The righteous rein of King Hezekiah of Judah is laid out in II Kings 18. One of the notable accomplishments of his tenure of 29 years was that he destroyed idol worship among other things a brass serpent something that 800 years prior had been lifted by Moses in the desert to save lives from snake bites. Here is a powerful quote from Spurgeon on verses 3-6: "In the same way, sometimes good things become idols and therefore must be destroyed. For example, if the true cross of Jesus or His actual burial cloth were to be discovered, and these objects became idolatrous distractions, then it would be better for those objects to be destroyed. “Although it was an interesting memorial, it must be utterly destroyed, because it presented a temptation to idolatry. Here if ever in this world was a relic of high antiquity, of undoubted authenticity, a relic which had seen its hundreds of years, about which there was no question as to its being indisputably the very serpent which Moses made; and it was moreover a relic which had formerly possessed miraculous power — for in the wilderness the looking at it had saved the dying. Yet it must be broken in pieces, because Israel burned incense to it.” (Spurgeon) We as God's people today must likewise be on guard against idolatry. There are many dangers of idolatry in the modern church today:
· Making leaders idols
· Making education an idol
· Making human eloquence an idol
· Making customs and habits of ministry an idol · Making forms of worship an idol
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