The Fiery Furnace - Part 1

Can you decide what to do with God?

Introduction

Man is generally religious

Man, inevitably bows at some shrine.

• Romans 1:18-23

The Old Testament tells us much about man’s religious nature.

• Psalm 115
• Genesis 1:27
• Romans 1:21-24, 32
• Exodus 20:3-4

Romans 1 charts the course for us.

1. When you abandon God, and you turn your back,
2. then you invent your own gods because man is religious, and in inventing his own gods
3. he makes gods like himself, he becomes more like them, and
4. damns his own soul in the process.Flee
5. When it comes to idolatry you are to do three things.

• I Corinthians 10:14

Avoid

• I Corinthians 10:10-20

Stay away

• I John 5:21

20^TH Century Idols:

God of possessions

God of plenty – Love of money

• Colossians 3:5
• Luke 12:13-21

Pride

People

Pleasures and entertainment

• Hebrews 11:26
• II Timothy 3:4
• Luke 8:14

It is wrong to worship God through the wrong method

• Numbers 21:6-8
• II Kings 18:4