With Jack Bailey
Scripture You do these things I hate, and then you come and stand in my presence, in my own Temple, and say, “We are safe!’ ~Jeremiah 7:10, GNT Quote Sometimes I wonder if we are not worshiping worship rather than God. ~D.A. Carson Jeremiah witnessed the demise and death of a nation. Judah was living…
Scripture Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you. Now therefore, take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do to you.’ ”So the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments…
Scripture So, what about eating meat that has been offered to idols? Well, we all know that an idol is not really a god and that there is only one God. ~1 Corinthians 8:4, NLT Quote It is the glory of vain men never to yield to the truth. ~Augustine Roman and Greek mythology was big…
Scripture The people of Israel have set up idols in their hearts and fallen into sin. ~Ezekiel 14:4, NLT Quote There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action. ~Wolfgang Johann Goethe I am reading Ezekiel in the IMMERSE READING BIBLE and I noticed something that I don’t remember seeing before. Some of Israels leaders…
Scripture Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts. ~I John 5:21, NLT Quote Whatever you love more than Jesus is your idol. ~ Dwight L. Moody David dreamed of building God a Temple and God allowed his son Solomon to built a temple but as Paul said in…
Scripture But you honor your sons instead of Me! You don’t respect the sacrifices and offerings that are brought to Me, and you’ve all gotten fat from eating the best parts. ~I Samuel 2:29, CEV Quote Eventually every idol, every substitute for God will be destroyed and you may be forced to watch. ~Ya’akov Eli…
Scripture Paul had decided to sail on past Ephesus, because he did not want to spend too much time in Asia. He was in a hurry and wanted to be in Jerusalem in time for Pentecost. ~Acts 20:16, CEV Quote Everything is life is eventually taken away from us after a tragically brief time of…
Scripture I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.” ~Psalm 16:2, NIV Quote We all live for something and we all love something supremely. What ever we love more than Jesus is an idol. ~Ya’akov When I first read Psalm 16 earlier today, I thought David was talking…
Scripture Fill my heart with joy when their grain and new wine abound. ~Psalm 4:7, NIV Quote God’s answer to every human problem is Jesus. ~Ya’akov David noticed the same thing that you and I witness: sometimes the wicked prosper while the faithful have problems. When idol worshiping pagans fair better in the market place…
Scripture So the Israelites went up to Baal-perazim, and David defeated the Philistines there… The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David ordered that they be burned in the fire. ~1 Chronicles 14:11-12 (CSB) Quote Break down every idol, cast out every foe—Now wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. ~James L. Nicholson…