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Acts 15:
18 Known to God from eternity are all His works.
19 Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God,
20 but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality,
from things strangled, and from blood.
21 For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city,
being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.
The first of the four prohibitions sent out to the Gentile churches resulting from the Council at Jerusalem
is 'to abstain from things polluted by idols'. Two of the seven churches that received messages from the Lord
in Revelation are admonished for failure to avoid this 'pollution'. (Rev 2:14; 20). Paul devotes considerable time
addressing this issue in his first epistle to the Corinthians. He also helps us by defining idolatry at its source.
Colossians 3:5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness,
passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
If we were to consider government propaganda, and mass marketing of products as drivers for the spreading of this pollution,
to what degree does the church need to separate from the world going forward to eliminate the pollution of idols from worship?
1 Corinthians 5:
9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.
10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world,
or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother,
who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—
not even to eat with such a person.
Ephesians 5:
3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;
4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
5 For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater,
has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Luke 12:15 And He said to them, Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist
in the abundance of the things he possesses.
1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
18 Known to God from eternity are all His works.
19 Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God,
20 but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality,
from things strangled, and from blood.
21 For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city,
being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.
The first of the four prohibitions sent out to the Gentile churches resulting from the Council at Jerusalem
is 'to abstain from things polluted by idols'. Two of the seven churches that received messages from the Lord
in Revelation are admonished for failure to avoid this 'pollution'. (Rev 2:14; 20). Paul devotes considerable time
addressing this issue in his first epistle to the Corinthians. He also helps us by defining idolatry at its source.
Colossians 3:5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness,
passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
If we were to consider government propaganda, and mass marketing of products as drivers for the spreading of this pollution,
to what degree does the church need to separate from the world going forward to eliminate the pollution of idols from worship?
1 Corinthians 5:
9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.
10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world,
or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother,
who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—
not even to eat with such a person.
Ephesians 5:
3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;
4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
5 For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater,
has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Luke 12:15 And He said to them, Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist
in the abundance of the things he possesses.
1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
