Either you will hatethe one and love the other, or you will be devoted tothe one and despise the other. You cannot serve bothGod and Money. (Matthew 6:24)
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Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to yourearthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evildesires and greed, which is idolatry. (Colossians 3:5)
! For of this you can be sure: no immoral, impure orgreedy person such a person is an idolater has
any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.(Ephesians 5:5)
! Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. (1 John5:21)
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+What are our idols?
!Most idols are good things that we put in
Gods place
!Trusting them instead of God
!Serving them instead of God
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Loving them instead of God
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Capturing the Heart
Diagnosing Idols
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+Diagnosing Idols
Diagnosing the Idols of the Heartrequires probing of the heart! Thoughts
! Desires
! Imagination
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Inclinations
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Daydreams
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Obsessions!
Strong Emotions
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Strong Reactions
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+Idols - Diagnosis
Surface Idol
= what I must have
Deep Idol
= what I hope to get
from it
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+Idols - Diagnosis
The main types of deep Idol
!Comfort
!Security
!Power
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Approval
!Control
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Surface Idol
Expensive Car
New clothes
Church Attendance
Exotic summer holidays
Tidy home, smiling wife
Climbing up career ladder
A boyfriend
Well behaved kids
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Surface Idol Deep Idol
Expensive Car
New clothes
Church Attendance
Exotic summer holidays
Tidy home, smiling wife
Climbing up career ladder
A boyfriend
Well behaved kids
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Surface Idol Deep Idol
Expensive Car Approval? Comfort?
New clothes Approval? Comfort?
Church Attendance Approval? Security?
Exotic summer holidays Comfort? Approval?
Tidy home, smiling wife Control? Comfort
Climbing up career ladder Power? Control? Approval?
A boyfriend Security? Comfort?
Well behaved kids Control? Approval?
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+Idols - Diagnosis
David Clarkson
(1622-86)
Soul Idolatry
Excludes Men
out of Heaven
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+Idols - Diagnosis
Clarksons Tests- Based on Ultimate Values1. Esteem: what we most highly value, we make our
God.
2. Mindfulness: what we are think about the most, we
make our God.
3. Intention- what we most aim at, we make our God.
4. Resolution What we are most resolved for, we
worship as God.
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Love what we most love, we worship as our God.
6. Trust what we most trust, we make our God.
7. Fear what we most fear, we worship as our God.
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+Idol Diagnosis Kellers Sentence
Completion Tests
Life only has meaning and/or I only
have worth.
if I have a position of influence over othersin work/school/church etc
(Power Idolatry)
if am loved and respected by _________
(Approval Idolatry)if I have a certain kind of quality of life.
(Comfort Idolatry)
if I have particular kind of image or look
(Image Idolatry)
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Completion Test
Life only has meaning and/or I only have
worth.
if people are dependent on me and need me(Helping Idolatry)
if there is someone there to keep me safe
(Dependence Idolatry)
if I am completely free from obligations to or
dependence on others(Independence Idolatry)
if I my accomplishments are being recognised
(Achievement Idolatry)
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+Idol Diagnosis Simple Questions
Why am I so mad about this?
Why am I so sad about this?
Why am I so determined to get this?
Why am I so determined that will not happen?
Why can I not stop doing this?
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Capturing the Heart
Idolatry and the Gospel
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+Gods response to the Idols in our
hearts
This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When any of the Israelites
set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block
before their faces and then go to a prophet, I the LORD will
answer them myself in keeping with their great idolatry.
I will do this to recapture the hearts of the people of Israel,
who have all deserted me for their idols.
Therefore say to the people of Israel, This is what the Sovereign
LORD says: Repent! Turn from your idols and renounce all your
detestable practices!
Ezekiel 14: 4-6
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+Recapturing our Hearts through
the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Jesus the image of the invisible God
Jesus the Living God who gives up his LifeJesus the Crucified God is Alive again
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!We turn from our idols to Jesus instead
!We begin to trust Jesus
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We begin to serve Jesus!We begin to love and prize Jesus
Recapturing our Hearts through
the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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Idol hearts transformed
For God, who said, Let light shine out of darkness,
made his
light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of
Gods glory displayed in the face of Christ. (2 Corinthians 4: 6)
And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate
the Lords
glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
(2 Corinthians 3: 18)
Recapturing our Hearts through
the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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!Whatever we wanted from Idols we can find in
the Gospel but it will need redefinition
! Comfort Christ is our Prize and the Source of
all we need
! Security Christ will never leave us or forsake
us. Eternal life. Salvation
! Power Christs power is made perfect in our
weakness. We are able to endure
!Approval Christs death brings us justification
in the sight of God
! Control Christ is in control of all History so we
do not need to be.
Recapturing our Hearts through
the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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However much I tried it, the will-power of just dont
look at it never worked for me. I could go for a fewdays, and then the hole left just had to be filled. But
then God made me realize that my choice was not
simply between looking at porn and not. It was
between desiring Jesus, who would satisfy, or
desiring something else, which wouldnt. Thestruggle didnt become easy then, but it did become
winnable, because I realized I had to choose not just
to walk away from something, but to walk towards
someone. (Cambridge Student)
Recapturing our Hearts through
the Gospel of Jesus Christ from
pornography
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Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. (I John 5:21)
Recapturing our Hearts through
the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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