Kill Your Idols
The Cosmic War for the Undivided Heart
Introduction
We have been conditioned to believe that an idol is a grotesque thing, a golden calf erected in a desert, a carved wooden totem in an ancient grove, or a stark pagan altar slick with the blood of sacrifices.
Because we do not bow before stone images in our living rooms, we flatter ourselves with the delusion that we have outgrown idolatry. We treat it as a primitive relic of an uneducated past, a moral failure that modern, enlightened minds have left behind.
This is the enemy’s most sophisticated deception.
Idolatry has never been about the raw material of the statue; it is about the posture of the human heart.
An idol is almost never a bad thing; it is almost always a good thing that has been elevated to the place of God. It is a legitimate gift, a divine promise, or an earthly blessing that subtly usurps the place of the Giver.
If you want to find your idols, do not look in the darkest corners of your vices. Look at the things you love most. Look at your spouse, your children, your career, your sporting team, your house, your land, your investments, or your reputation.
Look even deeper into your spiritual life. Look at your cherished denomination, your favourite celebrity preacher, or the Bible itself when it is reduced to a legalistic weapon rather than a living encounter with the Lord of Glory.
Until we view reality through the Single Eye of Matthew 6:22, we are hopelessly trapped viewing the world through the dual eye of Satan (the tree of the knowledge of good and evil).
To break free, we must understand the terrifying scope of our spiritual reality: a cosmic war initiated in Eden, escalated at Babel, reclaimed through the regathered diaspora at Pentecost, extended to the Gentiles through Paul, and lived out not through human intellectual assent, but through the present-tense execution of the self.
The Altar of Moriah: When the Promise Becomes the Idol
To understand the mechanics of an idol, we must return to the windswept heights of Mount Moriah.
Genesis 22 presents one of the most agonising narratives in all of sacred scripture: God commands Abraham to take his son, his only son Isaac, whom he loves, and offer him up as a burnt sacrifice.
For centuries, moralists have wrestled with this passage, recoiling at its apparent severity. But seen through the lens of spiritual reality, Moriah is an idol-clearing intervention.
Consider Abraham’s trajectory.
He had waited decades for Isaac. He had endured the quiet shame of childlessness, the failed human scheme with Hagar, and the long, silent years of waiting on a promise that seemed humanly impossible. Isaac was not merely a long-awaited child; he was the physical embodiment of God’s covenantal promise. Through Isaac, the nations would be blessed. Through Isaac, Abraham’s lineage would outnumber the stars.
And that is precisely where the danger lay.
It is remarkably easy for the human heart to fall in love with the promise more than the Promise-Giver.
It is natural for a man to anchor his ultimate hope, identity, and security in the very gift God gave him to demonstrate His faithfulness. Isaac had quietly, insidiously risked becoming an idol in Abraham’s heart.
Had Isaac remained untouched on a pedestal, Abraham’s devotion would have fractured. He would have been serving God for the sake of Isaac, rendering the child his ultimate god.
God’s command to sacrifice Isaac was the ultimate test of allegiance. Yahweh was demanding: Will you hold onto the gift, or will you yield to the Giver?
When Abraham lifted the knife, he was demonstrating absolute submission. He was placing his highest earthly joy, his earthly future, and the very fulfilment of his identity onto the altar. By being willing to kill his beloved, Abraham proved that Isaac was not his god.
When Yahweh stayed Abraham’s hand and provided the ram caught in the thicket, Isaac was returned to him as a gift to be held with open hands.
This is the rule of Moriah:
Whatever you refuse to put on the altar will eventually become your master.
The Cosmic Backstory: The Lineage of Self-Worship from Eden to Babel
Why is the human heart such an unrelenting idol factory?
Why do we compulsively turn every good thing into a god?
To answer this, we must trace the dark thread of human self-deification from the Garden of Eden to the judgment of the Tower of Babel outlined in the Deuteronomy 32 Worldview.
