We are all worshippers. We were created for worship! But most of us have “subliminal idols” that we are unaware of. Idols that are deemed “good” in the eyes of man. The Bible warned that in the Last Days, this would be commonplace. But, how do we know if we’re entangled and what can we do if we are? Tune in for Pastor Mike Golay’s latest message, “Subliminal Idolatry”, for answers to these questions and more. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://buff.ly/36cDNpo
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today uh this afternoon I’m going to be
throwing at you some theological
curveballs we’re going to be challenging
you I’m going to be hitting you in the
in the spiritual kidneys a little bit um
rabbit punches okay I’m going to be
preparing you for where we’re at in CL
in in the in the culture today uh and
also what the Bible said about what
we’re going through as as a as as not
just a nation but as an International
Community and I want to do this kind of
from the foundation of First John John
was the one that wrote the Book of
Revelation John was one of those uh that
was very close to Jesus and in first
John A lot of people don’t realize this
but first John has a a lot of themes
about the end times
but it ends with a very peculiar phrase
which I’m going to get into in just a
minute and I’ve entitled this subliminal
idolatry and the question I have for you
is could you be committing
idolatry in the worst way and not
knowing that you
are I see some people kind of like it’s
kind of
that yes no typ nod it’s very hard to do
by the way some of you are like yes some
of you are like no some of you are
unsure let me just throw a few things at
you and then let’s get into this and see
where the cards fall in your life and
mine as we’ve said first John is
probably one of the most
underrated Epistles when it comes to
discovering what the end times will look
like so for example let me just run down
a few some of the samples of what John
talks about in his epistle in the mere
short five chapters first he talks about
deception
coming not just in his day but also in
the future what really is deception
deception is a alternate reality that
we’re convinced of we’re convinced of an
alternate reality and we buy in to
basically a lie we have been duped we’ve
been fooled and we subscribe to whatever
is presented to us all in and then we
find ourselves maybe later in life
regretting it maybe later in life even
subscribing more to it and we see that
happening in our culture today 1 John
Chapter 2 vers 3-6 Now by this we know
that we know him if we keep his
Commandments now remember when he says
his Commandments he’s talking about the
teachings and the commandments of Jesus
not the Mosaic lack code okay so keep
that in mind a lot of people confuse the
two he who says I know him and does not
keep his Commandments and what was
jesus’ commandment to love the L Lord
your God with all your heart soul and
mind and to love your neighbor as
yourself all the rest of the
Commandments of Moses hang on these two
that’s what he taught right before he
left he says love one another as I have
loved you that’s a commandment of Jesus
the commandments of Jesus is what he’s
talking about here he who says I know
him and does not keep his Commandments
is a liar and the truth is not in him
but whoever keeps his word truly the
love of God is perfected in him by this
we know that we are in him he who says
he abides in him ought himself also to
walk just as he
walked so one of the most obvious things
of a True Believer that’s prepared for
the end times is someone who actually
keeps what Jesus taught in loving one
another see if you claim to be a
believer and you’re constantly sewing
Discord and you’re constantly creating
drama everywhere you go you know
remember the the pig pen of the peanuts
you know that little that guy was always
dirty wherever he would go he would
create chaos if that’s you spiritually
you’re a
fake you’re you’re not real you you are
you you are a fake it says it right
there in the end times we know that
there will be divisions there will be a
lot of
Discord and uh John calls it out
Antichrist he talks about the Antichrist
within the fir in the in the first
Epistle of
John look at this John 1 John chapter
2:8 little children it is the last hour
you ever notice that in the Gos in in
the uh the Epistle of John he actually
comes right out and says this is the
last hour see they didn’t know the
timing and so they just they said
everything after the resurrection of
Jesus is the last days um even in the
book of Acts uh he quotes from the Old
Testament and and they talk about the
last days the last days waiting the
second coming little children is last
hour as you have heard that the
Antichrist is coming even now many
antichrists have come by which we know
that it is the last
hour so in the Q&A those of you who made
it we talked about Ai and we talked
about how the devil is going to use and
is using
technology to deceive the Nations to
have PE people subscribe to different uh
philosophies different ways of life
different behaviors um people have in
the last 100 years through
technology have made life decisions that
they’ve committed to that nowhere ever
in human history we have seen
before and I’m talking about confused
sexuality I’m talking about the return
of some of the ancient religions when I
was just in the Air Force two weeks ago
