Your Idol: K-Pop Demon Hunters & The Bible Warning Hidden In Plain Sight

Today on Radiating Faith, the ministry subseries on the Couple O’ Nukes podcast, I deliver a solo sermon that examines the hidden Biblical parallels inside K-Pop Demon Hunters by breaking down the lyrics of the song “Your Idol.” I use the song as a case study to teach what Scripture consistently warns about: idolatry is not only ancient statue-worship, but a modern heart-posture where something other than God becomes your refuge, identity, and source of security. 

I walk through how the lyrics mirror the spiritual mechanics of idolatry—obsession, dependence, and substitution—especially the promises of sanctuary, salvation, and “freedom” without repentance. I connect these themes to key passages including Ezekiel 14:3–6 (idols set up in the heart), Jeremiah 2:13 (broken cisterns that cannot hold water), Jonah 2:8 (clinging to worthless idols), 2 Peter 2:19 and 1 Corinthians 6:12 (mastery and slavery), and additional warnings from Psalm 115 and Isaiah 44 about blindness and becoming like what we worship. 

This sermon also addresses how “anytime it hurts, play another verse” reflects unhealthy coping, addiction patterns, and counterfeit comfort—where pain becomes a trigger for repeated dependence instead of surrender to God. I unpack the line “I’m the only one who will love your sins” to clarify the difference between God loving sinners while opposing sin, versus idols and demonic systems enabling sin as the very basis of their “love.” 

I close with practical self-examination: identifying what functions as an idol today, how false promises replace Biblical refuge, and what accountability and repentance look like when something has your attention, desire, and devotion more than God. 

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Transcript

 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radiating Faith, the Ministry Subseries on the couple of Nukes podcast where I discuss solo sermons, analyze scripture, and do book reviews and kind of pick apart books that are faith-based. It's great to be here. This sermon is something that I actually wanted to do.

Quite a while ago, it was actually something that would've been trending much more significantly at the time that I wanted to do it. I ended up not doing it. I didn't think I was gonna do it at all, but I do want to actually perform it. I actually want to do this sermon. It's something that kind of just sat in an unsettling way in my heart that I hadn't done it.

And I regret not doing it sooner, but I know that God can make it have an impact regardless of what I do. So I'm glad that we're gonna be getting to it today, which is for those of you who did not catch the title, it's the Hidden Bible message in the K-Pop Demon Hunters movie. Great movie. If you haven't seen it.

It was one of the most popular and trending movies of 2025, and it kind of looked at. Some aspects of demon culture, of K-pop culture, and it was, it was just, I don't know who thought of it. It was something very different, but it worked out very well because K-Pop has been very trending in the past few years, and so those songs were very successful.

Plenty of awards given out and everyone was singing and everyone was. You know, talking about it, we're gonna be looking at one of the songs. It's not, it's actually my least favorite song from that whole soundtrack. But the biblical implications in the lyrics are amazing. I think it is a very well written and crafted song.

It's a song that I don't agree with biblically because it is an evil song, but lyrically. It was well written, and we're gonna get into that today and we're gonna analyze it side by side with the Bible. And it's gonna be an interesting sermon for sure. The song is Your Idol.

And we're gonna look at those lyrics starting right now, actually. So. The whole song, by the way, I'll have the link in the description below to the song for you to listen to because of. Legal stuff. I can't just play the whole song right here efficiently. You know, there's, there's steps that need to be taken to make sure that's okay and I don't get sued or blocked.

So we're just gonna put the link in the description below for you to check out. However, we will be going over the lyrics, so if you haven't heard the song and you want to listen to it, then I suggest you do that either now before the sermon or afterward. But we will be going through the whole lyrics so you won't miss anything.

And it starts with a repeated series of pray for me now, you know, s slowly and it's, pray for me now. Pray for me. Now, over and over and over again. They've even got Latin lyrics in here, which are pretty interesting, but it jumps right to, I'll be your idol. Now, the play on words here is amazing because idol has become a different word than back in the day.

