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Exodus 20 beginning, in verse 1 
and God spoke. 

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All these words saying, I am the
Lord your God who brought you 

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out of the land of Egypt, out of
the house of slavery. 

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You shall have no other gods 
before me. 

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You shall not make for yourself.
A carved image or any likeness 

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of anything that is in heaven 
above or that is in the earth 

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beneath or that is in the water,
under the Earth, You shall not 

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bow down to them or serve them 
for I the Lord your God am a 

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jealous God. 
Visiting the iniquity of the 

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Hours on the children of the 
third and the fourth generation 

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of those who hate me but showing
steadfast love to thousands of 

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those who love me. 
Keep my Commandments, you shall 

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not take the name of the Lord. 
Your God in vain for the Lord 

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will not hold him Guiltless. 
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Remember the Sabbath day to keep
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labor and do all your work but 
the seventh day is a Sabbath to 

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the Lord, your God on it. 
You shall not do any work, you 

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or your son or your daughter, 
your male servant nor your 

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female servant. 
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Sojourner, who is within your 
gates for, in six days, the Lord

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made Heaven and Earth the sea 
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rested on the seventh day. 
Therefore, the Lord blessed the 

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Sabbath day and made it. 
Holy Honor your father and your 

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mother, that your days may be 
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your God is giving you. 
You shall not murder. 

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You shall not commit adultery. 
You shall not steal. 

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You shall not bear false. 
Witness against your neighbor. 

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You shall not covet your 
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You shall not covet your 
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servant, or his female servant 
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anything. 
That is your neighbors. 

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When all the people saw the 
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flashes of lightning in the 
sound of the trumpet and the 

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Mountain Smoke knit. 
People were afraid and trembled 

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and they stood afar off and said
to Moses you speak to us and we 

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will listen but do not let God 
speak to us unless we die. 

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Moses said to the people do not 
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you that the fear of him maybe 
before you that you may not sin.

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The people stood far off while 
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Darkness where God was Let's 
pray together. 

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Father, helped us really believe
that who we are speaking to now 

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and who we've been worshipping 
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God we just read about, give us 
that Revelation, may it be true 

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within our hearts May touch us. 
Lord and may bring every fiber 

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of our being into the fear of 
the Lord and to a place in which

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we stand in awe of your majesty 
in your Holiness. 

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Give us Clarity of mine. 
Make complex things, simple law.

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Through the power of your Holy 
Spirit and give us words of 

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wisdom, May every mind and heart
be attentive to your word 

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tonight and may Jesus be 
glorified in light of the Ten 

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Commandments. 
We pray this in Jesus name. 

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Amen. 
You may be seated. 

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Pop quiz. 
It's always exciting to come to 

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Bible study because we never 
know how these chapters will be 

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covered. 
Sometimes they lean more to a 

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preaching segment, sometimes 
they're very teaching, sometimes

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they're very interactive. 
Sometimes there are pop quizzes,

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and this is one of those 
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I hope you studied. 
Who here? 

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Knows close your Bibles. 
All of You Close Your Bibles, 

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close your miles. 
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few that were here probably last
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They did this. 
I can tell by your face. 

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Don't worry who here knows the 
Ten Commandments by heart, stand

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up and share with us. 
The Ten Commandments. 

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Yes, preferably go for it. 
Don't worry your other gods. 

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Other than me, no carved images,
do not blaspheme. 

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Keep the Sabbath day. 
Holy honor your father and 

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mother. 
I'm do not murder. 

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Do not commit adultery, do not 
steal. 

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Do not bear false witness and 
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You got it? 
Yeah. unfortunately don't have a

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reward for you, but Does anybody
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I won't make you say it, but I 
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Hannah. 
You know it in the KJV for sure 

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to write anybody else know, the 
Ten Commandments Tim yes. 

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Eva you know what? 
In Arabic morning, you don't 

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anybody know what in Arabic 
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Okay, impressive. 
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The Ten Commandments. 
If you think we're going to go 

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over all of these tonight. 
We're not Though, they may seem 

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simple and straightforward. 
There's so much to each of these

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Commandments that for us to just
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do Injustice to understanding of
who God is and what he asks of 

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us. 
And even the first two verses of

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this chapter, give us an Insight
of how important these 

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Commandments are read with me in
verse 1, it says, and God spoke.

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All these words saying, I am the
Lord, your God who brought you 

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out of the land of Egypt, out of
the house of slavery. 

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So what can we say about these 
first two verses? 

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By the way, This will be more of
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will be very more teaching than 
preaching and that's what I'm 

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planning on, but it can turn. 
Otherwise the reason is because 

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I want us to really grasp this. 
And here's, here's the aim of 

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it. 
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Commandments, my desire, my 
prayers that we would all be 

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exhausted. that by seeing the 
standard of God, we would 

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literally be breathless at the 
standard that he asks of every 

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human being only to run to the 
inexhaustible grace of God, that

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we may be exhausted of the 
standard of the law so that we 

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can run to the inexhaustible 
grace of God through Jesus 

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Christ, Our Lord And so, we're 
going to take our time with 

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this. 
And this is very important to 

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the Lord. 
And the first two, verses tell 

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us why it's important to the 
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Can you, can you spot an inside 
of why this is so significant? 

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if you hang up, Yes. 
Before God tells anything to 

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them, probably just telling them
what he did for them. 

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So, whatever he says they have 
to obey whatever you did for 

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them, still live to breed 
observation. 

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So we see the Lord here, 
reminding, the people of what 

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he's done before. 
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That's significant. 
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Yes saying all these words to 
the people, he's not to speaking

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through Moses or Aaron. 
He's speaking to Buddy, that's 

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the main point. 
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to the people. 
He's not speaking through his 

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Prophet. 
He's not speaking through a 

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mediator. 
You know what he's doing here? 

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He's saying Moses step aside, I 
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Now it's one thing for a king of
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message through a faithful 
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It's another thing when the king
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and gives the message himself, 
and that's exactly what God is 

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doing. 
He wants there to be no 

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misunderstanding, he wants you 
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Miss interpretation. 
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sense in which people might say,
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This is not a God thing. 
God is coming and breaking all 

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those things. 
I could be possible and he's 

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making it very, very, very 
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That this is my heart. 
This is my commands. 

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This is from my voice directly. 
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that, when he gives the Ten 
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he gives it. you know how by the
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writes it with his finger on 
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And so he even puts his finger 
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write the commitments, he speaks
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he wants to establish, its 
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Israel for all generations. 
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do this with my finger on a 
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People get all the Beatty about 
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that's not significant what's 
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Is that God wrote with his 
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directly and it was terrifying. 
I mean earlier, we read about 

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how Moses and all the Israelites
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and they heard thunder. 
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thunder. 
Have you ever been in a storm? 

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Have you ever heard thunder 
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Your house, have you ever been 
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You woke up to thunder. 
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God's voice with every single 
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the people, it shook their 
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place where they said, we can't 
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Moses from now on, you have to 
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So this is weighty, this is not 
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This is not an email sent. 
This is not even something 

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spoken through a messenger. 
It's not a dust, says the Lord, 

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a Jeremiah and Isaiah know. 
This is move aside profit. 

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I'm going to sit I'm going to 
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So we should pay careful 
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mean. 
And before we explore these 

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Commandments and we don't know 
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You mentioned something about 
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I am the Lord, your God who 
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Egypt out of the house of 
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Now, why do you think God would 
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He brought up earlier. 
Why is you reminding them? 

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Yes, for them to be humbled. 
Absolutely be reminded for what 

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I've done for you. 
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Do need constant reminders. 
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that the Deliverance so that 
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Yes. 
Confirm it by the witness of two

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weaknesses. 
American Furniture. 

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Sure. 
So, there's a confirmation here.

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You guys all acknowledging that 
I delivered you absolutely 

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consider the rest of the 
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To why he's doing this? 
Yes, when you bought them out so

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now they're his. 
Yes, you are mine because you 

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were so you're my possession. 
I delivered. 

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You, we talked about Eagle's 
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stirred up, the nest and 
fluttered over his, his young 

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and he brought them out. 
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possession. 
But remember here, there was all

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you guys all touch. 
Touch on something. 

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And one of the main things to, 
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about to give these important 
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And before he does it, he 
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He did not give the commands to 
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say, if you keep these, I will 
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He delivered them in spite of 
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He pulled them out of bondage, 
she pulled him under the out of 

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the grip of pharaoh and out of 
that Grace. 

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He says now be motivated by my 
kindness be motivated by my 

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consideration, be motivated by 
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So he's reminded me saying, 
listen, I saved you before you 

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obeyed anything. 
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stone before you looked at 
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I saw you. 
I heard your cry. 

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I sent my profit and I delivered
You Now obey is that God's order

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even in the New Testament. 
Absolutely, God Saves us, and 

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were motivated by grace, to obey
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I give you my life Lord because 
you gave your life. 

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When I was yet an enemy of God, 
you still saved me. 

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Here's my life. 
And it puts a whole different 

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spin to this thing called 
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Enjoy! 
Boy, and he's establishing that 

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even now in the hearts of the 
people, listen, I saved you 

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remember, where you came from, 
remember how I came with a 

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mighty arm of Deliverance and 
brought you to myself. 

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Now, now that I've done that 
walk in my ways, walk in my 

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ways. 
Do you see the tone here? 

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And so, don't, don't get it 
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We're not in Egypt right now. 
And these people are not in 

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bondage, and God says, you know,
before I deliver you a big make 

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a testimony for my name obey 
these Ten Commandments, memorize

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them obey them for a week or two
and then I'll see if you're 

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worthy of Deliverance. 
No. 

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He pulled them out even in the 
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Their disbelief at the Red Sea, 
a few days after they cry, and 

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he's faithful. 
And so he says, because of my 

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grace of my faithfulness to you,
would you return it to me? 

