1. American Idols
Isaiah 44
A study of Isaiah’s God & His servants

2. Exodus 20
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
You shall have no other gods before Me.”

3. Exodus 20
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
You shall have no other gods before Me.
You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them…”

4. Definition of Idolatry

5. Definition of Idolatry
Ezekiel 14:3
“Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts…”

6. Definition of Idolatry
Idolatry is giving anything the trust and devotion that belongs to God alone.
Thomas Oden:
“One has a god when a finite value is worshipped and adored and viewed as that without which one cannot receive life joyfully.”

7. Definition of Idolatry
Idolatry is giving anything the trust and devotion that belongs to God alone.
money & possessions
love
beauty & body
fame & prestige
education & intelligence
career
hobbies
political & social causes
ministry
family
Good things always make the best idols!!

8. Definition of Idolatry
Idolatry is giving anything the trust and devotion that belongs to God alone.
Romans 1:25
For they exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

9. Definition of Idolatry
Idolatry is giving anything the trust and devotion that belongs to God alone.
John Calvin:
“Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols”

10. Devastation of Idolatry
Offends our One & Only Savior (v6-8)
Makes fools of us (v9)
Can’t give us what we long for (v10-17)
Idols limited by their makers
Idols limited by their materials
Blinds & enslaves us (v18-20)

11. Devastation of Idolatry
Psalm 115:4–8
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of man’s hands. They have mouths, but they cannot speak; they have eyes, but they cannot see; they have ears, but they cannot hear… Those who make them will become like them, everyone who trusts in them.

12. Devastation of Idolatry
Offends our One & Only Savior (v6-8)
Makes fools of us (v9)
Can’t give us what we long for (v10-17)
Idols limited by their makers
Idols limited by their materials
Blinds & enslaves us (v18-20)

13. Don’t love good things less; love the Best Thing more!
Solution to Idolatry
Identify your idols
What are my greatest desires?
What are my greatest fears?
Pursue the One True God
Don’t love good things less;
love the Best Thing more!