Deuteronomy 32:8-9 LSB “When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, When He separated the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the sons of Israel. (9) “For Yahweh’s portion is His people; Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.
The tragedy of human idolatry did not begin as an isolated event at Babel; it was the tragic culmination of humanity repeatedly yielding to Satan’s original deception: to worship the self rather than the Creator of self.
The template was forged in Genesis 3.
Satan tempted her with self-exaltation:
Genesis 3:5 LSB “For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
The Fall was fundamentally an act of self-worship by humanity, dethroning God to place human autonomy, human judgment, and the human ego on the throne of reality.
This poisonous root immediately bore fruit in Genesis 4.
Cain rejected Yahweh’s instructions and offered the fruit of his own human effort, inventing self-willed religion. When his self-righteous offering was rejected, Cain murdered his brother and established the first city, a civilisation built on self-preservation, human achievement, and independence from God.
By Genesis 6, this self-worship metastasised through the rebellion of the fallen “sons of God,” who breached their created boundaries to intermingle with human women, spawning the Nephilim and flooding the earth with demonic corruption and violence.
Mankind’s imagination had become purely, perpetually evil. God cleansed the earth in the catastrophic judgment of the Flood, yet the fallen impulse to self-deification survived in the human heart.
Through the cursed line of Ham emerged Nimrod (Genesis 10:8–10), the “mighty hunter,” whose very name means “we shall rebel.” Nimrod organised post-Flood humanity into a unified, totalitarian empire of self-worship. The climax of his rebellion was the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11.
Listen to the rallying cry of Babel:
Genesis 11:4 LSB And they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
Babel was an imperial altar of collective self-worship. It was the absolute refusal to submit to Yahweh, an attempt to storm heaven and enthrone human glory.
It was at this precise moment of corporate rebellion that Yahweh executed the judgment of Deuteronomy 32:8–9:
Deuteronomy 32:8-9 LSB “When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, When He separated the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the sons of Israel. (9) “For Yahweh’s portion is His people; Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.
God shattered their unified self-worship, confused their languages, and formally disinherited the nations.
He handed rebellious, self-worshipping humanity over to the authority of the very fallen spiritual entities they had chosen to follow—the rebellious “sons of God” who accepted human worship and became the territorial principalities, powers, and rulers of darkness (Ephesians 6:12).
Yahweh abandoned the nations to their idols, carving out one small, insignificant family, Jacob (the Hebrew nation), to be His sole inheritance.
The Cosmic Counter-Offensive: Regathering the Diaspora at Pentecost and the Assault on the Gentile Nations
The Incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ were not merely a personal salvation plan to get individual souls into heaven.
They were a violent, cosmic counter-offensive against the territorial dark powers and the lineage of human self-worship.
When Jesus hung on the cross, He disarmed the principalities and powers, making a public spectacle of them and triumphing over them:
Colossians 2:13-15 LSB And you being dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive with Him, having graciously forgiven us all our transgressions. (14) Having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us which was hostile to us, He also has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. (15) Having disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them in Him.
But the strategic execution of His reclamation unfolded in two precise, biblically ordered steps:
Step 1: Reuniting the Diaspora at Pentecost (Acts 2)
Popular modern theology often mistakenly assumes the crowds at Pentecost were Gentiles. Scripture explicitly states otherwise:
Acts 2:5-13 LSB Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven. (6) And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were bewildered because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own language. (7) So they were astounded and marveling, saying, “Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galileans? (8) “And how is it that we each hear them in our own language in which we were born? (9) “Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, (10) Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the district of Libya around Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, (11) Cretans and Arabs—we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God.” (12) And they all continued in astonishment and great perplexity, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” (13) But others, mocking, were saying, “They are full of new wine.”
Exactly seventy nations were represented in Jerusalem, the precise count of the disinherited nations from the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 and Deuteronomy 32.
