1 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:08,760 All right, good morning. Let's go to Exodus chapter 19 is 2 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,320 where we're going to start Exodus chapter 19. 3 00:00:16,980 --> 00:00:20,660 And Emma just turned 12 yesterday. 4 00:00:20,660 --> 00:00:24,300 So I'm not quite there with what pastors talking about with 5 00:00:24,300 --> 00:00:26,860 phones and things like that, but we have already looked into it 6 00:00:27,620 --> 00:00:30,060 for when the time comes and there's just, if you're 7 00:00:30,060 --> 00:00:33,720 interested, there are a lot of options out there because 8 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:36,160 especially once your kid starts driving and things like that, I 9 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:39,320 still use the GPS. So I imagine the kids would need 10 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:41,120 them and things like that. And there are there are 11 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:45,320 subscriptions and particular phones out there that you can 12 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:50,680 completely the parents have complete control of what apps 13 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:52,240 and different things go on the phones. 14 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,880 It's starts off with just the basic is just phone calls and 15 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:59,680 text messages and you can even limit the contact list to who 16 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:01,560 they can text. If they don't, if that number is 17 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:03,720 not in their phone, it doesn't even come through to them and 18 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:05,960 things like that. So there are lots of options 19 00:01:05,960 --> 00:01:08,000 that the phone itself is not the problem. 20 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:10,000 It's what they can access through the phone. 21 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,720 And if you can control that and help them, then, you know, phone 22 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:16,600 having a phone is not particularly the issue. 23 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:18,680 And I and me and pastor have talked about that. 24 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,680 But there are lots of options out there if your kids are 25 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,120 getting to that age and and you want to look into that. 26 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:28,400 But Exodus chapter 19 Well, thank you for some of have asked 27 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,440 about my back. It's it's just something I'm 28 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,240 dealing with now just like anybody else that has an injury 29 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,680 or anything else. And then when we went on the 30 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,920 camp out, I had in my mind I'm not going to do anything crazy. 31 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:43,160 The hike I'll probably skip. I ended up playing flag football 32 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,560 and going up a hike that probably none of us had any 33 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,040 business being on with the boulders and everything else. 34 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,560 So anyways, I'm paying for it a little bit, but I am doing just 35 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:54,760 fine. So Exodus chapter 19, we're 36 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:56,160 going to read verses one through 8. 37 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:00,120 Remember we started a new series called Mountains and Valleys and 38 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:04,280 we are in the mountains right now and we're going to look at a 39 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:06,480 second one this morning. We're going to look at Mount 40 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:08,639 Sinai, but I'm going to read our text and then we're going to 41 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:12,640 pray and get into this lesson. Exodus chapter 19 and verse one. 42 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:14,920 We'll read verses one through 8 it says. 43 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:17,720 And in the third month when the children of Israel were gone 44 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:21,760 forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the 45 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:25,520 wilderness of Sinai, for they were departed from Refidim and 46 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,240 were come to the desert of Sinai and had pitched in the 47 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:30,920 wilderness. And there Israel camped before 48 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:34,000 the mount, and Moses went up in unto God. 49 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,520 And the Lord called unto him out of the mountains, saying, Thus 50 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,840 shalt thou say to the House of Jacob, and tell the children of 51 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:42,720 Israel, You have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I 52 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,800 bear you on eagle's wings, and brought you unto myself. 53 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,560 Now therefore, if you will keep, if you will obey My voice 54 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,880 indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar 55 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,800 treasure unto unto Me above all people, For all the earth is 56 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,040 mine, and you should be unto me a Kingdom of priests and an holy 57 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,520 nation. These are the word which which 58 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:05,440 thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. 59 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,200 So he was talking to Moses that whole time. 60 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:09,600 And verse 7. And Moses came and called for 61 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,800 the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all 62 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:14,720 these words which the Lord commanded him. 63 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,480 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the 64 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:22,360 Lord has spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of 65 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:26,240 the people unto the Lord. Let's pray and then we'll get 66 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,080 into this lesson. Father, I thank you for this day 67 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,120 you've given us. Thank you for the opportunity we 68 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,480 have to open your word. God, I pray we would never take 69 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:35,680 that for granted. Every single week, multiple 70 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:39,320 times a week, we come in and we are able to open your word and, 71 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:42,760 and glean from it and God, and there are other places that do 72 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:47,920 that under, under the threat of, of real harm and from their 73 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:49,000 governments and different things. 74 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,360 So God, I pray that we would just take these privileges that 75 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,800 we have to do that and be thankful for them. 76 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,480 And God, I just pray as we open your word today that you would 77 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,280 feed us from it both this morning here in Sunday school, 78 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,520 but also in the in the service to follow in Jesus name, I pray, 79 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:07,320 Amen. Now I was reading through here 80 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:12,240 because you start to get in OK. And in Exodus chapter 20, we're 81 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:17,240 going to skip the rest of chapter 19, but it talks about 82 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:21,640 the the instructions from God to Moses saying, look, don't let 83 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:23,600 the people get too close. They touch them out and I'm 84 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,920 going to kill them. And so then you get to chapter 85 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,680 20 and we all know what chapter 20 is. 86 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,320 That's the 10 commandments. But I got to looking at it and 87 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:38,800 you know, very quickly. So you had in verse 8, verse 7, 88 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,640 and Moses came and called for the elders and laid before their 89 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:43,480 faces all the words which the Lord had commanded. 