I was down at the maintenance Squadron
one of the guys comes to me and says I
would love to find a group for Norse
paganism since this is north Dakota C
there certainly is groups here and I
said well not really because most of the
people from uh the Scandinavian
immigration were Lutheran they had
converted to Christianity because Norse
paganism was seen as inferior less
powerful in Christia Christianity
offered less demands for higher rewards
worshiping a higher God that other soall
gods Fred and T tuck tailed and ran out
of fear you know and he’s looking at me
going uh
uh okay I said well but if you’re still
interested uh I’m sure that the college
may have a group or
two youth you said there are Jedi in the
US military
seriously oh there there are wiccans
there are you name it we’ve got it you
if you want a spiritual buffet table of
craziness just go to the register of the
religions that are registered within the
dod that alone well you you’ll be
shocked to see um what what my world is
made of and how the you know the
philosophies and the religions that I
have to serve but John is saying even in
his day there were many antichrists but
he does admit that there will be a big
Antichrist coming which they all agreed
on as a Apostles they just didn’t know
when that time would
come so you’ve got that theme and then
you’ve got Readiness Readiness is a big
thing and probably the major theme of
the of the Epistle of John did I call it
the Gospel of John sometimes I say that
it’s the Epistle of John there were
three of them this is the first one I
want to read these texts and then I want
to kind of give you a little gut punch
and a
question
Readiness he prepares the people in
different categories he calls them
children he calls them adults he calls
them different levels within their
spiritual journey in 1 John 2: 26- 27
these things I’ve have written to you
concerning those who try to deceive you
but the anointing which you have
received from him abides in you and you
do not need anyone teach you but as the
same anointing teaches you concerning
all things and is true and is not a lie
and just as it has taught you you will
abide in
him amen right you you can you know that
the spirit of God is living in you you
many of us can actually pin point the
day of our Salvation many of us can
actually remember specific examples of
how the Holy Spirit revealed something
to you gave you wisdom gave you a vision
gave you an Insight gave you something
to to guide your path to avoid
destruction I can see the satisfaction
and the the agreement we are we are a
commu we are in a community of Believers
right here and that is one of the proofs
of being ready is that we’re walking in
accordance with his principles we’re
understanding what the spirit is trying
to do in the ages now we get to chapter
4:
12-19 no one has seen God at any time if
we love one another God abides in us and
his love has been perfected in Us by
this we know that we abide in him and he
in us because he has given us of his
spirit and we have seen and testify that
the father has sent the son as Savior
into the world whoever confesses that
Jesus is the son Son of God God’s God
abides in him and he in God and we have
known and believe the the the love that
God has for us God is love and he who
abides in love abides in God and God in
him that’s why it’s important that we
love one another especially in these
last days so he’s talking about
readiness of abiding in Jesus walking
with Jesus loving one another that’s
what it means to be ready and then verse
17 love has been perfected Among Us in
this this is how it’s been perfected
that we may have
boldness in the day of
judgment because as he is so are we in
the world there is no fear in love but
perfect love casts out fear because fear
involves
torment how true is that huh when you’re
living in fear isn’t it just tormenting
can’t sleep you can’t
concentrate okay but he who fears has
not been made perfect in love we love
him because he first loved us
notice here that the Readiness part it’s
he’s talking about the day of judgment
for the believer which of course would
be the post-rapture BMA seed of Jesus
where we have to stand before Jesus and
we are then uh evaluated for how much we
walked with him and for how much we
didn’t the one the when we’ve walked
with him you know that’s the gold silver
and all the precious medals you know you
put the fire to the works of our life
and how he’s entrusted us a spiritual
gift and exercised it over time those
are the things that will trans ER into
eternity on the other hand all the fluff
all of the wasted time all of the time
that we spent doing fluff activities I
don’t want to mention what those
activities are specifically because
people online will write in and say why
did you say that I do that sometimes and
then there’s the conviction we’ve got to
go into these dialogues and it’s a
headache so I’m not going to go that way
okay fluff wasted time do the math you
know what I’m talking about I know what
I do to waste time you do too we will be
judged and that will be the ref minor
and then we’ll receive rewards and
whatever is not whatever is fluff
doesn’t last it’s not like we’re judged
for heaven and hell okay this is about
Awards or just loss because we’ve wasted
time now let me ask you this we’re not
done
yet there is the
rapture that occurs and is written about
in first John I didn’t really know this
