Keep Yourselves From Idols

Thomas Brooks on secret idolatry:

"If the devil cannot disuade us from performing religious duties, then his next work will be to persuade us all he can do to rely on them to make saviors of them.

"Your own righteousness rested in will as certainly and eternally ruin you as the greatest and foulest sin.

He calls this soul sickness "spiritual idolatry."

For he says, "You make yourself a savior and your duties a savior."

He adds, "Open wickedness, open idolatry slays her thousands, but secret idolatry - a resting upon your your own righteousness, your own duties to perform - slays her tens of thousands."

The full exhortation awaits your listening.