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Tuesday March 10, 2015 “Exposing the Cultural Idolatries that Block the Covenant”

Discover how idolatry is ingrained in human culture and learn how the covenant can break these cultural blocks. Explore the impact of idolatry on family life and relationships and find the antidote in the transformative relationship with God. Uncover the idols in our own cultures to denounce their effects and embrace a Gospel of Grace.

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Tuesday March 10, 2015 “Exposing the Cultural Idolatries that Block the Covenant”

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  1. Tuesday March 10, 2015 “Exposing the Cultural Idolatries that Block the Covenant”

  2. Idolatry is built into the woof and warp of all human culture, through our worldview, language, religion and history.

  3. It is especially embedded in the attitudes, customs and habits of our family life These are modeled and inculcated in each generation, intentionally and not Formal instruction and education are added later on to the initial cognitive and value infrastructure

  4. Children observe intensely, perceive, remember, reason (not always accurately) and conclude, making choices based on a rudimentary value systemWhat they perceive in early life is normal (the norm) and “normative” for themAll that happens around them IS for them “the way life works”

  5. Racism, Sexism, Classism, the sexual taboo, a consciousness of an invisible (benevolent or fearful) God, are embeded early in lifeThey are inculcated unconsciously by the spontaneous, behavior of their role modelsThe fight/flight/ignore instinct develops at a very early age

  6. The idolatriesimbibed during our upbringing damage each individual’s personality, distorting our idea of love and authority, hence our significant relationships and ultimately the very social fabricThat is how the “sins of the fathers” are passed on to their children to the 3rd and the 4th generation of those who do not know God

  7. The antidote to Idolatry is the Covenant:An effectual, transformational relationship with God, with rules, promises and consequences

  8. The Covenant is really a marriage proposal. God adopts a people for Himself, to whom He is “married:”To Israel in the Old Testament (Jer 2:2, 3:14, 31:32; Isa 54:5,6 and 62:4,5;Eze 16:8; Hosea 2:19,20; etc.) To the Church in the New Testament (Eph 1:22-23; 5:23,24,25-27, 32; Col 1:18, etc.)

  9. There are numerous references to the “adultery” of God’s people (Jer 3:1, and 6-13) when they turn their back on HimThe Apostle Paul also uses the marriage language saying that he has bethrothed us to Christ (2 Cor 11:2,).

  10. The best human representatation of the Covenant is our Marriage in Christ

  11. Christian Marriage: A three-way Covenant, a man, a woman and Christ covenanted to love one another exclusively for life replicated in a new generatio of Covenant keepers, set free by God’s grace to live freely under God’s law

  12. The Covenant is God’s remedy to sinful man’s “marriage” (adherence, attachment, worship of) to wordly values, enshrined in our cultural idolatries

  13. Unredeemed, unrenewed, unreformed, untransformed cultures are Pagan (or semi-Pagan) contaminated by the values of this world, opposite to God’s values

  14. They enshrine idols, harboring ideas that are contrary to the Law of the LordThey are so universally accepted that they are sometimes hard to spot by the natives of that culture

  15. Our Latin American Case

  16. We must identify the idols in our cultures in order to denounce, renounce and counter their effects with a culturally contextualized Gospel of Grace

  17. Cherished idols are the enemies of God They block the possibility of making full Covenant with HimMoses could not deliver the tables of the law to an idoltrous Israel

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