I understand its origins, but a lot of people, when they think of Idol, they think of a pop star, a celebrity. We live in a day and age of Celebritizing, which is terrible, but Idol is used, especially in the K-pop industry. They call them K-Pop Idols, right? They call them K-Pop Idols. And so when you look at the people who are singing this song

are demonic. They're demons disguised as humans and they're singing, I'll Be Your Idol. And they serve a demonic being, uh, I'll call it an equivalent to Satan, which is is Sima. If I'm not mistaken. They are singing, let Me Be Your Idol, your K-Pop Idol.

Let me be, right, because the whole thing is that the movie is based on K-pop singing competitions. It's about how these de mens disguise themselves as these good looking singers, these K-pop idols, and that they are taking the fans away ultimately to take their souls. And so when you look at, when they're saying, let me be your idol, it means like your number one K-pop idol, but at the same time, an idol.

Is, an object or person of worship. And we're actually gonna go over some Hebrew and Greek words here because I always love to study Greek and Hebrew. And so you look at an idol or carved image in Hebrew is peso and I don't have the best pronunciation by far. So, but peso right is mentioned throughout the Old Testament.

You look at detestable idols, if you wanna take it a step further, because idols are detestable, Gil Lulin. Gu, right? That's in the Old Testament as well, along with El. Which is idol or worthless thing. So the Old Testament is full of mentions of idolatry, which we're gonna get into today. We have a lot of scripture to unpack because idolatry, you know, I couldn't find an exact number due to all the translations and the different languages.

But idols and idolatry are one of the biggest things mentioned throughout the Bible especially. They were a huge part of Old Testament cultures where people were turning to idols and false religions. That being said, if we move into the New Testament, it's also mentioned quite frequently. In fact, you have, in the Greek you have a, which is a right, so you look at the words there are pretty similar A, then you have a Ria, a la Tria, right?

That's idolatry. Then you have adore. Idol, which is idolatry. And then you have Aton, which is the things in food sacrifice idol. So you look at these Greek words, right? These are on the New Testament. You have, again, mentions of various forms of idolatry  The Bible is full of warnings. And preachings against idolatry as well as, the historical accounts cover how idolatry played out in certain cultures, especially God's people when they turn to that. And then talks about other nations as well. So moving on from those lyrics where it says, I'll be your idol, right?

If follows into keep you in check, keeping you obsessed, play me on repeat in your head. And there's some Korean in here. I'm not gonna go over to Korean, but play me on repeat. Then the Korean lyrics in your head. Anytime it hurts, play another verse. I can be your sanctuary. No, I'm the only one right now. I will love you more when it all burns down.

More than power. More than gold. Yeah. You gave me your heart. Now I'm here for your soul. So we're gonna be unpacking a couple things, starting with the fact that keeping you in check, keeping you obsessed. If we're gonna talk about obsession and then playing on repeat, right? That is just showing the constant inundation, the constant obsession, the, you know, not being able to pull away from it as a dog returns to his vomit.

So if it returns to their folly. One of the cool things that I thought they mentioned here, because this is so important, anytime it hurts, play another verse. We're gonna get into enablement and addiction and coping with those lyrics. I can be your sanctuary that goes against scripture because idolatry being a sanctuary

god is our rocking refuge and fortress in sanctuary the only one. So we'll get into that. The only one right now, again, emphasizing that you can't serve two masters, right? You will serve one more than the other. Love one more than the other, hate one more than the other. And God said, you shall have no other gods besides me.

He's the one that, it should be the only one right now, but this idol and these idols are saying that as well. I'll love you more when it all burns down. We're gonna unpack that with a lyric later on that is similar to that. More than power, more than gold. Of course, those things are mentioned because they are part of sin not them by their self, but the way that we desire and chase after them and use them in our life.

