2. Trading Up Swap-Meet

4. Personal passions & empty promises… 1.pleasure 2.popularity 3.prestige 4.passion 5.position 6.power 7.productivity 8.prosperity 9.performance

6. Idolatry is when we begin to swap a personal passion for Christ’s paid promise.

15. Ezekiel 14:3 “Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces…”

17. Psalm 37:3-7 3 Trust in the L ORD, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. 4 Delight yourself in the L ORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the L ORD ; trust in him, and he will act. 6 He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday. 7 Be still before the L ORD and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!

18. Psalm 37:3-7 7 Be still before the L ORD and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!

20. 2 Corinthians 1:15-22 15 Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second experience of grace. 16 I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea. 17 Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?

21. 2 Corinthians 1:15-22 18 As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No. 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes. 20 For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.

22. 2 Corinthians 1:15-22 21 And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, 22 and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

24. The Cross saves us from something, and the Resurrection saves us to something.

26. Take-aways… 1.Recognize the rival (idol) 1.Recognize the rival (idol) 2.Reject the rival 3.Replace the rival with Jesus’ guarantee