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With the revelation of my 
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And then he gives the Ten 
Commandments with that tone, 

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that's important. because people
have this wrong on understanding

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of obedience, God delivers you 
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What to put you in slavery, 
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you in bondage to infringe upon 
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benefit, and to enjoy the most 
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god-given and God ordained 
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they are guard rails. 
They keep you any loving father,

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takes a child and put him in the
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if there's a highway or country 
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that child. 
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to let that? 
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the sake of freedom and 
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well, God is putting, he's a joy
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commands that I gotta follow. 
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to walk in the fullness of this 
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our our time here, to really 
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the purpose before we identify 
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What are the purpose of the Ten 
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Why is he giving out these laws?
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of direction in life. 
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A new believer might come up to 
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What do I do with those? 
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Old Covenant, New Covenant. 
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Yes. 
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expression of the greatest 
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right? 
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these Commandments show us how 
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we give it to you how much we 
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you like to begin to like break 
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with not murder maybe not only 
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and be like when you cannot be 
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much they needed and how much 
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this is a standard you said 
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Jesus says, if you hate your 
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in your heart. 
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law. 
Greater than what we see in 

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here. 
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So we've covered that was great.
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fulfilling the greatest 
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loving our neighbor and that is 
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set apart as a people and we 
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cannot meet this standard here. 
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Number one, they reveal God's 
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can be more teaching because I 
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about how this Law relates to 
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ER and nature Leviticus 19. 
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even quotes it he says you will 
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that, he begins to give some of 
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Exodus 20. 
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of God and US imitating him, the
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God's nature and character. 
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standard of living and that is, 
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very important because we must 
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subjective moral reasoning. 
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believe as Believers. 
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right and wrong and you have a 
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wrong and you have your own and 
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You can determine that. 
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Giver God, and this is where we 
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An atheist. 
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If you don't have God, if you 
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have morals? 
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understanding of morality 
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I would say, well, there was a 
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different people that did not 
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He thought it was good to do 
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nation and who are you? 
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moral standard to say that, that
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For a man, it seems right to him
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desires. 
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moral reasoning, how can you say
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him? 
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Somebody in this place can feel 
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understanding right? 
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law? 
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has a way of living that this is
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That he is pure, that he is 
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self-centered and he wants us to
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dishing out these Commandments 
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So number one, we understand who
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he's not like the pagan gods 
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gods, that murder each other and
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Offspring and they eat their 
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stuff. 
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He's holy he's holy, He's 
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He is constant, he is love. 
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And these commands reveal who he
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Guidelines for the people to 
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Holiness, right? 
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the later books of the 
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are to eat and how they are not 
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to, to keep certain festivals. 
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Okay, heart posture. 
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said in Exodus 19 that he was he
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himself. 
A kingdom of what priest. 

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That they would be a, what? 
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One of them at least. 
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That all these other nations 
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bail Nash rather than all these 
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Israel would stand out and they 
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people how they serve the living
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practices. 
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was really nitty-gritty details,
the dietary laws and all those 

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things we have to keep in mind, 
the historical context that God 

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was trying to pull out of them, 
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that they would stand out not 
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would not imitate. 
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principal for Christians today 
to we're going to get into how 

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this relates if we if we look 
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world. 
Talk like we entertain ourselves

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like the world. 
How are people going to see 

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something different? 
I'm not talking about you 

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attaining, your salvation by 
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dressing a certain way. 
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them, how are they going to see 
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If we sound like them, and talk 
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principal there. 
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god-breathed and is useful for 
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For training in righteousness. 
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those things that are Obsolete 
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because of the New Covenant, 
keep that in mind. 

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You mentioned something. 
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these laws are the practical 
means, by which we fulfill what 

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Jesus said is the greatest 
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What is the greatest 
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Love the Lord your God with 
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Heart and with all what strength
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Every fiber of your being should
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Love your neighbor as yourself. 
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somebody a lawyer asked him that
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down in Matthew 20 to 35, to 40,
I won't read it. 

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But just as a reference, Matthew
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him, what is the greatest 
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And you know what? 
You didn't go through the Ten 

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God, right? 
With what we just said and love 

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your neighbor as yourself for 
the law in the profits, depend 

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upon these. 
So to love the Lord, and to love

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your neighbor as yourself. 
Every commandment is hinge upon 

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that truth. 
So even as we look at the Ten 

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Commandments, it's a fulfillment
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The first four Commandments are 
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God. 
The last six Commandments are 

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how we relate to one another. 
So we see the first for loving 

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the Lord, our god with 
everything within us. 

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And we see the last six, loving 
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be treated. 
So we see it fleshed out here 

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and that's you're absolutely 
right. 

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To provide moral guidance for 
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All right, so that there would 
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Provide just that, can you 
imagine a world in which nobody 

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would be held accountable for 
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Absolute chaos. 
And that's why government is 

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instituted by God. 
Romans 13 to what provide the 

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sword for those who disobey the 
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good. 
That's why we must pray for our 

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government. 
They are God's people, God's 

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judges. 
In this land, in this time that 

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represent his expression of 
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And so laws provide order or two
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can sleep at night safely. 
And some of us have misfortunate

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experiences where people try to 
break in or whatever, but we 

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have this General fear, that if 
you do something wrong, you're 

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going to be held accountable for
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So, don't don't buy into this. 
Well, these Commandments hinder 

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my expression of identity. 
Hold up there. just think for a 

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moment before you speak and just
regurgitate something that you 

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heard in college, Study, if you 
really want to be serious about 

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your life, it shows us. 
What The moral guidelines for 

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the people of Israel and even 
for us today. 

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And lastly, this is the main 
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Paul, even answers. 
The question for us. 

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Why the law And he gives us 
different reasons, but all have 

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essential Point. 
Romans 3, 19 to 20. 

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Now we know what, that, whatever
the law says, it speaks to those

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who are under the law. 
That every mouth may be stopped.

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And the whole world may be held 
accountable to God. 

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No man will be justified by The 
Works of the law. 

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Since through the law comes the 
knowledge of sin. 

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So we know Romans 33, 9220 tells
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the law given preach Proclaim 
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However, it is expressed is to 
say give the world. 

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It tastes of humility regarding 
themselves so that every mouth 

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may be stopped stopped. 
And what any boast of 

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self-righteousness, any attempt 
to think that you have the right

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to inherit eternal life, based 
on your behavior because James 

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tells us when you break one of 
the law, you break them all. 

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Think of it this way, if you 
were to contact me via phone and

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call me all it takes is one 
digit off and you can't get a 

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hold of You just dial one wrong 
number and you're calling 

455
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,800
somebody else. 
And in light of that same 

456
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:44,000
principle, one command broken, 
you have no contact with God, 

457
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,900
you have no way to reach God. 
You have no way to stand in his 

458
00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:51,000
presence forever. 
You have officially disqualified

459
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,900
yourself from being in his 
presence for all eternity 

460
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:58,200
because you did not meet his 
standard, So that's why the law 

461
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:02,600
is important in our evangelism 
because there's a lot of people 

462
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,200
more than anything that are 
convinced that they are good. 

463
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,100
You know, you can go to hell, 
two ways just being really bad 

464
00:27:10,100 --> 00:27:12,800
and knowing it and by yourself 
deception of thinking that 

465
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:17,300
you're really good. 
And so you hear this from 

466
00:27:17,300 --> 00:27:20,000
people, well, I'm a good person 
and this is the purpose of the 

467
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,000
law you bring it before them 
like a mirror. 

468
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,900
You say, do you meet this 
standard? 

469
00:27:26,900 --> 00:27:30,300
And somebody like, what you 
mentioned might bring up, what 

470
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,500
I've never murdered somebody and
Jesus, all right. 

471
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,100
Well, let me bring it up here. 
If you hate your brother, you've

472
00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:39,500
committed murder in your heart, 
so you're a murderer. 

473
00:27:40,900 --> 00:27:44,900
So even in Matthew 5, when Jesus
steps on the scene, whatever 

474
00:27:44,900 --> 00:27:47,800
justification these Pharisees 
might have had concerning their 

475
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,100
spotless though, they were 
Hypocrites and though they were 

476
00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:54,900
something else in dark than in 
the light, any sense of boasting

477
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:59,900
would have been destroyed by 
Jesus upholding and enhancing 

478
00:27:59,900 --> 00:28:02,100
enlarging? 
This understanding of the law by

479
00:28:02,100 --> 00:28:04,200
bringing it to a whole nother 
standard? 

480
00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:08,600
And that's Grace Jesus what? 
Grace and Truth came through. 

481
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:13,300
Jesus Christ And so Grace is not
this Freedom Grace is. 

482
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,000
Yeah, if you think it, you did 
it. 

483
00:28:18,500 --> 00:28:21,400
And so, Romans tells us that it 
keeps us. 

484
00:28:21,900 --> 00:28:25,100
It keeps us in a place of 
humility and brings us to a 

485
00:28:25,100 --> 00:28:27,200
place of realizing what I'm in 
trouble. 

486
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:34,800
Another versus Galatians. 
Galatians 4, rather Galatians 3.

487
00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:37,600
19. 
Why? 

488
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,600
Then the law he answers it 
again, it was added because of 

489
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:45,200
transgressions. 
It was added because of 

490
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:49,600
transgressions and Romans 5:20, 
it's another verse it says, now 

491
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:53,100
the law came in to increase the 
trespass. 

492
00:28:54,900 --> 00:28:58,500
So what is the law do? 
Well, Romans 2 tells us what 

493
00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:02,600
that the law is given. 
And it's sealed somewhere. 

494
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,800
Where is it? 
The conscience, right? 

