The Spirit Of Baal

***Today people have sex, have babies, have an abortion.***

In People Magazine there was an article that is as heartbreaking as Molech worship. It talks about the effects of pornography on the internet. They set up a fake account on AOL and YAHOO! Here are their results..… “We clicked a box saying we were 18. Then we went surfing. On web browsers and in chat rooms we were bombarded by sexuality in every form. In a “romance” chat room we were propositioned, and many places had links to sites where anything goes—bestiality, orgies and S&M.” ‘It’s unbelievable, stuff you couldn’t buy in most porn stores.”

Somehow in our world we have managed to combine the worship of Baal and Molech satisfying our sexual appetites at the same time we sacrifice our children. It’s sick and twisted, and these idols must be torn down. We worship Baal and call it Playboy or we worship Molech and call it pro-choice.

Not to mention child molesters moving into neighborhoods with playgrounds and parks. But we worship at the altar of personal choice and watch our children burn in Molech’s outstretched arms. Old heresies never die; they just come back with new names. Today in modern English we spell Baal, MTV, as Rap, Country and Rock artists and their record labels make millions with lyrics that exploit women, glorify violence, drugs drunkenness. ***Some of it is in the church today.***

We can also tell what we worship by our time and money.

We obviously worship television. Born again Christians will spend twenty or more hours a week watching television but say they don’t have time to read their Bible or serve on a ministry team. We clearly worship the sex god. I wish I could say that sexual deviance was a practice only of the secular world but its not. Many in the church are just as guilty of pornography, lust and of extra-marital relations(shacken). You can tell by the way we dress and act, that we worship our own sexual pleasure.

We worship entertainment. The same people who will say they cannot afford to tithe, or financially contribute to the Kingdom, will spend twenty dollars without thinking for a DVD of a movie they’ve already seen or a fancy restaurant or a trip.

We worship youth and beauty. We worship celebrities.

We worship success. We worship money. But the biggest idol of today though, is self. As a culture we are preoccupied with self-indulgences. “I want, I want, I want” The high priest of this self-absorbed sacrament is found only in one place: the mirror.

Adultery… The metaphor throughout Scripture for idolatry is adultery. Can you hear the broken heart of God crying over his wayward wife? Yahweh weeps from heaven over these words—the people have rejected him. He has loved them and cared for them, yet they build altars to others. God is jilted, as a jilted lover--------no one loves us as much as Jesus!

It is sad when love goes bad; especially when someone throws away marital relationships by chasing skirts and hunks.