Don't Follow the World

“Dear children, keep yourselves from idols” (1 John 5:21).

“Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among youtoday whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the godsof those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces suchbitter poison” (Deuteronomy 29:18).

John and Moses, fourteen hundred years apart, warned againstturning to idols. The warning is needed today among evangelicals.

“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no othername under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

This verse should be memorized by all Christians everywhere.

Present-day turning to idols starts with relativism, thenadjusting to the world to reach the world, then syncretism, then idolatry.

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