495
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:08,900
So, those who are not under the 
law, those who do not practice a

496
00:29:08,908 --> 00:29:12,700
lot of those who were not under 
these teachings, these gentile 

497
00:29:12,700 --> 00:29:16,400
people that didn't have the law,
God planted a little chip called

498
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,100
your conscious in your mind to 
understand right from wrong. 

499
00:29:19,100 --> 00:29:21,500
Everybody has a general 
understanding that if you take 

500
00:29:21,500 --> 00:29:24,200
something, that's not yours, you
don't want to be caught doing 

501
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,300
that because it's wrong, it's 
built within our system. 

502
00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:30,200
Got put that in there. 
Now, what does the law do? 

503
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,500
The law comes puts it on Stone. 
So to speak puts it on paper, so

504
00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:38,100
that when we look at it, it 
arouses and it shows and it puts

505
00:29:38,100 --> 00:29:40,300
the spotlight on what's already 
in our conscience. 

506
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,400
It enhances trespass. 
So to speak. 

507
00:29:46,300 --> 00:29:49,700
Paul says that even Romans 7. 
He says, well, the law is not, 

508
00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:52,400
this law is not simple, because 
if it wasn't for the law, I 

509
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:56,000
wouldn't know what coveting is. 
I wouldn't know what this looks 

510
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,600
like. 
And so what does it do? 

511
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:02,800
It arouses sin in me, it causes 
me to realize what this thing is

512
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,200
and how it defiles God, and how 
the files my relationship with 

513
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,200
others. 
And so, the law comes in to 

514
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:12,400
strike the nerve, so to speak in
us, to show us what it is in 

515
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,500
detail. 
It's a confirm that our 

516
00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:17,700
conscious is. 
Yes. 

517
00:30:17,700 --> 00:30:21,300
What God has put in us to tell 
us right from wrong. 

518
00:30:25,100 --> 00:30:26,500
So then I ask the second 
question. 

519
00:30:28,700 --> 00:30:31,600
If that's the case, what do we 
do with the law? 

520
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:47,000
What do we do with this? 
Still study it to know what God 

521
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:52,700
expects of you. 
Because we know that in this, 

522
00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:56,200
these last verses, especially 
that the, the what, the law is a

523
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,800
Schoolmaster, it brings you to a
place where what you realize 

524
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:01,400
that your mouth is stop. 
You can't boast in your 

525
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:02,900
righteousness. 
You can't boast in your 

526
00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:04,700
Perfection. 
You can't do any of that. 

527
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,500
It arouses sin within you. 
It shows you at highlights, the 

528
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,700
iniquity that dwells within and 
what is it cause you to do. 

529
00:31:10,700 --> 00:31:12,800
Paul says it causes you to go to
Christ. 

530
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,100
It literally brings you to a 
place where you say, I need a 

531
00:31:17,108 --> 00:31:21,200
savior. 
I'm in trouble if God's standard

532
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,500
is this and I broke in 18 of 
those. 

533
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:29,600
By the time I had breakfast this
morning, And so what do I do in 

534
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:34,100
the Paul says, it brings you to 
Jesus, it makes you run and fall

535
00:31:34,100 --> 00:31:39,800
upon his feet and to run at the 
cross towards it at the foot of 

536
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:43,100
the cross, plead for his blood, 
plea for his forgiveness, and to

537
00:31:43,100 --> 00:31:46,100
realize that I cannot do this, 
that's what really repentance is

538
00:31:46,100 --> 00:31:48,400
repentance. 
In one sense is just giving up. 

539
00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:51,400
Sure, we have this understand 
that repentance is what turning 

540
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:52,700
from your sin turning from your 
way? 

541
00:31:52,700 --> 00:31:55,600
You think about Sin and how the 
files our relationship with God?

542
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:59,300
But repentance is also turning 
Away from your attempt to do. 

543
00:31:59,300 --> 00:32:03,300
Good works to inherit salvation,
that's repentance as well. 

544
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:08,800
It's giving up on your own 
efforts and falling upon Christ 

545
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,900
and his deeds in the Fulfillment
of the law that he performed on 

546
00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:17,300
your behalf. 
So it's a Schoolmaster, it's a 

547
00:32:17,300 --> 00:32:19,700
tutor. 
It brings you to Jesus. 

548
00:32:21,700 --> 00:32:27,000
So what do we do with it? 
Because Jesus fulfilled, the 

549
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,500
law. 
This is an important question. 

550
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,900
Jesus fulfilled, the law. 
So we are no longer under the 

551
00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:39,000
law. 
That's all over the New 

552
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,500
Testament. 
So we read this and we're going 

553
00:32:41,500 --> 00:32:42,800
to spend a few weeks on this and
we go. 

554
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,000
Well, how does that relate to 
me? 

555
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,000
As a New Covenant believer. 
That's trusting that Jesus 

556
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,900
Christ walked the law out 
forming that it is imputed unto 

557
00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:54,800
me by faith and by faith alone 
is as a historical document. 

558
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,400
Is this this the same way? 
We look at circumcision and say?

559
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,500
Well that's what they did in the
old Covenant but neither 

560
00:33:01,500 --> 00:33:04,600
circumcision nor uncircumcision 
matters but a changed life. 

561
00:33:05,100 --> 00:33:08,000
What do we do? 
We're under grace. 

562
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,400
Paul says it Over Yonder, Grace.
He's he's the Apostle of that 

563
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,900
message. 
Grace Grace, Grace, not law, 

564
00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:21,000
Grace. 
Mom, he answers it and Romans 

565
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,900
7:12. 
He said something about the law 

566
00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:30,400
before we get into how we relate
to, he says, so the law is Holy.

567
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,600
And the Commandment is holy and 
righteous and good. 

568
00:33:36,700 --> 00:33:39,300
So, he doesn't speak against the
law. 

569
00:33:40,300 --> 00:33:45,000
He says it's good. 
It's holy, it's something to 

570
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:53,900
regard. because the opposite 
understanding of this is, Well 

571
00:33:54,600 --> 00:34:00,400
since we're under grace, the law
doesn't apply gung ho let's just

572
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,300
do what we want. 
His blood covers Us. 

573
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:08,400
Employee answers that too. 
It says in Romans, 6, 15. 

574
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,400
What then are we to sin? 
Because we are not under the 

575
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:19,900
law, but under grace three 
words, by no means you've 

576
00:34:19,900 --> 00:34:22,300
completely misunderstood what it
means to be under the law and 

577
00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:26,100
under grace in no way. 
Does it give a license for 

578
00:34:26,100 --> 00:34:30,500
somebody to live in sin because 
we had a transfer of Covenants? 

579
00:34:31,500 --> 00:34:35,000
He says, no. 
To be under the law, this is so 

580
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,500
important, pay attention to this
to be under the law. 

581
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:47,400
Is for us to be under the power 
and authority that it carries to

582
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:52,400
judge us for not fulfilling it. 
To be under the law is to be 

583
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,600
under the condemnation and the 
penalty of not keeping the law 

584
00:34:56,900 --> 00:34:58,900
that we are held accountable for
breaking it. 

585
00:34:58,900 --> 00:35:00,900
That's what it means to be under
the law. 

586
00:35:01,300 --> 00:35:03,500
Now, why are we no longer under 
the law? 

587
00:35:05,700 --> 00:35:09,900
Because Jesus absorbed the wrath
of God for you and me. 

588
00:35:12,100 --> 00:35:15,000
Jesus, not only fulfilled, the 
law pay attention. 

589
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:19,100
This is the gospel and I pray 
that we would never become dull 

590
00:35:19,100 --> 00:35:22,200
to this gospel. 
I love what Paul says in Romans 

591
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:23,400
1. 
He's talking to Chris. 

592
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,300
He's like, I can't wait to come 
to you so I can preach to you 

593
00:35:25,300 --> 00:35:27,400
the gospel that Paul, they're 
saved. 

594
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,200
Yeah, but it never never never 
stops getting glorious when you 

595
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:38,200
hear it. 
Jesus, the man that we worship. 

596
00:35:39,300 --> 00:35:43,100
Before we opened this book 
together, He Walked In the Flesh

597
00:35:43,100 --> 00:35:47,200
to do what to fulfill the law. 
He said that I have not come to 

598
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:51,000
abolish it, I've come to fulfill
it and he kept it perfectly and 

599
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,800
he's the faithful Israelite. 
And what does he do by faith? 

600
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:59,000
When we say, I believe in Jesus 
Christ, his faithfulness to the 

601
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,900
law is transferred to your 
account as though you. 

602
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:10,800
Yes, you and me sinner. 
Liar, adulterer murder. 

603
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:17,400
Covenant breaker is seen by God,
the judge as perfect and holy, 

604
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:25,100
Not only that, but he takes our 
broken law. 

605
00:36:26,500 --> 00:36:31,600
What we could not keep and he 
drinks every drop of the wrath 

606
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,800
of God upon the cross. 
That's what we call the 

607
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,900
Beautiful Exchange. 
His righteousness, is your 

608
00:36:38,900 --> 00:36:42,000
righteousness. 
Your condemnation becomes his 

609
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,700
condemnation? 
That's the gospel. 

610
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:51,300
And so when we say were not 
under law, we are no longer 

611
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:55,600
under the penalty. 
Or the condemnation that comes 

612
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,800
from breaking the law. 
Because Jesus took it for us. 

613
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:05,400
Praise be to his name. 
And so we understand that he 

614
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,400
says listen just because you're 
not under law doesn't mean that 

615
00:37:07,408 --> 00:37:09,000
you can just do whatever you 
want. 

616
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,600
You're not under the penalty of 
the law and something happens 

617
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,100
with this gospel. 
Something happens. 

618
00:37:17,100 --> 00:37:20,900
It's not just this judicial it's
not just this. 

619
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,000
Positional thing that happens in
which we walk without wonderful 

620
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:31,200
truth as wonderful as it is. 
Something Supernatural happens. 

621
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,600
And these prophets of old 
testify of it. 

