Idolatry: Pharisees (C)  October 3, 2009 — 39 Comments  [This
post is part of the Idolatry series]  Of all the musings on
idolatry up to this point, this one that hits rather close to
home for me personally. So while in some other instances I have
been pointing out problems from the outside in, this one comes
quite frankly from the inside out.  It was while I was attending
a bible institute this actually became an issue for me. With the
advent of a distinct understanding from God that I should pursue
a life of ministry, most likely in a vocational sense, came the
constant temptation to then make an idol out my study of God and
my work for Him.  The idea comes from Ezekiel 14 and has been
spoken on by Mark Driscoll (which you can listen to here) and
also written on by Paul Tripp in Instruments in the Redeemers
Hands. If you want an more extended discussion of what I’ll hit
on here, watch the Driscoll video as it helped spawn this whole
series in the first place (alongside Ortlund’s and Beale’s
books, see the i