90 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,560 This is in chapter 19 and verse 8, all the people answered 91 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,560 together. This is the leaders, the elders 92 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,080 and said all that the Lord has spoken we will do. 93 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,040 And by chapter 32, they got a golden calf. 94 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:57,880 So I got to looking at that. And that's not the point of this 95 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:00,800 lesson this morning. But how did that happen so 96 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:02,960 quickly? Well, you have in chapter 97 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:08,360 2020120223 all the way to chapter 32, when Moses comes 98 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,080 back down the mountain, that's him. 99 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,800 That's God giving the law to Moses. 100 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,640 That's what that is and so if you read through there chapter 101 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,200 23, just jump right in. Thou shalt not raise a false 102 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:21,880 report. Put not thine hand with the 103 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:24,720 wicked to be an to be an unrighteous witness. 104 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:26,920 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil. 105 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,160 Verse chapter 24 he said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord, 106 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,160 thou and Aaron and Nadab and abaya and 70 of the elders of 107 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,200 Israel and worship you far off. Moses alone shall come near the 108 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,360 Lord, but thou shalt not come thine neither shall the people 109 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:41,640 go up with him. Moses came and told the people 110 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:46,600 all those words and then God gives him some more law and, and 111 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,200 all the way through these these 1012 chapters, we have God 112 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:52,960 giving Moses the law of what was supposed to happen. 113 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,960 And no wonder what Moses is up there for 40 days and 40 nights 114 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,800 talking to God. He comes down and they've got a 115 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,160 golden calf, exactly what God just told them not to do. 116 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:05,680 Now they didn't have the 10 commandments yet. 117 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:11,280 But remember in chapter 19 he says, if you will obey my voice 118 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:13,240 and keep my covenant, and you should, then you'll be a 119 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,560 peculiar treasure unto me above all people. 120 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,560 And verse 8, all the people answered together and said all 121 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,200 that the Lord has spoken we will do. 122 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,800 And literally 40 days later they've got a golden calf and 123 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,680 they're worshipping it. So no wonder Moses was so 124 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,360 frustrated and crushes those tosses, those, those 10 125 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,240 commandments that were written on it and breaks them and makes 126 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,600 them eat the golden calf literally that he grounded up. 127 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,320 But we want to look real quickly at Mount Sinai then. 128 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:44,640 So this this whole chapters 19 through 32, roughly what was the 129 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,520 significance of Mount Sinai? And we're going to jump straight 130 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:50,280 into this. But you know, the 10 131 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:53,880 commandments that we have is really a summary of about 600 132 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,680 plus commands that the law had given the children of Israel. 133 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,200 So the 10 commandments were not the only thing they had to 134 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,920 follow. Now remember in the New 135 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,800 Testament when the, when the rich young ruler comes to Christ 136 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,240 and says, I've kept all those commandments. 137 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,320 He didn't keep all 600 and whatever commandments that that 138 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:16,280 God had given to Moses, but he was talking about the 10 139 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:17,800 commandments. I've I've kept those from my 140 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,680 youth and it's just a summary of the law. 141 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:26,960 So let's jump straight into it. What was the purpose of this law 142 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:28,920 that God was giving the children of Israel? 143 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:31,200 We see that in verse 3 of chapter 19. 144 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,440 Moses went up unto God and the Lord called unto him out of the 145 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,160 mountains, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the House of Jacob, 146 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,400 and tell the children of Israel, You've seen what I did unto the 147 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,080 Egyptians, and how I bear you on eagle's wings, and brought you 148 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:46,800 unto myself. Here's the purpose of the law 149 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,600 now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed and keep my 150 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,880 covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above 151 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:57,520 all people for all the earth is mine and you shall be unto me a 152 00:07:57,520 --> 00:07:59,840 Kingdom of priests and a holy nation. 153 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,480 These are the words which thou shalt speak to the children of 154 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:04,040 Israel and then we already read verse 7. 155 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,720 Moses shows that to the to the, to the elders and they agree to 156 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:11,360 it. Now God was directing. 157 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,280 It's, it's very important here that what we see in verse 3, 158 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:20,480 because look how many times even before this, we see the children 159 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:24,640 of Israel rebel against Moses. You've, you've brought us to the 160 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:26,160 Red Sea. Now we're going to die. 161 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:29,520 The the Egyptians are behind us. The sea is in front of us and we 162 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,320 should have just left us there. God delivers them. 163 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:36,120 They cross the Red Sea and and if you read through Exodus, it's 164 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,280 like every chapter starts with the children of Israel 165 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:40,520 complaining about something, right? 