God Hates Idolatry

I have just been in conversation with someone who told me that it does not matter what we do, because God looks at the heart.

The problem with this mentality is that God never gave us principles to follow because they didn't matter, He gave them expecting us to obey.

I grow weary of those that think that sin and disobedience to God's principles are unimportant as long as we are born again. God says, if we are born again then we hate sin, we love to obey.

Those who refuse to be corrected, hanging onto their idols with tenacity while claiming to love that which offends God, places a question in my mind, how could it be that someone who has been made into a new creation, kicks against the goad when challenged with Scripture to evaluate their actions and attitudes.

Having come out of a religious system that encouraged idol worship, I can no longer tolerate any form of idolatry.

Romans 6

King James Version (KJV)

1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.

8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.