God 's love for us is unconditional and undeserved. Worship is responding to that unconditional love. Hence, the main aspect of worship is to love and reverence God. The greatest commandant is “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:36). Obeying this love commandment is the act of worship. This fellowship with God gives us protection from the Devil.
Obeying the commandment of love is the act of worship.
The Devil want you to love him and worship him. Once way that Satan gets the worship is when people pray to idols.
Satan Sought the Worship of Jesus
8 Again, the Devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their …show more content…
Finally, Satan makes an offer to Jesus; Satan told Jesus to worship him. Satan even sought the worship from Jesus!
Satan did not just say, “fall down” ; instead, Satan said, “fall down and worship me”. In other words, Satan was asking Jesus to love and reverence him! He wanted the worship that Jesus gave to The Father. If Jesus worshipped Satan, Satan would had full control of Jesus’ life, and the plan of redemption would be unfulfilled.
Idol Worship : Covenanting with Satan
Idolatry is a major theme of the Bible. Throughout the Bible, God has strictly prohibited idol worship (Exodus 20:4). As mentioned in earlier in this chapter, the Devil seeks our worship. Once way that Satan gets the worship is when people pray to idols.
19 What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?
20 Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they SACRIFICE TO DEMONS and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons
1 Corinthians 10:19-20
One might think that there is nothing wrong in worshipping idols. After all, an inanimate object has no life and could do no harm. But, the Apostle Paul says that praying to idols is praying to demons. There is nothing wrong in having sculptures or statues as pieces of art. But, a statue or a sculpture should not be an object of …show more content…
Lester Sumerall narrates about his conversation with a priest in a Chinese temple:
When I was in China a number of years ago, I remember visiting a temple and allowing the priest there to show me their gods. They had a fantastic array of idol gods—ugly ones, big ones, frightening ones. They even had gods with eight or ten arms.
I looked up at an especially big one that was about sixteen or eighteen feet tall, and I said, "Surely, you know that thing can 't do anything for you."He was very polite. He smiled and said, "You are a foreigner. You just don 't understand."
"Well," I said, "tell me how it can do anything."
The priest said, "Of course, we all know that an idol does not have any power. But the spirit that lives in that idol certainly does. The spirit of that idol is off wandering around somewhere right now. If I were to bring some incense and an offering, and place it in front of the idol, something would start happening immediately."
Then he took me around to the back of the idol and showed me a hole cut into its
Obeying the commandment of love is the act of worship.
The Devil want you to love him and worship him. Once way that Satan gets the worship is when people pray to idols.
Satan Sought the Worship of Jesus
8 Again, the Devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their …show more content…
Finally, Satan makes an offer to Jesus; Satan told Jesus to worship him. Satan even sought the worship from Jesus!
Satan did not just say, “fall down” ; instead, Satan said, “fall down and worship me”. In other words, Satan was asking Jesus to love and reverence him! He wanted the worship that Jesus gave to The Father. If Jesus worshipped Satan, Satan would had full control of Jesus’ life, and the plan of redemption would be unfulfilled.
Idol Worship : Covenanting with Satan
Idolatry is a major theme of the Bible. Throughout the Bible, God has strictly prohibited idol worship (Exodus 20:4). As mentioned in earlier in this chapter, the Devil seeks our worship. Once way that Satan gets the worship is when people pray to idols.
19 What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?
20 Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they SACRIFICE TO DEMONS and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons
1 Corinthians 10:19-20
One might think that there is nothing wrong in worshipping idols. After all, an inanimate object has no life and could do no harm. But, the Apostle Paul says that praying to idols is praying to demons. There is nothing wrong in having sculptures or statues as pieces of art. But, a statue or a sculpture should not be an object of …show more content…
Lester Sumerall narrates about his conversation with a priest in a Chinese temple:
When I was in China a number of years ago, I remember visiting a temple and allowing the priest there to show me their gods. They had a fantastic array of idol gods—ugly ones, big ones, frightening ones. They even had gods with eight or ten arms.
I looked up at an especially big one that was about sixteen or eighteen feet tall, and I said, "Surely, you know that thing can 't do anything for you."He was very polite. He smiled and said, "You are a foreigner. You just don 't understand."
"Well," I said, "tell me how it can do anything."
The priest said, "Of course, we all know that an idol does not have any power. But the spirit that lives in that idol certainly does. The spirit of that idol is off wandering around somewhere right now. If I were to bring some incense and an offering, and place it in front of the idol, something would start happening immediately."
Then he took me around to the back of the idol and showed me a hole cut into its