
08/10/2025
What are you worshiping?
This week Moses is giving his second speech to the people before they enter the land under Joshua’s leadership. Moses the importance of God’s law specifically the 10 Commandments. Moses really drills down deep on Idols and Idol worship. Moses reveals that when they saw with their own eyes that God did not appear in a form but as a voice coming out of the Fire.
Deuteronomy 4:16-19
“So do not corrupt yourselves by making an idol in any form—whether of a man or a woman, an animal on the ground, a bird in the sky, a small animal that scurries along the ground, or a fish in the deepest sea. And when you look up into the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the forces of heaven—don’t be seduced into worshiping them. The Lord your God gave them to all the peoples of the earth.”
Notice how we are given a list of what Idols can be made of.
Man
Woman
Animals
Fish
Sun
Moon
Stars
We are not to worship anything God created. We are not to worship creations but the one who made the creations. Today people look to horoscopes which are based on the sun, moon, and stars. We have cultures that look at spirit animals which is a form of idol worship. There are cultures in Africa that go to certain High Places to drink special water to get power. He is another form of idol worship. These are all religious forms of idol worship. There is another form of Idol worship that is way more common in today’s day and age. It is the worship of Man and Woman. We call them G.O.A.T.s The Greatest Of All Time. Biblically GOATs represent sin. It represents sinners, and offerings offered for sins.
Today we worship Men and Women. This crosses all religions and every culture on the planet. No matter the belief system religion, philosophical systems, political ideologies, economic systems, and scientific paradigms there is a form of this type of idolatry.
We worship performers (example Taylor Swift, Jelly Roll)
We worship Athletes (Tom Brady, Simone Biles)
We worship Politicians (Donald Trump, Queen Elizabeth)
We worship Technology innovators (Elon Musk, Kimberly Bryant
We worship People of Finace (Warren Buffett, Alice Walton)
These are just a few examples. We have a problem that we need to resolve. Anything we put before God becomes an Idol. There is nothing wrong to learn from these people. There is nothing wrong with aspiring to be like them in certain ways if that is the call God has placed on our lives. The problem is when we look to them and not God. It is time to get our lives back on track and put God back in 1st place. Today you have a choice to make.