The Desert Pastor has a sobering series over at his blog on the nature of worship and the self deception that so easily besets sinful man - including those sinners saved by grace who have been adopted into the family of The One True and Living God of the Holy Bible!

From "Which God do you Worship?? - Part 5":

Imagine a friend walking up to you with a bottle of pills which are filled with poison. The caption on the bottle reads – WARNING – Swallowing one of these pills will cause immediate death! Your friend suggests that instead of taking one entire pill, that it should be safe to take just ½ a pill. After all, only half a pill won’t kill you! We would be looking for a new friend – one who truly cares about our well-being and not one who wants to feed us something which while it may not kill us immediately, the results will still be the same – DEATH!!

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