Be Warned and Alert

Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind -Colossians 2:18

In Paul’s day there were some who took off the attention of the Christian from the worship of God to the worship of angels. “Angels,” said they, “these are holy beings; they keep watch over you; you should speak of them with great respect”; and then when they grew bolder, they said, “You should ask their protection”; and then after a little while they said, “You should worship them; you should make them intermediate intercessors”; and so, step by step, they went on and established an old heresy which lasted for many years in the Christian church, and which is not dead even now, and thus the worship of angels crept in.

And nowadays you will meet with men who will say, “That bread upon the Table-why, it represents the body of Jesus Christ to you when you come to the Lord’s Supper; therefore, you ought to treat that bread with great respect.” By and bye they will get a little bolder, and then they say, “As it represents Christ, you may worship it, pay it respect as if it were Christ.” By and bye it will come to this, that you must have a napkin under your chin, lest you should drop a crumb; or it will be very wicked if a drop of the sacred wine should cling to your moustache when you drink; and there will be the directions which are given in some of the papers coming out from the High Church party-absurdities which are only worthy of the nursery-about the way in which the holy bread is to be eaten, and the holy wine is to be drunk-bringing in idolatry, sheer, clear idolatry, under the presence of improving upon the too bare simplicity of the worship of Christ. Have a care of the very first step, I pray you. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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