or really focus on it until
recently so we’ve talked so far about
deception
Antichrist
Readiness and now the hope of the
Rapture and then I’m going to give you a
gut
punch the rap the hope of the Rapture is
mentioned 1 John chapter 3 beloved now
we are children of God and it has not
yet been revealed what we shall
be but we know that when he is
revealed we shall be like
him
for we shall see him as he
is and everyone who has this hope in him
purifies himself just as he is
pure no
more
headaches
backaches no more skin diseases diabetes
no more corrective
lenses
no more health concerns no more
fogginess imagine being high energy
maximum capacity imagine
flying yeah you see a wall no problem
you just walk straight through
it imagine a full cemetry body no bone
diseases imagine that’s part of the
inheritance now after he goes through
all these themes the very last phrase of
the book which is the theme of this
topic right
now he says in chapter 5: 21 after all
of this as exciting as it is and as
challenging as it is he says little
children keep yourselves from Idols
amen there’s no greet Rufus over there
in this city uh say hello to these three
people in
kosai keep yourselves from Idols
amen you
know I was at my uncle’s house in
Seattle and we had a great dinner and it
was time for me to go and we left and he
escorted me out to the uh to the car and
he said where are you staying I said oh
I’m staying at the W Hotel he said stay
away from the women then he gave me a
hug and went
inside okay okay what does that mean and
he winked he said stay away from the
women John has and I
did
okay stay away from keep yourselves from
Idols do you find am I the only one that
finds that bizarre he could have ended
this by saying ah we the Saints in such
and such a city greet you be encourag
don’t give up we’re praying for you amen
no keep yourselves from idols
I believe that in the end
days with such a theme from first John
and John was selected to write the Great
and Mighty Revelation let’s not forget
that there is something to this phrase
that is worth digging into and I’m going
to show you the results as a tour guide
and as a lawyer of what I
found and it’s not going to be an easy
journey and we’re going to do that in
the next 40 minutes in fact uh if you
have your Bibles you better grease up
The
Binding because we are going to be using
your Bibles now I’ll put most of these
up on the screen as well but um let’s
get into
it first of all let’s look at what a
definition of an idol actually is and
you’ll see that we have a little calf in
the background there’s a reason for that
that should bring you some anticipation
of where we’re going to go um what could
this mean well let’s look at what it
means at least in in
dictionary.com and I want you to focus
on number five and six because the first
four are things that you and I would not
be able to relate to but the last two a
figment of the Mind in other words a
fantasy or number six a false conception
or notion which is a
fallacy are the two things that I want
to focus on pertaining to the end times
and why we should keep ourselves from
idols I didn’t make up this definition
this is from
dictionary.com okay fantasies and
fallacies all right now the next slide
typically when we think of an idol we
think of going to India or South America
or up north and we find totem poles and
we find different statues to different
ancient gods uh we find a lot of snakes
a lot of rituals a lot of hands up in
the air and we say yeah I can easily
steer away from that stuff that’s easy I
am Holy I am Sanctified and I will not
succumb to such an obvious idolatry how
easy is that okay well way to go good
job let’s go to the next
slide now this is getting a little bit
more difficult but many of us honestly
will say I listen to my uncle in Seattle
and I’m not going to go um do anything
with the ladies at the W Hotel in
Seattle okay but what about the Quest
for notoriety or stardom I’m sure most
of us would say you know I’m I’m content
in my relationship with the Lord I don’t
need to be on the front you know news I
don’t NE necessarily need to be in a
movie maybe some of us would love that
not that there’s anything wrong with
that in itself that’s one of the things
we’re going to be looking at at idolatry
how the good
things can become idols there I let the
cat out of the
bag I will’ll come back to
that now a lot of us may not have an
issue with
drugs a lot of us you know may not be
social media addicts where we need and
feel a false sense of self-worth when
people like our posts that never end
there’s never an end because they like
one post then what are you going to do
about it the next day and the next day
and the next day it’s a feeding Friendzy
some of us have our eyes on the prize
the cash we want to win the lottery we
want that ultimate job that pays out now
this these
pictures I’d say many of us can identify
with and certainly these can be
Idols what
about let me ask you this
question if you were the
devil not that you are just let’s let’s
just let me play around a little bit
here I’m going to be a tour guide and
lawyer okay if I if if if you were the
devil and you hated
you and you want to destroy
yourself would you do things that are
obvious idolatry or would you try to
creep in with something
that’s
neutral and then make that over time and
Idol where you’re literally locked in
for
