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SHABBAT 03 28 20 | IDOLS IN ENEMY TERRITORY

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Intro: Psalm 90:8-12

  • Podcast mentioned: Your Undivided Attention: episode 2 "god-like technology, we are gods, we might as well get good at it." 

  • Quote from O. E. Willson

  • Phycological engineering

  • Casino slot machines- Devices

  • You: An object to extract something from

The Garden of Eden Gen 3:1-6

How do I keep you away from the tree of life?

  • Words to convince us

  • The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr

  • 2 Cor 11:3

  • Eze 6:9, 20:7-8 Eyes whoring - Idols, Abomination of the eyes.

Technology is Ideology - Not Neutral

  • Psalm 141:9

  • Gins, Snares, Nets

  • Exo 23:33 Gods of Cannan, snares, made by hands to ensnare

  • Psalm 106:34-39 Mingled, Learned their works, Idols

  • Psalm 140:5

  • Deut 7:21-26 What our mentality should be. Images of their gods

  • We have unknowingly brought these into our lives and homes.

Devices

  • Jer 12:12,18 To entrap. Devise devices

  • Gen 6:5 Thoughts of their hearts

  • Exo 35:30-34 Things made from the heart of man

  • Est 8:3 Hamman's gallows

Idols

  • Gods of the people are idols

  • 1 Chr 16:26

  • Psalm 96:5

  • 1 John 5:21

  • 1 Cor 10:14

Lust/ Concupiscence

  • 1 Col 3:5 Evil desire or lust and covetousness which is idolatry

  • Mark 4:19 Choke the word

  • John 8:44 Their father the Devil- his lusts

  • Rom 1:24

  • 2 Tim 4:3 Teachers after their lusts

  • 1 Peter 4:2-3

End

  • Eze 18:27-32

Music by Evan Shaw www.evanshawmusic.com