Wiping Out Idolatry (2 Kings 10:27)

0:00Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. Second Kings chapter 10 verse 27, and they demolished the pillar of Bale and demolished the house of Bale and made it a latrine to this day. What a verse as J. You basically leads out in wiping out Bale from Israel. That's actually what the very next verse says. Second Kings 10, 28. And as I read this verse, I just think about the need to wipe out all idolatry in our lives, in our hearts. So I just want to encourage you today, like even in this moment, what in your heart are you prone to worship, to desire, to trust, to hope in,

1:07to long for more than God? What are you prone to desire more than God? What are you prone to hope in? Put your trust in more than God? What are you prone to long for more than you long for God? This is where we realize that many times, if not most times, idols are actually good things. They're oftentimes really good gifts that God gives that we're prone to put in the place of God. That's what makes them idols. We want them. We desire them. But this is also why we need to pause and take inventory of our hearts and ask, what am I putting in the place that only God deserves? Think about Jesus saying in the New Testament in Matthew 10, anyone who loves father

2:07or mother more than me is not worthy of me. He goes on to talk about other family relationships or anything that to follow Jesus means to live with supreme love for God that puts everything else in perspective and everything else pales in comparison. So God, we pray, search our hearts even now. What are the good things or evil things that we are desiring more than you that were longing for more than you that were trusting in or hoping in or looking forward to more than you? God, please show us where things like money or possessions or various pleasures in this world, pursuits in this world, sex, sports, success and work or school. Whatever it might be, God, we pray that you would help us to demolish idolatry from our hearts.

3:08Just like we read in second Kings 10, they demolished the pillar of bail and made it all their dream to this day. J. Who wiped out bail from Israel, God wiped out the idols from our hearts and our lives. We pray that you might be supreme in our affections and our devotion and our worship and our trust and our hope and our longings and our desires. And God, we pray that as our souls are satisfied supremely in you, in worshiping you, you use us to spread your worship around us in this world. Help us to show this world that you are infinitely better than money, that you're infinitely better than all the pleasures of this world put together. There were not a people who just seek after everything else that the world seeks after and then tack on Jesus on Sundays. Know that you are supreme in our lives and we love you.

4:09And even when good things are taken away from us, we trust in you. We hope in you. We long for you. We desire you. We still have you. Oh, God, help us to live lives that are the overflow of supreme joy and satisfaction in you and affection for you, that your glory might spread through us. God, we pray for your glory to spread all around the world over all the idols of this world. We pray specifically today for the de Doi people of Russia and Georgia. God, we pray that this people group that doesn't know your glory and beauty, Lord Jesus, that they would be reached with the good news of who you are, that they might find eternal satisfaction in you as God. We pray this over them, even as we pray this over our own lives in Jesus' name. Amen.