Idol – Technology, Part 2

Social media Dr. Tony says everybody these days is looking for followers so is God when technology I God because God said I will have no this is the alternative with Dr. Tony have author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas and president of the urban alternative. A lot of us think that worshiping idols were something that only primitive cultures would do. But today Dr. Evans explains that American idols are more than just contestants on a TV show what's joint is part of our whole world going to be when God created the world set man and woman in it gave the responsibility to rule over his creation in Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 and he said, and I'm going to bless that rule. He told Adam to take the raw material of creation and development cultivated and my out its potential map. Having established that man was created to enjoy and develop creation under God and alongside of God, not a replacement.

God, we come to Genesis 11 which all that the whole earth. Use the same language in the same word they they were on the same page with the communication they journey a in the book of Genesis to journey a journey away from God. You think God had given an instruction in chapter 9 verse one for the world to spread out and become separate nations. God established that they were two separate, they decided we not they said we going to settle in Shinar and were going to stay together different than what God told us to do, verse three, and let's develop technology to disobey God we going to do as we go make bricks burn them thoroughly. Use bricks for stones used tall football. Okay, we don't take the raw material created by God we going to use it to build something to do opposite to what God told us to do.

We don't like what God says but we got technology with the promise technology together I would gonna do what we want to do let us we are going to for us build our city now heretofore these were nomads. These were people who roamed the land they said no.

When I do not know what was on separate and buildable other independent nations will build a home. Capital Cities is of the city that would be the capital the capital of mankind we going to build this city that will be the central man's definition for himself because we choose not approved in a moment, we choose no longer to be defined by God.

We want to be defined by us so we gonna come up with okay God, raw material will build technology that will establish a whole urban center a whole city where we will define ourselves and we will determine what we want when we wanted what we have will get it we will not answer to anyone going to build a humanistic Empire we going to put verse four says in this man centered society using the technology we built with the raw materials the God created. I will also go to put here, a town, it says, better known as the garrotte is a huge facility in the middle of the city and they says it will reach into somewhere gonna have religion going to the heavens's overbuilding, society, city in the middle of his diabetes religious symbol Atallah and we go take technology and is going be the ball, consisting of them go higher and higher and higher and higher. I this thing is going P as the clouds and is going get into this thing is going be a skyscraper like you have never seen before.

What was happening. It's not God coming down, telling us is that we ourselves is not with us and we going up there to inform him we not start with God coming down. We start with man going up through building. We go build own construction business and misconstruction business.

We build the city and were building a religious symbol to me because this us apart from God.

We use technology to God. I don't know if you know it or not, but that's what's happening today. They wanted to build a religious power man into the heavens would use the creation to define you, rather than the create tool to define you.

You have become an idolater, according to Romans one it says because they took the creation on and ignore the create tour idolatry. So as a result, mankind was rebelling against God independent of God misusing God in order to replace God while still keeping his name.

The Lord God. Verse five came down to see the city, which is then submitted built on love this little came down to see when it verse four they were building through technology. I tell that will go to the heavens to God.

God came down to see God see's it is down there to see what were they doing down there and trying to come up. You know that so God comes down to investigate the technological development of mankind ghostly what they doing what the computer and phone telescopes. The medical science using the kill babies listen ghostly what all this technology is that they that they doing this check out investigate what interesting the Lord said, behold, they are one people and they have the same language that communicating and this is what they began to technology without me but then he makes a curious statement in verse six and now nothing which they purposed to do will be impossible for them. That sounds all God says it will do something, nothing that they plan to do can be stopped. Why would God say that man if I don't do something we don't do something that also the Trinity. Let us go down there is investigate this because it will stop and they can't be stopped. Dr. Evans will answer that question when he returns in just a moment but first, many of us are concerned about the direction our society and nation seem to be taking these days and feel helpless to do anything about it, but Dr. Evans says it's not too late for a country to turn around. He's written a book that explains exactly how Christians can work together to usher in a revival unlike anything we've ever seen.

