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This commandment prohibits making and worshiping Idols, many people today think that this commandment only prohibits the worship of idols and Gods.
But the major issue is few today worship these types of Gods, so people think this commandment is irrelevant to modern life. However, the command is not only relevant to modern life it is the mother of all the other commandments
Today we have as many if not more false Gods as the ancients did we must identify false Gods and avoid worshiping them.
if there is one God there is one human race, if there are many Gods there are also many human races. and no person or group is better
But the major issue is few today worship theese types of Gods so people think this comandment is irelevent to modern life. However the comand is not only relevent to modern life it is the mother of all the other comandments
In addition, one God means we have one moral standard for everyone we can’t go to another god for another moral standard when anything else is worshiped terrible exalts exist
education for example is important but if it becomes our God it can lead and has led to evil most of Hitlers supporters were highly educated people
Today we have as many if not more false Gods as the ancients did we must identify flase Gods and avoid worshiping them.
if there is one God there is one human race, if there are many Gods there are also many human races. and no person or group is better
In addition one God means we have one moral standard for everyone we cant go to another god for another moral standard when anything elce is worshiped terrible exaults exist
education for example is importent but if it becomes our God it can lead and has led to evil most of Hitlers supporters were highly educated people
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 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, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 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,
1 Then God spoke all these words: 2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.
6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Introduction
Introduction
This commandment prohibits making and worshiping Idols, many people today think that this commandment only prohibits the worship of idols and Gods.
But the major issue is few today worship these types of Gods, so people think this commandment is irrelevant to modern life. However, the command is not only relevant to modern life it is the mother of all the other commandments
But the major issue is few today worship these types of Gods, so people think this commandment is irrelevant to modern life. However, the command is not only relevant to modern life it is the mother of all the other commandments
Today we have as many if not more false Gods as the ancients did we must identify false Gods and avoid worshiping them.
Today we have as many if not more false Gods as the ancients did we must identify false Gods and avoid worshiping them.
if there is one God there is one human race, if there are many Gods there are also many human races. and no person or group is better
In addition, one God means we have one moral standard for everyone we can’t go to another god for another moral standard when anything else is worshiped terrible exalts exist
education for example is important but if it becomes our God it can lead and has led to evil most of Hitlers supporters were highly educated people
7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
II. You Shall not make v.4
II. You Shall not make v.4
A. A Carved image
The letteral meaning here is something that is hacked or chiseled into some likeness.
The idea being anything man made is implicitly forbidden
This command includes images of the one true God. all of the nations around Israel had idols of their God’s
remember how the Israelites wanted a king because all the nations around them had a king, would it not be likely that they would also want an image of their God
Some have argued that the cherubim above the ark of the covenant were such images, but they were not objects of worship as much as symbols of the angelic beings serving God. and because the cherubim was permitted the prohibition of the image refers only to making the direct objects of worship not the representation of any living object as is sometimes understood.
-The litteral meaning here is something that is hacked or chiselled into some likness.
B. Make anything or any likeness of anything
a.) that is in heaven above
-THe idea being anything man made is implicitly forbidden
b.) earth Beneath
-This comand includes imagis of the one true God. all of the nations around isrel had idols of their God’s and rember how the Isrelites wanted a king because all the nations around them had a king, would it not be lickly that they would also want a image of their God
17 “You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.
-Some have argued that the charibim above the ark of the covenent were such images, but they were not objets of worship as much as symbols of the angelib beings serving God. and because the charibim was permitted the prohibition of the image reffers only to making the direct objects of worship not the representation of any living object as is sometimes understood.
c.) that is in the water under the earth
B. Make anything or any likeness of anything
B. Make anything or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or earth Beneath., or that is in the water under the earth.
-Many Idols existed and God Wanted to be sure within the 10 commandments that no loopholes were left that would allow any worship of anything other than Him
a.)that is in heaven above
So how do we apply this?
b.) earth Beneath
c.) that is in the water under the earth
-Many Idols existed and God Wanted to be sure within the 10 comandments that no loopholes were left that would allow any worship of anything other than Him
So how do we apply this?
Do we worship the way we do Church
a. The music we use
b. When we meet
c. How we dreess
d. What Bible is preached from
Do we worship the past
a. The way we used to do things
Do we worship our building
a. How we decorate
b. What we use it for
a.) cant it be used for things other than worship
III. You shall not bow down v. 5-6
III. You shall not bow down v. 5-6
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, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
A. You shall not bow down to them or serve them
B. The Lord is a Jealous God
Jelosey here does not refer to emotion as much as it does activity. In this passage the activity this is not to be seen as intolerance, but rather inexcusability. The idea being God is not one of many he does not share His Authority with any other god
No husband who loves his wife would share her with another man the same is true with God
C. visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
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D. but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
B. The Lord is a Jelous God
God will punish those who do not conform to His will, but the negative aspect is only a frame for the positive.
Rember the test of loving God is to keep His commandments this shows that God will take care of those who love him and keep his commandments
-Jelocy here does not refer to emotion as much as it does activity. In this passage the activity this is not to be seen as inolerence, but rather inexclusitivity. The idea being God is not one of many he does not share His Authority with any other god
We do not show God that we love Him in any way but by keeping his commandments
-No husband who loves his wife would share her with another man the same is true with God
So how do we apply this
C. visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Keep God’s commandments
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D. but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Reserve our worship for God and only God, He does not share.
-God will punish those who do not conform to His will but the negitive aspect is only a frame for the positive.
-Rember the test of loving God is to keep His comandments this shows that God will take care of those who love him and keep his comandments
-We do not show God that we love Him in any way but by keeping his comandments
So how do we apply this
Keep God’s comandments
Reserve our worship for God and only God, He does not share.
IV. Application
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
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,
6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.