Many of us are suffering today because of contemporary idolatry.

But Dr. Tony Evans says our misplaced devotion invites divine disruption.

God will let stuff go south, continually, until he gets our undivided attention.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Every time God's people turned to idols, they lost their freedom.

But every time they cried out, he raised up a deliverer.

Today, Dr. Evan shows how God's mercy can reverse years of defeat and how he often works through

the most unlikely people with the simplest tools. Let's listen as he explains what it means to

trust God with what's already in your hand. Men want idols so that they don't have to answer to God,

but they want to keep religion.

Because they want to keep religion, but they don't want to answer to God, they create idols.

They're primitive idols, and they are American idols.

Success can be an idol, money can be an idol, power can be an idol,

people can be an idol, and we have seen so far that the primary name of the idol in the book of judges and throughout the Old Testament is bail. And they looked to bail for fertility, fertility of agricultural fertility, animal fertility, human fertility.

So they looked to him while still keeping God in the neighborhood.

And this generation, the next generation, as we saw in chapter 2 verse 10, did not get transferred to them the faith of Joshua's generation.

And when they moved away from God, there was disintegration in the culture.

Verse 9, when, somebody say when?

When the sons of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the sons of Israel to deliver them.

Translation, when they got desperate enough.

When things got bad enough.

God will let stuff go south continually until he gets our undivided attention.

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