These were Jews of the diaspora who had been scattered among the pagan lands, brought up in the native tongues of the nations where they lived, and had lost their Hebrew language.
When the Holy Spirit descended at Pentecost as tongues of fire, the Apostles spoke in the native languages of those scattered Jews. Pentecost was Yahweh unwinding the curse of Babel for His own portion.
He reunited the scattered Jewish diaspora, breaking the language barrier so that the remnant of Israel could hear the mighty works of God in their own tongue and be unified in spirit under the Messiah.
Step 2: The Target Shift to the Gentile Nations (Acts 8 & 9)
Once the Jewish diaspora was regathered and filled with the Spirit at Pentecost, the violent outbreak of persecution following Stephen’s martyrdom scattered these newly spirit-filled believers back out into the surrounding regions (Acts 8:1).
Acts 8:1 LSB Now Saul was in hearty agreement with putting him to death. And on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
They became an indwelling presence of God’s Kingdom planted directly inside the dark territories of the 70 disinherited nations.
Then came Yahweh’s direct strike against the Gentile strongholds: the sovereign conversion of Saul of Tarsus in Acts 9.
Saul was explicitly commissioned by Jesus as the Apostle to the Gentiles (Acts 9:15).
Acts 9:15 LSB But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;
Armed with the Holy Spirit and accompanied by the scattered Pentecost diaspora, Paul marched straight into the territories held by the dark principalities and powers, proclaiming that Jesus had disarmed the gods of the nations and reclaimed the earth for Yahweh.
When you are “born again,” whether Jew or Gentile, you are drawn into this reclaimed kingdom. You are liberated from the disinherited domain of Satan and conscripted into the army of Jesus Christ.
Sovereign Regeneration: The Myth of Autonomous Decision
This brings us to the crucial mechanism of conversion.
How does a person escape the Satanic dual eye and enter this reclaimed kingdom?
Modern evangelicalism has largely embraced a human-centred, synergistic myth: the idea that fallen man, sitting neutrally on the throne of his own free will, simply “decides” to accept Jesus.
It portrays God as a polite gentleman standing outside the door of the heart, wringing His hands, hoping human autonomy will grant Him permission to enter.
This is a complete denial of spiritual reality.
Left to our own devices, fallen humanity is not neutral; we are dead in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2).
Ephesians 2:1-3 LSB And you were dead in your transgressions and sins, (2) in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience, (3) among whom we all also formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
As Paul systematically proves in Romans 3:10–11:
Romans 3:10-11 LSB as it is written, “THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE; (11) THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD;
A dead man cannot choose to breathe; a spiritually blind man cannot choose to see the sun; a heart bound in dark Satanic idolatry cannot generate its own holy desires.
Jesus made this absolute human inability explicitly clear in John 6:44:
John 6:44 LSB “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.
The Greek word translated “draw” (helkyō) means to drag or draw by sovereign force, the same word used in Acts 16:19 when Paul and Silas were dragged into the marketplace, or in John 21:6 when the disciples drew a heavy net full of fish to the shore.
The “new birth” (paliggenesia) is an irresistible, unilateral, sovereign act of God.
It is a divine invasion.
God does not wait for dead men to choose Him; He speaks light into the darkness of the soul, performs spiritual heart surgery and resurrects a dead spirit.
Ezekiel 36:25-27 LSB “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and from all your idols. (26) “Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. (27) “I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to do My judgments.
When Christ sovereignly regenerates a soul, He does not negotiate with the old ego.
He executes it and supplants human self-will with His own.
This is why the New Testament authors repeatedly describe the Christian’s relationship to Jesus using the profound Greek word doulos.
The Reality of the Doulos: Slavery vs. Modern “Choice”
Our modern, individualistic culture cringes at the word doulos.
Modern English Bibles regularly soften it, translating it as “servant” or “bondservant.”
But in the first-century Greco-Roman world, a doulos was a slave, a person whose will was entirely owned by, subject to, and supplanted by the will of their master.