622
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,600
They say, you know, this law 
that you could not keep I'm 

623
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,000
going to write it on your 
hearts. 

624
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:41,400
That not only is it something in
which you come out of the 

625
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,800
condemnation that it brings to 
your life. 

626
00:37:44,100 --> 00:37:46,600
But something that's outside of 
you something that you look at 

627
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,400
every day and say oh I can't do 
this. 

628
00:37:48,900 --> 00:37:51,800
I'm going to imprint it on your 
heart. 

629
00:37:52,900 --> 00:37:55,900
That's the born-again experience
that when I yes. 

630
00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:59,200
Put my faith in Jesus Christ. 
Something happens in me with the

631
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:03,800
spirit of God comes and he 
writes, not on tablets of stone,

632
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:07,600
but tablets of hearts And he 
writes the law. 

633
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,100
So the law now becomes something
that I desire, it is an 

634
00:38:10,100 --> 00:38:15,200
effortless shift within the way.
I look at sin and obedience and 

635
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,300
it is this desire. 
Now in me, these see why 

636
00:38:18,300 --> 00:38:20,400
salvation is nothing short of 
Supernatural? 

637
00:38:21,700 --> 00:38:25,900
Jeremiah says in Jeremiah 31:33.
This is the Covenant that I will

638
00:38:25,900 --> 00:38:29,000
make with the house of Israel. 
After those days, declares the 

639
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,600
Lord that I will put my law 
within them. 

640
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:36,400
I'll put my law within them. 
Ezekiel says, the same thing is 

641
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,800
he'll 3627. 
He says what and I will put my 

642
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:43,500
spirit in them to cause him to 
walk according to my statutes 

643
00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:47,900
and be careful to obey my rules.
Deuteronomy talks about the 

644
00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:51,700
circumcision of the heart. 
And so we see that there is this

645
00:38:51,700 --> 00:38:54,400
promise to come. 
Yes, that Jesus comes and he 

646
00:38:54,408 --> 00:38:56,600
removes us from the condemnation
of the law, but he also by the 

647
00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,800
spirit puts the law on US in US.
So it's not something that's 

648
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,400
outside in. 
It's something that's inside 

649
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:09,800
out. and you know that if you 
truly been born again, Before 

650
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,400
you were saved and you grew up 
in a Christian home, I can tell 

651
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,600
you what I did. 
I was looking through this Bible

652
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,200
to try to find loopholes to my 
Disobedience. 

653
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,400
Well, the Bible didn't didn't 
say that. 

654
00:39:21,300 --> 00:39:24,800
So, why not? 
Then talk about any of that. 

655
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,800
So that is not a person was a 
regenerate heart. 

656
00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:31,400
But a person that's been born 
again. 

657
00:39:31,900 --> 00:39:35,900
Looks for the things, looks for 
the standards and joyfully 

658
00:39:35,900 --> 00:39:39,100
Embraces every command. 
Why? 

659
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:43,500
Because of, you know, because 
the Holy Spirit In You, Who did 

660
00:39:43,500 --> 00:39:46,500
something to you? 
When you gave up and fell upon 

661
00:39:46,500 --> 00:39:50,900
Christ? 
And what about the food laws, 

662
00:39:50,900 --> 00:39:55,600
and the ceremonial laws? 
Well. 

663
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,600
That's an important question. 
But I think it's also important 

664
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:06,200
to notice that the Ten 
Commandments How many of them 

665
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:11,000
are seen in the New Testament as
commands in different ways? 

666
00:40:15,500 --> 00:40:18,400
Nine, you're right. 
Which one is not in there, the 

667
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,200
Sabbath. 
If you pay attention to the New 

668
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,700
Testament, you will see that all
these commands that we just read

669
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,200
Resurfaced in the New Testament 
in different ways through the 

670
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:29,900
letters and the Epistles and 
Jesus teachings. 

671
00:40:29,900 --> 00:40:36,100
Except one The Sabbath. 
And there are other branches of 

672
00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:38,500
Christianity that would disagree
with that. 

673
00:40:40,500 --> 00:40:44,300
And there are some genuine 
Christians that keep the Sabbath

674
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,800
there. 
Are I even know a family that 

675
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,600
keeps the feasts. 
And they're Believers, but they 

676
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,200
do it in light of the prophetic 
imagery of Jesus Christ. 

677
00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:58,200
And so considering that, what 
does the Bible have to say 

678
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,100
Colossians 2 tells us, Paul 
addresses? 

679
00:41:01,100 --> 00:41:04,400
This with the Colossians 2:16? 
Look what he says. 

680
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:09,000
It's so plain he says, 
therefore, let no one pass 

681
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:13,100
judgment on you and questions of
food and drink, there's the 

682
00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:16,600
food. 
Or with regard to a festival or 

683
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,600
a new moon, or a Sabbath, it's 
right there. 

684
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,200
These are a shadow of the things
to come, but the substance 

685
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,500
belongs to Christ. 
So Christ, fulfills. 

686
00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:30,500
He is the Fulfillment of those 
things. 

687
00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:34,400
All those things were yes for 
the Israelites and immediate 

688
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,100
application. 
Absolutely. 

689
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,800
But they were also shot oohs and
Christ was the substance. 

690
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:41,900
He's not the shadow, he's the 
Fulfillment of it. 

691
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,600
So the Sabbath we're going to 
talk about this when we get to 

692
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:48,000
the Sabbath commandment, but the
Sabbath just for us to get it in

693
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,700
the surface level, the Sabbath 
is Jesus. 

694
00:41:52,100 --> 00:41:55,800
He's our rest. 
We rest in Christ. 

695
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:57,900
It's not about a day, it's about
a person. 

696
00:41:58,700 --> 00:42:02,700
And we are our soul is at ease, 
because of Grace, because of 

697
00:42:02,700 --> 00:42:05,400
what he's done and we can rest 
in him. 

698
00:42:05,900 --> 00:42:07,700
Oh it's going to be exciting 
when we come to the Sabbath. 

699
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,600
And so, what does Jesus say even
for these food laws? 

700
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:15,100
Because there are even 
Ministries that say no, you have

701
00:42:15,100 --> 00:42:19,600
to keep the food laws. 
Now, there are some practical 

702
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:23,100
health tips to the food laws. 
I mean, all those Critters in 

703
00:42:23,100 --> 00:42:26,500
the ocean that he tells not to 
eat, if you look into those 

704
00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:28,500
animals, they're not very 
healthy for you there. 

705
00:42:28,500 --> 00:42:31,000
Like the vacuum of the ocean. 
They eat up all the junk. 

706
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:36,200
Pork is not healthy for you. 
So there's some practical 

707
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:40,200
understanding there. 
But it does not condemn us. 

708
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,700
He says, in Colossians, if you 
want to keep those dietary laws,

709
00:42:43,700 --> 00:42:47,000
you can do that, listen, do it. 
But don't condemn your brother. 

710
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:51,400
If he doesn't do it. 
In fact, Paul takes chapters to 

711
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,700
specific chapters to talk about 
how we are to do with this meat 

712
00:42:53,700 --> 00:42:58,100
thing. 
So if eating me stuck makes your

713
00:42:58,100 --> 00:43:00,000
brother stumble. 
Don't eat meat. 

714
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,500
Do you see? 
It's not as black and white as 

715
00:43:01,500 --> 00:43:04,500
we think people want black and 
white, the Bible doesn't give us

716
00:43:04,500 --> 00:43:09,800
black and white. 
So you can keep those feasts and

717
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,800
hey, you want to keep the 
Sabbath the way the Jews do you 

718
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,500
can do that all you want. 
Just don't think that you're 

719
00:43:14,500 --> 00:43:16,400
doing as a means to attain 
salvation. 

720
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,700
Nor do you do it to look at 
somebody else and think you are 

721
00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:21,900
more spiritual for keeping those
things. 

722
00:43:24,100 --> 00:43:26,600
If it's a conviction for you, 
keep that conviction. 

723
00:43:28,500 --> 00:43:32,700
Don't flaunt it. 
Don't bring judgment, stay in 

724
00:43:32,700 --> 00:43:36,200
your own lane. 
So we see some Freedom, there 

725
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,800
concerning these ceremonial and 
civil laws, but the moral law 

726
00:43:40,100 --> 00:43:44,000
here is extended into the New 
Testament and it is expressed in

727
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,300
different ways. 
Look, what Jesus is a mark 719. 

728
00:43:46,500 --> 00:43:49,400
He's talking about this idea of 
how the Pharisee says what, you 

729
00:43:49,408 --> 00:43:52,100
know, washing your hands. 
And how that the files are 

730
00:43:52,100 --> 00:43:54,000
Jesus, you've got it all 
twisted. 

731
00:43:54,100 --> 00:43:56,200
It's not what comes into a man 
that defiles him? 

732
00:43:56,207 --> 00:43:57,500
It's what's in his heart 
already? 

733
00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:01,800
Proud of his heart and Matthew 
720 says all this filthy names 

734
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:03,600
him in detail. 
What comes out of the heart of 

735
00:44:03,607 --> 00:44:05,700
man. 
But look what it says here, 

736
00:44:05,700 --> 00:44:09,300
Matthew 719. 
There's like a little annotation

737
00:44:09,300 --> 00:44:13,300
here says, thus he declared all 
foods clean talks about how he 

738
00:44:13,300 --> 00:44:16,200
declared all foods clean. 
That's an important verse 

739
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:23,400
because that's Jesus So we see 
how this relates to us in the 

740
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,700
New Testament, so let me just, 
let me just say this as we go 

741
00:44:26,700 --> 00:44:31,500
into the first commandment. 
In summary, we are to understand

742
00:44:31,500 --> 00:44:33,500
the Ten Commandments in light of
the New Covenant. 

