Lamentations 4: Praying Free from Idols

Praying Free From Idols

Lamentations 4

• Why do we bow down to idols?  – Because we thing for a time, what we get will be better than God.

Three types of common idols…

1. Financial security 4:1-2
   1. Ecc. 6:1-2; Luke 12:16-21
2. Human “saviors” 4:3-21
   1. Family tenderness 4:3-4
   2. Powerful benefactors 4:5-10
      1. Rom. 1:21-23
   3. Religious leaders 4:11-16
      1.  1. Tim. 5:19-20
   4.  Political allies 4:17-19
      1.  2 Chron 16:7-9
   5. Political leaders 4:20-21
3. Religious illusion 4:21-22