Deuteronomy 7:5 KJV
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall
destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves,
and burn their graven images with fire.
There are some
things that we, who are the people of God, just cannot compromise. God has
called us to be both holy and special. Those things that the people of the
world have dreamed up to call upon as their deities, their idols of worship
simply must be shunned by the one who would walk with Jesus.
- We must make no
covenant with them
- We must show no mercy
to them
This attitude
if ours will no doubt elicit a response from the idolaters. They have come to
love and depend upon the gods of their own making. Whether they be
- Political gods
- Financial gods
- Recreational gods
- Moral gods
- Etc
to shun what
they love will be a sign of rejection in their eyes. They will call us
- Hateful
- Mean spirited
- Legalistic and
- Outdated
But we must
remember our focus; we do not live to please those people (nor to hate them) we
are a holy and special people. We live to please God.
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