And then also. The, you gave me your heart. Now I'm here for your soul. The soul is different than the heart. The soul goes beyond. That actually goes into identity, and we're gonna get into identity today as well with all of this. So we're gonna get into the scripture right now and we have a lot to unpack.   Because the Bible has so many mentions of idolatry and so much content covering that we won't be getting into everything. I highly suggest you read into idolatry further on your own if you're not familiar with it. Idolatry gets as intense as infants burning, burning infants alive on the hands of statues and

offering children as sacrifices and other rituals, other pagan practices such as, I don't even wanna get into some of this stuff. So idolatry oftentimes does refer to a statue made of gold, silver, bronze, wood, stone, but it doesn't just have to be a statue. It could be just a false God represented in some other way as well.

Now we're gonna start in Ezekiel chapter 14 verses three through six. Again, all these quotes of Bible scripture will be coming from the new international version of the Bible. And it reads, son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I let them inquire of me at all?

Therefore, speak to them and tell them this is what the sovereign Lord says when any of the Israelites set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces, and then go to a prophet. I, the Lord will answer them myself in keeping with their great idolatry. I will do this to recapture the hearts of the people of Israel who have all deserted me for their idols.

And there's a couple things to unpack there I want to emphasize. Out of that wall of text, I just read you the key parts. Set up idols in their hearts. That's first and foremost. So the last lyric we read was, you gave me your heart. Now I'm here for your soul. This says right here that the idols are set up in their hearts, and that's really important.  being set up in their hearts means a lot of things. We're gonna get into handing over your desires, shaping the way you worship and think, and identity again. But I want to go to God talks about recapturing. The hearts of the people of Israel. So what does that mean? If he's recapturing it, it means their hearts are away from him.

They were given away, and the song literally says, you gave me your heart. That's why God has to recapture it because you gave your heart to what you are idolizing.  And again, God says all. Deserted me for their idols, who have all deserted me for their idols. That desertion speaks to the idol. The, the demons in this song are saying, no, I'm the only one right now.

The only one. Which means you have to abandon God. And even if you don't realize it, you can't have God and the idols, you will give up one for the other  in second Peter. Chapter two verse 19. It says, they promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of depravity for people or slaves to whatever has mastered them. Now, we're gonna look at that in partnership with verse Corinthians, chapter six, verse 12.  Now, that is about sexual immorality, but it expands beyond just sexual immorality that reads as.

I have the right to do anything you say, but not everything is beneficial. I have the right to do anything, but I will not be mastered by anything. So in partnership with Peter, we're talking about being mastered by something, being a slave to something. And while it seems like we're not being mastered by the idol, right, we're worshiping them or you know, however it may be in this thing, we're making them our idol.

But look at what it says. Keeping you in check, keeping you obsessed. I have your heart and your soul. What is that? Other than slavery and mastership, keeping you in check, keeping you obsessed, playing on repeat in your head, that is being mastered, that is being a slave. And there are more lyrics later on that further emphasize that.

So that is another danger of idolatry.  We're also going to jump to Jeremiah chapter two, verse five. This is what the Lord says. What fault did your ancestors find in me that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. Now first of all, idolatry aside, this is one of my favorite quotes in the Bible where God says, what fault did your ancestors find in me that they strayed so far from me?

I love it because we serve a perfect God and he says, what did I do wrong? And now I know a lot of people who would answer that saying, well, God, you, you gave people cancer. You made people slaves, you made genocide and. That's a different sermon on its own. But if you understand the Bible and know that God is a perfect morally righteous God, this should speak very deeply to you.

When he says, what fault did your ancestors find in me that they strayed so far from me? And when he is talking about this, he's talking about actually the people he saved from Egypt  is where he especially emphasizes those points oftentimes in other sections of the Bible. But our focus is gonna be the second part of that quote, which is they followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

This goes back to conversations we've had on how what you worship shapes your identity and what you strive for, what you believe in, what you align with. And so following worthless idols, you become worthless yourself. And so that's really important to keep in mind here and. You know, we'll talk more about that later on as we continue to go through the sermon, and I want to talk about most importantly, what I thought was a critical lyric, which was, anytime it hurts, play another verse.

This speaks directly to coping, not good coping skills. This is a bad coping behavior. This is, anytime it hurts, play another verse, right? Take another shot. Whether that's drugs or alcohol or, or go watch another pornographic video, whatever it may be. Whatever that comforting sin is. False comfort is false peace.