life if you could pull that off wouldn’t
that be
genius
for
example who would ever criticize you for
going to your daughter’s foot uh your
daughter’s dance or your son’s football
game nobody who would ever say shame on
you for going to the gym three times a
week who would ever dare say wow you’re
a horrible person because you’re
successful in business and you’ve
employed hundreds of
people
nobody it if if the devil was able to
transform something that’s seen as good
and honorable within
society and successfully make it an idol
how loving it
more than God
himself that would be a genius the the
level of deception and ability of the
devil to do that to you and me
that would have to be next level
stuff now are you ready for the gut
punch chances
are every single one of us in this room
has some form of an idol somewhere
lurking in some closet of our
soul and if we’re going to be truly
ready for the second coming and the
Rapture wouldn’t it be nice to say at
least right here right now we took care
of business and cleaned out one Idol at
least from one room of our
soul so the question is are you ready to
do a soul audit with the scriptures this
morning or this afternoon you’re excited
woohoo yeah
let’s Okay well you ask for it all right
well let’s let’s look at the first part
here and that is uh self
worship and I’m going to be sharing a
little bit of my own journey and how
I’ve made some mistakes over my life and
hopefully you can learn from Me Maybe
what not to do maybe what to do and
let’s just enter into this as a body of
Believers that’s family let’s let’s have
a family conversation right now okay
that’s all I want self-
Worship in the end days is actually
predicted to be the ultimate Idol for
the world and I’m going to I’m going to
like a lawyer I’m going to substantiate
that
okay this is the known goto passage that
you’ve heard in hundreds of conferences
many of which we’ve put on over the span
of The Last 5 Years but notice very
carefully in 2 Timothy 3: 1-5 it says
this but know this that in the last days
perilous times were will come for men
not women only
men women will never women would never
do these things they wouldn’t love thems
they wouldn’t become lovers of money or
gold diggers are proud only men okay
just
kidding you know that when the Bible
says men it it includes the you know
okay all right for men will be lovers of
themselves and women lovers of
money
boasters have you ever loved yourself or
money or boasted about
yourself
proud blasphemers m
maybe as a non-believer disobedient to
parents unthankful Unholy unloving
unforgiving slanderers without
self-control have you ever had that bout
where you just said ah it doesn’t matter
I’m just going to go all in and well
I’ll just deal with the consequences
later brutal despisers of good traitors
headstrong hotti lovers of pleasure
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of
God having a form of godliness but
denying its power and from such people
turn away
well wait a minute we are some of those
people the difference between the
believer and the non-believer is the
believer wants to keep this stuff hidden
because it’s shameful because they know
it’s wrong whereas the world is like
what’s wrong with this you should have
seen how I treated my mom the other day
man I just let her have it you know
they’re proud of these things in fact
they actually promote this kind of
behavior if you read it in the Greek it
says says that they’re promoting the
last few words and that they’re against
the first half they are literally all in
in the public eye whereas the believer
struggle with this and we when we commit
these kinds of sins we we feel bad we
sometimes it gets us depressed it gets
us down but we want to we have that
tendency to to repent and and to get
back in the game and say God give me the
strength for
tomorrow now listen very
carefully in the last let’s say 50 to 60
years we’ve this comes back to the AI
question I promised you we would talk
about
this the internet was invented or became
public
rather
computers pdas do you remember
when Rim created
Blackberry remember we used to call them
crack
Beres crackberry was then really
challenged by Apple and then Microsoft
and Samsung and all these other
companies came in in the wire now we
have ai we have World connectivity
through social media
apps for the first time ever in human
history we are connected on levels that
the Ancients would have said is
absolutely impossible impossible
when it comes to social media apps when
we first started out do you remember
Myspace remember that okay some of us
don’t then there was Facebook and many
others there’s an evolution that has
catered to the
individual do you remember playing
Wolfenstein 3D which was amazing
Graphics back in the 90s you don’t know
maybe not now they have these virtual
reality headsets of where you can play
video games and live in these
fantasies and there’s
fallacies right down the
road I’m going to let the spirit of God
do his work in your heart I don’t feel
like I need to do that but as a tour
guide and as a lawyer do the math for
the first time in human history right
before we believe the second coming has
happened will happen right after the
resuscitation of Israel right after
Jesus predictions of Wars rumors of wars
earthquakes pestilences all of these
things are going on which you would
expect if we were in the end times but
one of the things that you may not
