Idols in the Life of the Believer

Speaker 00:00

[upbeat music] Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, May 1st. When anything takes the place of the Lord in your heart, you've unknowingly worshiped an idol. Learn how to identify and remove these hidden obstacles in your life, in Idols in the Life of the Believer.

Charles Stanley· Host0:18

Of the Ten Commandments, which of those 10 have you paid the least attention to? [laughs] I bet I can tell you the one you pay the least attention to. Turn to the 20th chapter of Exodus for a moment, and this is not our text, but I want you to notice something. 20th chapter of Exodus. Because here are the Ten Commandments, and we probably know them all by heart. But I'll bet if we were real honest, the one you've paid the least attention to is this one right here. Do you have it? Exodus 20, verse four, "You shall not make for yourself an idol."

Speaker 20:51

Amen.

Charles Stanley· Host0:52

How many of you pay a lot of attention to that one? Probably not very much attention, because we don't think in terms of being idolaters. And I'm not talking about wood, hay, and stone and jewels and so forth, but I want us to come to a passage of scripture here that most of us know, um, uh, pretty much probably by heart. But there's a simple truth here that I want us to examine that I think will be helpful to us. In the 15th chapter of the book of Genesis, he says in verse one, "After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, 'Do not fear, Abram. I am a shield to you; your reward shall be very great.'