I just wanna put that out there. It may be comforting in a moment, but it leads to a path of destruction and death. It is sin. Now that is not to say that all drinking is sin, but when it is used in certain ways, it is sinful. Anytime it hurts. Play another verse that goes into enablement and comfort, right?

This idol is saying, every time you're in pain, I'm gonna take care of you. But where are we supposed to take our pain to God? But this idol is offering to take our pain for us offering a false sense of peace. This is everything. You'll see that as we continue to go throughout this song, everything that the idol is offering is counterfeit.

Of what God offers. It is, it's mirrors God, right? And, and that's what makes it harder to discern and to, and what makes it easier to become a victim of this. So I wanna put that out there. Anytime a herds play, another verse, and you look at what God said in Jeremiah, which is really amazing. My people have committed two sins.

They have forsaken me the spring of living water and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. And cisterns that are broken, cannot hold water. So what does that mean? Let's say it's broken in a small degree. The water's gonna slowly leak out.

If it's broken at big degree, it's gonna leak out fast. So what do you do when your broken cistern is leaking water? Well, in this example, what it means is you're gonna keep trying to fill it up. You're going to repeatedly try to fill it up. It's going to keep leaking up just like he says. Play another verse, play another verse, play another verse Every time it hurts, instead of fixing the problem.

Instead of root cause analysis, we're going to just use it as a coping behavior, a negative one, and continually try to fill this hole in our life. And that can only be done so with a healed sister, a Foley intact system, which is what God offers us. But these idols can only give us broken cisterns because they want us to come back for more.

They want us to continually. Be thirsty, right? They give you a broken sister and on purpose to lead you on, to keep you obsessed, to keep you in check, to keep you coming back. Every time you need to get that water,

 it will never be enough. And just along the lines of obsession. And needing to continually go back. I wanna look at Jonah, one of my favorite historical accounts in the Bible, Jonah chapter two, verse eight, where it says, those who clinging to worthless idols turn away from God's love for them. Let's go back to that third word clinging.

When you are clinging, you are holding tightly, desperately, or obsessively. And so that just further emphasizes, right? They're clinging to these ortho idol, they are turning away God's love for them.  Yeah, and I wanna go over some Hebrew words again, going back to in the song, the Demon Idol will say, I can be your sanctuary, which is what a lot of people are looking for.

Again anytime it hurts, play another verse. I can be your sanctuary. Sanctuary from that pain, from reality, whatever it may. But God is our sanctuary and should be our sanctuary. And there are a couple words used in the Old Testament in the Psalms they refer commonly to,

which is shelter, refuge, and then sanctuary, which is m. Which is a holy place or sanctuary and that's used a lot more in the temple and holy space language kind of field. But again, God, and I won't provide all the quotes here because there are a lot of them, especially in the Psalms, but many of the Psalms speak of God being a fortress, a refuge a tower

he is where we go for everything, right? He is our sanctuary. And so it's so important to remember that and you. Are supposed to have him first and foremost as your sanctuary. You're not supposed to lean on horses and chariots or foreign nations for help. He is your sanctuary. He is your warrior.  Moving along, I wanna get into what I personally consider.

The most important lyric of the song, this lyric is what inspired the sermon. Months ago when, someone had played this song for me. We were in the car driving and I was listening to this song and this lyric just like struck a chord in me and it goes as follows. I'm the only one who will love your sins.

Just, just, just take a step back for a moment. I'm the only one who will love your sins.

There's just so much there. We are not supposed to have our sins be loved. A lot of people nowadays want to preach that accountability is wrong, that we should accept each other. We should love one another. We should love , like Christ did.

But loving sinners and loving sin are two different things. We should hate sin. We should absolutely hate it. Philip Anthony Mitchell said it best. I hate. Because sin is the, the cause of everything evil in this world. Sin is what is destroying this world. It is what makes so many people upset with God because they say he allows sin.

 God loves us regardless of our sins. These idols, these demonic forces love us because of our sins. Uh, I wanna say that again. God loves us despite our sins, these idols love us because of our sins. Those are two very different things do you want someone to love you because of your bad habits, because of your failures?

