Deuteronomy 4:15

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13 ^aSo He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, ^bthe Ten Commandments; and ^cHe wrote them on two tablets of stone.

14 And ^athe Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might¹ observe them in the land which you cross over to possess.

Beware of Idolatry

15 ^a“Take careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no ^bform when the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

16 lest you ^aact corruptly and ^bmake for yourselves a carved image in the¹ form of any figure: ^cthe likeness of male or female,

17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,

18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that is in the water beneath the earth.

19 And take heed, lest you ^alift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, ^ball the host of heaven, you feel driven to ^cworship them and serve them, which the Lord your God has¹ given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.

20 But the Lord has taken you and ^abrought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be ^bHis people, an inheritance, as you are this day.

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You notice that? Man will worship something. God is warning here that every man has the capability of creating his own god. It is not just those heathens over there. Every man has the capability and when we begin to understand the spirit of the law and that God wants us to worship Him in spirit and in truth, this begins to get very personal because we can carry an image, a false image of God wherever we go. We do not have to carry a leering statue with us of some kind of Buddha. That thing came out of a man's mind anyway. Might be a little more difficult to remember if you have to carry it around in your memory, but it is there nonetheless.

Excerpted from The Commandments (Part Three) by John W. Ritenbaugh

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