166 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:47,200 So God is clear here to Moses in verse 3 and the Lord called on 167 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,400 to him out of the mountain saying, thus shalt thou say to 168 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,480 the House of of Jacob and tell the children of Israel. 169 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:55,880 God is saying, tell them this is from me. 170 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,800 This is not your law that you're giving them because they will 171 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:01,480 not follow it. It's too much to follow anyways, 172 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:05,200 even coming from God. But I want them, I do want them 173 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,760 to attempt to follow this law, but tell them it's from me. 174 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,800 So God gives Moses that first, but then he goes to verse 4 and 175 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:16,880 says, remind them what I delivered them out of in verse 176 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:20,200 4, ye have seen what I did under the Egyptians and how I bear you 177 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,400 on eagle's wings and brought you unto myself. 178 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:27,840 So God's about to give them these, this huge law that they 179 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,880 need to follow, but he says, but remind them that I delivered 180 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:34,320 them out of Egypt. And I think the reason he 181 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:38,800 reminds them of this is because they, they're going to resist in 182 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,560 their hearts, they're going to resist this law, but they needed 183 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:46,200 to be reminded of the goodness of God what he had brought them 184 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,200 out of. So God is not trying to make a 185 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,720 case or or convince them to follow. 186 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:57,640 He's just easing the, the instruction a little bit because 187 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:01,680 he knows these people for 19 chapters we see them fighting 188 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:03,200 and fighting and fighting God's man. 189 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:05,680 So he's, he's getting ready to give them the law. 190 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:07,480 But he says, Moses, tell them it's from me. 191 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:11,080 And also remind them that this is with their best interest in 192 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:12,560 mind. I'm not doing this because I 193 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:14,840 hate them. I'm doing this because I love 194 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:16,960 them. Remind them what I did in 195 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:21,120 delivering them from Egypt. But then in verse 6, we see what 196 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:24,160 was the, what was the purpose? What was the desire of God's 197 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:27,360 heart in giving them the law. We see that in verse 6 of 198 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:30,680 chapter 19. If you keep the law, if you will 199 00:10:30,680 --> 00:10:33,640 obey my voice and keep my covenant, then verse 6 ye shall 200 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:37,000 be unto me a Kingdom of priests and an holy nation. 201 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:39,800 These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of 202 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,120 Israel. The whole purpose God's reason 203 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,520 for this was to draw them to bring them close to him and be 204 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:49,960 so they could be his people, a peculiar nation of king of 205 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:53,880 priests and holy people that were God's people. 206 00:10:54,720 --> 00:11:00,160 So, but there, there are some prerequisites and we'll get to 207 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:02,480 that in just a second. But that was God's desire. 208 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,480 God's desire wasn't to say, watch what I put these people 209 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:07,120 through. They'll never be able to keep 210 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:09,840 this law. The, the whole purpose was to 211 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,560 draw them closer to God so that they could be his people. 212 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:16,160 And we see that all the way through the Old Testament, 213 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:20,000 especially with the prophets. Look at Jeremiah and and Isaiah 214 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,640 and the children of Israel just wandering away from God. 215 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:27,280 And God is has his prophets there to preach to them about 216 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,680 about their waywardness. But they have this promise here 217 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:35,280 in chapter Exodus 19, verse 6. If you'll keep this covenant, 218 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,160 you shall be unto me a Kingdom of priests and a holy nation. 219 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:42,760 So that was God's purpose in giving them the law and not but 220 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:45,040 secondly, what was God's path here? 221 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:48,000 Now to for this we're going to go to Exodus chapter 20 to the 222 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:53,120 10 commandments. Because God wanted to make the 223 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:56,120 children of Israel a unique people on the earth. 224 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,320 And he did, but that was his goal. 225 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,240 He wanted them to be a unique people that would be separated 226 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,480 from the rest of the world, that would stand out as God's people. 227 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,040 But he had to give them some guidelines. 228 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,040 And like I said before, the 10 commandments are just a summary 229 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,760 of the the law that was about to come in the next chapters. 230 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,720 So in Exodus chapter 20 verses one through 17, we see the 10 231 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:19,160 commandments. I'm not going to read all that, 232 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:21,120 but we are going to refer to them quickly. 233 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:22,880 And we're going to go through all ten of these commandments. 234 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:25,560 And you may have heard this before, but the first five 235 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:31,360 commandments are are man's duty toward God. 236 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:35,360 OK, So real quickly, let's look at those, the 1st 5 237 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:38,360 commandments. We see that and you and they are 238 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,360 all they all start off with the Lord thy God. 239 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,760 So verse two, I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out 240 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:46,560 of the land of Egypt, out of the House of bondage. 241 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:48,280 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 242 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,720 And you keep seeing that I am the Lord thy God. 243 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:53,800 I am the Lord thy God. So these are these are man's 244 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,840 duties or the commands toward God that we need to follow. 245 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:02,440 And so the first one we see is in, in verses 2 and three, I am 246 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:04,640 the Lord thy God, which I brought thee out of the land of 247 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:06,120 Egypt, out of the House of bondage. 