Evangelism Against SIN-ulog This Year...
With Sinulog drawing near, each year causing much painful headaches, traffics, riots and so on really proves people are causing traffic for the wrong reasons. I would have started complaining less about traffic if people were going to a Bible exposition seminar than to attend an idolatrous feast. Now above is a video... and as a former Roman Catholic now a born again Christian, I urge you all to watch that video. I am in fact like the Apostle Paul weeping for my former friends who are still trying to establish their own righteousness while being truly ignorant of the righteousness of God. If they would just open their Bibles, check the ten commandments they will REALLY find out that graven images are total violation, that it's there while the catechism has removed the second and split then tenth. How much sorrow I have for the lost... and there will be a lot of pressure that will pile up on me that's for sure but God will definitely let me endure to the end because of His grace.
Now for Spurgeon's exposition on graven images:
Verse 1. And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wet not what is become of him.
What a terrible speech to be made by the people whom God had chosen to be his own! "Make us gods. Make our Creator." How could that be?
2. And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
Poor Aaron! He never had the backbone of his brother Moses. He was a better speaker; but oh, the poverty of his heart! He yields to the will of these idolatrous people, and bows to their wicked behests at once.
3. And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
Idolaters spare no expense; there is many a worshipper of a god of wood or mud who gives more to that idol than professing Christians give to the cause of the one living and true God. It is sad that it should be so.
4. And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
This was an Egyptian idolatry, the worship of God under the fashion of an ox, the emblem of strength; but God is not to be worshipped under emblems at all. What a poor representation of God any emblem must be!
5. And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.
They were going to worship Jehovah under the emblem of an ox. This is what you will hear idolaters say; they do not worship the image, they say, but the true God under that image. Yet that is expressly forbidden under the second commandment.
6. And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people eat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Lascivious games were sure to accompany idolatrous worship, for idolatry always leads to filthiness in some form or other, as if it were inevitable.
My ideas? It would be time to distribute Gospel tracts and here's one title I can recommend because they believe Sto. Nino is Jesus Christ when he is not: