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Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Psalm 115:8

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Intro: All men have capacity for God. Man cannot live without God. All men have a god. Every man is bound to an authority.
I. THREE BASIC FORMS OF IDOLATRY IN O.T.
A. Baal - Worship of nature - deification of intellect.
1. Seeking secrets of universe.
2. Philosophy, speculations.
B. Molech - Deify emotional nature.
1. Outcome is lust - debased.
2. Love is true deity of emotion.
3. If emotions allowed to master lust results.
C. Mammon - Passion for power.
1. Drive for wealth.
a. Worse than drink traffic.
b. Remove love of money and liquor business would be through in 6 months.
What causes man to deify these things?
II. MAN ALWAYS MAKES HIS GODS AFTER HIMSELF.
A. The form of the gods.
1. Mouths.
2. Ears.
B. His gods are always less than himself.
1. Man deifies intelligence - Agnosticism.
2. Emotion - lust.
3. Power - slave.
C. He then lowers himself to the level of his god.
1. He becomes blind. Tramples over the world - sees nothing.
III. WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM.
A. When man makes gods, less than himself.
B. When God makes man - more.
"Show us the Father." "He that hath seen..." Who is your god young man?
Today you answer, tomorrow we can.
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