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Idols - talking notes

Intro: Demko asked me to speak at the breakfast today, and I said, “Okay.”   He then said, I want you to speak about idols.   I said, “No.   You shouldn’t do idols.” Talk about time in Korean Buddhist temple.  “pathetic”  Their inadequate worship of a carved piece of rock or gold is no different than the inadequacy of the things we worship and commit our time to today.   I.                      Definitions: How would you define “idol”? II.                    Solomon (I Kings 11:1-8) We cannot blame Solomon’s wives.   Solomon took them in, he allowed himself to love them. He allowed the devotion of his heart to be divided – “not wholly devoted to the Lord…” (v4) Solomon’s progression into evil:         ...
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Ezra 7:10 - Setting our Hearts on the Correct Things

Ezra 7:6, 10 “This Ezra went up from Babylon, and he was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given; and the king granted him all he requested because the hand of the LORD his God was upon him….For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the LORD, and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel.” Background: Israel has been allowed, after a 70-year exile, to return to Jerusalem and Judea during the Persian era. Those who chose to return, came back to a desolate city without walls for protection from enemies. They faced opposition from without, and temptation from within. Ezra had spent his time in exile in study as a scribe – and returned with one of the earlier waves of exiles to assist in rebuilding the city. Ezra called the people to righteousness, leading them to make difficult, national decisions on living a life of holiness before God. If a book were written about you, where in the book would you be introduced? In m...
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