1st commandment AWANA

1st commandment

09/11/2024

Tonight we start talking about the 10 commandments

Jesus has this to say about the law or the 10 commandments as we know it

Matthew 22:35–40 (NASB95)

35One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him,

36“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”

37And He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

38“This is the great and foremost commandment.

39“The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

40“On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”

I think it is interesting that one of them asks the question

Like maybe trying to puffying out his chest

But anyway this guy asks Jesus a question and Jesus’s answer gives us that yes we are to follow those commandments even today

We have heard it before and probably done sermons on these but we know the greatest and the second commands

What are they?

And Jesus ends with that those 2 sum up the whole law and the prophets message through out the old testament

Jesus knew the law and knew what the Jewish people did in adding to the law

And so He took the 10 commandments the law and summed it up with the 2 commands

As we go through this study you will see how the 10 commandments fit into either one of those commands given by Jesus

We will also see how Jesus took the law and translated it from the physical to a matter of the heart now and thus convicting us all guilty of breaking the law

This evening we start with commandment number 1

Exodus 20:1–3 (NASB95)

1Then God spoke all these words, saying,

2“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

3“You shall have no other gods before Me.

At first glance you and I are to have no other gods before God who is also called Yeawah

Why do you think that is the first commandment?

So before we get to this lets start at the beginning

God called Abraham to leave his fathers house and promised he would make a great nation through Abraham

Abraham has 2 sons, one of which is the promised son

Issac has 2 sons, Jacob and Esau

Jacob has 12 sons and gets a name change to Israel

Thus the nation of Israel

Jacobs sons sell their brother into slavery because he was favored by his dad

Joseph goes down to Egypt and works his way up to the number 2 person in the county only second to Pharoah himself

Joseph is so favored that his family comes down to Egypt and Pharoah gives the the choice of land

Then there arose in Egypt who didn’t know who Joseph was

The nation of Israel had become so great that Pharoah got scared and thought if they revolt they will win

God saves Moses and calls him to lead His chosen people out of slavery and into the promise land

After about 400 yrs of slavery the nation is all alone in the wilderness

God needs to give them laws, and rules to govern themselves by

These laws would how they would learn to walk with God

What are some ways or how did you learn to walk with God?

This is the first one God gives them

Its simple yet often so difficult to accomplish

Just like the Nation of Israel was to have no other Gods we are to have no other Gods

Do we have other Gods?

What are some of our other Gods today?

For us its not about the golden calves that we have but don’t we have other Gods

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This is not a study on how bad football or sports are

Sports are great

But anything that takes the place of God in our lives is an idol

And peeps we are to have no other gods before God