Or do you want someone to love you? Despite them? They are two different kinds of loves. They place your values into two very different categories. One is your value, regardless of your failures. One is that your failures are your value, and so I think this particular lyric in this song is one of the most powerful ones because.

W we want to be loved for our sins  to a degree right now, you should want to be loved because of who you are, who your value is, despite your sins. But at the end of the day, there's a part of us in this human nature that says, love me for my sin, love my drinking, love my gambling, love my porn, viewing love my bad habits.

Enable them, let me do them with a guilt-free conscious. We want to be love for our sins. It enables them further, it takes away the guilt. It takes away the need to strive for better. It allows for settling and being a victim and doing what we want. It leans us into immorality and doing the things that our flesh craves that the spirit doesn't want to do.

And so I think this is one of the most powerful lyrics of this song.  Continuing on. It says, feel the way my voice gets underneath your skin. Listen, 'cause I'm preaching to the choir. Can I get the mic a little higher? Gimme your desire. I wanna focus on that. Feel the way my voice gets underneath your skin. It's so lyrically interesting to me because normally, normally when someone's voice is getting under your skin.

It's in a bad way. You are irritated. You are annoyed with them. It's like frustrating and aggravating, but the way this song does it is different. These are idols with soothing voices that people are adoring them for. They are making so much money because of their voices. That is their special talent.

This type of getting under your skin, the way they're singing it alongside the other lyrics in that context is intimacy. It's closeness. No one's voice gets as close to you as mine. That's what it's saying. And so that is so powerful because that competes with the intimacy God has with us. As Jesus Christ dwells within us, and God knows every part of our heart.

These demonic idols are pushing for this intimacy of their right underneath her skin. How close is that? I think from a lyrical perspective as a creator, I am really impressed when something is flipped on. Its normal case like that. So normally the way someone gets underneath your skin, it's like a bad thing in this way.

It's good. And I think preaching to the choir, you know, that emphasizes that all the people they're talking to, you know you're not alone. And it puts this emphasis on group mentality, which is really a huge factor in when people make decisions. Moving on. At the end of that, after he says, can I get the mic a little higher?

He says, give me your desire. Now this is so important. This is like, for lack of better words, The hook, right? Gimme your desire. The idol isn't asking for your whole life. It doesn't say gimme your soul right away, right? It starts with your desire, your heart, then your soul. It's a progression. It's a slow corruption.

Gimme your desire. Why? Because our desire is just like I was talking about how. We want to love our sins and have people love our sins and enable them our desires. We want to give them to people who are like, yes, I like your desires and I'm gonna take them further. That's what this idol is promising.

Gimme your desire because I'm gonna take it with you. I, I appreciate your desire. I love your desire. God doesn't say that. God says your desires might be wrong. They might not be in line with my will. You need to hand them over to me to get rid of. Or I have placed desires in your life for you to have to serve a higher calling.

The way desires are in the Bible with our relationship with God and the way they are with these idols are opposites. The idol is saying, be selfish. Your desires are your own, and here's what we're gonna do with them. I love them. God is saying, not everything you desire is. Good. Look at what James says.

James said that desire is what drags and entices, and it gives birth to sin because our desires are not always in alignment with the scripture. You know, the idol doesn't care whether they're aligned or not. The idol just wants you to feel enabled so that you get more dependent on them, so that you get more attached to them.

And we're gonna get into that later on because there's a lyric that emphasizes that. Paul said that greed is idolatry. Desires can lead to greed. Greed can feel desires, right? Again, it's not wrong to have desires and dreams, but it's are they in moral alignment with God's will, and are we surrendering them to God, right?

Surrendering to God or desires and giving them to the idol or different. When you say. I'm giving them to the idol. You're, you're enabling yourself. You're sharing them in a different way than surrender, which you do with God. And again, as we mentioned with Peter, whatever masters you makes you, it's slaves.