expect is children keep yourselves from
Idols that’s the best advice I can give
you and that is the last statement John
gave in his epistle and idolatry is
found and saturated in in technology
because it caters to you it makes you
feel good about you it gives you a false
sense of self-worth so you can walk away
and have this assurance that someone
appreciates you it can become very
addictive you can conquer the boss on a
video game to feel good about you you
can watch a television series enter into
this fantasy identify with some of the
actors and feel good about the Journey
about being you and as we walk around we
have these fantasies that our marriage
will look like the one we just watched
we have these fantasies that I will grow
muscles and go into beast mode and
conquer the boss of a video game we have
these fantasies that our social media
profile will grow grow grow grow grow
and have the recognition of the Nations
and we will feel like
someone be careful be
careful as much as the Lord can use this
the devil is standing by like a roaring
lying seeking whom he may
devour no other time in human history
have we had
psychological consequences with
neurological chemical imbalances like we
have in the last 40 years
I’m talking about serotonin which
regulates mood and sleep let me throw
that slide up there these are the happy
chemicals no other time in human history
if we had oxytocin issues that’s the one
that regulates uh our emotions and our
connectivity with human beings for
example when you put your hand on a
little baby and caress the little baby
the Baby draws into the hand when you
hug a loved one and embrace that person
it’s your body your brain is releasing
oxytocin endorphins those are natural
pain relievers and stress reducers but
the big thing that I want to focus on is
dopamine dopamine is the chemical that
the brain releases right before we
anticipate a great
reward the video game industry
understands dopamine the entertainment
industry understands dopamine any kind
of sensory company that brings
entertainment value of any kind to you
understands that the human body is
designed in a way to emit dopamine right
before the big reward so if you wave a
nice banana in front of a monkey the
dopamine on the frontal loes of the
monkey’s brain are going to be going
crazy and that becomes an insatiable
part and the Bible called this long ago
and it’s called lust of the
eyes lust of the eyes is a dopamine rush
for something that we should not go
after no other time in human history
have we seen these chemicals so far out
of balance because of what the world is
able to provide did you know that
there’s Engineers of visual just for
junk food alone they use different
colors like Reds and oranges and they
use different textures if you’re looked
in a on a Dorito and seen all the specks
and it’s like w you know that’s dopamine
going into your head you want to eat
that you know crunch this is what
anything that has to do with sensory now
what happens if these chemicals are
constantly being emitted in your brain
you get a you get an
addiction if you analyze a heroin
addict’s brain and somebody that is a
video game junkie the brain is very
similar because they got used to
dopamine rushes for the reward
mechanisms in this case heroin is the
World mechanism to escape from pain or
some reality or a video game which is uh
to escape into a
fantasy no other time in human history
have we had these
opportunities Mike are you saying that
video games and entertainment is wrong
no
no I’m saying we’re at a unique time in
human history that if we indulge so much
with
ourselves we could end up committing
idolatry and feeding into what was
predicted of the world becoming lovers
of
self you say to you say to me well how
do I know if I’m
committing self worship and self
idolatry funny you should ask because I
have a uh a test right in front of
me you can always watch this video later
uh where do you stand I told you I’m
this is not going to be
easy look I had to go through this
I went through a very hard last year I
had to do a lot of self analysis looking
in the mirror because I was in the
spring getting a little bit out of
control I was traveling a lot with a
mirror I was going from church to church
and some of the stuff was getting into
my head like
wow
people there’s a lot of people there’s a
lot of people we meet are always saying
nice things and I found myself enjoying
being away from my
family found myself coming
home
to dogs that vomit on the ground
and kids that need to be rushed around
to different places and dishes to be
done what I failed to see is that I was
becoming an idolator of
myself and I was failing to see the gift
of dishes and
dogs and running my daughter to dance
it’s a
gift are you ready to do a self
[Laughter]
test 10 signs you might be guilty of
self-
idolatry ah the story isn’t over this is
only part one okay first you search your
heart before you search the
Bible look I put substantiating
scriptures here because we have to be
lawyer-like
two your feelings matter more to you
than your
faithfulness I’m not going to play the
role of the Holy Spirit I’m just going
to let him do his work in your heart
three you are overly obsessed with
outward Beauty and vanity
four you re routinely reject pastoral
Authority I wish my pastor would do more
on end time stuff boy I don’t even go to
church anymore I just watch YouTube
