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<div class="SSN_title">IDOLATRY - ITS CAUSES & CURE</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: The nation Israel is no more cities destroyed; men murdered; women ravished; remainder taken captive why? Idolatry. Idol - "that upon which the affections are passionately set." Covetousness which is idolatry.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. IDOLATRY - ITS CAUSE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. "God has made man subject unto emptiness."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Man's attempt to fill that emptiness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Difficulty of worshipping the invisible.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Missouri adage "show me."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Loss of consciousness of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. We hold to relics or reminders of better days.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Hezekiah - brass serpent.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. A vacuum cannot exist in nature - seek to fill.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Take God out of the center of man's life create vacuum the man will replace - God with idol.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Idol shows desire to regain that which was lost.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. Disobedience to word of God vs. 13.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. IF IDOLATRY A NATURAL PENCHANT OF MAN, WHY FORBIDDEN?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. God is limitless.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The minute you create an idol, defined boundaries.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. God's infinite nature defies visible representation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. His omnipresence.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. THE RESULTS OF IDOLATRY.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Limited concepts of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He cannot see everywhere.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He cannot reach everywhere.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. False concepts of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. I can hide.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. I can escape the judgment.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Eventual slavery - Israel went into captivity.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. "I am free to do as I please."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. To exercise that freedom the wrong way will lead to captivity.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Extreme illustration - taking heroin.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. I become a slave to my idol.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">It demands my time.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">It drains my finances.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">It saps my energies.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. ITS CURE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. A renewed experience with God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Because a part of the cause is the loss of consciousness, the cure is in a renewed consciousness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Paul on Mars Hill "In Him we live, we move, we have our being.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Let Christ sit on the throne of your life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Give heed to God's Word.</div>
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<div class="SSN_notes">How can you go on another day in sin thinking someday with Christ you will begin - O will you hear above the world's loud din, God's final call, God's final call.</div>
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