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When God created the world that there them to create for good or for bad. They get to decide that we get questions asked about the Odyssey all the time all the evil in the world people being slowly read the newspaper and and just just evil just people killing people out of a whim. Just a whole groups of people being discarded babies being aborted and we asked the question, how could a good God up in heaven allowing such evil he allows it for three reasons. We going to give him the freedom they can use it on baking ignore me and go their own way, way that will be consequences to them going their own way and leaving me how abandonment laws, abuse, neglect all wall stuff when they made their I turned it over to them. I told him you don't want to go. That's without me, but it says building society building billing department will building a family if they wanted to without me because he said that the he gave us freedom to leave him out became a separate doesn't step in. Every time you okay let's see how well you do without. I'll let you use my stuff you can build the technology all that fun stuff that you live in the car you drive, the smart devices you use and it's amazing how far we get when and how addictive it becomes will spend all on social media won't spend minutes in the word. We will spend on the telephone, but hardly any time talking to God's will to God in the neighborhood we become addicted to technology offers us and how would we into our lives and dominates us with this device. That device with the social media and we say that I'm getting people to follow Christ as I follow him look at the followers and so was God. God is texting and he says I'm looking for some followers I can find no followers where my followers followed him. So not only does the become idolatrous. But we become idolatrous laws, getting people to follow once more, we follow the device that is stripped us away from God. What we borrow from me and so God says, let us go down and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another's speech so the Lord scattered them abroad from over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city's name was called Babel, because the Lord confused the language. When you make technology in idle, whatever that technology happens to be you lose God because God said I will have no other gods before me even attacked God. No other God. So when you bring that tech stuff next to me and keep it in his rightful place under me when you bring it next week. You lose me.

And when you watch this confusion will set in that battle is confusion. We can communicate anymore communication problems in your family from cross races that communicate problems caused okay been a country like America because it was predicated on the premise not consistently applied, but the premise of freedom which allow maximum development, which allow personal benefit which motivated creativity and so the world has benefited from the greatness of the technological advances that by and large have developed. People drive cars all around the world because full came up with an idea and he was free to develop the idea and on and on and on youth everywhere. People want to come in from all over the world because they see at least the potential of opportunity never been a country like this. At this level that we have in America.

You will never travel again like he used to travel before 911 change your travel nuances because of terrorism. So what so 19 from K's halfway around the world invaded the greatest country that has never been on the face of and brought us to our knees. 19 countries came to the greatest country ever created shortcuts out.

Good night. Amen to its knees. Because America made in the last 911 was called a church meeting.

All the sudden God was important we better get together to pray, we better talk to the Almighty because God know when your bridges get to try God know when you technology has given you the big stuff to bring you to your knees so God does is with this with people with families. He will let you know you will you and all that and a bag of chips where Babel is from Babylon in Scripture. This rebellious illegitimate self satisfying thing in the Bible says in Romans 16 Romans one, they took the creation they treated like the create tour administrators and neither were they thankful thanking God for all the raw materials you can get all the stuff every time you get your car you will be thanking God was missing. Don't be frightened.effective.because this is how many apples regarding the apples with apples at all.

Most of you have. Do you know what it feels like to lose this misplaced or lost.

Our phone call sexy, you lose it you know why because this technology has taken over stuff that we are doing different places.

We all do it. Here we find the weather here now we look at a bank account here. Now we pay bills here now. We cannot calendar him. We talk on the phone network.

This thing runs all so when you lose the phone because this has become because all your life and so when you you know you can make it because everything technologically, all while what God is made sense for me not you may not be all life beyond life because when you can't find no you mean my surgeon. I know you made my one of Dr. Tony Evans will conclude our look at the dangers of placing too much trust in tech when he wraps up today's message just a moment before he does, though, I want to remind you of that special double offer. I mentioned earlier as a way of saying thanks for your contribution to help keep Tony's broadcast coming your way on the station's NUL eight messages from his current teaching series American idols and his timely book America turning a nation to God.

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It isn't hard to come up with the right answer but possession obsession is a real problem and on Monday. Dr. Evans will display why it's so important to loosen your grip on the stuff that can easily take over your life right now though he's back with this closing thought some time ago.

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Is this just a marvel at this point could take off itself, and it just kept the problem came because it ran out again and when it ran out of gas when plunging down to a disastrous class. I just want you to know you know how without God you get your degree without God, get your money. Without God, you get a reputation without God gets a significant dog you can come. What godless people climbed high and people want to know.

You get so rich, so we cannot… I just need to tell you one day you will be on my God, really.

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