Joshua 24:14-15
Every sin you are struggling with, most of the discouragement you are dealing with—even the lack of purpose you’re living with is because of idolatry?
1. Understand that all of us are worshipers.
Worship: the built in human reflex to put your hope in someone or something and chase after it.
2. Prepare yourself for war.
Over the course of your life, you will face more spiritual warfare over your connection with Jesus than anything else.
3. God is jealous ___ .
Ex 34:14: “Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.”
3. God is jealous for ___.
Deut 4:24 - …for the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God”
3. God is jealous for me.
4. Make a worship choice today.
You must make the choice to worship God every day.
You must make the choice yourself (choose for yourselves this day …)
23 “Now then,” said Joshua, “throw away the foreign gods that are among you and yield your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.” 24 And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the Lord our God and obey him.”
What are my idols?
What have you picked up from your family/friends?
What are you most disappointed with?
What do you sacrifice your time and money for?
God wants our hearts to burn with zeal for Him!
Gods at War
February 2, 2020 • Glenn Greiner
God of Me
March 8, 2020 • Gregg Parris
Daniel 4:1-3 What motivates you? For Nebuchadnezzar his motivation was to impress others. What is your standard for success? For Nebuchadnezzar it was personal gain. What’s your source of power? For Nebuchadnezzar it was self-empowerment. What’s the purpose of your life? For King Nebuchadnezzar it was personal happiness. “’Therefore, I bring charges against you again,’ declares the Lord…’My people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols. Be appalled at this, you heavens, and shudder with great horror,’ declares the Lord. ‘My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.’” Jeremiah 2:9, 11-13 What motivates you? Instead of “impressing others” that answer becomes “pleasing God.” What is your standard for success? Instead of “personal gain” the answer becomes “faithfulness to God.” What’s your source of power? Instead of “self-empowerment” your answer becomes “dependence on God.” What is the purpose of your life? Instead of answering “personal happiness” your answer becomes “God’s Glory.” Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:13-14
God of Success
March 1, 2020 • Gregg Parris
Luke 18:18-30 I. Success vs. blessed. There are not enough deeds or donations in the world to buy an ounce of the purity we need. II. You have to choose. No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. Matthew 6:24 How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! Mark 10:23 III. Jesus my purpose.
God of Money
February 23, 2020 • Gregg Parris
Luke 12:13-21 “Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute and cannot unite – but they all worship money.” Mark Twain “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” Luke 12:14-15 “Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.” Ecclesiastes 5:15 I. Source of security. II. Source of satisfaction. If you love money, you will never be satisfied; if you long to be rich, you will never get all you want. Ecclesiastes 5:10 III. Source of significance.