No Idolatry

 No Idolatry

Positive Christianity Series Episode #217


"Thou shall have no other gods before me."- Exodus 20: 2

GOD Almighty instructs us to be far apart from idol worship and self-worship that is idolatry. We can not worship GOD Almighty and idols. We decide to worship the GOD of gods, GOD Almighty, and deny idol worship and self-worship because GOD Almighty merits the worship. We are supposed to worship GOD Almighty above everything and never practice idolatry. Idolatry wants to lead to grave sin although it does not say so from the beginning. Idolatry wants to lead to adultery, envy, hate, bitterness, speaking temporary lies and deceit, and coveting. We learn that in the idol temples in the times of Paul (the ministry of Paul was somewhere between 33 A.D. or 34 A.D.-67 A.D.) in Rome, Greece, and Asia Minor there was adultery practiced along with eating food offered to idols. We learn that Paul instructed the need to forsake idol worship, not practice pagan false beliefs, adultery, and eating food offered to idols. The intention of idolatry is to lead to adultery and sin. We learn that we can not partake in the worship of GOD Almighty and practice idol worship. We choose to deny everything that is of idolatry and sin (1 Corinthians 10: 20-22).

"Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that all of us possess knowledge. This 'knowledge' puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves GOD, he is known by GOD."- 1 Corinthians 8: 1-3

While we learn about the wisdom of GOD Almighty, we are supposed to have genuine empathy worshiping GOD Almighty. The practice of genuine empathy is filial love. We know that love builds up. We learn that knowledge is important yet the worship of GOD Almighty helps us develop wisdom and fidelity to GOD Almighty that is much greater than knowledge. Knowledge can "puff up" and lead to arrogance, yet wisdom prevents arrogance because we know that GOD Almighty is the source of infinite and eternal wisdom. Knowledge is learning about  information, yet wisdom is greater than knowledge because wisdom is the fear of the LORD, obedience to the commandments of Moses, and hating evil. Wisdom helps us practice discretion, justice, equity, equality, and have counsel, insight, reproof, and correction. 

"Therefore, as to the food offered to idols, we know that 'an idol has no real existance', and that 'there is no GOD but one'. For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth-as indeed there are many 'gods' and many 'lords'- yet 'for us there is one GOD, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one LORD, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist."- 1 Corinthians 8: 4-6

Paul allows us to know that in the pagan temples where idolatry was practiced, there was food offered to idols and adultery was also practiced. This describes how the snake attempts to lead to sin and idolatry through adultery and idol worship. In the times of Moses, there was also temptation to practice idolatry with adultery and food offered to idols by the suggestion of Balaam. We learn that Balaam suggested idolatry and adultery to Balaak to tempt Israel. We learn that Balaam was destroyed for practicing idolatry and helping Balaak. We learn that those that practiced idolatry and adultery were destroyed by the plague. The story of Balaam describes how idol worship and adultery leads to the destruction of the wicked. We learn that while the snake tempts to the practice of sin and idol worship it does not say that the actual intention is to lead to destruction similar to how Balaam and Balaak were ensnared. This is because GOD Almighty judges wickedness and hostilities seen in Balaak and Balaam. 

We can not partake with idol worship because it wants to lead to sin, adultery, vices, and destruction of the wicked. We can not partake with idol worship meaning we can not practice adultery nor eat food offered to idols. We learn that these were things that were done in pagan idol temples in the past and that Revelation speaks about idolators trying to lead to idolatry similar to Balaam in the end times (Revelation 2: 14). Paul allows us to undertand that the worship of GOD Almighty allows us to deny and be far apart from idolatry and adultery (2 Corinthians 6: 14).  We learn that the light can not partake with the darkness, righteousness with lawlessness, and belief with unbelief. We learn that we can not be unequally yoked with unbelievers because they only want to lead to sin, idol worship, adultery, envy, hate, bitterness, coveting, greed, avarice, slothfulness, division, quarreling, deceit, arrogance, intemperance, and do not want to be reproved. We can avoid such people and persevere with zealous faith far apart from unbelievers who are false prophets, adulterers, adultresses, and idolators. 


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