05/03/23 DON'T FLIRT WITH THE WORLD

05/03/23 DON'T FLIRT WITH THE WORLD

Here is God's view of adopting popular, current, socially approved views of God.
Especially notice *vs14
Exodus 34:12-16 (NKJV)
12 Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst.
13 But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images
*14 (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),
15 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice,
16 and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.

Jealousy is not the same as envy.
Jealousy is fierce protective claim over what belongs to you.
Envy is desire for what belongs to another.
To replace or mix our love, adoration, loyalty for God with anything or anyone else is spiritual adultery.

James 4:4 (NKJV)
4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.