SECOND COMMANDMENT: Thou Shalt Not Make Unto Thee Any Graven Image.
We are living in a day of troubles. Many “do their own thing” and do not believe in God. They feel that is just a myth to control people.
In modern revelation to a prophet of God, the Lord said:
Doctrine and Covenants 1: 14-16
14 And the arm of the Lord shall be revealed; and the day cometh that they who will not hear the voice of the Lord, neither the voice of his servants, neither give heed to the words of the prophets and apostles, shall be cut off from among the people;
15 For they have strayed from mine ordinances, and have broken mine everlasting covenant;
16 They seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god, whose image is in the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol, which waxeth old and shall perish in Babylon, even Babylon the great, which shall fall.
Most concerting is the worshiping of the gods of today.
I will name some of them. Think of your life and see if you are worshiping these.
Some are very plush, chrome, wood, stone and fabrics. They are not even in the image of man or God but are things that give comfort or pleasure, take care of their wants and passions and desires.
Some are homes, clothes, machines, automobiles, boats, computers, planes and they concentrate on them as goals.
They don’t have to be in the shape of an idol.
Things that are intangible make ready gods also, like Degrees, letters and titles. These degrees and the search for wealth and security are coveted so much that service to the Living God, Our Heavenly Father, is put aside or abandoned. Some in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints have fallen into this area, ignoring the spiritual covenants they have made. It is the same in many churches.
Some people spend so much in a home and automobiles and then find out they cannot pay their tithing or offerings to their church. Whom do they worship? Not the God of Heaven. First considerations for these types of people give to or for the object of their affection and their desires.
Young couples who put off having children so they can get their degrees first might be shocked if their expressed preference were called idolatry. They get their degrees at the expense of children. The longer they wait the more chance they may not live long enough to see their grand or great grandchildren.
Many couples realize that life is not given to us for ease, comforts and expensive items, complete their education while having their children and giving in community service and to their church.
Then you come to those who like football, baseball, golf, hunting and fishing and put these ahead of keeping the Sabbath Day Holy. This would show where their loyalty lie, not necessarily in the worship of God.
Then there are those who want and worship power and wealth. They trample underfoot spiritual and ethical values and principles that are more important in the long run. They want influence over others and it becomes like a golden calve.
Paul talks about what happens in the lives of men who worship false man-made doctrines and love the creature more than the Creator.
Romans 1: 28-30
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents.
The same evil conditions that existed among many of the people in Rome at Paul’s time are abundantly with us today.
Satan has been allowed to have power over all men who worship false gods and over all who will not hear and follow the voice of God.
Talking about Satan and what happened to Satan in the War in Heaven, who at that time was named Lucifer, the Lord said:
Moses 4: 4
4 And he became Satan, yea, even the devil, the father of all lies, to deceive and to blind men, and to lead them captive at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my voice.
There is divine safety and growth for us by listening to the Words of God and not following any other.
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