What Is an Idol?
Ask Pastor John
Desiring God
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🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 2022 into the first episode in our 10th full year on the podcast now. |
| 0:10.9 | It's amazing. |
| 0:11.9 | I had no idea we were launching something that would last a decade. |
| 0:14.5 | But here we are, Pastor John, and the year begins with a question over idolatry of all |
| 0:20.6 | things. |
| 0:21.6 | It's a good one too. |
| 0:22.6 | It's from an anonymous man. |
| 0:23.6 | Hello, Pastor John. |
| 0:24.6 | What exactly is an idol? |
| 0:27.3 | Others use the term all the time, especially in sermons. |
| 0:29.6 | So I go to my Bible. |
| 0:31.3 | There I find that idols were statues or figurines, worshipers bending down to, quote, gods of gold |
| 0:38.0 | and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone. |
| 0:41.2 | That's Daniel 5'4". |
| 0:43.6 | Sometimes it seems idols were talisman-like items to ward off bad things, trinkets in the |
| 0:49.2 | form of golden tumors or golden mice. |
| 0:52.2 | I'm thinking here for Samuel 5, verse 6, for Samuel 7, verse 2. |
| 0:58.1 | But today's idols are very different. |
| 1:00.2 | They seem to be desires of the heart for money, sex, power and things like that. |
| 1:04.9 | How did this come to be? |
| 1:06.6 | Idols used to be carved things. |
| 1:08.7 | Now they are heart obsessions. |
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