The JEALOUSY of Jesus

At the end of an incredible life, John the Apostle wrote some arresting words. He had met and followed Jesus as a very young man. After those climactic days of the Crucifixion, resurrection and birth of the church -- John had outlived them all. As the final Apostle he closes his message with this warning:

In First John, the last words of John to believers are a warning against idols. 1 John 5:21 Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. (NIV)

What some modern day idols? Look at some old ones the Lord condemns, and we can see the new.

BEWARE OF THE IDOL OF DISTRACTION: Jesus is so jealous He doesn't even want you to have friendship with the world. What is this? worldliness is forgetting God, friendship/idol is on mind all time, willing to sacrifice for, blocks out other things.