RTW 2022

“Suppose there are prophets among you or those who dream dreams about the future, and they promise you signs or miracles, and the predicted signs or miracles occur. If they then say, ‘Come, let us worship other gods’—gods you have not known before— do not listen to them.“
Deuteronomy 13: 1-3a

Dictionary.com defines
Idolatry:
excessive or blind adoration, reverence, devotion.

Truths about idolatry

• Everyone is vulnerable to idolatry.
• Idolatry can be intentional.
• Idolatry is unintentional.
• We don’t have to have a statue to have an idol.

What kind of idols to we have?

• Family (Children, husband)
• Career
• Knowledge
• Money
• Material items
• Service
• People

How to avoid gods we don’t know?

• Allow God’s Word and His Spirit to teach and shape me.
  For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
  Hebrews 4:12 (ESV )
• Study and feast on the deep truths of God’s Word.
  But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
  Hebrews 5:14 (ESV)
• Guard my gates; be very aware of what is allowed in my mind.
  Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
  Romans 12:2 (ESV)
• Ask God for wisdom.
  If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
  James 1:5 (ESV)
• Test EVERYTHING… even RTW.
  But test everything; hold fast what is good.
  1 Thessalonians 5:21 (ESV)
• Test EVERYONE… even RTW.
• Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
  1 John 4:1 (ESV)

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When you arrive, you may use the money to buy any kind of food you want—cattle, sheep, goats, wine, or other alcoholic drink.
Deuteronomy 14:26

They were permitted to purchase alcoholic drinks in the Promised Land.

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Guard myself against worldly idolatry.