And the gospel is different. You know, delight in the Lord and he's gonna reform your desires instead of exploiting them like this idol was doing. Moving on. You know, a lot of the lyrics just kind of repeat some of the message that we've already heard, but I wanna focus on, I can be the star you rely on.

They even have it echoed back. You rely on, you know, I'm not gonna sing this song, but it's emphasized, right? Rely on me. Rely on me, rely on me. That's building that de, that dependency, that connection, right? You can't look away. That goes emphasizing the obsession. And then they say, don't you know I'm here to save you?

Again, that emphasis on the sanctuary, on the refuge, on the taking care of you. And then later on, fast forward through the lyrics, talking about, I'm gonna be your idol. I'm all you need. That's pulling you away from God, that goes to that desertion. I'm all you need. You don't need God. I can give you everything you want.

More than power. More than gold. Right. I can give gimme, gimme your desires, gimme your bad habits. Gimme your sin. I'm gonna enable all of them. I'm gonna make it all happen. I'm gonna keep you safe. Right? That's what it's saying. Don't you know I'm here to save you. It's false, it's misleading. They're not here to save you.

They are condemning you. They are bringing you into a life of structured and death and sin, and you don't even realize it. And throughout the song, they emphasize that. They say, I'm all you need. I'm here to save you, rely on me. And then. Again, they are exploiting us. It says, thank you for the pain 'cause it's got me going viral.

 They are flourishing from your pain and they are literally stating because at this point in the song, people are like enslaved to them, which literally happens in the movie when they sing this song, spoiler alert, the people literally lose control of their mind and becomes slaves just drawn to them.

Like the movie literally even shows what I'm preaching to you right now. It physically shows it happening in the movie, the people are enslaved. They hear the message, they're like, wow, I really love this. And then they lose themselves. So at this point in the song, Thedo are just telling the truth.

They don't even care anymore 'cause it's too late. You're already a slave. Thank you for the pain. 'cause it's got me going viral. And then it says, making you a believer, right? A believer of, of what not, of Christ, of, of the idol, the idolatry. And then later on, fast forward through the lyrics.

Your obsession feeds our connection. Korean lyrics, give me all your attention. You know, I'm the only one who will love your sins. Feel the way my voice gets underneath your skin. So what do we see? Your obsession feeds our connection. So it is glamorizing your obsession. It's saying, Hey, your obsession is making our connection better.

It's making us grow together. This is love. This is, this is equality. No, but that's how it's framing it, right? So it's glamorizing your obsession. Then it's saying, gimme all your attention, right? Because it's gonna feed our connection. So it's saying, your obsession feeds our connection. Gimme all your attention.

So it's forming a loop. You're gonna be trapped in. That's only gonna make you more dependent on them. And it says, you know, I'm the only one who will love your sins. So by the way, of course you're obsessing over me and giving me your attention and our connection. It's great because I love your sins. Feel the way my voice gets underneath your skin.

We have an intimacy that you don't have with anyone else, and so it's so powerful, these lyrics. Fast forward, fast forward through the lyrics. Don't you know I'm here to save you. Emphasize again, I'm all you need. I'm gonna be your idol. Living in your mind now. Too late. 'cause your mind now again, they're, they're even admitting it, right?

The, the demonic idols are admitting it. 'cause at this point it's too late in the song, people are already enslaved. It says, living in your mind now they are living there. That means they are there 24 7. They are influencing all of your thoughts to late as you're mine now, your mind, you gave me your heart and your soul.

I have captured them, says the demonic idol. And then the false promise, you know, to, to put it as a cherry on top, so to speak. I will make you free echo emphasis. I will make you free when you're all a part of me. This is, this is mass gathering, making people all come together in a community of demonic idolatry and it says, I will make you free.

Set you free. Free from what? Well, that could be so many things. God promises freedom in a different way. God's freedom comes with responsibilities, with accountability, with a lifestyle, with certain, uh, you know, things that we have to do and believe for that freedom. This is just, I will make you free. No strings attached.

You can sin, you can do what you want. You can chase your desires. I will make you free suggesting that when you are not serving this idol, you are not free. You're enslaved when you're not with this idol, when you're serving God that you are not free. And then to top it all off the final lyrics, fast forwarding to the final line, you're down on your knees.

