You Don't Get Your Own Personal Jesus

Many people think the second commandment (don’t make carved images) is just a restatement of the first commandment (don’t have other gods before God). They’re actually quite different. The first is about worshipping other gods instead of God; the second is about worshipping the right God in the wrong way. We may not think we can relate much to this commandment because we don’t have any gold statues in our homes that we bow down to every day. But as we continue our “Not God Enough” series this weekend, we’ll see how we break this commandment whenever we elevate our preferences about God above God’s statements about himself.