IT'S ALL ABOUT HIM

Exodus 30:34-38 (KJV)

 ³⁴And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:   ³⁵And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:  ³⁶And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.  ³⁷And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.
 ³⁸Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.

Amos 5:21  (KJV)

 ²¹I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

 

      God has specified in the Bible the acceptable way He is to be worshipped. He is not to be worshipped according to the evil and vain imaginations and devices of men. Whatever that is not commanded in scripture in our worship to God is forbidden.  God is not obligated to accept our worship just because we offer it to Him. We dare not substitute what we want for what God has commanded if we want to please Him and go to Heaven.

       Jesus said in Matthew 4:10, "You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve." If we worship God in spirit and in truth, we cannot worship anyone or anything else. Anything we worship, other than God, is an idol. According to Webster, an idol is "an image used as an object or instrument of worship."  Therefore at Halloween we don’t worship evil as the world does, but rather we worship God.  At Thanksgiving we don’t give glory to Tom & Tina Turkey but we worship God.  At Christmas we don’t worship Santa and his elves but rather we worship Christ our King.  (Thought: Have you ever thought about tht fact that the letters in the word Santa can be rearranged to be Satan.  Hmmmm.....Just something for you to think about.)  At Valentines we don’t worship cupid but we worship God.  At Easter we don’t worship Peter Cottontail but rather we worship our Holy God. God forbids us to make and worship idols. God says in Exodus 20:4-5, "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God."

      We see we are not to make any image whether it is a statue or any likeness of anything in heaven or earth to worship them. But this is done today when people worship icons.  In 1 John 5:21 we read, "My little children, guard yourselves from idols." We are warned in Colossians 2:18, "Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worshipping angels." We can lose our reward in heaven if we worship someone other than God. He is the only one we are to worship because He is a jealous God. God will not allow us to worship anyone else other than Himself. Revelations 21:8 tells us that "idolaters shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."    

We must only worship God and our worship must be in spirit and in truth if we expect to be with Him in heaven when this life is over.