Don’t Make for Yourselves Idols

In this Father's Day Sunday message, Pastor Jason Duff works through the second commandment — "You shall not make for yourself an idol" — drawing a careful distinction between Commandment #1 (worshipping the right God) and Commandment #2 (worshipping the right God in the right way), using King Jehu as the example of someone who got the first right and the second wrong by keeping the golden calves that were meant to represent the true God. The danger Pastor Jason zeroes in on is modern — the tendency to worship a God we've constructed in our own image, deciding for ourselves what He values and how He operates, which is simply ancient idolatry with better branding. The message closes on Father's Day with the sobering reminder of verses 5-6: how you worship shapes the next generation — not as a generational curse, but as a simple reality — and a call to let God speak for Himself through His Word rather than inheriting someone else's distorted image of Him.