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Isaiah chapter 42, verse 8.

I am the Lord. That is my name.

My glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.

Well, the meaning of Isaiah 42 is obviously clear.

God alone deserves glory.

There are no other little G gods in the world.

He alone is the one true God.

That's why he deserves all glory. and all idolatry is wrong.

Yet when we hear, nor do I give my praise to carved idols,

oftentimes we can just start to think, okay, wooden idols or kind of pictures that we

might have of idolatry in the Old Testament, people bowing down and worshipping different images,

even pictures of that around the world,

which is obviously idolatry.

And so we want to pray for God's glory to have known over and above,

carved idols in the world,

but we've also got to think about idolatry,

just in our own hearts.

There's a sense in which all sin is rooted

in idolatry. Like immorality flows from idolatry. When we sin, any sin, think about the anatomy of

sin. When you or I sin, we're basically saying, I know what is better than you, oh God, what is best for my life.

I'm smarter than you.

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