videos and I just sit and watch you Mike
Amir and
Barry okay I would say go to church even
if it’s not the church that’s the best
you you crave flattery number five but
recoil at conviction
six you lack compassion for those less
fortunate than
you seven you maintain a double standard
you consider some things acceptable for
you but not for others is that
you chances are you might have a little
self- worship going on there remember
children keep yourselves from Idols even
if it’s yourself you use a manipulate
people while simultaneously wanting
their admir
admiration nine your prayers are
primarily focused on your own wants and
needs you rarely pray selflessly for
others and 10 there are more this this
will just get you started okay you can
you could you know what read read the
Bible read the New Testament this
weekend and then see where you come out
on that okay number 10 you View Church
as being all about your blessing your
opinions your wants and needs are always
the main
focus all right
now do whatever you want with that
that’s just a list and we’ve provided
some scriptures there for you to follow
up if you want to watch the video after
and click pause you can look these up
and see for yourselves if you’re really
motivated to see if you’re committing
acts of self-
worship did you know that in the end
times it’s it’s it’s really true people
will become lovers of self it will
Crescendo to a point where there will be
the mark of the beast as quote The Mark
of man in fact let me read this this is
from Revelation 13: 16-18 it says very
clearly he causes all both small and
great rich and poor free and slave to
receive a mark this is the Beast that
causes everybody to do this receive a
mark on their right hand and on their
foreheads so it’s mimicking the ancient
Jewish teine you know where you have the
box on your head and and on your arm
that kind of thing it’s kind of a it’s
kind of a counterfeit method it’s always
an antithesis there’s the Christ and
there’s the Antichrist and this is the
same kind of concept and no one may buy
or sell except one who has the Mark or
the name of the Beast or the number of
his
name here is wisdom everybody asks what
is the mark of the beast here’s wisdom
let him who has understanding calculate
the number of the Beast for is the
number of a man his number is
666 and anybody knows anything about
numers seven is the perfect number of
God seven days the Lord created all of
the the order of the world and the the
universe and on the seventh day he
rested as a Capstone of perfection what
day was Man created on the sixth day
there’s also something else and we’ve
talked about this in previous
conferences and that is the hebraic
mindset of the power of three Peter
denied the Lord Jesus three three times
to put his foot down in the culture that
would have seen that as an adamant
absolute I do not know this man he said
it three times and he was trying to say
in the cultural Meo of his day that he
is serious Jesus picked up on this same
theme went to Peter at the very end of
the Gospel of John and he said Peter I
love you he said it three times for
Redemptive value Peter denied him three
times Jesus said you have Redemption
value three times when you have
something that is me mentioned three
times you’re saying I am serious even in
modern day Israel you go to a friend you
say hey how’s it going ah pretty good
wait for a few seconds hey how’s it
going man it’s good to see you you know
it’s been a while yeah doing okay doing
okay a few seconds go by tell me how is
it going the third time yeah you know my
life it’s falling apart my wife just
left me I lost my job and I found I have
taxes dating back to 196 69 what am I
going to
do it’s the power of
three what this is said what I believe
this is saying I could be
wrong is that people will want nothing
to do with God in the end days they will
love themselves and they will love the
beasts that they worship and they will
say
me me
me us us
us no
God so my my my second Point there’s
only two points to this teaching
today is
this is it possible to worship self and
someone or something else simultaneously
as
well sure if something else or someone
else feeds your values and feeds what
you love to see and that is exactly the
scenario we find for the recipe of the
end times and I’m saying as a lawyer and
as a tour guide this morning the
infrastructure is already built unlike
any other time in history where we have
brain chemicals being emitted on levels
we’ve never seen where people are
literally addicted to methods with the
devil whispering in that they can get
what they want when they want how they
want and derive self-worth from any of
these equations live fantasies and
fallacies that will set them up for the
ultimate kill when the devil turns his
back on them in the tribulation if they
even last that
long the devil may be extremely
extremely evil the
worst but he’s definitely not stupid and
he definitely knows how to manipulate
destroy and
deceive number
two now you know we’re in that airplane
and we’re starting the downward dis sent
and now we come to why I put the calf
there on the slide worshiping God
through a thing or a person you can
expect in the last days self- worship
yes but also an increase of idolatry on
an unconventional level that we’ve never
seen so this reminds me of all the way
back when Moses went up to the mountain
of Si to receive Torah and he’s up there
