- Ministries
- Technology (computers, games, music, TV, movies, etc.)
- Work
- Time
- our possessions
- relationships
18A certain ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"19"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good—except God alone. 20You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.'[a]"
21"All these I have kept since I was a boy," he said.
22When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
23When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was a man of great wealth. 24Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! 25Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
26Those who heard this asked, "Who then can be saved?"
27Jesus replied, "What is impossible with men is possible with God."
28Peter said to him, "We have left all we had to follow you!"
29"I tell you the truth," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life."
29"I tell you the truth," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life."
15 Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket;
they are regarded as dust on the scales;
he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.16 Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires,
nor its animals enough for burnt offerings.17 Before him all the nations are as nothing;
they are regarded by him as worthless
and less than nothing.18 To whom, then, will you compare God?
What image will you compare him to?19 As for an idol, a craftsman casts it,
and a goldsmith overlays it with gold
and fashions silver chains for it.20 A man too poor to present such an offering
selects wood that will not rot.
He looks for a skilled craftsman
to set up an idol that will not topple.
3 For the customs of the peoples are worthless;
they cut a tree out of the forest,
and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.4 They adorn it with silver and gold;
they fasten it with hammer and nails
so it will not totter.5 Like a scarecrow in a melon patch,
their idols cannot speak;
they must be carried
because they cannot walk.
Do not fear them;
they can do no harm
nor can they do any good.
This seems to through out the question, how can we give so much of our time and worth to things that aren't even living...to things that will NEVER be able to "do any good."
So how does idolatry affect our worship?
Matthew 6:24
24"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
Idolatry takes our eyes off of God and onto something completely temporal...something that will perish with this world. We end up loving the physical things in life and turning away from God.
God gave us a command to not commit idolatry. If we go against that, we are not being obedient, and therefore we are unable to worship God.
I thought this video does a great job summing everything up:
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