248 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,360 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 249 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:11,760 And that was a, it's a pretty simple command. 250 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:18,400 And I think we often think that as long as we aren't worshipping 251 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:22,320 other gods like little idols, we're, we're in the clear on 252 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:26,560 this commandment. And then I do believe that that 253 00:13:26,560 --> 00:13:30,200 was probably the real reason here for this command to the 254 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,600 children of Israel. They were already starting to 255 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,920 follow after these other gods. And you see it 40 days later, 256 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:39,640 they've got a golden calf built and they're worshipping it, not 257 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:43,360 just deciding, hey, what are we going to do with this golden 258 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,280 calf we found? They build it and they're 259 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:50,320 worshipping it. And and that's so God knew their 260 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,720 their heart. He knew where they were at here 261 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:54,720 with us. I've no other gods before me, 262 00:13:55,160 --> 00:14:00,760 but for us, we, we may not have little idols in our houses that 263 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,960 were, that were worshipping or that we're carrying around as 264 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:07,560 good luck charms, but we do have other gods in our lives. 265 00:14:07,560 --> 00:14:11,080 And I think so this is a very important command for us. 266 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,440 Don't have anything that's more important than God in your life. 267 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:19,200 Otherwise, it's a God. It is taking the place of God 268 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,960 because, because why else would he say thou shalt have no other 269 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:27,680 gods before me, Don't have any gods that you're worshipping 270 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:32,280 that are more important than me? He's not giving, he's not giving 271 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:35,200 liberty here to have other gods as long as I'm the most 272 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,520 important one. He's saying don't have any other 273 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:42,480 gods that you that that take importance over me. 274 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,280 And, and so I think in our lives, it's very obvious that 275 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:50,560 those are, you know, work and money, even kids, even family, 276 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:53,160 don't let them become a God before me. 277 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:56,600 I mean, he says that in the New Testament when he's telling the 278 00:14:56,640 --> 00:15:00,360 the disciples, it's going to look like you hate your own 279 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,000 mother and your own father and your own children and your own 280 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:04,720 life also. That's what it's going to look 281 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:07,680 like when you have me in first place. 282 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,880 And I think that's what God was saying here in verses 2 and 283 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:12,720 three. Don't have anything else that 284 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:14,760 takes the place of God. And this is nothing we've not 285 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:17,600 heard before, but it's something we need to be reminded of 286 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,040 because there are plenty of things in our lives that that we 287 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,200 start to to. And I'll just give you a simple 288 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:30,960 example. But when was it job that said 289 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,440 I'd, I'd, I, I desire your word more than my necessary food? 290 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:36,360 Or was that David? I don't remember, but one of 291 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:38,080 them. What about us? 292 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:43,400 Do we get up in the morning and just go about our day? 293 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,360 It's we have so much important things that we've got to get to 294 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,760 those have become a priority over God. 295 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:54,000 And I'm not saying that, you know, I mean, the Bible is 296 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,920 pretty clear early in the morning. 297 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:57,720 We need to seek him and all the rest of that. 298 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:00,840 Now, you know, schedules differ and things like that. 299 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:03,280 But if you don't have a time where you're spending time with 300 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:07,760 God during your day, think other things have taken the place of 301 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:10,920 God and you have a God before him. 302 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:16,200 That's the first commandment. The second one is in verse 4. 303 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:20,320 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness 304 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,920 of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in earth 305 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,000 beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 306 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,680 Pretty simple command. But within a few chapters, there 307 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:32,480 go the children of Israel making a graven image of something in 308 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:36,520 the earth, a calf that they're going to worship. 309 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:40,960 But we're going to move through these fairly quickly, just 310 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,200 forsake of time. Verse, verse 7, we have a third 311 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:45,960 one. Thou shalt not take the name of 312 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:48,680 the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him 313 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:51,520 guiltless that taketh His name in vain. 314 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,560 And I preached a message just a a few months ago on this, so I'm 315 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:56,680 not going to belabor that point. But it's not just with our 316 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:58,400 mouths, even though that is important. 317 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,400 Not taking the Lord's name as a curse word or anything like 318 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,800 that, but also not taking His name for vanity. 319 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:07,920 And we, we preached a whole message on that, that you take 320 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,400 the name Christian, you take God's name and then you don't 321 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:12,400 live as a Christian. That's taking his name in vain. 322 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,800 And we need to be very careful of that. 323 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,680 Again, these are just a a summary of of these 10 324 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:21,040 commandments. Verse chapter 20, verse 8. 325 00:17:21,079 --> 00:17:23,720 Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 326 00:17:23,839 --> 00:17:27,400 Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy works, But the 7th day 327 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:29,040 is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. 328 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:32,640 In it thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son, nor thy 329 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:36,200 daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, 330 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:38,240 nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. 