Capturing the Heart Ppt

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Capturing the Heart

Ezekiel 14: 1-6

Understanding Idols and

Idolatry


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+Idolatry is False worship of substitutes

for the living God

You shall have no other gods before me.

You shall not make for yourself an image in the

form of anything in heaven above or on the earth

beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bowdown to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your

God, am a jealous God,. (Exodus 20:16)


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+Idolatry is:

!Misplaced trust in a greater power

But those who trust in idols,

who say to images, You are our gods,

will be turned back in utter shame. (Isaiah 42:17)


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+Idolatry is:

!Misplaced service of a greater power

Even while these people were worshipping the

LORD,

they were serving their idols.. (2 Kings 17:41)


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+Idolatry is:

!Misplaced love as for a Spouse

I remember the devotion of your youth,

how as a bride you loved me

and followed me through the wilderness,

through a land not sown. (Jeremiah 2:13)

And the

LORD

said to Moses: You are going to rest withyour ancestors, and these people will soon prostitutethemselves to the foreign gods of the land they areentering. They will forsake me and break the covenant Imade with them. (Deuteronomy 31:16)


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+Idols capture our hearts in

!Misplaced trust

!Misplaced service

!Misplaced love


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+Idols capture our hearts and they

!They dehumanise us

They have hands, but cannot feel,

feet, but cannot walk

norcan they utter a sound with their throats.

Those who make them will be like them,

and so will all who trust in them. (Psalm 115:18)

We become what we worship (G.K. Beale)


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+Idols capture our hearts

!They deceive and ensnare us

They worshipped their idols,

which became a snare to them. (Psalm 106:36)


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Capturing the heart

What are our Idols?


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+Idolatry as a metaphor

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No one can serve two masters. Either you will hatethe one and love the other, or you will be devoted tothe one and despise the other. You cannot serve bothGod and Money. (Matthew 6:24)

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Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to yourearthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evildesires and greed, which is idolatry. (Colossians 3:5)

! For of this you can be sure: no immoral, impure orgreedy person such a person is an idolater has

any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.(Ephesians 5:5)

! Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. (1 John5:21)


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+What are our idols?

!Most idols are good things that we put in

Gods place

!Trusting them instead of God

!Serving them instead of God

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Loving them instead of God


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Capturing the Heart

Diagnosing Idols


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+Diagnosing Idols

Diagnosing the Idols of the Heartrequires probing of the heart! Thoughts

! Desires

! Imagination

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Inclinations

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Daydreams

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Obsessions!

Strong Emotions

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Strong Reactions


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+Idols - Diagnosis

Surface Idol

= what I must have

Deep Idol

= what I hope to get

from it


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+Idols - Diagnosis

The main types of deep Idol

!Comfort

!Security

!Power

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Approval

!Control


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+Idol Diagnosis

Surface Idol

Expensive Car

New clothes

Church Attendance

Exotic summer holidays

Tidy home, smiling wife

Climbing up career ladder

A boyfriend

Well behaved kids


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+Idol Diagnosis

Surface Idol Deep Idol

Expensive Car

New clothes

Church Attendance

Exotic summer holidays

Tidy home, smiling wife

Climbing up career ladder

A boyfriend

Well behaved kids


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+Idol Diagnosis

Surface Idol Deep Idol

Expensive Car Approval? Comfort?

New clothes Approval? Comfort?

Church Attendance Approval? Security?

Exotic summer holidays Comfort? Approval?

Tidy home, smiling wife Control? Comfort

Climbing up career ladder Power? Control? Approval?

A boyfriend Security? Comfort?

Well behaved kids Control? Approval?


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+Idols - Diagnosis

David Clarkson

(1622-86)

Soul Idolatry

Excludes Men

out of Heaven


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+Idols - Diagnosis

Clarksons Tests- Based on Ultimate Values1. Esteem: what we most highly value, we make our

God.

2. Mindfulness: what we are think about the most, we

make our God.

3. Intention- what we most aim at, we make our God.

4. Resolution What we are most resolved for, we

worship as God.

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Love what we most love, we worship as our God.

6. Trust what we most trust, we make our God.

7. Fear what we most fear, we worship as our God.


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+Idol Diagnosis Kellers Sentence

Completion Tests

Life only has meaning and/or I only

have worth.

if I have a position of influence over othersin work/school/church etc

(Power Idolatry)

if am loved and respected by _________

(Approval Idolatry)if I have a certain kind of quality of life.

(Comfort Idolatry)

if I have particular kind of image or look

(Image Idolatry)


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+Idol Diagnosis Kellers Sentence

Completion Test

Life only has meaning and/or I only have

worth.

if people are dependent on me and need me(Helping Idolatry)

if there is someone there to keep me safe

(Dependence Idolatry)

if I am completely free from obligations to or

dependence on others(Independence Idolatry)

if I my accomplishments are being recognised

(Achievement Idolatry)


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+Idol Diagnosis Simple Questions

Why am I so mad about this?

Why am I so sad about this?

Why am I so determined to get this?

Why am I so determined that will not happen?

Why can I not stop doing this?


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Capturing the Heart

Idolatry and the Gospel


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+Gods response to the Idols in our

hearts

This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When any of the Israelites

set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block

before their faces and then go to a prophet, I the LORD will

answer them myself in keeping with their great idolatry.

I will do this to recapture the hearts of the people of Israel,

who have all deserted me for their idols.

Therefore say to the people of Israel, This is what the Sovereign

LORD says: Repent! Turn from your idols and renounce all your

detestable practices!

Ezekiel 14: 4-6


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+Recapturing our Hearts through

the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Jesus the image of the invisible God

Jesus the Living God who gives up his LifeJesus the Crucified God is Alive again


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!We turn from our idols to Jesus instead

!We begin to trust Jesus

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We begin to serve Jesus!We begin to love and prize Jesus

Recapturing our Hearts through



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Idol hearts transformed

For God, who said, Let light shine out of darkness,

made his

light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of

Gods glory displayed in the face of Christ. (2 Corinthians 4: 6)

And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate

the Lords

glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

(2 Corinthians 3: 18)




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!Whatever we wanted from Idols we can find in

the Gospel but it will need redefinition

! Comfort Christ is our Prize and the Source of

all we need

! Security Christ will never leave us or forsake

us. Eternal life. Salvation

! Power Christs power is made perfect in our

weakness. We are able to endure

!Approval Christs death brings us justification

in the sight of God

! Control Christ is in control of all History so we

do not need to be.




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However much I tried it, the will-power of just dont

look at it never worked for me. I could go for a fewdays, and then the hole left just had to be filled. But

then God made me realize that my choice was not

simply between looking at porn and not. It was

between desiring Jesus, who would satisfy, or

desiring something else, which wouldnt. Thestruggle didnt become easy then, but it did become

winnable, because I realized I had to choose not just

to walk away from something, but to walk towards

someone. (Cambridge Student)


the Gospel of Jesus Christ from

pornography


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Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. (I John 5:21)



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