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American
Idols
Taylor
Hicks, the raspy-voiced performer who calls his fans
“the Soul Patrol,” was announced last Wednesday
night as the new American Idol in the top-rated talent
show “American Idol” on Fox television network.
Hicks, 29, beat out Katherine McPhee, a 22-year-old
singer trained at the Boston Conservatory, winning a
recording contract in the show's fifth season.
Hicks took the majority of a record 63.4
million fan votes, according to host Ryan Seacrest.
But,
Taylor
Hicks isn’t the only American idol....
Other
American (even worldly) idols include: materialism,
love of leisure, sensuality, worship of self, and many
others.
By
definition: An
IDOL is anything that separates a person from God.
We were created to worship and serve God, but many
have redirected their worship
to idols. What is the object of our affections, our
efforts, and our attention? Where does the majority of
our time go? On what do we spend the greatest amount
of our resources?
The answers to these questions will reveal the
idols that we worship.
The
problem with "idols" is that
they are powerless to save us and to give us the truly
abundant life now and eternal life to come!
Long
ago the Lord challenged a people who had been
engrossed in idolatry: "Assemble yourselves and
come; Draw near together, You who have escaped from
the nations. They have no knowledge, who carry the
wood of their carved image and pray to a god that
cannot save … There is NO other God besides Me, A
just God and a Savior; There is NONE besides Me”
(Isaiah 45:20-21).
Don’t
be duped by idolatry!
Cast your idols aside and acknowledge the
One true Living God, the only Savior.
He is THE God who loved us so much that He gave
His Son to die on the cross for our sins (2
Corinthians 5:21).
He is the only One who can save us and give us
life. “And this is the
testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and
this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life;
he who does not have the Son of God does not have
life” (1
John 5:11-12).
“He
who has the Son has LIFE.”
He who has the Son is he who places their trust
in Him (Acts 16:30-31), turns from sin and idolatry to
Christ in repentance
(2 Corinthians 7:9-10), confesses
Christ before men (Romans 10:9-10), and is baptized
into Christ for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38;
Galatians 3:26-27).
He who has the Son is he who continues to
follow Him for the rest of his life (1 John 1:7).
Yes,
America
and the rest of the world has its "idols"
- Unfortunately, these "idols"
will not
SAVE us in the end.
God is the ONLY Savior!
Won’t YOU trust and
obey Him?
God bless you!
David
A. Sargent, Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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