Idols and Why They're Bad

An idol is ANYTHING that YOU LOVE and SERVE MORE than JESUS CHRIST.
It can be just about anything.
The 1st and 2nd of the 10 Commandments are about idolatry.
Idolatry- The worship of idols.
Exodus 20:3-4 "You shall have no other gods before me.You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth."
Teens have idols. 
Why do they?
Truthfully, most are LOST and they DON'T KNOW the Lord.
They want to FILL IN that HOLD with a WORLDLY thing that makes them TEMPORARILY happy.
I used to be the same exact way!
I used to have a BUNCH of idols as a teen.
They were my everything.
At one point in my life, WITCHCRAFT was MY EVERYTHING!
I COULDN'T get enough of BEING IN CONTROL and having my REVENGE on people.
I ALWAYS wanted to do it.
Food was another one of my idols. 
For me, it would SOLVE ALL MY PROBLEMS.
God is a jealous God.
Exodus 20:5 "You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me."
He wants YOUR FULL ATTENTION.
He wants to YOU to SPEND TIME with Him.
He wants to be the CENTER of YOUR LIFE.
Colossians 1:17 "He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together."

He wants to be the FIRST thing YOU think about when you wake up and the last thing you think about before you go to sleep.
Delve DEEP into the Word, it's His letters to YOU.
He LOVES when YOU TALK and PRAY to Him.
He ALREADY KNOWS our needs but he still WANTS YOU to VOICE them to Him.
Matthew 6:8 "So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him."
Make TIME for Him. I promise you won't regret it.

A chapter that perfectly goes with this is 1 Corinthians 10.