743
00:44:33,900 --> 00:44:35,500
Okay? 
We can't look at that separate 

744
00:44:35,500 --> 00:44:36,900
from the New Testament 
teachings. 

745
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:40,900
They are not a means of 
justification, but a delightful 

746
00:44:40,900 --> 00:44:46,200
standard elevated under grace, 
Jesus, enhances those things for

747
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,800
the spirit and dwelt believer to
pursue in his life. 

748
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,200
So if somebody were to ask me, 
are you under the law? 

749
00:44:52,700 --> 00:44:54,700
Somebody were to ask me that 
somebody were to ask you. 

750
00:44:54,700 --> 00:45:00,200
You can answer confidently know.
I'm not under the law because to

751
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,100
be under the law means that I am
condemned for breaking the law 

752
00:45:03,100 --> 00:45:05,100
and Jesus Took My condemnation 
for me. 

753
00:45:07,100 --> 00:45:11,000
Equally, I am not under the law 
because I do not fulfill the law

754
00:45:11,300 --> 00:45:15,000
as a means to be justified 
because Jesus did that for me. 

755
00:45:15,900 --> 00:45:19,400
But because of his heart 
transformation because of this 

756
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,100
heart transplant through the 
gospel. 

757
00:45:22,100 --> 00:45:25,500
I Delight in the law. 
And I want to pursue the law, 

758
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,700
the psalmist talks about how he 
loves the law. 

759
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:31,400
He didn't have the New Testament
wasn't talking about Ephesians 

760
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:34,000
when he was saying that he was 
talking about all those 

761
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,200
Commandments. 
All those sacrificial 

762
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,000
Commandments. 
All those food laws he goes, I 

763
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,600
love to keep thy law. 
David. 

764
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:45,000
I've said this before was a New 
Covenant Believers at Old 

765
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,400
Testament, Covenant. 
He understood it he delighted he

766
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:49,900
saw it as a joy. 
Why? 

767
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,700
Because it was an opportunity 
for him to walk in the will 

768
00:45:52,700 --> 00:45:56,100
character nature of God and it 
was an opportunity to walk in a 

769
00:45:56,107 --> 00:45:59,800
way to please God not a means by
receiving justification. 

770
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:03,900
But to please him, the sense of 
walking in obedience to what 

771
00:46:03,900 --> 00:46:06,600
he's called us to walk in, in 
order to glorify his name. 

772
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:10,000
Nevertheless, as we go into the 
first commandment these 

773
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,100
Commandments reveal once again, 
the The character of God. 

774
00:46:14,700 --> 00:46:18,400
They are moral guidelines for us
to operate in our lives and they

775
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:23,600
are standard in, which we should
uphold personally and to fulfill

776
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:27,400
by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Amen. 

777
00:46:29,300 --> 00:46:36,400
First commandment. 
You shall have no other gods 

778
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:42,800
before me. 
Seems pretty straightforward. 

779
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:48,600
Now, when he says, you shall not
have any Gods, before me, what 

780
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:51,200
he's not saying is you can have 
other gods as long as they're 

781
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:55,000
not above means standard of 
priority, he's not saying that 

782
00:46:55,500 --> 00:46:58,700
don't read it that way you can 
translate this way you shall 

783
00:46:58,700 --> 00:47:00,600
have no other gods before my 
face. 

784
00:47:02,100 --> 00:47:05,100
Or you shall have no other gods 
besides me. 

785
00:47:07,700 --> 00:47:10,900
And what he's saying there is I 
am the only one that has access 

786
00:47:10,900 --> 00:47:15,600
to be Lord and Master of your 
life I'm the only one and I'm 

787
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:17,900
not willing to share that step 
that status. 

788
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:20,300
Now for us to unpack, what this 
means. 

789
00:47:20,300 --> 00:47:23,700
What this commandment means for 
us practically, I'm going to 

790
00:47:23,707 --> 00:47:26,600
read to you this the same book, 
you'd have to turn there, but 

791
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,600
you can write as a reference 
because the Bible interprets, 

792
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:36,100
the Bible, Exodus 23 23, What 
does it mean to have other gods 

793
00:47:36,100 --> 00:47:41,900
before the Lord? 
It says, when my angel goes 

794
00:47:41,900 --> 00:47:45,400
before you and brings you to the
amorites and to the Hittites and

795
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:47,500
the perizzites and the 
Canaanites, and the hivites and 

796
00:47:47,500 --> 00:47:49,600
the jebusites, and I blocked 
them out. 

797
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:53,700
Look what he says in verse 24. 
You shall not bow down to their 

798
00:47:53,700 --> 00:47:58,900
gods, nor serve them nor do as 
they do, but you shall utterly 

799
00:47:58,900 --> 00:48:02,500
overthrow them and break their 
pillars in pieces. 

800
00:48:04,900 --> 00:48:07,300
So he's saying here, when you go
into the promised land, I'm 

801
00:48:07,300 --> 00:48:10,600
making this very clear, I don't 
want any Gods before my eyes. 

802
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:13,300
I don't want any idolatry. 
I don't want you to adopt any of

803
00:48:13,300 --> 00:48:16,100
the gods or the practices of 
these ights. 

804
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:22,300
In fact, I want you to bring 
them to fine powder to never be 

805
00:48:22,300 --> 00:48:28,800
seen before my eyes ever again. 
In other words, he's saying, 

806
00:48:29,500 --> 00:48:32,400
what only I can be God of your 
life. 

807
00:48:35,700 --> 00:48:39,500
Total exclusivity no options for
anything else. 

808
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:44,400
He's saying me and me alone and 
I want you to demonstrate that 

809
00:48:44,700 --> 00:48:47,700
by crushing all those things 
that you see in the land of 

810
00:48:47,700 --> 00:48:51,500
Canaan. 
Now, we all read this 

811
00:48:51,500 --> 00:48:56,200
commandment, we say, well sure. 
Absolutely. 

812
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,300
God, Jesus, there's no other 
God. 

813
00:49:00,300 --> 00:49:01,700
I go to church, to talk about 
him. 

814
00:49:01,700 --> 00:49:03,100
I go to church to sing about 
him. 

815
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:07,200
There's no Idol. 
There's no asherah pull that. 

816
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:08,400
I bow down. 
That's ridiculous. 

817
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:10,700
There's no bail alter that. 
I go to and sacrifice. 

818
00:49:11,300 --> 00:49:13,300
No way. 
I'm fulfilling that. 

819
00:49:13,300 --> 00:49:14,900
That's the standard that I'm 
pursuing. 

820
00:49:16,100 --> 00:49:20,400
So we realized what a God is, 
what a God, can potentially be. 

821
00:49:24,100 --> 00:49:26,700
Can any of you identify maybe 
give a simple definition of what

822
00:49:26,700 --> 00:49:34,000
an idol is. 
No, just a specific. 

823
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,400
Now a definition will get to 
specifics in the moment. 

824
00:49:41,700 --> 00:49:43,200
Anything that you place above 
God. 

825
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:46,200
That's a standard definition. 
Anything you place above God. 

826
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,200
But what does it mean to place 
above? 

827
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:51,900
Go ahead. 
No, go ahead. 

828
00:49:51,900 --> 00:49:53,100
You said it. 
Thank you. 

829
00:49:53,100 --> 00:49:55,300
That you desire. 
Something that your heart 

830
00:49:55,300 --> 00:49:57,300
desires. 
Can we say more than God? 

831
00:49:58,100 --> 00:49:59,200
Sure. 
Yes. 

832
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:06,200
Your heart worships Treasures 
above anything that your heart 

833
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:10,300
Treasures or worships above God?
Yes. 

834
00:50:14,500 --> 00:50:16,000
Anything that has authority over
you. 

835
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:21,700
That's a great insight. 
Well we just read what it means 

836
00:50:21,700 --> 00:50:23,300
to have another God in our 
lives. 

837
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:26,000
In Exodus 23 24, what does he 
say here? 

838
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:32,500
Look You shall not bow down to 
their gods, nor serve them. 

839
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:41,500
God is anything. 
An object that we worship. 

840
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:48,400
Or devoted to. 
Anything, an object, a thought, 

841
00:50:48,700 --> 00:50:54,400
a person and occupation anything
that we worship or devoted to 

842
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:56,000
more than God. 
That's a definition that X is 

843
00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:03,700
2324 gives us Anything that we 
adore, anything that we desire, 

844
00:51:03,700 --> 00:51:07,200
anything that we are thrilled by
anything that we find more 

845
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,100
pleasure in other than God, is 
an idol. 

846
00:51:10,100 --> 00:51:16,900
I do not care what it is. 
Because this is what the Bible 

847
00:51:16,900 --> 00:51:20,800
says. 
You're not to bow before it nor 

848
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:28,300
nor are you to serve it. 
And the reason and this is the 

849
00:51:28,300 --> 00:51:30,000
beauty of these commands, 
because we're going to explore 

850
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:31,600
the reason why God instituted 
them. 

851
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:35,700
The reason why God gave this 
command is in the second 

852
00:51:35,700 --> 00:51:39,900
commandment in the last part or 
the middle part, revealing who 

853
00:51:39,900 --> 00:51:41,900
he is. 
He says, something very similar 

854
00:51:41,900 --> 00:51:44,100
in a second command that you 
don't make a carved image. 

855
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:48,100
And he tells us the reason why I
near the end for I the Lord your

856
00:51:48,100 --> 00:51:51,100
God am a jealous God, I'm 
jealous. 

857
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:53,000
Now there are two types of 
jealousy. 

858
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,000
There's a jealousy that comes 
from insecurity. 

859
00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:00,600
That's an unhealthy jealousy. 
And we'll get into that when we 

860
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:02,800
come to the second commandment, 
but there's a righteous 

861
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:06,300
jealousy. 
And the best example to give of 

862
00:52:06,300 --> 00:52:10,400
a righteous jealousy is a man 
and his wife. 