331 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:41,680 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and 332 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,280 all that in them is, and rested the 7th day. 333 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,760 Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath and hallowed it. 334 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:53,640 So keep the Sabbath. Now I'm not going to get into 335 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:57,720 this, but there is a whole faction that believes and that 336 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:01,000 is really making a big deal about the Sabbath being Saturday 337 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,880 and Satan stole Sunday and now we've followed Satan in making 338 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,600 Sunday the Sabbath. Not going to get into it, but 339 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:10,000 but there is there is quite a bit in the Bible. 340 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:12,280 In fact, I'll, I'll leave it at this. 341 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:18,600 Christ told the Pharisees, the Sabbath is not man is not for 342 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:20,920 the made for the Sabbath. The Sabbath is made for man. 343 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:24,640 So don't worry about which day particularly that you're 344 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,160 worshiping on or holding Sabbath on. 345 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,080 And I'll leave it at that. But Christ was pretty clear, 346 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:32,640 stop worrying so much about which day and just make sure 347 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:36,680 that you have one where you set aside and you worship God and 348 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:38,440 we'll leave it at that. But there is there's a whole lot 349 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:40,400 more we could talk about. It's actually a very interesting 350 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:43,640 study and I think that it's perfectly fine and right to have 351 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:46,920 the Sabbath on Sunday. There's nothing wrong that we're 352 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:50,640 doing, even though people do believe that Satan has hijacked 353 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:53,040 Sunday as his day. Anyways. 354 00:18:53,360 --> 00:19:01,640 Don't let, don't let this man be, Don't let the Sabbath take 355 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,600 man. What Jesus said, let the Sabbath 356 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:06,160 be for man, not man for the Sabbath. 357 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:10,120 All right then the last one in these duties to God or these 358 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:14,960 commands God word is verse 12 Honor thy father and thy mother 359 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:18,400 that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God 360 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,040 giveth thee. So that's that's the key there 361 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:22,520 that little phrase, the Lord thy God. 362 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:26,480 So this is still God word, but he rewards that honor of thy 363 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:29,840 father and thy mother. And then we have 5 duties or 364 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:32,480 five commands that are man word and we start those right in 365 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:34,880 verse 13. Thou shalt not kill. 366 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:38,680 Very simple. But first we're reminded here in 367 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:43,440 these five commandments of the worth that God recognizes. 368 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:46,640 He made life. He created all living beings. 369 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:48,280 And he's saying don't, don't kill. 370 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:52,360 Don't just take life carelessly or without a justified cause. 371 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:55,480 Because there are other places in the Bible that God commands 372 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:58,920 life to be taken. But killing is for no reason 373 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,920 just because I feel like it or I'm angry. 374 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,000 But anyways. So God gives gives that 375 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,920 commandment. Verse 14, thou shalt not commit 376 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:11,440 adultery, another institution, institution of God marriage. 377 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:16,000 He says don't commit adultery. Verse 15, thou shalt not steal 378 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,080 again, these are still man word. Thou shalt not steal. 379 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:26,240 And you know, there's, there's the Bible does say that if a man 380 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:30,440 steals because he's hungry and, and can't provide for his family 381 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,560 and doesn't get caught, it is what it is. 382 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,760 But he says if he gets caught, he needs to repay fourfold. 383 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:41,680 So there are places that the Bible that God talks about, you 384 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:45,200 know, stealing for necessity or for life itself. 385 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,960 And I'm not, I'm not condoning stealing, but I'm just saying 386 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:51,560 God doesn't say that you need to die for theft. 387 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:55,960 But what he is talking about here is where you are defrauding 388 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:59,920 or stealing for your own increase for your own own gain 389 00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:05,840 to to to build your portfolio or to build your resources. 390 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:10,440 Thou shalt not steal pretty simple command that we see verse 391 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:11,880 16. Thou shalt not bear false 392 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:17,120 witness against thy neighbor. You know God rebukes us having a 393 00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:20,240 false testimony about somebody else or about anything else. 394 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:25,280 This when we used to learn these in in Sunday school as a kid, I 395 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,840 used to think, well, that doesn't say thou shalt not lie, 396 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,480 says don't lie about somebody about your neighbor. 397 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,360 But I but I think it does go without without saying God 398 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:37,840 expects us to be honest in the words that we use. 399 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,760 Thou shalt not bear a false witness. 400 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,240 That doesn't mean that you're giving a false testimony. 401 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,480 That means you're lying. That means you're something 402 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,920 false is coming out of your mouth with your tongue. 403 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:50,880 Don't do that. So, so don't lie. 404 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,000 And then verse 17, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. 