STUDIES FROM BRETHREN IN CHRIST

1/1/2023 ~ Idols

🗿   IdolsAM.mp3 (31m 34s)   Idols.pptx Darkness finds no friends in the light. No substitute can be made to replace our God of Hosts. The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men's hands. ... ~ Psalms 135:15-18 No Object can Replace the Spark of Life Idols of the Nations     ⮡  Work of men's hands          ⮡ silver and gold     ● Have mouths; do not speak     ● Eyes they have; do not see     ● They have ears; do not hear     ● No breath in their mouths D E A D   🡢 Who trusts in them is like them  Woe to him who says to wood, 'Awake!' To silent stone, 'Arise! ... ~ Habakkuk 2:19 Imaginary Life unto the Inanimate is Fantasy   Who says to silent wood, stone   'Awake! Arise! It shall teach!' 🡣 Woe to him Now they sin more and more, And have made for themselves molded images, ... ~ Hosea 13:2 Idols of many forms are loved more than God   Sin more and more      ⮡  Made molded images             ⮡  Idols of their silver                    🡣            According to their skill           🡢 Work of craftsmen 🡠                                                                                      Love                      They say, "Let the men kiss them"   However every nation continued to make gods of its own, ... ~ 2nd Kings 17:29 If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched out our hands foreign god, Would not God search this out? ... ~ Psalms 44:20-21 The Lord of Host’s is Sensitive to Our Call God Knows 💖 The Secrets of The Heart Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the LORD." ~ Jeremiah 17:5 The Light of Heart is a Gift from Beyond  Calls       LORD                   🡤                Cursed                🡣       Trusts in man   Flesh his strength   🡢 Heart Departs      from the LORD ... what does the LORD your God require of you, ... ~ Deuteronomy 10:12-14 God requires we feel towards others as Him  God requires      🡢 To fear the LORD your God      🡢 To walk in all His ways      🡢 To love Him      🡢 To serve the LORD your God                    ⮡  with all your heart and soul      🡢 To keep His commandments and statutes                       🡢 Today for your good He has made the earth by His power, He has established the world by His wisdom, ... ~ Jeremiah 10:12-13 No Alternative can Beat the Creations of God  He has made the earth     🡢  by His Power     🡢  by His Wisdom              Stretched out the heavens                   🡦 at His discretion 🡧                                   🡣       ● He causes the vapors to ascend         ● He makes lightning for the rain       ● He brings the wind            ⮡ out of His treasuries ... For his molded image is falsehood, ... ~ Jeremiah 10:14-15 To Deny Truth does not Negate Truth    Everyone is dull-hearted                           ⮡  Without knowledge     Shame by molded falsehood image                                          🡣                              They are futile                             a work of errors       In the time of their punishment                     ⮡  They shall Perish   DIE   "Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. ..." ~ Ezekiel 18:31-32 A Sinking Heart can Fail to Rise back to God   GOD has no pleasure in the death of one who dies 🡡 🡢 get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit 🡠 🡣                                                          Cast away committed transgressions   🡡                                                        For why should you die? 🡢 Therefore turn and live! ... 'As I live,' says the Lord GOD, 'I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, ...' ~ Ezekiel 33:11 Life is Given in the Image of our Living God   Why should     you die?         💀                    ⛲                           Turn from                         your wicked                       ways and live!   "... Return to Me, and I will return to you," Says the LORD of hosts. ... ~ Malachi 3:7 Remaining oblivious to God abandons His Ways Return to Me, and I will return to you ¿In what way shall we return?   You have not kept My ordinances   "... 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Repent, turn away from your idols, and turn your faces away from all your abominations." ' " ~ Ezekiel 14:6 Black and White is as Evil opposes Goodness Therefore says the Lord GOD: 🡆 "Repent, turn away from all your abominations." 🡄 ... put to death your members which are on earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ... ~ Col. 3:5-7 Destiny is Defined by One’s Desires   Put to death on the earth:        ● Fornication        ● Uncleanness        ● Passion        ● Evil desire        ● Covetousness, which is idolatry       Because of these the wrath of God      is coming upon the disobedience ... put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, ... ~ Colossians 3:8-10 Striving to be Better is the Climb to Eternity   Put off all these:        🡢 anger        🡢 wrath        🡢 malice        🡢 blasphemy        🡢 filthy language                      🡣      Put off the old man           with his deeds Put on the         new man    ● Do not lie to        One another    ● Renewed in        Knowledge               🡣        According to    the image of Him   What is cherished in heart is where life journeys ● The worship of idols leaves the spirit dead ● All should beware of the worship of things over God ● Skills used for false worship is sinful ● Countless gods fill the histories of man up to today ● Hearts that depart from the LORD are cursed ● God requires our love/walk in His ways for our good ● God is the creator of all things by His power ● Put off one’s transgressions and put on a new heart ● God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked ● Return to God and He will return to you ● Proclaimed of old the LORD calls for all to repent ● Put to death evil desire, & covetousness = idolatry ● Do not lie and be renewed in the knowledge of God Materialism is a test of character where souls seek. Darkness comes together where no worth is.