863
00:52:11,700 --> 00:52:14,500
Who's ferociously jealous for 
her? 

864
00:52:15,500 --> 00:52:19,800
And he has every right and vice 
versa to feel those emotions 

865
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:23,900
when he sees or she sees their 
spouse. 

866
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,200
Going into a different direction
other than the Covenant that 

867
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:31,800
they've established between one.
Another that's totally 

868
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:37,700
justifiable that burning sense 
of She's mine is totally right. 

869
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:43,800
That burning sensation of. 
He's mine is totally acceptable.

870
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:45,500
Why? 
Because God feels it towards his

871
00:52:45,500 --> 00:52:51,000
bride. 
Because it's right, it's 

872
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:54,000
righteous. 
It's according to his character 

873
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:57,900
and his standard. 
It's not coveting, it's not 

874
00:52:57,900 --> 00:53:00,400
envying. 
It's something that is fueled by

875
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,900
a covenant. 
That was established between two

876
00:53:02,900 --> 00:53:08,000
people and he's saying here, I'm
a jealous God, so I don't want 

877
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:11,000
you for anybody else. 
I'm not sharing you. 

878
00:53:12,300 --> 00:53:16,600
I'm not going to let you find 
your pleasure in another person 

879
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:20,700
or thing. 
Because we made a covenant that 

880
00:53:20,700 --> 00:53:25,700
I am for you and you are for me.
So the question the porn 

881
00:53:25,700 --> 00:53:28,300
question is, how do I identify 
an idol in my life? 

882
00:53:29,700 --> 00:53:32,600
That's a very important question
and I think it just comes back 

883
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:37,700
to what we've been saying. 
Where do you find all your 

884
00:53:37,700 --> 00:53:43,800
pleasure? 
What is the theme of your 

885
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:49,900
thinking? 
What causes you to adore? 

886
00:53:52,500 --> 00:53:54,600
What gives you a sense of 
purpose? 

887
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:03,100
Because if it's anything except 
God, it's an idol. 

888
00:54:05,100 --> 00:54:08,500
Now, God says, I've given you 
things to enjoy, he says that 

889
00:54:08,500 --> 00:54:11,800
first Timothy 6, you are to 
enjoy things in life. 

890
00:54:12,300 --> 00:54:15,200
You are to glorify God even in 
your eating. 

891
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:18,300
You can enjoy a good meal, you 
can enjoy time with your family,

892
00:54:18,300 --> 00:54:21,300
you can enjoy the job in the 
occupation that God has given 

893
00:54:21,300 --> 00:54:24,800
you because he's giving you 
those skills, but you were never

894
00:54:24,900 --> 00:54:27,100
allowed to enjoy those things 
more than God himself. 

895
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,900
God wants to be the source. 
God wants to be the object and 

896
00:54:33,900 --> 00:54:36,300
even all those things that we 
do, we should do, in light of 

897
00:54:36,300 --> 00:54:39,700
our relationship with God and 
glorify him and worship him 

898
00:54:39,700 --> 00:54:46,700
because of those things. 
In an idol can be anything. 

899
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:53,600
You can put that up, please. 
Oh, you think it's just about a 

900
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:57,700
statue? 
now, if you see these things, 

901
00:55:00,700 --> 00:55:04,800
let me just be straight if you 
see these things. and any of 

902
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:18,200
them offend you, it's probably 
because it's your God, and as 

903
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:21,600
you look at these things, let me
just encourage you. 

904
00:55:23,300 --> 00:55:27,200
The best thing that you and I 
can do concerning how we are to 

905
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,100
live. 
This commandment out Faithfully 

906
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:35,200
is to look at all these things 
and to see how Jesus feels about

907
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:37,700
them in light of the scriptures.
Do you understand what I'm 

908
00:55:37,700 --> 00:55:39,700
saying? 
Will you sing? 

909
00:55:39,700 --> 00:55:41,800
I don't see an iPhone in the 
book of Colossians. 

910
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:44,800
I don't see an iPhone in the 
book of Ephesians. 

911
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:54,200
I do how Redeem, the time. 
Redeem the time paraphrase, 

912
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:56,700
Ephesians 5:15, don't waste your
time, don't you know, the days 

913
00:55:56,700 --> 00:55:58,700
are evil, don't just squander 
your time. 

914
00:55:58,700 --> 00:56:00,800
Don't just give it up hours on 
end. 

915
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:02,900
There's something to fulfill you
have a purpose. 

916
00:56:03,700 --> 00:56:06,300
Don't just give yourself over to
devices and let them be little 

917
00:56:06,300 --> 00:56:08,800
Vacuums in your life. 
That sucked everything out of 

918
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:14,800
you that God's put in you. 
Sports we say, oh, we don't 

919
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,500
worship idols. 
We don't worship things. 

920
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:21,700
No, we just packed stadiums and 
people paint their faces and 

921
00:56:21,700 --> 00:56:25,100
they go crazy and people fight. 
And people lose money over 

922
00:56:25,100 --> 00:56:27,300
people that don't even know 
them. 

923
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:31,500
So it's going to get very quiet 
and few moments here. 

924
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:39,100
Marriage. 
Beautiful instituted by God. 

925
00:56:40,100 --> 00:56:44,900
But too many people have 
elevated this above him and 

926
00:56:44,900 --> 00:56:46,900
their identity is in their 
spouse. 

927
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:53,000
And their Idol is the thrill of 
the of the relationship in every

928
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:55,200
aspect of the way. 
But let me tell you something, 

929
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,300
your husband will make a 
terrible God. 

930
00:56:59,100 --> 00:57:03,800
Your wife will make a terrible. 
God, they will fail you. 

931
00:57:04,900 --> 00:57:07,700
They will not fulfill what your 
soul is craving for. 

932
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:09,900
Do they have a place in your 
life? 

933
00:57:09,900 --> 00:57:13,800
Yes, but not above God ministry.
That's a Pulpit, by the way. 

934
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:19,100
Ministry. 
There are people that preach the

935
00:57:19,100 --> 00:57:22,800
word and love to preach more 
than the one they preach about. 

936
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:25,800
They love the sound of their own
voice. 

937
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:30,600
They love people. 
Praising the fact that they have

938
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:33,700
all this wealth of knowledge and
all this influence, it can stir 

939
00:57:33,700 --> 00:57:36,800
their hearts. 
They seek that more than him. 

940
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:40,900
They find the thrill and giving 
to the poor more than Breaking 

941
00:57:40,900 --> 00:57:42,900
that Alabaster flask as we 
learned about. 

942
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:47,900
And loving him, an adoring him. 
That's not makeup. 

943
00:57:47,900 --> 00:57:53,200
By the way, that's about you. 
It's about idolizing yourself. 

944
00:57:54,500 --> 00:57:57,800
You can come to a place in which
how do you know if you idolize 

945
00:57:57,800 --> 00:57:59,400
yourself, you think about you 
all the time? 

946
00:58:01,500 --> 00:58:03,200
How do I look? 
What are people saying about me?

947
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:06,200
Is this and what is that pose? 
I heard somebody Whispering. 

948
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:08,400
Were they talking about me? 
And what are people going to 

949
00:58:09,700 --> 00:58:14,600
your own Idol? 
Your eyes are inward, they're 

950
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:18,600
not outward. 
Do not worry about what people 

951
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:20,600
think about God in your how you 
represent. 

952
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:22,400
God, that's totally awesome. 
That's fine. 

953
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:25,500
That's holy it's about you. 
It's about your image is about 

954
00:58:25,500 --> 00:58:28,600
how you look so many people 
invest in this body. 

955
00:58:29,500 --> 00:58:31,100
And the Bible says it very clear
in 1st. 

956
00:58:31,100 --> 00:58:36,600
Timothy 4:8 that bodily exercise
is of some value, but godliness 

957
00:58:36,700 --> 00:58:40,500
is a value in every way. 
There's this I'm all for a 

958
00:58:40,508 --> 00:58:43,500
health and fitness and dieting 
and all that stuff is important 

959
00:58:43,500 --> 00:58:45,300
and good. 
But don't come to the place 

960
00:58:45,300 --> 00:58:49,800
where it becomes your God. 
Do I have to talk about 

961
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:54,000
Instagram? 
Family. 

962
00:58:55,800 --> 00:59:02,600
You're saying hold on damn Lee. 
I love my children, I love my 

963
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:03,500
wife. 
I love my husband. 

964
00:59:03,500 --> 00:59:06,600
I love my parents. 
I'll give you letters in red. 

965
00:59:06,900 --> 00:59:10,000
If you love them, more than 
Jesus, you're not worthy to be 

966
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,300
his disciple. 
These were not even in the Old 

967
00:59:12,300 --> 00:59:13,500
Testament. 
I'm leaning more in the New 

968
00:59:13,500 --> 00:59:16,200
Testament, and Jesus is giving 
away higher standard than the 

969
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:18,600
old Covenant. 
You love your family, more than 

970
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:23,200
me if you cannot submit to the 
gospel because of your family, 

971
00:59:23,700 --> 00:59:27,700
that's your Idol. 
Grades money. 

972
00:59:27,900 --> 00:59:31,600
Possessions, all those things. 
Listen. 

973
00:59:31,700 --> 00:59:34,500
Now let's step back. 
Are those things bad? 

974
00:59:35,500 --> 00:59:39,500
No, but we can take once again 
the blessings of God and turn 

975
00:59:39,500 --> 00:59:42,300
them into Idols. 
We'd be very careful. 

976
00:59:42,300 --> 00:59:45,700
So what do we do? 
We ask the Lord to take all 

977
00:59:45,700 --> 00:59:48,600
these things and to enjoy all 
these things and light of him, 

978
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:50,800
being the ultimate pleasure in 
our lives. 