A servant works for wages, retains their personal autonomy, goes home at night, and can quit if they dislike the working conditions.
A doulos has no rights, no independent property, no private agenda, and no autonomous will. Their very identity is absorbed into the Master.
When the New Testament Apostles describe themselves as the doulos of Jesus Christ:
Romans 1:1 LSB Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle, having been set apart for the gospel of God,
2 Peter 1:1 LSB Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received the same kind of faith as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
Revelation 1:1 LSB The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His slaves the things which must soon happen; and He indicated this by sending it through His angel to His slave John,
It is making a radical structural statement about our existence:
Conversion is not an addition; it is an exchange of ownership. You do not retain your old, autonomous life and simply add Jesus as a moral advisor or a cosmic fire insurance policy.
Our will is supplanted. The born-again few are not volunteers offering advice to God; they are agents of His sovereign will on earth.
True submission produces obedience. You cannot “obey” God in any biblical sense while preserving your right to self-determination. Obedience is not a transactional effort to gain God’s favour; it is the natural byproduct of a soul whose self-will has been executed by its Master.
This is where the warning to the Church in Sardis (Revelation 3:1) hits with devastating force:
Revelation 3:1 LSB “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: This is what He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, says: ‘I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.
It is possible to build massive, impressive religious systems that have a stellar public reputation for being spiritually alive, but are in reality cold, dead monuments to human ego.
Consider John Calvin and the Geneva magistrate system.
Calvin was an ex-Catholic priest who could never truly shake the authoritarian need for structural control. In his effort to construct a pristine systematic theology, he turned Scripture into an instrument of state power and legalistic control, creating an authoritarian tribunal that punished dissenters and executed theological opponents like Michael Servetus.
Calvinism, like many rigid denominational systems that followed it, took the living, terrifying, sovereign reality of God and codified it into a cold, intellectual machinery of human control. It had a reputation for being doctrinal, orderly, and alive, but beneath the surface lurked the spirit of Sardis.
It substituted a living, terrifying encounter with the Lord of Glory for an authoritarian system, turning the Word of God into a weapon of control rather than an altar of personal execution.
Systems, systematic dogmas, denominations, and celebrity theologians can easily become the most dangerous idols of all, because they wear the cloak of righteousness while quietly keeping the human ego firmly on the throne.
The Subtle Trap: Modern English Translations and Galatians 2:20
If we are to dismantle these religious and modern altars, we must unmask the supreme subtlety of our spiritual adversary.
Satan rarely attacks the Gospel with blatant, obvious lies.
He does not need to convince you to become an atheist; he only needs to introduce a slight, subtle shift in language that alters your perception of reality.
We see the terrifying success of this strategy in how modern English translations handle Galatians 2:20.
Look closely at the classic rendering of Galatians 2:20 in the Authorised King James Version:
“I AM crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the FAITH OF the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
Now compare this with almost every modern English translation (NIV, ESV, NASB, NLT):
“I HAVE BEEN crucified with Christ...”
“...I live by faith IN the Son of God...”
Do you see the devastating bait-and-switch?
1. “I AM” vs. “I HAVE BEEN”
By translating syne staurōmai into the past perfect tense (”I have been crucified”), modern translations quietly turn an active, present-tense spiritual reality into a past historical milestone.
When crucifixion is placed safely in the past, conversion becomes something you did, a prayer you prayed years ago, an altar call you walked, a date written on the flyleaf of your Bible, or an intellectual decision you made.
It reduces salvation to intellectual assent.
And here is the trap: if your crucifixion happened in the past, then your autonomous ego is free to walk around today, take the driver’s seat of your life, and build altars to your career, your family, your house, your political party, or your theological tribe.
You can comfort yourself with the memory that you “were crucified back then,” while your alive-and-well ego worships modern idols right now.
But Paul does not say “I was” or “I have been.”
