biblestudy: The Commandments (Part 1)
Idolatry, Part 1
John W. Ritenbaugh
Given 02-Jul-88; Tape #BS-TC01
Description: Commencing this series on the Ten Commandments, John Ritenbaugh asks us to reflect soberly upon what we have accepted as our authority for permitting ourselves to do or behave as we do-- our value system, our code of ethics or code of morality. All law is nothing more than codified morality. Alarmingly, if one willingly rejects God's statutes and judgments, turning instead to his own ideas (or his political institution's ideas) about what constitutes right and wrong- he has become an idolater, subjecting himself to an alien body of law and morality, influenced by Satan, the god of this world. Whatever we choose to obey becomes automatically our sovereign lord. Throughout the relatively brief history of modern Israel, the source of law (or system of morality) has steadily and dramatically shifted away from biblical principles to human moralistic relativism — plunging our entire culture into reprobate debased idolatry- designating good as evil and evil as good. Displacing God's standards for morality with man's standards of morality is the root cause of idolatry. (90 minutes)
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Sermons in the The Commandments series:
The Commandments (Part 1)
Idolatry, Part 1
The Commandments (Part 2)
Idolatry, Part 2
The Commandments (Part 3)
Idolatry, Part 3
The Commandments (Part 4)
Taking God's Name In Vain
The Commandments (Part 5)
The Sabbath, Part 1
The Commandments (Part 6)
The Sabbath, Part 2
The Commandments (Part 7)
The Sabbath, Part 3
The Commandments (Part 8)
The Sabbath, Part 4
The Commandments (Part 9)
The Sabbath, Part 5
The Commandments (Part 10)
Honor Your Parents, Part 1
The Commandments (Part 11)
Honor Your Parents, Part 2
The Commandments (Part 12)
Honor Your Parents, Part 3
The Commandments (Part 13)
You Shall Not Kill, Part 1
The Commandments (Part 14)
You Shall Not Kill, Part 2
The Commandments (Part 15)
You Shall Not Kill, Part 3
The Commandments (Part 16)
Adultery and Sexual Sins
The Commandments (Part 17)
Thou Shalt Not Steal
The Commandments (Part 18)
Bearing False Witness
The Commandments (Part 19)
Coveting/Lusting/Desire and Idolatry