405 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,240 Thou shalt not cover thy neighbor's wife that nor his 406 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,040 manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor 407 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:06,680 anything that is thy neighbor's. And I'll just say this about 408 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:08,480 this last commandment and then we'll move on. 409 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:12,560 But God is God is commanding us to be careful of what we are 410 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:16,400 going after. That's the covetous because what 411 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,200 our mind craves to have, we will pursue it. 412 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,080 When you set a goal in your mind of, you know, whatever the goal 413 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,120 may be, that's just how we are made. 414 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:31,440 We're made to go after it. And that's why if we, if we 415 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:37,080 guard our hearts and, and, and put our hearts to seek after 416 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:40,560 God, we will pursue that. But if we are being covetous, 417 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:45,360 and this is the, this is the warning here and the command not 418 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:48,240 to covet, because when we do start coveting it, we will, we 419 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,480 will get it, we will go after it. 420 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:54,760 So be careful of what you are, what you're letting your mind 421 00:22:54,760 --> 00:23:01,720 begin to crave and covet because your hand will soon pursue it if 422 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:03,520 you let your mind go to that spot. 423 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,320 So, so the command is simply thou shalt not covet. 424 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,880 All right, So we see those those commands, those those 10 425 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,000 commandments, A brief summary of the law. 426 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,280 And then we have the promise of God. 427 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,800 But that's back in chapter 19. So go back to chapter 19 of 428 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,240 Exodus and we'll finish with this that what is this promise 429 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:25,640 of God Verses 19, chapter 19, verses 5 and 6. 430 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,720 Now therefore we read these already. 431 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:32,040 But if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, 432 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,640 then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all 433 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,440 people, for all the earth is mine, and you shall be unto me a 434 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,680 Kingdom of priests and an holy nation. 435 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,560 These are the words which thou shalt speak to the children of 436 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,680 Israel. It's interesting there that God 437 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,760 says all the earth is mine. I could, I could choose anybody 438 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:51,360 I want. I could choose any nation I 439 00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:52,920 want. But I'm going to choose you, 440 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:54,680 Israel. Why? 441 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:59,080 Because I chose you. Job says that pretty clearly 442 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:02,640 when his friends are are are talking to him about, oh, you 443 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,520 must have sinned and and the rest of that and Job, God 444 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,560 actually tells Job, because Job starts to come to God a little 445 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,960 bit and say what is going on? And God says, who are you to 446 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,760 question me? I do for my own pleasure, 447 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,720 whatever I do, don't don't question what I do and kind of 448 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,480 push Job back in his place. Well, that's what we have here 449 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,920 in verse in chapter chapter 19, verse 5. 450 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:25,760 Why did he choose the children of Israel? 451 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:30,960 Because he chose them. There's no reason but he says, 452 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,720 first of all, this promise is a provisional promise. 453 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:39,280 If is a big word there in verse 5, if you'll keep my 454 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:44,480 commandments, then you'll be a peculiar treasure unto me above 455 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:51,480 all people. It was not a, a, a promise that 456 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,520 no matter how they acted, he was going to, he was going to, this 457 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,480 was going to be the case. And again, we see that in Isaiah 458 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:02,000 and Jeremiah. God is reminding them, I told 459 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:06,520 you, you were going to be my people if you obey my commands 460 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:08,560 and all the rest of that. And that's the those prophets 461 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,600 trying to bring the children of Israel back into covenant with 462 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,720 God or back into that relationship with God because 463 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,960 they're breaking this covenant that was given here all the way 464 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,480 back in Exodus on Mount Sinai. But the second thing is it is a 465 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:25,200 positive promise. Look at verse 6. 466 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:30,000 Ye shall be unto me a Kingdom of priests and an holy nation. 467 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,680 I'm going to treasure you above all other people. 468 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:41,480 That is a positive promise. And again, remember at the very 469 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,600 beginning of chapter 19, God, God told Moses to tell the 470 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,160 children visual, this is from me. 471 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,360 But also tell them this is not for their hurt. 472 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:52,480 This is this is a good thing. You're going to be my people. 473 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:57,320 It's a very positive promise of the of the great possibilities 474 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,480 that lay ahead for Israel the the the promised land. 475 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,400 You know when God tells them I'm going to give you this promised 476 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,480 land of Canaan and the and the spies go in and are very 477 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,960 negative about what they see. God promised them that land that 478 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,600 was a positive thing, not were they going to have to go through 479 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:20,200 a lot of fighting and and, and hardships to gain that land. 480 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,800 Yeah. But if they would, they would 481 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,800 have this promised land that God promised to them to have for 482 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,040 their own. And it's the same way with these 483 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,320 commands. If you keep these commands that 484 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,120 I'm going to give you, you're going to be my people. 485 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,880 That's a positive promise for the children of Israel. 486 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:42,200 But then we have a problem with this promise in in. 487 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,920 I want you to go to Hebrews chapter 8, if you will. 488 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:55,360 Hebrews, chapter 8. So this was this is a great 489 00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:57,960 promise that God gave to the children of Israel, but we do 490 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:02,160 have a bit of a problem here and it's not a problem on God's 491 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:11,670 part. In Hebrews chapter 8 and verse 492 00:27:11,710 --> 00:27:16,030 8, Bible says for finding fault with them. 493 00:27:16,550 --> 00:27:19,070 Let's let's read verse 7. For if that first covenant had 494 00:27:19,070 --> 00:27:22,870 been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the 495 00:27:22,870 --> 00:27:25,560 second, the second what? The second covenant, right, 496 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,000 verse 8 for finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days 497 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,920 come, sayeth the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with 498 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,240 the House of Israel and with the House of Judah. 