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Seven Marks of Idolatry
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2015
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Seven Marks of Idolatry

I recently preached a sermon titled, "To Whom Will You Liken God?," on Isaiah 40:18-20 where Isaiah contrasts the infinite majesty of God with the complete inadequacy of idols. In this passage, Isaiah is mocking the idol maker, the idolater, and the idol itself. In the course of that expository sermon, I identified seven marks of idolatry from the Bible:

1. Idolatry comes through deceptive images of God, Ex 20:4

2. Rebellion and stubbornness are expressions of idolatry, 1 Samuel 15

3. The works of the flesh are idolatry, Gal 5:19

4. Sexual immorality is connected with idolatry, Hosea 4:13-15; 1 Cor 6:9-11; Eph 5:5

5. Embracing false ideas is idolatry, Zech 10:2

6. Covetousness is idolatry, Col 3:5

7. Your vision of God can be idolatry, Isaiah 40:18

Martin Luther - “Whatever your heart clings to and relies upon, that is your God.”[1]

Matthew Henry - "Proud people make themselves equal with God; covetous people make their money equal with God; and whatever we esteem or love, fear or hope in, more than God, that creature we equal with God."[2]

John Angell James - "Hence it is obvious that—whatever we love most, and are most anxious to retain and please—whatever it be we depend most upon for happiness and help—whatever has most of our hearts—that is, in effect, is our God!—whether it be Jehovah or Jupiter, or whether it be friends, possessions, or our own desires, or our own selves!"[3]

[1] G.K. Beale, We Become What We Worship: A Biblical Theology of Idolatry(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 17.

[2] Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson), 1151.

[3] John Angell James, "Spiritual Idolatry," Grace Gems, http://www.gracegems.org/25/spiritual_idolatry.htm.
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