In the KJV’s faithful rendering, he declares present-tense reality: “I AM crucified with Christ.”
It is present. It is continuous. It is an existential, moment-by-moment state of active execution.
The cross is not a historical landmark you visit in your memory; it is the current address of your self-will.
When you exist in a continuous state of co-crucifixion, there is no living “self” left available to bow before an idol. A dead man holding no independent breath cannot bow before a golden calf.
2. “The Faith OF” vs. “Faith IN”
The second half of the modern translation shift is equally destructive.
Modern Bibles change “the faith OF the Son of God” (an objective genitive) to “faith IN the Son of God.”
This subtle change smuggles human effort and human merit right back into the core of the Gospel.
“Faith in Jesus” focuses on your capacity to believe, your mental muster, your spiritual performance, and your decision.
It makes your ongoing Christian walk dependent on the quality of your own human belief.
The KJV preserves the magnificent, objective reality: “I live by the faith OF the Son of God.”
It is not your weak, fickle, idol-prone human faith that sustains you.
It is the literal, indwelling, perfect faithfulness of Jesus Himself operating through your mortal body!
This is the exact operational mechanism of the doulos.
Your old, weak will has been executed; Christ has indwelt you; and He is living His own perfectly faithful life through you.
The Modern Pantheon: Identifying Our Contemporary Idols
When you are actively crucified with Christ and living by the indwelling faith of the Son of God, the idols of modern culture are unmasked.
Satan’s strategy in our modern era is to take God’s best gifts and quietly convert them into functional deities.
Let us inspect the modern pantheon with uncompromising honesty:
1. The Idols of Family & Relationships (Spouse and Children)
There is no higher earthly calling than to love your spouse and raise your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Yet family is often the most socially acceptable idol in the modern church.
When your child’s happiness, academic success, athletic performance, or comfort becomes more important to you than God’s holiness and truth, your child has become your idol. When you enable sin in your spouse or prioritise their approval over obedience to Jesus, you have placed your spouse on the altar of Moriah and refused to lift the knife.
If your family belongs to you, it is an idol. If your family belongs to God, you will hold them with open hands, recognising that they are His servants, not your personal possessions.
2. The Idols of Material Possessions & Status (Houses, Cars, Sport, Career)
Your profession, your house, your land, your investments, and your luxury items are not inherently evil.
But in a consumerist culture, they easily become the metrics by which we measure our worth, security, and identity.
When a loss of wealth or status plunges you into despair, or when your sporting team’s victory brings you more genuine joy than the triumph of the Cross, your heart has constructed a pagan temple.
You are relying on created things to give you the significance and security that can only be found in the Creator.
3. The Idols of Religious System & Legalism (Denominations, Preachers, and Bibliolatry)
The most insidious idols are not found in secular culture; they are found inside the church walls.
Denominational Tribalism: Loving your church system, your confession, or your theological heritage more than the living Body of Christ.
Celebrity Pastor Worship: Hanging on every word of a favourite theologian, podcaster, or preacher, elevating their authority to an infallible status.
Bibliolatry: Worshipping the physical book or legalistic interpretations of the text while ignoring the living Person to whom the Scriptures testify. As Jesus confronted the Pharisees in John 5:39–40: “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” When Scripture is used as a legal code to enforce authoritarian control over others rather than an altar that leads to self-crucifixion, it has been transformed into a religious idol.
The Single Eye: Living as Reclaimed Agents of the King
How do we shatter these altars?
How do we walk through a world saturated with subtle idolatry without bowing the knee?
Jesus gives us the ultimate diagnostic tool in Matthew 6:22 and Luke 11:34:
“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.”
The Greek word rendered “single” is haplous. It means undivided, generous, sincere, focused entirely on a single object.
The Single Eye is the vision of the resurrected soul.
It is the spiritual sight given to the doulos who is actively crucified with Christ. When your eye is single, you look at the world through a single lens: the supreme, absolute lordship of Jesus Christ over every square inch of creation.
