Homiletic Review Isaiah 2:18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish. In heathen systems of religion, God and nature are not kept distinct. His personality, also, is confounded. The fears and hopes of idolaters are projected into deities. Two things are necessary to destroy idolatry in this its grossest form. I. THE PREVALENCE OF THE WORD OF GOD. 1. Within its pages God and nature are carefully distinguished and separated. 2. Here His personality is clearly presented. 3. Here commands against idolatry are fully and solemnly promulgated. 4. Here the true God is set forth in all the glorious attributes that constitute His character, allegiance is commanded, service demanded, and every soul held to a strict accountability. II. THE PREVALENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN CIVILISATION. 1. The Bible is indispensable. Heathen science is insufficient to deliver men from idolatry, as witness Rome and Greece. 2. Mere science is in danger of becoming materialistic or agnostic. 3. Science needs to be vitalised by the Bible, the moral law, and conscience.Reflections — 1. Science is the handmaid of the Bible. 2. There can be no contradiction between the work of God and the Word of God. 3. It is the duty of every Christian to assist in the circulation of the Bible, to the end that every idol on the face of the earth may be speedily destroyed. (Homiletic Review.) Parallel Verses KJV: And the idols he shall utterly abolish. |
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