Exodus 20 verse 3 says, Thou shalt have no other gods before me. The Lord made it clear that there are no other gods. So it makes perfect sense that in his law he would command that his people have no other gods. They weren't to invent gods. They weren't to take images of creatures and turn them into idols. They weren't to pray to statues or images or the bodies in the skies, the planets and such. They weren't supposed to bow down to images or sing to them, speak to them, burn incense to them, or show honor to statues or images of any creature of any size. As a matter of fact, the Lord reveals to us that when you practice idolatry, you might think you're praying to Mary, you might think you're praying to some saint or an angel, but the reality is, even if you think you're praying to Diana or Jupiter or whatever, you're worshiping a devil. In Leviticus 17, 7, Moses is instructing the Hebrews here, and he says, and they shall no more offer their sacrifice unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute forever unto them throughout their generations. And then after Jesus had come to earth in the incarnation, had shed his blood in death on the cross, and then overcome death by rising bodily from the tomb, the apostle Paul wrote this in 1 Corinthians 10, 20, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not to God. And I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. So idolatry, is worse than just worshiping the wrong god. It's actually devil worship. That's why Jesus was so adamant when he gave Moses the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20, verse 3, thou shalt have no other gods before me. And a couple of verses later in Exodus 20, verse 5, the law continues and commands God's people saying, thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them, for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children under the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. God isn't jealous in some petty, meaningless way. It's not about God's feelings. God is protecting us from deception. God is jealous over us, protecting us from Satan's deception of idolatry. But we must choose to follow God's commandments. Sadly, people have misunderstood the jealousy of God many times. Oprah Winfrey famously claims that she left the Christian faith, having never been born again by faith in the gospel in the first place, but having been raised in an old-fashioned black Christian church. But Oprah says she heard a preacher say, God is a jealous God. And Oprah thought to herself, jealous of me? And Oprah went on to say she couldn't follow a God like that. but Oprah was terribly ignorant in those thoughts. God is not jealous of Oprah. God is jealous for Oprah. God wanted to keep Oprah from the deception she has now chosen to live under. And whether Oprah and her little God, which she basically claims to believe she's her own little God, or if she's worshiping some other false God, the fact is Oprah is worshiping devils. And Jesus wants to save Oprah from her devil worship. That's why Jesus plainly called on sinners to repent and believe his gospel, turning away from idolatry and false gods. In John 14, 6, in his response to Thomas, We read, Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by man. You can see Oprah on video saying that can't be true. There has to be more than one way. This jealousy of God is not some unreasonable egotism. It's not jealousy of others. It's simply a fact that there is no other God beside the true God. And Jesus is the incarnation, the manifesting in the flesh of that true God in human form. You can either worship Jesus and worship the true God, or you're worshiping devils. And Jude 25 says, to the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.