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INTRODUCTION:
Can you name all the Ten Commandments.
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Big Mac vs.
Ten Commandments
How many of The Ten Commandments can you name?
in 2007 a survey was commissioned by the Ten Commandments Commission in the lead up to the October 19 release of animated movie “The Ten Commandments”
Put to the test, Americans recalled the seven ingredients of a McDonald’s Big Mac hamburger
and members of TV’s “The Brady Bunch”
more easily than the Bible’s Ten Commandments.
The survey found 80 percent of 1,000 respondents
could name the burger’s primary ingredient -- two all-beef patties --
but less than six in 10 knew the commandment “thou shalt not kill.”
Less than half of respondents -- 45 percent -- could recall the commandment “honor thy father and mother”
but 62 percent knew the Big Mac has pickle.
Bobby and Peter, the least recalled-names from the fictional Brady Bunch family, were remembered by 43 percent of respondents --
topping the 34 percent who knew “remember the Sabbath”
and 29 percent recalling “do not make false idols.”
Though most people know about the Ten Commandments, few can actually enumerate them.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bible-commandments/americans-know-big-macs-better-than-ten-commandments-idUSN1223894020071012
Turn to Exodus 19 it is found on Page 72 in the black Pew Bible.
So what are the Ten words
What are the Ten Words?
Let’s remember where the Ten Commandments fall in the Bible story.
In Genesis 1-2, God created everything.
He created the universe, the earth, animals, plants and human beings.
Only humans beings were created in the image of God.
In Genesis 3, our forefathers, Adam and Eve, sinned against God by violating the one thing they were not to do.
They ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Their sin brought judgment and death to the human race and to the entire universe.
Adam and Eve began to die.
For the first time, creation began the cycle of life followed by death.
All death and suffering in this world, not just for us but for the entire universe, came about from Adam and Eve’s sin.
Their son Cain murdered his own brother.
He began a downward spiral into sin that was so bad God decided to wiped out the entire planet by a flood.
God only saved Noah and his family.
Noah and the ark are a picture of God’s heart to show undeserved grace in the midst of fully deserved judgment.
After the flood, in Genesis 12, Noah’s family began populating the earth.
Eventually, God spoke to a man named Abraham and called him to go to the Promised Land.
God also promised that his descendants would be as many as the stars in the heavens and that through them all the nations of the earth would be blessed.
Abraham had a son named Isaac who had a son named Jacob.
Jacob had 12 sons.
Ten of those sons hated Jacob’s favorite son — a young man named Joseph.
They sold him into slavery in Egypt.
Through an incredible story of God’s providence, God raised Joseph to second in command of Egypt.
God then used Joseph to save his parents and his wicked brothers from a worldwide famine.
This family went to Egypt as 70 in number but after 400 years, they grew to be a nation of several million.
A pharaoh came to power that didn’t remember Joseph’s greatness and all he had done for Egypt.
He despised the Jews.
He enslaved and oppressed them in horrific ways.
While their lives were falling apart, God’s plan was in perfection position.
All of this was part of God’s plan to save them.
In that time, Moses was born.
He was born as a Jew but raised as an adopted son of Pharaoh’s daughter.
One day, in anger, he murdered an Egyptian slave master who was beating a Hebrew.
He was forced to run for his life.
He spent the next 40 years in the wilderness tending sheep until God spoke to him from a burning bush telling him to go back to Egypt and lead his people to freedom.
Moses obeyed and God sent 10 plagues on Egypt, which finally convinced the pharaoh to let God’s people go.
After miraculously watching the Red Sea part so God’s people could cross on dry ground,
the Israelites watched the armies of Pharaoh drown when they tried to take the same path.
The Red Sea flooded over them.
God led his people back to the mountain where he first spoke to Moses from a burning bush, Mt.
Sinai.
There, God entered into a covenant with his people.
He would be their God, and they would be his people.
This covenant had certain stipulations; we call them laws.
While there are a total of 613 of them; the most famous ones are the Ten Commandments.
Let’s read how things unfolded as God prepared to give these laws to his people.
Exodus 19:16–25 (ESV)
16 On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
17 Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain.
18 Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire.
The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly.
19 And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder.
20 The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain.
And the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
21 And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to look and many of them perish.
22 Also let the priests who come near to the Lord consecrate themselves, lest the Lord break out against them.”
23 And Moses said to the Lord, “The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for you yourself warned us, saying, ‘Set limits around the mountain and consecrate it.’
” 24 And the Lord said to him, “Go down, and come up bringing Aaron with you.
But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the Lord, lest he break out against them.”
25 So Moses went down to the people and told them.
This wasn’t the burning bush Moses first experienced.
This was a burning mountain.
This was a terrifying scene.
The people were shaking with fear.
The entire mountain was shaking and burning with God’s presence.
When Moses spoke, God answered him in thunder.
Multiple times God warned Moses not to let the people come to the mountain and not to let the priests approach without being properly consecrated.
If the people approached the mountain they would die.
This was serious business.
The whole purpose of this scene was to strike awe and fear into God’s people.
They needed to understand the God that loved them and saved them.
They needed to understand how serious it was to be God’s people.
They needed to understand how seriously they had to take God’s laws for their lives.
The Ten Commandments would not be suggestions.
The awesomeness of this scene was a reminder for God’s people to not take God and hHis laws casually.
Then, God gave the Ten Commandments.
Let us recite them together.
1.
You shall have no other gods before me
2.
You shall not make for yourself an idol...
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