979
00:59:51,100 --> 00:59:55,100
That's what we do. 
That he is the Fountain and 

980
00:59:55,100 --> 01:00:00,000
everything else flows out of 
that, as an extension of who he 

981
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:04,700
is and his person. 
It's properly appropriating and 

982
01:00:04,700 --> 01:00:06,400
placing these things in our 
lives. 

983
01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:10,100
Him being the Supreme him being 
the source him, being everything

984
01:00:10,100 --> 01:00:12,700
to us. 
How do I know you've heard me 

985
01:00:12,700 --> 01:00:14,300
say this so many times? 
I'll say it again. 

986
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:17,700
If Jesus were to ask you to get 
rid of any of those things, 

987
01:00:17,700 --> 01:00:20,700
would you be able to do it? 
If not, it's an idol. 

988
01:00:22,900 --> 01:00:30,200
He's saying, well, this is a 
little This standard is pretty 

989
01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:32,600
high. 
I don't know if I can walk in 

990
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:35,700
that standard, you know, a group
of people said that the Jesus in

991
01:00:35,700 --> 01:00:39,300
John chapter 6, he says, eat my 
flesh and drink my blood and 

992
01:00:39,300 --> 01:00:43,300
they said those very exact words
they says, how can we keep that?

993
01:00:44,100 --> 01:00:49,000
This is too much for us and they
walked away and Jesus, let them 

994
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:53,200
Why? 
Because he's a jealous God. 

995
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:56,500
Hear me. 
He wants you. 

996
01:00:56,800 --> 01:01:00,800
And all of you now. 
Let's give an illustration to 

997
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:05,400
this young ladies. 
If a young man approached you 

998
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:07,700
and you got to know each other 
and you began to be fond of one 

999
01:01:07,700 --> 01:01:11,000
another and you want to fulfill 
that Covenant of marriage and 

1000
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:14,100
that day where he proposes to 
you do that glorious day. 

1001
01:01:17,500 --> 01:01:19,800
He gets on one knee, looks at 
you in the eyes, and he begins 

1002
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:23,700
to express how much he wants to 
be devoted to you and how much 

1003
01:01:23,700 --> 01:01:25,600
he wants to spend his life. 
And how much she wants to 

1004
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:28,000
glorify God and marriage, and 
all these things. 

1005
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:31,200
And you're ready, you're just 
bursting from the seams. 

1006
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:33,100
You're ready to say, yes, tears 
are streaming down. 

1007
01:01:33,100 --> 01:01:35,300
There's the picture guy right 
there, taking it, all being 

1008
01:01:35,300 --> 01:01:41,600
recorded, and all for a sudden. 
The young man Bert's a splits 

1009
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:44,900
out these words. 
Listen in light of all of that, 

1010
01:01:44,900 --> 01:01:48,600
sweetie. 
I'm going to ask you for one 

1011
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:52,800
thing. 
Out of the 365 days in which we 

1012
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:55,600
are together in. 
Holy Union. 

1013
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:59,900
I just want one day, just one 
day to be with somebody else. 

1014
01:02:00,900 --> 01:02:04,400
Just one day, 24 hours, that's 
it? 

1015
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:09,600
That's all I'm asking for. 
And you look and you say are you

1016
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:13,500
out of your mind? 
Okay, okay, okay, hold on. 

1017
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:17,600
Not one day, went out one day 
when our there's a girl that I 

1018
01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:20,000
used to know. 
And I haven't talked to her in a

1019
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:22,600
long time, but I want to meet 
with her for one hour, just one 

1020
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:23,900
hour. 
She's gonna come, pick me up. 

1021
01:02:23,900 --> 01:02:27,200
And all I want is one hour with 
her and then you have me for 

1022
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:31,300
every other hour of the year. 
I'm yours with that sound 

1023
01:02:31,300 --> 01:02:38,700
appealing to you. 
You would be out of your mind to

1024
01:02:38,700 --> 01:02:41,200
say yes, to somebody like that. 
I don't care what he says. 

1025
01:02:41,300 --> 01:02:44,800
I don't care what he promises, 
that is absolutely ridiculous. 

1026
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:48,700
Now, how many of us do that with
the Lord? 

1027
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:55,000
Where he demands total 
exclusivity, he wants all of us 

1028
01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:57,800
and he wants all these things. 
Guess what? 

1029
01:02:57,900 --> 01:03:03,300
To be enjoyed with him? 
But you and I instead, we take 

1030
01:03:03,300 --> 01:03:05,900
one of those things and we make 
it a side partner. 

1031
01:03:08,300 --> 01:03:11,700
Once again, don't hear me wrong,
we are to enjoy these things. 

1032
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:16,400
But we are to never say this is 
something that I desire more 

1033
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:19,300
than him. 
And he is jealous. 

1034
01:03:19,500 --> 01:03:22,100
You saying, are you really he's 
jealous? 

1035
01:03:23,700 --> 01:03:27,300
He's jealous when you give more 
time to the thing than to him. 

1036
01:03:27,900 --> 01:03:30,500
He's jealous when your heart 
finds more thrill and enjoyment 

1037
01:03:30,500 --> 01:03:34,400
and pleasure in your job than in
his presence. 

1038
01:03:39,900 --> 01:03:42,500
The Prophet Jeremiah system am 
closing with these verses 

1039
01:03:42,500 --> 01:03:47,100
relating to all of this. 
Jeremiah to 11 to 13. 

1040
01:03:47,100 --> 01:03:51,600
This is fantastic, it's 
summarizes this perfectly. 

1041
01:03:55,700 --> 01:04:05,800
Jeremiah to 11 to 13. 
This is when the nation of 

1042
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:09,300
Israel did not fulfill the first
commandment, and Look What the 

1043
01:04:09,300 --> 01:04:13,900
Lord says, as a nation changed 
its Gods, even though they are 

1044
01:04:13,900 --> 01:04:18,600
no gods, But my people have 
changed their glory for that, 

1045
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:23,900
which does not profit. 
Stop there. 

1046
01:04:23,900 --> 01:04:28,500
So he says they went after these
different gods and they're not 

1047
01:04:28,500 --> 01:04:31,300
even Gods, they're man-made 
things. 

1048
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:36,500
Isn't it amazing that people 
worship man-made things things 

1049
01:04:36,500 --> 01:04:39,200
that were built in a factory 
things that were produced by 

1050
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:43,000
human minds and they have 
elevated, those things more than

1051
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:45,100
the one who created all those 
things. 

1052
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:50,300
And he says, they have exchanged
their glory for that, which does

1053
01:04:50,300 --> 01:04:54,400
not profit. 
In other words, for that would 

1054
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:59,500
does not satisfy the inner man 
says, that's what they've done. 

1055
01:04:59,500 --> 01:05:01,800
And look what he does. 
In verse 12, he does something I

1056
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:05,200
think is absolutely amazing. 
He says be appalled. 

1057
01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:07,300
Now, he calls the heavens as a 
witness. 

1058
01:05:08,100 --> 01:05:10,900
He says, be appalled, o Heavens 
at this. 

1059
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:14,800
Be shocked. 
Be utterly desolate declares the

1060
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:19,300
Lord. 
Why Is my people have committed,

1061
01:05:19,300 --> 01:05:21,700
two evils. 
So he's saying all of Heaven. 

1062
01:05:22,100 --> 01:05:26,600
I want all the Angelic hosts. 
I want every Celestial being to 

1063
01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:30,800
check this out. 
My people have exchanged their 

1064
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:34,800
glory for something that does 
not profit. 

1065
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:40,600
And God identifies it as evil. 
Why look? 

1066
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:43,900
How he paints this picture? 
They have forsaken. 

1067
01:05:43,900 --> 01:05:50,000
Me, me, the Fountain of Living 
Waters And hewed out cisterns 

1068
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:54,100
for themselves, broken cisterns,
that can hold no water. 

1069
01:05:56,600 --> 01:06:00,900
That is a commentary on the 
first commandment broken. 

1070
01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:05,800
The very startling picture he 
says heavens. 

1071
01:06:06,700 --> 01:06:09,800
Look at this. 
Look at how these people are 

1072
01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:14,800
finding more pleasure in that 
and their family and their job, 

1073
01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:18,000
in their clothes, in their bank 
account in their sports team. 

1074
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:24,000
In their iPhone. 
Look at look, they exchange 

1075
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:27,800
this. 
What I can give. 

1076
01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:34,200
For that, which does not profit.
And it is like somebody who is 

1077
01:06:34,200 --> 01:06:36,900
so thirsty, and there's a 
fountain of the purest. 

1078
01:06:36,900 --> 01:06:42,300
Cleanest most fulfilling water 
that never ceases to flow. 

1079
01:06:42,300 --> 01:06:44,200
I mean, you can be thirsty every
day of your life. 

1080
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:46,800
In this Fountain will satisfy 
you, and this is what they're 

1081
01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:48,400
doing. 
They're digging with their hands

1082
01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:50,700
on the side of the road to try 
to find water at the end of that

1083
01:06:50,700 --> 01:06:56,000
pit. that's what it looks like 
to God when we have Idols in our

1084
01:06:56,000 --> 01:07:02,000
lives and God is appalled, and 
he goes, you have no idea what 

1085
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:06,600
you're missing out on So we have
to look at our own hearts. 

1086
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:09,900
And these 10 commandments will 
do just that. 

1087
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:15,000
Is there anything in my life? 
That I am more thrilled by more 

1088
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:19,000
pleased, by that takes 
occupation of my mind, the most 

1089
01:07:19,300 --> 01:07:23,100
other than God. 
Do I do, I do things outside of 

1090
01:07:23,100 --> 01:07:26,100
the goodness of God. 
And do I do things in spite of 

1091
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:27,500
the fact that he gave me these 
things? 

