Religion of Our Own Eyes

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Religion of Our Own Eyes

• In those days there was no king in Israel
  everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
  (Judges 176).

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Religion of Micah

• Stole 1100 shekels of silver from mother
• Returned money after hearing of curse
• Mother wholly dedicated silver for images
• Carved molded images
• Mother gave 200 shekels for images
• Micahs Religion
• Shrine, Ephod, Household Idols
• Anointed son as priest
• Felt extra blessed when Levite showed up

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When Setting Up A New Religion

• Must reject God to set up new religion!

They forsook the LORD and served Baal and the
Ashtoreths. (Judges 213). And the LORD said to
Samuel, Heed the voice of the people in all that
they say to you for they have not rejected you,
but they have rejected Me, that I should not
reign over them. (1 Samuel 87).
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When Setting Up A New Religion

• Dont expect God to accept that which is an
  abomination in His sight!

You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall
not make for yourself a carved image, or any
likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or
that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the
water under the earth you shall not bow down to
them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am
a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers on the children to the third and fourth
generations of those who hate Me. (Exodus 203-5).
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Change Forbidden
Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the
judgments which I teach you to observe, that you
may live, and go in and possess the land which
the LORD God of your fathers is giving you. You
shall not add to the word which I command you,
nor take from it, that you may keep the
commandments of the LORD your God which I command
you. Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at
Baal Peor for the LORD your God has destroyed
from among you all the men who followed Baal of
Peor. But you who held fast to the LORD your God
are alive today, every one of you. Surely I have
taught you statutes and judgments, just as the
LORD my God commanded me, that you should act
according to them in the land which you go to
possess. (Deut. 41-5).
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When Setting Up A New Religion

• Man does not possess the ability to set up an
  acceptable religion!

O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself
It is not in man who walks to direct his own
steps. (Jer. 1023). There is a way that seems
right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
(Prov. 1412).
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When Setting Up A New Religion

• Must reject God to set up new religion!
• Dont expect God to accept that which is an
  abomination in His sight!
• Man does not possess the ability to set up an
  acceptable religion!

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God Perfect King With A Perfect Law

• Revealed right and wrong
• Revealed perfect way to deal with crime
• Protect the just from the unjust
• People taught how to arbitrate differences
• God would protect and defend the nation
• Revealed acceptable worship
• Perfect combination of civil and spiritual law
• No inconsistent laws or biased laws
• Morality taught by spiritual law upheld by civil
  law

Israel Rejected!
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Why Did Israel Reject God?
When all that generation had been gathered to
their fathers, another generation arose after
them who did not know the LORD nor the work which
He had done for Israel. (Jud. 210). My people
are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you
have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you
from being priest for Me Because you have
forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget
your children. (Hosea 46).
Lack of Knowledge
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Ignorance Leads to Disobedience
Then the anger of the LORD was hot against
Israel and He said, Because this nation has
transgressed My covenant which I commanded their
fathers, and has not heeded My voice, I also will
no longer drive out before them any of the
nations which Joshua left when he died (Judges
220-21). Thus the children of Israel dwelt
among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites,
the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
And they took their daughters to be their wives,
and gave their daughters to their sons and they
served their gods. So the children of Israel did
evil in the sight of the LORD. They forgot the
LORD their God, and served the Baals and
Asherahs. (Judges 35-7).
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Ignorance Leads to Disobedience
When the LORD your God brings you into the land
which you go to possess, and has cast out many
nations before you, the Hittites and the
Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites
and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the
Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier
than you, and when the LORD your God delivers
them over to you, you shall conquer them and
utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant
with them nor show mercy to them. Nor shall you
make marriages with them. You shall not give your
daughter to their son, nor take their daughter
for your son. For they will turn your sons away
from following Me, to serve other gods so the
anger of the LORD will be aroused against you and
destroy you suddenly. (Deut. 71-4).
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Why Did Israel Reject God?

• Israel became comfortable among the wicked!
• Mixed marriages
• Children raised in mixed households often do not
  learn vital lessons
• One True God!
• Only One Right Way To Serve Him!
• Idolatry Is Evil!
• Today
• One True Church - Gospel Plan of Salvation
• Only One Right Way To Worship
• Denominations Are Evil

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• Filled Their Need To Worship
• Allowed Them To Commit Sin
• Stealing
• Abortion (sacrificed children to Molech)
• Adultery, Fornication, Rape
• Take advantage of poor, aged, and weak
• Cheat employees or employer
• Worship at your convenience
• Least in flock for sacrifice
• Whatever is right in the eyes of man

Why Idolatry
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Doing Whats Right in the Eyes of the Worshipper!
Ask your favorite idol what is right and wrong
Idolatry

• Is it okay to worship other gods?
• Is it okay to have an abortion?
• Is divorce remarriage for any cause okay?
• Are some lies alright?
• Is homosexuality an acceptable lifestyle?
• Ask about gambling, drinking, lusting, etc.

God Rejects!
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Denominationalism
A Form of Idolatry
Promote, Allow, or Tolerate Many Sins

• Drinking of Alcoholic Beverages
• Lascivious Behavior Dancing, Immodesty
• Divorce Remarriage for any cause
• Homosexuality
• Covetousness Bingo, Raffles, Gambling
• Unfaithful Attendance
• Women Preachers, Priests, Bishops, etc.
• Lawlessness in Worship Instruments,
  Entertainment, Incense

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Denominationalism
Doing whats right in the eyes of the worshipper
Ask a denominational church what is right and
wrong

• Is it okay to worship in any church?
• Is it okay to have an abortion?
• Is divorce remarriage for any cause okay?
• Are some lies alright?
• Is homosexuality an acceptable lifestyle?
• Ask about gambling, drinking, lusting, etc.

God Rejects!
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Man-Made Religion is Attractive

• Serve when convenient
• After recreation, career, television, family
• Vacation, School, sports not get in the way
• Give leftovers to the Denominationtheyll
  accept!
• Right or Wrong determined by the situation
• Eliminate guilt Blame others for your sin
• God wont condemn many in the Judgment people
  are just sick, not sinful!

Saturday
Xmas
Easter
Short, casual service
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Acceptable Religion

• Worship (Jn. 424)
• Attendance (Heb. 1025)
• Drunkenness (1 Pet. 43)
• Marriage (Matt. 199)
• Stealing (Eph. 428)
• Fellowship (2 Jn. 9-11)
• Homosexuality (Rom. 127)
• Lasciviousness (Gal. 519-21)
• Covetousness (Col. 35)

Godhas in these last days spoken to us by His
Son (Heb. 11-2).
He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words,
has that which judges him--the word that I have
spoken will judge him in the last day. (John
1248).
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Service God Accepts
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies
of God, that you present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your
reasonable service. And do not be conformed to
this world, but be transformed by the renewing of
your mind, that you may prove what is that good
and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Romans
121-2).
If his offering is a burnt sacrifice of the herd,
let him offer a male without blemish he shall
offer it of his own free will at the door of the
tabernacle of meeting before the LORD. (Leviticus
13).