Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter-by-ch chapter verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message, idol worship,

as we pick up in First Thessalonians chapter 1, verse 9.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

We usually think of idolatry as something of a past history of man or something that is

only found in primitive cultures. Not so.

We can even find idols in churches, images, statuary.

Though it has been specifically forbidden in the scriptures, yet it does exist.

When a person begins to worship an idol or a relic,

it is a sign that that person has lost the consciousness of God and the presence of God.

God oftentimes works through instruments.

God works through the cross to bring our salvation.

But then to take splinters of the cross and begin to venerate splinters of the cross.

Showed that the people had lost the truth behind the cross.

God used the brass serpent in the wilderness to bring healing to Israel from the bites of these poisonous snakes.

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