talking to God it’s a beautiful thing
thing you know he’s expecting all the
children of Israel to be patient and
relax and wait while he’s taking care of
business he’s doing the Lord’s work he’s
going to bring the law code down it’s
going to be a new era they’ve just
escaped from the evil
Egypt and the people aren’t patient
they’re starting to get
squirly hey Ellie what’s he taking so
long up there you know we’ve got we’ve
got to move on you know what is this and
uh Abigail here what were you going to
cook something for us or what you know
we’ve been this is a very very difficult
situation says in verse one of Exodus
chapter 32 now when the people saw that
Moses
delayed coming down from the mountain
the people gathered together to
Aaron and said to him come make us gods
that shall go before us for as for this
Moses the the man who brought us up out
of the land of Egypt we do not know what
has become of
him is gone he is up on the mountain
maybe he’s dead maybe he’s alive but we
have to move on we’ve got to do
something so Aaron you you are the
closest of kin make some idols and some
Gods we’ll worship them and then we’ll
have the power we need to move forward
so quick After experiencing such
miracles from the Lord but watch
this they’re not looking for Pure Idols
they’re looking for a hybrid see they
want the Best of Both
Worlds they want God they want the power
of God but they also want to be seen as
cool and fit into the eyes of culture
that’s something you would never want to
do
right you you and I would never be
tempted to
want to fit into the culture at the same
time have a fruitful relationship with
the Lord concurrently right that’s just
that’s for crazy people right spiritual
schizophrenic people maybe but not me oh
not so fast look verse two and Aaron
said to them Aaron jumps in he’s like
okay uh sounds like a great idea uh this
is he should have known better he should
have said absolutely not what you’re
asking for is absolutely unacceptable
but no break off the Golden Earrings
which are in the ears of your wives your
sons your daughters and bring them to me
it’s not like they had a bunch of gold
laying around that was you know
dispensable they they actually had to
make sacrifices personally to make this
Idol so all the people broke off the
Golden Earrings which were in their ears
and brought them to Aaron and he
received the gold from their hand and he
fashioned it with an engraving tool you
see they’re really really making this
into something here and made a molded
calf now there there’s there’s a there’s
a phrase I left out of the slide I want
you to turn to your Bibles
now what doesn’t the slide
say look it
up I want to hear it I this is not on
the slide I I don’t want you to be the
the sheep that just watches from the
slides I want you to look at your Bible
and you tell me what the last verse the
last part of verse four
says yep they then they said this is
your god o Israel that brought you out
of the land of
Egypt
yeah Aaron was there everybody this is
your god that brought you up they
recognized
The Works of God and they took the works
of God and slapped a fake Idol on top of
it have we ever done something like
that have you ever done something in the
name of
God have you ever tried to sell somebody
in the name of God can I I’ll use an
I’ll use an obvious example this is
Extreme this is something that the
culture is doing right now have you ever
been to a church where they’ll say uh
it’s okay to be gay lesbian or sexually
confused and still wear the Christian
Banner the there are many things that in
the end days right becomes wrong and
wrong becomes right and even God is
implicated within the mixed God is now a
she we can change our sexual identity
right is wrong wrong is right and this
whole concept of attributing the works
of God to a stupid golden calf that they
had to make from the remnants of
People’s Jewelry just to make it work is
now getting credit for the very works of
God and they believed they believed that
through the calf they were actually
worshiping the same God that brought
them out of
Egypt so it’s not like a separate
deity it’s not like je or Jupiter this
is the god of Israel that’s being
worshiped through the facade of a
calf it’s almost even more
evil so when Aaron saw it verse 5 he
built an altar before it and Aaron made
a proclamation and said tomorrow is a
feast to the Lord and he uses the word l
o r d in capital the feast to
Yahweh then they Rose early in the next
day offered burnt offerings and brought
peace offerings and the people sat down
to eat and drink and Rose up to
play to Yahweh through a
calf now you say wow that’s
despicable I would never do
that you and I already
have children keep yourselves from
Idols I got to a point in my career
where I was
enjoying being
away remember one time I was in a hotel
and I was playing some music that my dad
used to
play when I was a
child We were finishing a basement
bathroom and I would listen to this
music before he would come home and hope
that he would want to work on this
bathroom with me as a father and son
project and he did and there I was
sitting on a hotel
bed listening to this
song and I just
wept because I hadn’t spend time with my
son in
months and I didn’t even know who he was
you don’t ever want to be
that and then the devil uses that to
condemn you
and and then when you get
home you see the need you may try a few
