Our Works, Our Denial, and Ignoring Truth Won't Save Us: Only God's Christ, Jesus, Can Do It

1 Chronicles 10:13-14
¹³  So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;
¹⁴  And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse. 

Worldly systems and philosophies of government and religions have never been a friend of God nor of His Word. Though there is much seeking after power and so-called spirituality, there is little seeking after what God says to us and wants of us. God has never been pleased with people going off to do "their own thing", instead of following what He has commanded. He tells us, ahead of time, what is good and evil. He tells us, ahead of time, the fruit and consequences of our choices, whether we choose to walk with Him or fight against Him. Even our neglect of Him, His Word, and His ways is a choice to attack His command. 

Luke 10:27

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

He tells us, in Romans Chapter One, that all the natural world and its laws of nature show us, inexcusably, that God is God and that all things point to our need to heed Him and draw close to Him.

Therefore, since He has already given us His Word in the Bible, let us seek the Almighty Self-existent Eternal God, our Creator, in and through His only begotten son, His only Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, who, alone, led a sinless perfect life that He, alone, could shed His sinless blood and die for our sin, and then that He raised Himself from the dead on the third day, as He promised, according to the Scripture. His only plan of salvation is that all of us can and must turn to Him alone, in "repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ", if we want to choose eternal life in God. Otherwise, we shall have chosen to die alone, forever, in conscious separation and torment. Please turn from your sin, now, and turn to God's only plan of salvation and He shall make you free from the bondage and burden of your sin and its eternal consequences. 

Idolatry Pretends to Know God, But Doesn't Trust the Only Real God

When God tells us to fear and respect and love Him, we prove our love and allegiance by what we do, not just by what we say. It is one thing to fear someone in awe and respect and quite another to fear them out of terror of harm. God wants us to fear Him the first way for that leads us away from having to dread what He can and shall do if we don't obey what He has already told humanity in the Bible. 

God has forbidden all idol worship, for idolatry of any kind proves that we are not in a right relationship with the Self-Existent One, the Eternal One, whether we worship self, things, or other people. Idols are anything we seek first, instead of taking our concerns and petitions directly to the One True God. 

2 Kings 17:41
So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day. 

Those people were afraid of God because they did not want to know Him personally. They put worldly things and religious behaviors ahead of seeking God, and they continued deceiving themselves into thinking and acting as if their idols were gods, even after they were repeatedly told God's truth. 

If you want peace and redemption from and with God Almighty, then please read His Word, the Bible. The Bible's books of John and Romans summarize many principles of what God wants for us and show us the way of His only plan of salvation.

Let the Pain of the Old Time Jews be a Lesson to Us

Dear friend, 
Please, take heed to the lesson that God sets before us about the behavior of the Jews of Israel, in the old days, how they rebelled against Him and His Word, to lust after, worship, and do those things that God forbids. In our own day, we, collectively, have far exceeded the sinful excesses of Sodom, Gomorrah, and all the evils of yesteryear, for, collectively, we have institutionalized and many times legalized the abominations that God hates. Please, repent of your own evils. Seek God's Light and God's salvation, before it is too late for you.

2 Kings 17:7-23
⁷  For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
⁸  And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
⁹  And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
¹⁰  And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
¹¹  And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
¹²  For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
¹³  Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
¹⁴  Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
¹⁵  And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
¹⁶  And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
¹⁷  And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
¹⁸  Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
¹⁹  Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
²⁰  And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
²¹  For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
²²  For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
²³  Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day. 

Each of us shall choose where we spend eternity, either by accepting God's Christ and repenting or by rejecting Him.