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Joan Osborne sings a song that went all the way to #4 on the Billboard charts in 1995.
The song asks questions and ponders of all the different possible answers.
Beginning with the first question, if God had a name, what would it be?
Leading to the popular lyric that will try its best to get stuck in your head.
What if God was one of us?
Just a Slob like one of us, just a stranger on a bus.
These questions are not new and while they became popular 25 years ago, they are age old questions.
Who is God?
What do we imagine God to be?
How would we know God?
Why do so many people have so many different understandings of God?
And perhaps the greatest question, what does this have to do with the 10 commandments?
Let’s get ready to find out.
Today we turn to the second of the 10 laws as we continue our series on the 10 Commandments.
Our goal is to look at each of these commandments and learn of 4 specifics areas.
1st.
How does this Commandment reveal the Nature and Character of God.
What God calls us to do and be, reveals to us something about who God is.
God’s Character becomes evident in what God prioritizes.
2nd.
The Commandments tell us what God requires of us.
The commandments give us a roadmap to what is good, what is right,
It is a standard that we can view ourselves and the world around us through.
3rd.
Ten Commandments: Reveal our depravity (sin)
The ten commandments will reveal with crystal clear clarity something that is drastically wrong with not just the world,
But what is drastically wrong with ourselves.
4th.
Ten Commandments: Reveal our need of a Savior.
The ten commandments will point us, like everything in the old Testament is designed to do, to our need of a Savior.
Someone who can be, what we fail to be.
Someone who not only accomplishes each of the commandments perfectly, but fulfills them completely.
Also, we will be taking a look at a common misunderstanding or misrepresentation that arise.
This week we will talk the jealousy of God.
Specifically how people will try to paint God as an insecure deity who forces people to worship him.
Let’s begin with a quick recap of what we discovered last week as we began our series.
We started by asking ourselves what is a commandment.
And found that it is a divine authoritative order.
Thus a command from God Himself that we should follow.
We looked at the 1st commandment which is You shall have no other gods before me or besides me.
We saw that this is the over arching commandment in which all other commandments fall under.
Every commandment, including today, is based off of the 1st commandment.
We also discovered that this commandment comes after God has rescued and restored His people.
It is never a “You do this, and God will do that.”
If you are good enough, and worthy enough, and work enough, then God will do this, that, or the other.
It is God doing the work that we cannot due and then we are to live out God’s commands.
Not to earn freedom, but because we have been set free, we now freely get to live out God’s calling for our lives.
We are not saved by our works, we are saved to do good works.
We are not rescued because we obeyed, we are rescued so we can obey.
The Israelites were taken from an awful and harsh king, to a gracious, merciful, and glorious King.
Thus, God begins by telling them, they are not to have any other gods before or besides the one true God.
There was a so much in that first sermon that if you missed it, I highly encourage you to go to our youtube channel.
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Now it is time for us to move to the second of the 10 commandments.
Let us open our Bibles or turn them on if that is your preference to the 2nd book of the Bible.
Exodus chapter 20 verses 4-6
Let’s breakdown the meaning behind our text today and then we will look closer at our 4 points.
In context the Israelites were just rescued out of Egypt and away from the self-proclaimed god of Pharoah.
In Egypt they were to look at Pharoah as their God and thus why God says you shall have no other gods.
No lesser, false, made up gods, other than the one True God.
However, it wasn’t just Pharoah, the self-proclaimed god of Egypt, there were carved statues and carved images all over.
There was the worship of the sun and the moon.
There was all sorts of different made up gods for different reasons.
At the heart of the matter is the creation of an image or idol that represents who the individual believes is able to give them what they want.
If you want children, and have been unable to have children of your own, then you come up with who you think has this ability outside of yourself.
You then need to figure out how to commune with this entity in order to convince them to give you what you cannot do yourself.
This may mean sacrificing something to show your worthiness, giving honor and praise in hopes that this might be what this entity craves and thus responds with a positive answer.
At the root though is a selfishness to receive something.
This is done not just for children but for prosperity, for food, or any necessity.
This also isn’t just something that people did thousands of years ago.
This is something that people still do today.
Even when wanting to give praise and honor to the one true God.
People will be taught or think that if they just give a certain amount of money then God will give them what they desire.
Perhaps if they come to church enough times, then God will give them what they desire.
Deep down there may be those here today that subconsciously are sitting here today in hopes that your doing so is going to convince God to give you something that you want.
It is not about you bringing your will into alignment with God’s will, it is about you bringing God’s will into alignment with your will.
This is not only an incredibly wrong understanding of our God, but a very dangerous and destructive understanding.
So, this was all going on in Egypt and the chosen people of God were getting caught up in the culture of the day.
Thus when they were rescued out of it, they were given specific instructions not to make any carved images.
The heart of the reason for us to make these is out of selfish desires, but the heart of God is to be worshiped properly.
We see this as we look to the next verse.
The means of worship and insight into the worship of Idols is found in this verse.
Bowing in this manner and serving a deity is reserved for the true God alone.
The gods of the Egyptians were Creations and not the Creator, for instance they worshiped Sun and the Moon,
Instead of worshipping the Creator of the sun and the moon.
Or they would create an object that became the representation of that which they worshipped
Through the rescue of the Israelites and the 10 plagues brought upon Pharoah and His People, we see our Lord displaying His power and abilities during the exodus.
God is the God over all of Creation and all of Creation exists for God’s purposes.
Thus Israel is to refrain from crafting an image of anything in heaven or on earth, because these are creations of God and not God Himself.
Why is this to be followed?
We see that answered next in our verse.
Let’s look to the second part of the verse, now.
We are to follow this divine authoritative order because our God is a jealous God.
Which leads us to our first misconception and misunderstanding that people will often bring up when discussing the 10 commandments.
People will try to convince us that because God is jealous He is an insecure egomaniac who is not worthy of worship.
So, is this true?
Is this the right understanding?
I’m pretty sure all of us here would be like, “No, that is incorrect, God is not an insecure egomaniac.”
But do you know why?
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