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Revive Our Hearts

Why Idolatry Is Ridiculous

Revive Our Hearts

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ancient people worshiped animals. It’s easy to recognize the futility of that kind of idolatry. But the truth is all of us are tempted to worship other Gods.

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0:00.0

Nancy DeMoss Walglamuth reminds us, idolatry is ridiculous.

0:05.0

Romans 1 says they worship the creature.

0:07.0

They made images like four-footed beasts and creeping things.

0:11.0

How weird is that?

0:13.0

To praise things you can squish.

0:16.0

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, co-author of Seeking Him for October 3rd, 2018.

0:30.9

Nancy is continuing in a series called Hallelujah, a praise celebration.

0:42.2

She begins by telling the story of a friend who praised the Lord in the darkest days of treatments for leukemia.

0:49.5

Since the time she recorded this, Scott went home to be with the Lord and is now worshiping his Savior like

0:55.6

never before. Let's listen. I had a moving experience recently when I went to visit a friend in the

1:03.4

hospital in Grand Rapids, where some of you are from, and this couple or dear friends of mine,

1:09.8

the man serves on our advisory board at Revive Our Hearts,

1:13.5

Scott is his name, Karen is hers.

1:15.4

And Scott, a couple of years ago, was diagnosed with leukemia and has been in a battle for his life.

1:21.6

And I went through one bone marrow transplant and then had a relapse and the cancer came back.

1:29.3

And so he was getting ready to have another bone marrow transplant.

1:32.9

And what they have to do is give you so much chemo to kill the cancer cells,

1:38.3

if I understand this correctly, that it takes you right to the point of death,

1:43.6

like just right there without killing you.

1:46.8

And I got to the hospital room right when he was at that very, very low point.

1:51.6

Didn't realize how sick he was,

1:53.0

and I knew he was struggling, but he was trembling, just shaking.

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