things but oh you got to leave
again and it’s a Perpetual self worship
self worship self-hatred self- worship
self-hatred and it came to a head that’s
just one thing I’m sharing because I
want you to see that every single one of
us there is a trick the devil has a
trick waiting he has a alternate
lifestyle that’s good that’s good he
doesn’t need you to take a syringe and
just inject heroin he these are the good
things of life it’s good to go to the
gym it’s good to have a career it’s good
to have
family
and sometimes we or situations or jobs
or activities can become more important
to us than God himself and end in
disappointment so I’m going to land the
plane now and I want to go straight to
the point where it says Jesus is
enough Jesus is enough you don’t need to
melt down jewelry and create a calf you
don’t need to get all those likes on
social media you don’t need all of it
all you need is
Jesus and I’ll show you how this works
in Mark chapter 10:
28-31 in these last days
friends you are it people are looking to
you you are ambassadors for Jesus most
of the church doesn’t know what you know
about the Bible in end times and the
timelines of what Israel’s plan is and
what the Antichrist and the Rapture and
this no very you people know people are
looking to
you look at this this is the promise of
scripture Mark 10: 28 through 31 Peter
began to say to him to Jesus see we have
left all and followed you Jesus answered
and said assuredly I say to you watch
this this is
amazing there’s no one who has left
house or brothers or sisters or father
or mother or wife or children or lands
for my sake in the gospels who will not
receive a hundredfold now in this time
houses and brothers and mothers and
sisters and children and lands with
persecutions with persec we want to blot
that out but we
can’t and in the age to come eternal
life but many who are first will be last
and the last
first Jesus is enough Jesus is enough if
you say well I I was raised in an orphan
situation or I was rejected by my
parents or I I was
abused Jesus is saying you may have had
all of that but as a Believer if you
come to me you’re going to have new
family you’re going to have a completely
new life now until eternity which lasts
forever you will have everything that
you need for every single part of your
life it’ll be beautiful it’s
beautiful and if that’s not enough
Colossians chapter 2 gives it to you
straight Colossians chapter 2:
8-10 beware lest anyone cheat you
through philosophy and empty deceit
according to the tradition of men
according to the basic principles of the
world and not according to Christ uh
YouTube videos sensationalists alarmists
anxiety creators fear-mongers all that
not that doesn’t say that I’m just kind
of adding that in as my my own
interpretation for the context we’re in
for in him dwells the fullness of the
godhead
bodily and you are complete in him who
is the head of all principalities and
power let me read it again let’s get it
through our thick skulls for in him
dwells all the fullness of the godhead
bodily and you are complete in him who
is the head of all principality and
power I’m going to end there even though
there’s more to say I want to put the
pie chart up
though rather than this is a proposal to
you as a tour guide rather than say
Jesus is number one family is number two
work is number three and then do a
hierarchy of importance I have found
that the reality of life is that there
are times where Jesus is the center of
all things at all times and then there
are times in my life that I need to give
more time to family than I do to work
and then there are times where I find
that sometimes I have to give more time
to work than family but since Jesus is
in the in the center he manages this
equation through the power of the Holy
Spirit and through the power of
community and being connected with
others for accountability sake so I’ve
mentioned some generic percentages
perhaps the 23% could be work maybe the
35% is family maybe the 22% is something
else in the 19% it might be finances it
might be Hobbies it might be family it
might be work whatever you want to slate
in those percentages can change based on
the seasons of life that we go through
but one thing that will never ever
change is that Jesus is at the
center and it says in Hebrews do not
forsake the assembling of yourselves as
is the custom of
some but all the more as you see the day
approaching if you claim that you don’t
need
Church chances are you’re a self-
worshipper
if you think that you need more than
just Jesus and you need the affirmation
of some other device or some other
activity then you’re a candidate for
subliminal
idolatry we don’t commit overt idolatry
the devil is too smart he knows the only
way he can get you is through subliminal
idolatry the question is
what needs to be cleaned out of some
closet of your spiritual heart so that
you can be that much more ready for the
long haul or the short Hall we don’t
even know for the Rapture may even occur
today and it may even happen right after
this conference which would be epic
which would be
cool wouldn’t that be cool Lord thank
you for uh this discussion and pray that
you will do your work start with me and
start with all of us as we move and
become role model an example of what it
means to worship you in spirit and truth
to all those who love us and look up to
us in Jesus name we pray
amen