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Intro
Group intro -
Scripture
Hear God speak, not self help or opinions
Scripture transforms us
It is the foundation for the other two
Prayer
Us speaking back to God
Acknowledging the truth of scripture
Community
The context that scripture and prayer are effective
Not just socializing - ministering the gospel to each other
Review
Studying Counterfeit Gods by Tim Keller
The topic is identifying and dealing with idols
It is good, but not required to read through the chapter and make notes and questions
But not required - I am not quizzing anyone and it will all be covered
Starting applications - but Keller is layering in lessons that apply to all idols
Last lesson
Dream come true can be the worst thing that can ever happen to us -
Abraham was the example studied Go had promised and then given him a son.
But he was called to sacrifice him.
First meaning - Abraham needed a trial to refine his heart from idolizing his son
Second meaning - a substitute is needed - Isaac points to the death of Jesus
This Lesson
Is it weird that the first example is love?
We tend to think of scandalous things as idols - wealth, power, etc - see the front of the book
Remember sometimes the worst idols are the better things
Without a romantic relationship of some kind, even the wrong kind, their lives feel meaningless.
Story of Sally
Keller, T. (2011).
Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters (p.
23).
New York: Riverhead Books.
At first she used her beauty to manipulate others, but eventually others used it to manipulate her.
She came to feel that she was powerless and invisible unless some man was in love with her.
She could not bear to be alone.
As a result, she was willing to remain in relationships with men who were abusive.
Why did she endure such treatment?
She had come to look to men for the kind of deep affirmation and acceptance that only God can provide.
As a result, she became a slave to love.
Does this seem like a familiar story?
Why would subject herself to this abuse?
She had come to look to men for the kind of deep affirmation and acceptance that only God can provide.
As a result, she became a slave to love.
Why did she endure such treatment?
She had come to look to men for the kind of deep affirmation and acceptance that only God can provide.
As a result, she became a slave to love.
Keller, T. (2011).
Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters (p.
23).
New York: Riverhead Books.
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Jacob & His Idol
Back story
Promise to Abraham is carried through Issac.
Isaac marries and his wife Rebekah has twins.
God tells the family that the promise would unexpectedly go through the younger son - Jacob
Issac favors the older Esau, but Rebekah loves Jacob.
Esau grew up proud, spoiled, willful, and impulsive, while Jacob grew up cynical and bitter.
Jacob steals the blessing by pretending to be Esau to his blind father Isaac, but everyone finds out and the family begins to implode.
Jacob ends up running away to his mother’s family to keep from being killed by Esau.
Jacob & Laban’s family
Difference between the daughters
Rachel was lit.
“beautiful in her figure and beautiful in her appearance” - the total package
Leah had “weak eyes”
Perhaps cross eyed
Or maybe a figure of speech saying she was not pleasant to look at.
Jacob was lovesick - Rachel became the only important thing to him
He is willing to work for seven years for Rachel, which was 4 times the going rate
But they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
He was very blunt in his eagerness to get married to her
Give me my wife that I may go in to her
Even today that would be extremely forward
Keller, T. (2011).
Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters (p.
27).
New York: Riverhead Books.
Why? Jacob’s life was empty.
He never had his father’s love, he had lost his beloved mother’s love, and he certainly had no sense of God’s love and care.
Then he beheld the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, and he must have said to himself, “If I had her, finally, something would be right in my miserable life.
If I had her, it would fix things.”
All the longings of his heart for meaning and affirmation were fixed on Rachel.
Keller, T. (2011).
Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters (p.
27).
New York: Riverhead Books.
Making love an idol
Traditional idols
We idolize someone as the most important person in our life.
We go beyond romance and seek a sense of meaning that used to come from faith in God
It is easy for us to hope that boyfriend or a wife will make us valuable or complete
Our culture teaches this idolatry in our music, movies, in how we talk about it to each other
But that expectation crushes the other person and leaves you empty
hookup idols
There is growing peer pressure to engage in sex and not get too emotionally involved... Once we get over our lingering Puritanism, the argument goes, sex will be no big deal.
But that is a different twist on another idol
Keller, T. (2011).
Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters (pp.
29–30).
New York: Riverhead Books.
We may be worshipping beauty or pleasure
Or we may be idolizing ourselves by proving ourselves with each encounter
Or maybe we are bitter and afraid from past experiences
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