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What are the idols in your life? Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

Idolatry is trusting in anything else or anything less than God who made us.

So you trust in your money, you trust in your children, you trust in your husband, you trust

in the economy, you trust in the government, you trust in yourself, it makes an idol-worship

you trust in your own creation. And the point here is, how stupid is that?

How foolish is it?

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgabuth, author of Choosing Forgiveness.

For July 6th, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

Music 26th, 2022. I'm Dana Gresh. You probably don't make a habit out of bowing down in front of a statue made of wood or stone,

but idols are everywhere in your world, tempting you to come worship them all the time.

Nancy will talk about that more as she continues in the series Habakkuk, moving from fear to faith.

Well, if the only day that you've heard in this series on Habakkuk was the last session,

then you probably think this is a really depressing study because we were looking

at a pretty heavy passage in Habakkuk chapter 2 where God is pronouncing woes and divine

judgments against the nation of Babylon for their sins. He's telling them they're going to reap what

they have sown. And it was a pretty hard to swallow passage, a lot of negative

stuff in there. But you know, as you read those passages in the scripture, remember that they're

inspired too. And that the glories and the beauties and the wonders of the gospel and the grace

of Christ are never as precious to us if we have not seen them against the backdrop of the utter depravity

and sinfulness of human flesh. When we've seen ourselves as we really are and we've seen

the judgment that we deserve for our sins, then when God says, I sent Christ to be the substitution for your sin to take the judgment that you deserved, we go, wow, that's good news. That's a gospel we're sharing. And I think one of the reasons that the gospel is not wondrous and precious to so many even professing believers today is because they've

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