Seen through the Single Eye:
Your spouse and children are no longer possessions to validate your ego; they are fellow-servants entrusted to your care by the Master.
Your career and wealth are no longer security blankets; they are kingdom resources to be deployed for His glory.
Your theology and local church are no longer tribal banners to beat others with; they are tools to lead you deeper into the living presence of God.
The powers and principalities of this world no longer terrify you; you see them for what they are: defeated, disarmed cosmic entities whose time is short.
To possess the Single Eye, you must put on the full Armour of God:
Ephesians 6:10-20 LSB Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the might of His strength. (11) Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. (12) For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. (13) Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. (14) Stand firm therefore, HAVING GIRDED YOUR LOINS WITH TRUTH, and HAVING PUT ON THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, (15) and having shod YOUR FEET WITH THE PREPARATION OF THE GOSPEL OF PEACE. (16) In addition to all, having taken up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one, (17) also receive THE HELMET OF SALVATION, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, (18) praying at all times with all prayer and petition in the Spirit, and to this end, being on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints, (19) as well as on my behalf, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel— (20) for which I am an ambassador in chains—so that in proclaiming it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Notice that every piece of this spiritual armour - the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of the gospel of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit - is simply an aspect of Christ Himself.
To put on the armour is to clothe yourself in the present-tense reality of His indwelling presence, protecting your mind and heart from the subtle, whispering deceptions of the enemy.
Conclusion
The call to “Kill Your Idols” is not a moralistic self-help program.
You cannot muster up enough human willpower to execute your own idols; your ego will simply build a new altar to your own self-discipline.
The execution of your idols can only happen at the place of present-tense co-crucifixion.
Stop looking back at a past calendar date to validate your salvation.
Stop relying on intellectual assent to a dead system.
Stop treating your faith as a personal decision you made for God.
Recognise the terrifying, glorious reality of where you stand right now:
You were dead in sin, trapped in a legacy of self-worship that stretches from Eden to the disinherited darkness of Babel.
Yahweh regathered His diaspora at Pentecost, commissioned Paul to strike into Gentile territory, and sovereignly regenerated your dead heart.
He disarmed the principalities, reclaimed you out of darkness, and made you His own purchased doulos.
Therefore, step onto Mount Moriah today.
Take your Isaac—your career, your family, your reputation, your possessions, your theological system—and lay it on the wood.
Lift the knife of absolute submission.
Declare with Paul, not as a historical memory, but as your active, present, moment-by-moment existential reality:
“I AM crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the FAITH OF the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
When you ARE crucified, the ego is executed, the dual vision of Satan is shattered, the principalities lose their grip, and the living Christ reigns supreme over an undivided heart.



Thank you for sharing this powerful message. It is a needed reminder that anything we love, trust, or value more than God can become an idol. The Lord alone deserves our worship, our devotion, and our complete surrender. Exodus 20:3 reminds us, You shall have no other gods before Me. Our hearts are constantly tempted to place success, comfort, possessions, or even relationships above Christ, but true peace is found only when Jesus is first in our lives. Colossians 3:5 tells us to put to death whatever belongs to our earthly nature, and 1 John 5:21 simply says, Little children, keep yourselves from idols. David prayed in Psalm 139:23-24, Search me, O God, and know my heart... see if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. That should be the prayer of every believer. May the Holy Spirit continually reveal anything that competes for our affection and give us the grace to surrender it completely to the Lord. Jesus alone is worthy of our worship, and He alone satisfies the deepest longing of our hearts. Thank you for faithfully pointing people back to God's truth. May the Lord continue to bless your ministry and use your writing to lead many people into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. God bless you abundantly.
Thank you for this beautiful and challenging reality check, Geoff; it clearly contrasts the terror we have over losing “things” with the reverent fear we must have of our great and awesome God.