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No one likes law…except lawyers!
NOT quite true...
Like law for others.
Law restrains evil in Soc.
NOT quite true.
Like law for others.
Law restrains
Like law for ourselves.
Some stuff parents asked you to do when young.
Look back and say, ‘Glad I obeyed…or Wish I’d obeyed.’!
BUT, want to pick and choose.
We obey traffic lights so we don’t crash, but take speed limits with a pinch of salt bcs we think we won’t crash.
We obey, if it suits us.
We pick and choose.
Here’s the PROBLEM.
The God of the Bible demands exclusive loyalty.
That’s what C1 is about, ‘You shall have no other gods besides me.’
The ‘you’ there is (s).
This concerns everyone.
As if God has spoken to each of us by name.
Of course, this is only fair.
God is our Creator.
He gives us every breath and every beat of our hearts.
Ho owns us.
And if we’re Xn he owns us twice over.
He rescued us.
Just like he rescued Israel from Egypt; he has rescued us.
Not by the blood of a Passover Lamb and through the Red Sea; with the precious blood of his lamb-like Son and through the waters of Baptism.
We are doubly-owned.
All hate rules and regulations.
Law is something which ‘cramps our style’.
It’s restrictive and burdensome.
The only ppl who like Law are Lawyerss.
But that’s not quite true is it?
But that’s not quite true is it?
And J comes and says, ‘Follow me.’
How do we do that?
What will it look like?
We like law for others.
It keeps them in check.
It stops them behaving like savages.
Puts limits on the chaos out there.
It restrains those would otherwise steal and kill and do us harm.
Our PROBLEM is bigger than we dreamed.
Just look at C1. It’s asking for total commitment, exclusive loyalty and wholehearted love.
We like law for ourselves.
It makes our lives safer and more pleasant.
The Highway Code, for example.
Traffic lights.
They enable us to get where we’re going without crashing or being jammed up at a crossroads like in those superhero films where the villain makes all the lights turn green at the same time.
When an expert in the Law tried to test J and asked: ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’
Jesus replied: ‘ “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
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And perhaps with the wisdom of age we look back at the rules that our parents set us. “Be in by midnight”.
“Don’t hang out with the wrong crowd”.
“Work hard at school”.
Sure, we resented them at the time, but now we look back and think, ‘I’m glad I obeyed’ or, ‘If only I’d obeyed.
36 ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’
What do we make of the 10Cs?
Do they have any value for us today?
37 Jesus replied: ‘ “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
God’s ppl, Israel, were in a miserable state - enslaved by the Egyptians.
Working day after day with no pay, no benefits, no contracts.
And God heard their cries and brought them of Egypt by the blood of the Passover Lamb and through the Red Sea, defeating Pharaoh and their enemies.
And now they have come to Mt Sinai and God speaks to them these words, these 10Cs.
J says C1 is about love.
Let’s unpack what that means by taking a look from 3 angles/perspectives.
Love includes our allegiance, affections, and actions.
And God has done that for his ppl today.
We were in a miserable state, enslaved to sin and Satan and the fear of death, and God heard our cries and brought us out by the blood of Jesus and through the waters of baptism.
And now we have come to J and he says, ‘Follow me!’
C1 is a call to exclusive loyalty.
God says, ‘No rivals.
Be loyal.’
Let’s think through what that means from 3 angles: allegiance, affection, and action.
The Holy Bible: New International Version (Anglicised Edition, 2011).
(2011).
(Revised and updated edition, ).
London: Hodder & Stoughton.
We can look at what it means to love God, to obey C1, from 3 angles: allegiance, affection, and action.
The 1st and most important way we can be distinctive is C1.
C1 is a call to exclusive loyalty.
God says, ‘No rivals.
Be loyal.’
Let’s think through what that means from 3 angles: allegiance, affection, and action.
Allegiance
You might have noticed there was a wedding yesterday: What Megan think if next week Harry brought home another women and said, ‘Here’s my girlfriend.
I want her to move in’?
If she’s got any sense she’d run keys down the side of his Bentley and shred his Armani suits with scissors!
And then scream: ‘It’s me or her!’
And she should!
Why? Bcs that’s what marriage is.
It’s an exclusive covenant commitment.
That’s the essence of it, exclusivity.
The LORD deserves nothing less.
When he says, ‘You shall have no other gods before me’.
He’s saying, ‘Just 1 God.
Just me.
No rivals’.
Remember what J said in ?
Literally, he’s saying, ‘No idols, no statues to other gods.’
Metaphorically he’s saying, ‘No split allegiances.
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