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Hey, Joe.

Haha.

Oh really, that's a good time to tell him kind of warm.

Anyway, probably warm up.

Well good evening, you are here tonight.

It's good to be back.

In the Lord's House, we do this twice a week and I look forward to Wednesday night's.

I know a lot of churches don't have service anymore on Wednesday night, but I just always thought that Wednesday night is a good.

Get me through the week night, you know, when we come to church.

So, So we're glad that you are here.

I was going to tell everyone.

We had some visitors, this past Sunday.

If you remember the family, and I was in contact with him this week and the family, the set there in the back.

He said that they really enjoyed the service and that they have as far as this coming Sunday, goes its going to be the last message on the church's even though we've already finished all the churches, I'm going to do one message on Revelation 4 and it's in the stalking about the church in heaven.

What's the church going to be doing in heaven when the Rapture occurs?

So I thought that would be a good final message in that and a couple of Wednesday night's, we're going to start doing our financial system.

And on the second Sunday of October, we're going to start on Sunday morning, a new series on finances as well.

So they all kind of work together on Sunday, morning, and Wednesday night.

So you being you being prayer for that.

We hadn't talked about finances and money.

At least I haven't here while I've been here.

At new Grace but the Bible speaks a whole lot about money and what it can do and how to use it in tithing and things like that.

So we're going to go over some of that.

Well tonight, what I want to do and this is the title of my message.

God's love written on Stone.

You said what what in the world is that all about well is Exodus 20 verse 1, through 17.

And tonight I'm going to preach a sermon on the Ten Commandments.

Now we don't talk about the Ten Commandments a whole lot anymore and if you think of it to yourself, when's the last time you talked to somebody about the Ten Commandments most time we talked about maybe something Jesus said, you know, his teaching in the New Testament.

But very rarely, do, we talk about the Ten Commandments?

Now here's what I'm going to do at some point in time, I'm going to do a series on the Ten Commandments and we're going to take each command.

And I'm going to do one message on the 8th commandment, but this is not it tonight tonight.

I want to do an overview.

And what I want to do tonight is to show you.

I believe that in the Bible, the Ten Commandments, the way to look at it is God's love letter to us.

So how many of you would think of the Ten Commandments as a love letter by shalt?

Not Thou shalt not, don't do this, don't do that.

That doesn't sound like a love letter.

But it is a love letter because God knows what he's good for us.

And if you love someone, you going to tell them the truth and you going to tell them what's good for them.

And that's what he's done to us.

And I've talked to people through the years and and tried to witness and in a lot of people think that church or that Christianity is just a bunch of rules and regulations from a God who sits up in heaven and every time you mess up, he takes your name down and he's just trying to make you miserable on Earth by giving you all these rules so that you can enjoy life and have fun.

That's the way a lot of people.

Look at Christianity.

Now if that was true,

I can see why people wouldn't turn to Christianity, but the fact is that's just not the way it is.

I've never considered the Ten Commandments, they were given by God not as a curse.

But as a blessing, Ten Commandments was given, so that Israel would be blessed.

They were given.

So that is rolling and even ourselves we would have a successful life not a miserable life.

The Ten Commandments I think is a love letter.

It's one of the most really powerful expressions of God's love and all of scripture.

It touches virtually every part of our life.

There's parameters to live B rules to live by.

Blessing and strength can be had a bright future and a hope.

You sure.

And I think that's a wonderful summary.

And that's why I entitled this God's love or God's love carved or written on Stone.

So, here's what I want to do tonight.

We're going to have 10 points and what that is is each commandment and I want to talk a little bit about it and how that commandment shows God's love.

So let's go to commandment number one that we're in Exodus chapter 20, Second book of the Bible, Exodus chapter 20 commandment number one in.

This is what I call the fundamental rule right now let's look at it and verses 1 through 3 God spoke.

All these words saying I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage.

Now here's the first commandment you shall have no other gods before me.

Now why is this the fundamental commandment?

Not?

Well, not just because its first but because it's the foundation of all the other command.

And look what he says.

He says I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt and out of bondage, will remember, they were in bondage for how many years was about four hundred years, they were in bondage in Egypt.

The Lord says, I'm the one who brought you out.

So even before giving the Commandment to Moses, His love has already been seen by, how he brought them out of bondage, and the Commandments were a continuation of a love that begin with God's promise to Abraham that he would be the father of a great nation.

Now, remember about Egypt Egypt was and idolatrous Nation.

And the Hebrew slaves, let us fled there and they were going to Canaan will Canaan was even worse than Egypt.

They were a worse idolatrous Nation.

So this first commandment is a message that the Israelites could have the one true God.

If they embrace them, they look what he says.

And you shall have no other gods before me and other words, if they would embrace the one true God, God was shower them with love and blessing and he promised to lead them into the promised land.

God doesn't want to be first among many gods.

He wants to be the only God in your life.

Just like it was Israel.

He said that's why I said verse 3, you have no other gods before me because I'm the one true God and we have to be careful about that ourselves.

So only the Living God has power to speak these words of truth, only the Living, God can save, Sinners, only the Living.

God knows your needs and is able to meet your needs.

To heal you to answer your prayer.

No, idle can do that.

Did you know that?

No Idle, No. Wooden statue can do that.

You say what?

People don't pray to a wooden statue where they do in some countries, they do it.

So only the one true God can do that.

So it was an act.

I think about this, it was an act of love for God.

To limit his people.

To the only God who could care for them and that was him.

That was an act of love when he told them, you should have no other gods.

Before me, all the gods of Egypt, all the gods of the Canaanites and all he said don't pay attention to them.

That's an act of love because he's the only true God anyway if God had allowed his people to worship whatever God they wanted they would have no Divine help.

Since other gods are lifeless just objects of wood and stone.

They would have no help.

So that's an act of love.

When he tells us to depend on him that is an act of love.