I'm gonna be your idol. Mirroring directly the style most commonly used for people praying, which is on their knees, praying. And there also are a few Bible quotes that I didn't go over that I wanna just go back to. Which is Psalm 1, 1515. In the eighth line, it says, those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.

So again, going back to becoming a part of them, right, giving, they live in your mind, you gave them your heart and your soul. Those who make them will be like them. In reference to idolatry and idols. You will be like them. Your worship shapes your identity and who you are and your desires and what you do.

And I want to look at also Isaiah 44. It's a huge paragraph on the Lord, not idols, and it talks about idolatry, and we're gonna look at just a few verses from it because the whole thing is quite a read. But you look at  the ninth. Line says All who make idols are nothing in the things they treasure are worthless.

Those who would speak up for them are blind. They are ignorant to their own shame. So again, that blindness goes into that enslavement being mastered and not realizing and all the false deception. If we fast forward to the 18th line. They know nothing. They understand nothing. Their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see and their minds closed, so they cannot understand.

Again, this is just biblical scriptural proof, emphasizing everything I've said. So we're not gonna unpack it too much, except for in the 20th line it says A diluted heart misleads them, or in this case a diluted heart, misleads him 'cause they're referencing a specific person. But again, all of that, just to emphasize this.

Now again, my purpose of today's sermon wasn't to promote the song necessarily in a way that you do worship idolatry, right? This is an anti idolatry sermon, of course, because that is what we are called to in the Bible. I felt a calling because this sermon was something different that it. And again, I didn't do the sermon to hop on a popular bandwagon.

The, the hype around K-pop demon hunters has died by now. It's not dead, but it has died down significantly from when it first came out. It was, I heard the lyrics and they just spoke to me in a way like, wow, this is very well written because all these lyrics mirror the Bible. So whoever wrote this song. I don't know who did like for me, it was like, wow, they wrote this soul perfectly to be exactly as the Bible foretold and even have play on words that underneath your skin, the I'm a Be Your idol, that play on Word.

Not many people know about idols and idolatry in a biblical sense. So to have that play on words, and maybe it wasn't intentional, and if it wasn't, then this is just proof of, of God's power. I mean, this song lines up with so much biblical evidence and the lyrics match perfectly. And so I think. As a song that was made to be sung by demonic forces wanting to promote idolatry.

It did exactly that. I mean, it was perfect. And so I wanted to unpack those lyrics to use it as a time to teach about idolatry, especially for those who like K-pop demon hunters and don't know much about the Bible. I thought it was a cool branch over. So I hope you have enjoyed this sermon again, you know?

Not promoting idolatry, not promoting K-pop demon hunters. I think it's an interesting watch. It's a different type of movie. The animation style is unique. The way they emphasize certain things is unique and the storyline is genuinely wholesome. I think I. Some of the, there are themes of repentance and guilt and burden and control.

Like it did it, it was pretty good. And it does mirror a lot of things from the Bible, uh, pretty accurately that are happening in a world. The power of demonic forces, the influence they have over us, and the power of turning your life to Christ. Of course, God and Christ aren't in the movie at all, but you know, you can see themes of that represented through the light and dark and the good and evil, and so.

Again, I just wanted to unpack those lyrics and take a look at idolatry. I hope you have learned something new about idolatry or maybe you know you didn't know about it at all. One thing I will say as a takeaway is I want you to reflect on idolatry as more than just statues of copper, bronze, gold, stone, wood, whatever it may be.

What in your life is serving as an idol? Is there anything in your life that is promising the false promises we went over today? Is there anything in your life that is loving your sin or enabling you? Is there anything in your life that you're serving more than God? If so, how can you balance that out so you better serve God?

Or how can you get rid of that from your life? What is it? How can you hold yourself accountable? Again, song is in a description below and. In general, I'm not gonna give any passage to review because the whole Bible speaks on idolatry throughout it. But again, I would recommend starting with some of the chapters in historical accounts that we named today.

But God bless you and take care I.