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Dangerous ISM's - Baalism

4/24/2013

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BAALISM - WORSHIP OF BAAL
To most of us Baal is synonymous with idolatry. We also don’t often think  of idolatry as a threat to the church today. Sure there are still some  cultures that have their ‘statues’, but we know better. We would never be  tempted by something like that, right? Paul tells us not to be too sure of  ourselves, “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he  fall.” (1 Cor 10:12). Even though we might not bow down to a carved image,  we do often allow other gods to come between us and God.

In Canaan there were many Baalim, and each one was supposed to serve a  different purpose. One Baal was for agriculture, another for controlling  flies, another for fertility and sexuality. The word Baal simply means lord  or master. Any time we allow something other than God to be our master we  are following Baalism in a sense. We don’t often name our idols today or  even build physical idols, but we have them all the same. Let us look at a  few.

Just as the Canaanites of old and the Israelites as well offered their  children to their idols, we do today. The god that we offer our children to  isn’t Molech or Chemosh or Baal, but Convenience. If a child is inconvenient  it is either aborted, left on a doorstep, pushed off on relatives, or as a  last resort we will pay someone to take this thing for the better part of  the day so that our worship of convenience is not interfered with. God laid  the responsibility of rearing children on the parents, not on the government  or total strangers. (Eph 6:4) “And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to  wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”  We sacrifice ourselves many times to the god of Pleasure, just as those in  that time did. They had orgies and thought they were doing what their gods  wanted them to do. We know God does not want that, but we figured a way  around that little problem. Though we would never engage in the horribly  immoral acts of homosexuality or fornication, or murder, rape, and  drunkenness; we really enjoy movies, books, and television shows that  glorify that type of behavior. We rationalize that we aren’t doing any of  those sinful things. Who do we think we are kidding? Paul admonishes us to  think on the good things not the evil. (Phil 4:8) “Finally, brethren,  whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things  are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,  whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there  be any praise, think on these things.” In Romans he tells us that having  pleasure in others who do sinful things is just as sinful as those doing it,  and it is even worse since we should know better. (Rom 1:32 - 2:1) “Who  knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy  of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.  (2:1) Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that  judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou  that judgest doest the same things.”

Time fails me to examine the Baalim of Popularity, Wealth, Pride, Science,  Entertainment, etc. We need to always keep in mind that not all idols are  made of wood, stone, and metal. Let us determine to serve God and Him alone.

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