Promises For the Future Exodus 23:23-33

Sermon Outline

Demand For Faithful Relationship

Prohibition

Don’t Bow Down to Their gods 24a---Having an unlawful relationship with other gods (adultery)

Don’t Serve their gods 24b---Using God’s gifts for Satan’s agenda

Don’t Conform to their lifestyle 24c---Don’t adopt the worlds system which is opposite of God’s system

Don’t Compromise with their offers 24d---Satan will seek to make deals with you

Demand For a Faithful Relationship vs.24 “Prohibition”

Don’t Bow Down to Their gods vs.24a

Having an Unlawful Relationship (adultery)---Lev.17:7 “And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.”

self-made god Ex.32:1 “And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.”

God that you can order around---Tell him and he does it

Giving God’s Affections to another---1st on God’s list to Israel was to have no other God. Ex.34:13-17 “But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.”

Don’t Serve Their gods vs.24b

Using God’s gifts to promote Satan’s Agenda—James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” Ps.68:18 “Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: Thou hast received gifts for men; Yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them.” Prov.18:16 “A man’s gift maketh room for him, And bringeth him before great men.” 1 Pet.4:10 “As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.”

Don’t Conform to their Lifestyle vs.24c

Don’t Adopt the World’s System which is Opposite of God’s System Romans 12:1-2 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Rom.8:29 “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.” Phil.3:10 “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;”

Don’t Compromise with Their Offers vs.24d

Satan will Seek to Make Deals With You vs.24d—Matt.4:1-10 “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give …”