1092
01:07:27,500 --> 01:07:30,900
And these things should cause 
me, even my steak should cause 

1093
01:07:30,900 --> 01:07:34,000
me to worship God because he 
made it so flavorful and he gave

1094
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:36,800
me the money to provide for and 
he gave me the family to enjoy 

1095
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:39,300
it with. 
Do I do things outside of that? 

1096
01:07:40,300 --> 01:07:43,800
Do I worship the created thing 
more than the Creator? 

1097
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:49,800
And so he says, enjoy it, enjoy 
this life, happily enjoy these 

1098
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:53,800
things, but not more than me. 
Not never more than me. 

1099
01:07:54,400 --> 01:07:57,000
If anything, it should cause you
to love me more. 

1100
01:07:57,000 --> 01:07:59,700
Because these are extensions of 
my grace and mercy to you. 

1101
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:05,500
Let's pray together. 
So how are we to understand the 

1102
01:08:05,508 --> 01:08:09,300
first commandment? 
We are to understand it as a as 

1103
01:08:09,300 --> 01:08:13,800
God speaking, as a ferociously 
jealous bridegroom over his 

1104
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:17,700
bride. 
That I have set the standard the

1105
01:08:17,700 --> 01:08:22,700
same way, a man or a woman has a
standard concerning marriage 

1106
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:24,500
that I am yours and you are 
mine. 

1107
01:08:24,500 --> 01:08:31,399
We do not share each other. 
That when we make this Covenant,

1108
01:08:31,399 --> 01:08:36,200
we are making that statement. 
And before we pray, I think this

1109
01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:38,399
is important to understand in 
light of the New Testament. 

1110
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:46,600
In Colossians 3:5. 
Look what Paul says he says, put

1111
01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:49,500
to death. 
Therefore, what is Earthly in 

1112
01:08:49,500 --> 01:08:54,600
you sexual immorality, impurity 
passion, evil desire. 

1113
01:08:54,700 --> 01:08:57,700
And look at this and 
covetousness. 

1114
01:08:59,399 --> 01:09:03,700
Which is idolatry. 
So how does Paul Define 

1115
01:09:03,700 --> 01:09:06,600
idolatry? 
Covetousness. 

1116
01:09:06,700 --> 01:09:11,100
What does it mean to covet? 
It means to have a strong desire

1117
01:09:11,100 --> 01:09:14,500
for something or someone that 
does not belong to you. 

1118
01:09:16,300 --> 01:09:22,399
So this is one strong element of
idolatry which is very, very 

1119
01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:25,200
interesting because the last 
commandment is not to covet. 

1120
01:09:25,800 --> 01:09:28,600
And so we have a full circle. 
The first one is not have any 

1121
01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:32,399
God before me, not to have idols
and based on this text and Idol 

1122
01:09:32,399 --> 01:09:35,600
is anything that you and I can 
covet or we do covet. 

1123
01:09:36,100 --> 01:09:40,399
So when I look at something that
somebody has in my my heart so 

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01:09:40,399 --> 01:09:44,899
wanted that it consumes my mind 
and my time That's an idol. 

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01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:49,700
If I do the same with another 
person's spouse, that's an idol.

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01:09:50,300 --> 01:09:53,899
Anything that we have a strong 
desire for that does not belong 

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01:09:53,899 --> 01:09:56,600
to us. 
Paul says that's an idol because

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01:09:56,600 --> 01:09:59,500
the very thing that is 
occupying, your thinking and 

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01:09:59,500 --> 01:10:03,200
making your heart feel that way.
I want me to do that to you. 

1130
01:10:05,300 --> 01:10:07,800
I want me to be the passion of 
your heart. 

1131
01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:13,000
I want you to pursue me, not 
that I'm supposed to have that 

1132
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:16,600
occupation in your mind. 
I'm supposed to make your heart 

1133
01:10:16,600 --> 01:10:19,500
feel that way. 
And so when you covet something,

1134
01:10:19,500 --> 01:10:21,900
when you spend all that energy 
and you meditate upon those 

1135
01:10:21,900 --> 01:10:24,100
things that aren't supposed to 
be yours in the first place, 

1136
01:10:24,500 --> 01:10:28,500
that's the pursuit that I'm 
anticipating from you, for me. 

1137
01:10:30,300 --> 01:10:33,600
So he says don't crave those 
things, crave me. 

1138
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:36,900
Don't run after those things. 
Run after me. 

1139
01:10:37,900 --> 01:10:40,500
Don't get caught up in those 
things get caught up in me. 

1140
01:10:41,500 --> 01:10:43,700
That is the essence of the first
commandment. 

1141
01:10:43,900 --> 01:10:46,700
So it's not even things that we 
have placed in our lives. 

1142
01:10:46,700 --> 01:10:49,200
That take the place of God. 
It's even the things that we 

1143
01:10:49,200 --> 01:10:55,200
have a craving for that, we 
might not even have You saying 

1144
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:57,600
well, that's just getting crazy.
Well let's take it to the 

1145
01:10:57,600 --> 01:11:01,100
marriage example, again. 
Let's say that you have that 

1146
01:11:01,200 --> 01:11:04,100
with somebody, but you know that
that person's heart. 

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01:11:04,100 --> 01:11:06,800
The opposite person, the spouse 
of yours in their heart, they 

1148
01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:11,000
want somebody else. 
Or they find pleasure in 

1149
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:12,500
something, other than you, we 
can. 

1150
01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:15,400
We can use. 
As example, all day, long God 

1151
01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:17,400
says, not only do, I want to see
it. 

1152
01:11:17,500 --> 01:11:20,400
Yes, obviously, physically, I 
want every Idol in the land of 

1153
01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:25,300
your cane and to be crushed, but
I want your heart, the attitude 

1154
01:11:25,300 --> 01:11:28,400
of your heart, the posture of 
This Heart To Be Mine. 

1155
01:11:30,300 --> 01:11:32,200
And we should none of us should 
step back and say well that's 

1156
01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:36,300
just a little bit too much. 
He loves us and he wants to make

1157
01:11:36,300 --> 01:11:40,100
covenant. 
And relationship experience in 

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01:11:40,100 --> 01:11:43,300
its fullness of joy, must demand
total commitment to one another.

1159
01:11:45,700 --> 01:11:47,100
Father, we thank you for 
tonight. 

1160
01:11:48,900 --> 01:11:52,600
Thank you for showing us how 
this Law relates to us. 

1161
01:11:52,600 --> 01:11:54,800
We thank you that Jesus fulfills
the law. 

1162
01:11:56,500 --> 01:11:57,900
That we are no longer under the 
law. 

1163
01:11:58,500 --> 01:12:01,500
But we thank you that you have 
given us a heart transplant for 

1164
01:12:01,500 --> 01:12:03,400
us to desire to walk in these 
things. 

1165
01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:08,700
And Lord, we want to be a people
that have no other gods before 

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01:12:08,700 --> 01:12:12,000
you. 
That you would receive the 

1167
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:16,300
fullness of who we are and Lord 
help us understand the balance. 

1168
01:12:16,300 --> 01:12:22,000
Let us never fall into the ditch
of legalism as we drift away 

1169
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:25,700
from lawlessness. 
Help us stay on that balance 

1170
01:12:25,700 --> 01:12:28,500
road that we are to enjoy things
in life. 

1171
01:12:29,500 --> 01:12:33,100
But not more than you. 
We are to walk in the things of 

1172
01:12:33,108 --> 01:12:37,400
this life with our families and 
our friends and do certain 

1173
01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:42,200
things that our hearts desire 
but never are they to replace 

1174
01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:44,500
the pleasure that we find in the
king. 

1175
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:48,600
And so Lord we pray that if 
there are any Idols in our 

1176
01:12:48,600 --> 01:12:53,200
hearts even tonight that you 
would show us and that we would 

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01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:57,000
do with the nation of Israel was
to do and that's put it in its 

1178
01:12:57,000 --> 01:13:00,100
right place. 
The crush it. 

1179
01:13:06,200 --> 01:13:08,500
It's a lord. 
If money occupies are thinking, 

1180
01:13:08,700 --> 01:13:14,400
if finances occupy, our 
thoughts, if anything, anything 

1181
01:13:15,100 --> 01:13:18,800
takes that place of you, would 
you with this glorious truth. 

1182
01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:22,100
Give us the power of the Holy 
Spirit to even love you. 

1183
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:28,000
Rest to fulfill the greatest 
commandment is impossible, apart

1184
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:30,500
from the Holy Spirit, pouring 
out his love in our hearts. 

1185
01:13:31,200 --> 01:13:33,800
And so Lord, we need you to love
you. 

1186
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:35,400
Help us. 
God. 

1187
01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:39,400
See the futility in the vanity, 
in the silliness of these 

1188
01:13:39,400 --> 01:13:41,400
things. 
When there is an eternal God 

1189
01:13:41,400 --> 01:13:45,800
that wants to commune with us. 
Bring us to the right place. 

1190
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:48,500
Lord. 
And as we explore these other 

1191
01:13:48,500 --> 01:13:54,300
Commandments, may we yes since 
this understanding exhaustion 

1192
01:13:54,300 --> 01:13:56,300
for those who are not in Christ 
and are living. 

1193
01:13:56,300 --> 01:13:59,600
According to this, to try to get
salvation and may it bring 

1194
01:13:59,600 --> 01:14:03,200
people to the foot of the cross.
But Lord, may we also for those 

1195
01:14:03,200 --> 01:14:08,300
who are born again, see these 
things. as a way of enhancing 

1196
01:14:08,300 --> 01:14:12,600
our experience of a relationship
with you, May we be motivated 

1197
01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:16,900
rights lie? 
By these words, in the name of 

1198
01:14:16,900 --> 01:14:16,900
Jesus, we pray. 
By these words, in the name of 

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01:14:16,900 --> 01:14:17,800
Jesus, we pray.