499 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,880 So what was the problem with this covenant? 500 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:41,760 The problem was that it had faulty men trying to keep the 501 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,840 promises or keep the commands in order to get this promise. 502 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,000 It had a fault and it wasn't God's fault. 503 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,840 God didn't make a mistake saying, all right, I'm going to 504 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,400 set this law in order and hopefully they can keep it. 505 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,120 He knew they couldn't keep it. He purposely built that fault 506 00:27:57,120 --> 00:27:59,560 in, and we'll see this in just a minute. 507 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:03,280 For a very, very good reason. You can't keep the law. 508 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,760 I want you to try and you're going to be my people if you 509 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,240 keep the commands that I give you. 510 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,920 But there's a problem. And you see that in wrote in 511 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:15,200 Hebrews chapter 8 and verse 7. If the first covenant had been 512 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,400 faultless, was it? Was there errors in the first 513 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:19,040 covenant? Then? 514 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,960 No, the fault was with the men that were trying to keep the 515 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,480 first covenant. And so in Romans chapter 10 and 516 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:27,800 verse 4, you don't have to turn there. 517 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,320 But in Romans chapter 10 and verse 4 now, so now we have this 518 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,960 great promise of God, but now we have we have a problem. 519 00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:36,480 They can't keep it. So what does God do? 520 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,720 He provides for them in Romans chapter 10 and verse 4 for 521 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:45,240 Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that 522 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,760 believeth. So he's the end of the law in an 523 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,960 in an attempt for righteousness. There is no more law in order to 524 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,880 be righteous before God and Christ completely does away with 525 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:02,120 that with the new covenant. And we see that in in Matthew 5 526 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,640 verse 17 when Christ is preaching his sermon on the 527 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,960 mount. Mankind was left with really 528 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,000 helpless. We can't keep the law. 529 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,800 So now what? What are we supposed to do? 530 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,000 Christ comes in and fulfills the demands of the law and you can 531 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,800 write that verse down Matthew 517 if if you want to go back 532 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,240 and look at it. But we just heard this verse a 533 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,760 couple maybe last Sunday night when pastor was was teaching for 534 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,920 whosoever shall keep the whole law and maybe it's Sunday 535 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,040 morning and yet offended one point. 536 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,000 He's guilty of all. So you've got this law that you 537 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,840 need to keep in order to be a peculiar people to me. 538 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,600 But if you offended one point, you're guilty of the entire law. 539 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,520 And so Christ was sent to fulfill that law. 540 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:49,880 And again, from the beginning of eternity, this was God's plan. 541 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,560 He was going to set this law in order, but he was going to, he 542 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,640 knew they couldn't keep it and he knew he was going to send his 543 00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:00,640 Son to be the fulfillment of that law for them. 544 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,120 And this is the last point I want to make. 545 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,600 And this is, we know this, but I think this is a great reminder 546 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:11,680 to use in our own witnessing and in our own sharing the gospel 547 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,880 with others. Go to Galatians chapter 3 and 548 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:18,200 verse 24. This is really the the 549 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:24,320 culmination of what was the point of this really beautiful 550 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,800 law that God gave the children of Israel, but that they 551 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:32,160 couldn't keep Galatians chapter 3 and verse 24. 552 00:30:39,290 --> 00:30:42,650 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto 553 00:30:42,650 --> 00:30:45,930 Christ that we might be justified by faith. 554 00:30:46,370 --> 00:30:51,760 And and I say that you know, we we use this to in our own 555 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:56,040 witnessing because almost always when you knock on somebody's 556 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,760 door and say, hey, do you know that your sins have been taken 557 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,040 care of by Jesus Christ? Do you know that you're going to 558 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,160 heaven when you die? What it what is the typical 559 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,440 response? Almost every door. 560 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:13,000 I hope so almost every single door you knock on now not every 561 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,760 because we have had some say Nope, I'm not going me and me 562 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,920 and Frank talk to one. I'm I'm a Satanist. 563 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,760 I'm not going to heaven, but most doors, I hope so that so 564 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,480 they want to be reconciled to Christ. 565 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,600 They do want to they don't know how they don't know what. 566 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,400 So when you say, well, what do you mean by I hope so the very 567 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,440 next answer. It's almost like a script. 568 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,920 Well, I'm a good person. I I mean, I, I, I try to help 569 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,840 people. I'm a good neighbor. 570 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,160 I mean all these things. It's it's almost like somebody 571 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,600 wrote a script for them and I think somebody did his name is 572 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,160 Satan to make us think I can get myself to heaven. 573 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,880 But here in Galatians chapter 3, it says wherefore the law was 574 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,880 our schoolmaster. So if you start if you start 575 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:58,560 when they say I hope so I'm a good person. 576 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,040 You say, oh, have you if you you keep the 10 commandments. 