What Is The One Thing That You Need

To Have Joy and Find Fulfillment in Your Life?

Exodus 20: 1-6

“10 Commandments”

An Idol is:

* What We Bow Down to

* What We Serve* What We Love

“Idolatry is taking a Good Thing,

making it a ‘god’ Thing,

and that’sa Bad Thing.”

- Mark Driscoll

The Various “Shades” of Idolatry

Approval Idol

Appearance

Relationships

Position/Titles

Achievements

Social Status

Comfort Idol

Pleasure

Freedom

Health/Activity

Recreation

Excess Spending

Security Idol

Family

Housing

Finance/Wealth

Employment

Religion

“Idolatry Detector Test”

James 4: 2-42 “You want something but don’t get it.

You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have,

because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with

wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred

toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.”

“You Complete Me”

Jonah 2:8“Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace

that could be theirs.”

“For You have made us for Yourself,and our hearts are restless,

until they rest in You, O Lord.

Too late have I loved You, Beauty ever-ancient, ever-new.

You have burst my bonds asunder;I will offer up to You an offering of praise.”

- Saint Augustine

Jesus is Better Than:

MoneyHuman Love

Physical PleasurePopularity

Power & Influence

God Wins Every Time!

Titus 2: 11-1411 “For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. 12 It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live

self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, 13 while we wait for the blessed hope

—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us

to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are His very own,

eager to do what is good.”

Philippians 3: 7-9“But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss

for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,

for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ

9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which

is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.”