Grace Audio Treasures

Of all the sins common to our fallen nature, God has the most signally stressed that sin of idolatry, or false worship.Man is by nature an idolater. His sinful mind, being alienated from God, seeks some object of worship other than the true and living God. The 'believer is not entirely exempt from this sin. Hence we have these exhortations of the Apostles addressed to the early Christians, and in these last days addressed to us: "Little children, keep yourselves from idols." 1 John 5:21"My dearly beloved, flee from idolatry." 1 Corinthians 10:14Surely, it was not the gross and senseless idolatry of the heathens, to which the Apostles thus refer--but to other idols and other worship, less palpable and degrading, but not less superstitious or offensive to God. The worship of SELF is a natural and fearful form of idolatry. It is an innate and never entirely eradicated principle of our nature, but clings to us to the very last of life. Alas! the holiest and the best of us want to be something, and to do something