577 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,960 That's that's yeah, yeah, I try, I try to have you ever lied? 578 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,040 I think those are the wrong questions other than to show 579 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,040 somebody you you haven't kept the whole law. 580 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:17,720 You are a Sinner because I heard, I heard somebody say this 581 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,160 and I, I, I really, really liked it. 582 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:21,800 First Corinthians talks about this. 583 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:26,720 You look into the perfect law of liberty and what's the point of 584 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,440 that? To, to see in that mirror that I 585 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,640 am dirty and I need Christ. But I heard, I heard somebody 586 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,800 talking about this and he was actually arguing with an atheist 587 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:39,080 or, or a definitely a non believer, probably more of an 588 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,560 agnostic and they were having a good conversation. 589 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,720 But this guy said, well, then what was the whole point of the 590 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,440 law? What was the point of the law in 591 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,160 the Old Testament? Because I think they're two 592 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,480 different things. And there's so many verses we've 593 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,560 read some of them that Christ fulfilled the law. 594 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:58,400 But this, this guy that was the believer said this to him. 595 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:04,000 He said, you know, reading the Bible to try to be, to try to 596 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,320 get yourself to heaven by following, you know, those laws 597 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:11,400 is like looking in the mirror, seeing the dirt on your face and 598 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,160 then taking the mirror off the wall and trying to wipe your 599 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,360 face with the mirror. The mirror is just showing you 600 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,680 that you're dirty. Then you need to go clean it 601 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,400 off. And he said, that's what the law 602 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,240 is. It's showing us that we are 603 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,080 dirty. We cannot get to heaven. 604 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,920 So we turn to Christ for that cleansing. 605 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,400 And I think that's, that's exactly what this law was for. 606 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,040 God gave it to the children of Israel to be a peculiar people 607 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,440 if they followed it and then to show them you can't follow it, 608 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,000 can you? I'm that's why I'm sending 609 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:45,800 Christ to, to be the fulfillment of that law. 610 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,800 And it's the same for us. There is no other way to 611 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,680 reconcile ourselves back to the Father except through Christ. 612 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,560 There's verse after verse after verse. 613 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,000 Romans chapter 3 verse 20 says that therefore by the deeds of 614 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,480 the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight. 615 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:04,960 For by the law is the knowledge of sin, not the cleansing of 616 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,080 sin. For by the law is the knowledge 617 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:08,800 of sin. And we don't attempt to keep the 618 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,639 law right now, but we do. We have plenty of things that we 619 00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:16,000 try to obey in the Bible, commandments that we try to 620 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,360 follow. For what? 621 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:22,000 For our salvation? No, for our knowledge that we 622 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,000 can't keep it. And so we must turn to Christ 623 00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:29,000 to, to for that reconciliation back to God. 624 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:31,960 So that's where the the law was given to the children of Israel 625 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,320 on Mount Sinai. Another name for Mount Sinai was 626 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,880 Mount Horeb. You'll see that in other places 627 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,480 in the Bible. But Mount Sinai, Mount Horeb was 628 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,960 they were given the law to show them that they couldn't keep the 629 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:47,320 law, but they needed a savior. And Christ eventually came and 630 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:51,239 fulfilled that. And, and that's the same, same 631 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,520 thing that we have. We are saved the exact same way. 632 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,639 We can try to be a good person. That's great to be a good 633 00:34:56,639 --> 00:35:00,480 person, but that's not your salvation that you're showing 634 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:04,240 you that you can't keep all the laws that God gave us to keep. 635 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,640 And that's not on God. As we said, there's a fault in 636 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:11,040 this system. And it's not, it's not an error 637 00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:14,040 on God's part. It's a it's a problem on ours. 638 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,680 We cannot keep it. And so we need a Savior and 639 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:21,400 Christ graciously and mercifully came to be that savior for us. 640 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,440 And hopefully you're thankful for that and hopefully you know 641 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,600 that. And and that's what we'll finish 642 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,160 today with Mount Sinai. We'll get into another mountain 643 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:31,480 next week. Let's pray. 644 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,160 Father, I thank you for this day you've given us. 645 00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:39,040 God, I thank you for just the clarity in your word. 646 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:44,760 God, if we actually read it and and attempts to know your heart 647 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,800 and what you were doing God in fact you're it's it's very clear 648 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:49,320 in the Bible exactly what you were doing. 649 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,640 You even tell us that the the law was not there to cleanse us. 650 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:56,560 It was there to show us that we need, we need cleansing from 651 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,120 something far beyond us. And God, I thank you again for 652 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,760 the sacrifice of your son and coming to to be that that 653 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:07,800 penalty for us. And God, I just pray as we get 654 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:12,120 into the next service, God, as I know the gospel will be preached 655 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,240 at some point in there. I pray if anybody in here during 656 00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:18,080 that service is not saved, that you will help them to understand 657 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,720 their need of a Savior, that we can't be good enough to save our 658 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:23,400 souls. And I just pray that you'll be 659 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,640 with Pastor, give him the words to say and give him power as he 660 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,240 preaches. Pray that you'd meet with us 661 00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:30,960 this morning in Jesus name, I pray, Amen. 662 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:32,800 We're dismissed.