Gn.31:30, 19

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Gn.3130, 19

• Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to
  be used, or using anything that ought to be
  worshipped
• 2 Co. 41-4
• Fault of the audience (3)
• 1 Co.118
• Influence of satan (4)

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I False Gods

• Molech (national god of Ammonites) Lv.1821
• Baal (chief male deity of Phoenicians and
  Canaanites) Nu.2241
• Asherah (wife of baal in Canaanite mythology)
  Jg.37
• Dagon (chief god of Philistines) 1 Sm.52-7

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• Ashtoreth (Syrian and Phoenician goddess of moon,
  sexual love, fertility) 2 K.2313
• Bel (Marduk, chief Babylonian god) Is.461-2
• Chemosh (national god of Moabites and Ammonites)
  Jer. 487, 13

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• Zeus (supreme god of Greeks) Ac.1412-13 (KJV
  Jupiter)
• Diana (goddess of moon, hunting, wild animals)
  Ac.1924, 27-28

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II The god Behind The gods

• Satan (god of this age) 2 Co.44
• Why call satan god?
• Not because of divine attributes
• He enjoys service, honor, wor-ship, and reverence
  of worldly men he accepts their affections in
  the same way as idols

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Satans Devices (2 Co.44)

• Minds, 2 Co.314
• 1 Jn. 519. Rv. 202-3
• Blinded. 314. (1 K.22)
• Do not believe. Jn.939-41
• Light of gospel. Ac.2618(13)
• Glory of Christ

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Idols are nothing demons are something

• 1 Co.1014-22
• Pagan deities are imaginary, but demons used them
  to turn people away from the true God
• Compare
• Satan ? demons ? idols ? Israel
• Satan ? demons ? idols ? Corinth

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Parallel Passages

• Wisdom of this world, 1 Co.120
• In truth the world has derived very little, if
  any, moral good, either from the Jewish rabbins
  or the Gentile philosophers
• 1 Co.126
• Form of this world, 1 Co.731
• Course of this world, Ep.22

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III Satan Is Still On The Job

• God never speaks (audibly) to people today
• Even if He did, He would never contradict His
  Word
• Jer. 2316-18, 21, 31

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Which god?

• Decisions, 2 Co.1113-15
• Focus, Gn.31-6
• Right, Pro.1412
• Heart of God, Jer.731
• Self, Ezk.282, 9
• Minds, 2 Tim.38

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Ruler of this world

• Jn.1231 (1430 1611)
• Jesus rules believers, satan unbelievers (1
  Jn.519)
• Jesus death (32) destroys satan, drives him out
  of office
• Hb.214-15