GOLDEN CALVES

"This is the one easily besetting sin of our nature—to turn aside from the living God and to make unto ourselves idols in some fashion or another; for the essence of idolatry is this— to love anything better than God, to trust anything more than God..... In some form or other this great sin is the main mischief in the heart of man; and even in saved men this is one of the developments of remaining corruption. We may very easily make an idol of anything, and in different ways. No doubt many mothers and fathers make idols of their children, and so many husbands and wives idolize each other, and we may even make idols of ministers, even as there were idol shepherds of old. Equally is it certain that many a thoughtful man makes an idol of his intellect, and many another makes an idol of his gold, or even of that little home wherein he enjoys so much content.... Anything, however holy, which comes between us and the personal dealing of our soul with God, as he is revealed in Christ Jesus, by faith and love and hope, becomes an idol to us." SPURGEONTEXT: 1 KINGS 12:26-33SONGS: I EXALT THEE, PHIL DRISCOLLI GIVE YOU MY HEART/ I EXALT THEE, BETHELCLEAR THE STAGE, JIMMY NEEDHAMHEART OF WORSHIP, MATT REDMAN