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I'm going to look today at the 
climax of the stories of one of 

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the most legendary leaders in 
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which would become his, I guess 
his adoptive mother rather would

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would name this character Moses,
whose name literally meant to 

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draw out because when she found 
him, he was in the Nile and she 

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drew him out of the Nile. 
And that that would also be a 

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prophetic name because God would
use him later to draw out his 

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people, an entire nation of 2 to
3,000,000 out of their bondage 

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to slavery in the single most 
dramatic event in human history.

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There was nothing quite like the
Exodus. 

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And the Scriptures tell us this.
Deuteronomy 432 says, ask now of

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the days that are past, which 
were before you, since the day 

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that God created man on the 
earth as from one end of heaven 

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to the other. 
Whether such an event has ever 

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happened or was ever heard of, 
there's nothing quite like this 

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event. 
A series of miracles or occur. 

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Moses leads and records this, 
the series of miraculous events 

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that happened 3500 years ago. 
A nation of people, 600,000 men,

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not including the women and the 
children, had grown so large 

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where they were in Egypt that 
the Egyptians began to be afraid

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because they said if there's 
ever an uprising, we can no 

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longer defend ourselves against 
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And so a new king, a new pharaoh
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into labor. 
And Deuteronomy 4 calls this 

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experience an iron furnace. 
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so great. 
Exodus 113 says they ruthlessly 

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made the people of Israel work 
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bitter with hard service and 
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of work in the field. 
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and oppression was on them, and 
they cried out to their God, and

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their God heard them. 
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and he moved, and he drew 
through Moses this people out 

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into the land that God had 
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So Moses ascent to the Pharaoh 
repeatedly to tell him these 

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words. 
Let my people go, that my people

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may serve me. 
And God sends as Pharaoh hardens

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his heart, as God hardens 
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the people go. 
So he sends Moses to bring 

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plagues, and these 10 miraculous
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Egyptian Egyptians and their 
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He turns the Nile to blood. 
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And all the wildlife or all the 
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killed and their economy dries 
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This was not soot and silt that 
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It was a miracle. 
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plagues, frogs and gnats and 
flies, and he kills their 

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livestock, and he brings boils 
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terrifyingly, he brings deep 
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And then the climax of all of 
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every first born in Egypt. 
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there's not going to be anybody 
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There's not going to be anything
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And he relents and he lets the 
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He sends them out, 600,000 
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And he doesn't leave them by 
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them, showing them the way in a 
pillar of cloud, reaching into 

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the heavens by day and it by 
night to illuminate the 

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wilderness. 
He goes before them in a pillar 

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of fire. 
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of Egypt, is told that the 
people fled, some time has gone 

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by, he sets his mind to go and 
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He realizes he lost his labor 
force and the the building 

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projects have stopped. 
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and get them back. 
And the Israelites, God leads 

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them to the Red Sea. 
He leads them to a a site that 

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we believe is the Gulf of Aqaba,
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at its shallowest and 1000 feet 
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And the Pharaoh sends his armies
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people, saying the wilderness 
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And so vulnerable Israel is 
trapped between this vast sea on

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the one side and an approaching 
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And the people begin to grumble 
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as any of us would. 
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wonderful speech and his courage
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He says, fear not, stand firm 
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Lord, which he will work for you
today, for the Egyptians whom 

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you see today you will never see
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The Lord will fight for you, and
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And with those words he takes 
his staff and his arm, and he 

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raises it over the sea as God 
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And the two bodies of water, 
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there's these two massive walls 
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way is made where there was no 
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And God's people begin to pass 
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The pillar of clouds moves 
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and the people of God, and 
Israel moves as the army comes 

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behind them. 
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crossed the sea, Moses turns 
again and he waves his staff 

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violently, drowning the host of 
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And the people celebrate and 
they sing the song of Moses, the

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same song we're given to sing in
heaven when we've crossed the 

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barrier of death and we praise 
God that we've been brought 

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safely to the other side. 
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lead them. 
This was not the end. 

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Deliverance was not the end. 
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He delivered them so that he 
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be his people and he might be 
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He delivers them so that he 
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to them. 
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All this is paving the way for 
our text in Deuteronomy 5. 

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God's going to reveal himself to
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make a covenant with him, and 
He's going to speak out of the 

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fire, swearing Himself to them. 
They will swear themselves to 

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him. 
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he's going to reveal to them the
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And this is a gracious gift. 
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as a gift, but it's a gracious 
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We heard last week Moses in 
Deuteronomy 410, it says that 

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God let us hear his words. 
We get to hear the revelation of

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the Lord of glory. 
And this is significant in our 

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culture because the prevailing 
worldview of our culture is not 

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expecting words from God. 
They're not expecting any 

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activity from God because in 
their eyes there is no God, only

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a natural universe where 
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another in confusion, wondering 
what is good and beautiful and 

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true, because it's different 
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It's different to everybody. 
They're wondering where meaning 

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is to be found. 
There's no source of objective 

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truth. 
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shall we live? 
They're wondering how we ought 

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to live. 
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sense if there is no divine 
revelation. 

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Francis Schaefer gave his life 
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He says there is divine 
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God has spoken and we cannot 
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The problem, as Francis Schaefer
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and he is not silent. 3500 years
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remarkable fashion, such as the 
whole world still knows the 

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story. 
He has spoken and He has 

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revealed himself, and you cannot
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And this is the only instance in
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speaks to a congregation of 
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He speaks through prophets, He 
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but this is the only place He 
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And it's the voice of God. 
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smoke and he smoked from the 
lightning, and He spoke from the

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gloom. 
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generation at Sinai. 
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rehearse those words with a new 
generation as they stand 

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encamped at the border of the 
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And he says this revelation, he 
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you, this was to you. 
And he speaks it to a new 

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generation. 
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dramatic when he speaks at 
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Our text last week said you came
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the mountain while the mountain 
burned with fire to the heart of

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heaven, wrapped in darkness and 
cloud and gloom. 

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And you heard his voice from the
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And whatever it was, it was a 
very stressful experience 

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because the people say we can't 
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going to die and they're 
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They said we're going to be 
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This great fire is going to 
consume us. 

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And we ask, what words did God 
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smoke and the fire and the 
gloom? 

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The Recorded and Deuteronomy 5I 
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we'll read them together. 
Moses rehearses them with this 

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next generation of Israelites. 
Deuteronomy 5 beginning in verse

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God says, I am the Lord your 

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God, who brought you out of the 
land of Egypt, out of the House 

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of slavery, out of the House of 
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You shall have no other gods 
before me. 

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You shall not make for yourself 
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of anything that is in heaven 
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beneath, or that is in the water
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You shall not bow down to them 
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For I, the Lord your God, am a 
jealous God, visiting the 

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iniquity of the fathers on the 
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generation of those who hate Me,
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thousands of those who love Me 
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You shall not take the name of 
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the Lord will not hold him 
guiltless who takes His name in 

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vain. 
Observe the Sabbath day, but 

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holy as the Lord your God 
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labor and do all your work, but 
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Lord your God. 
On it you shall not do any work,

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or your female servant, or your 
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your livestock, or the soldiers 
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male servant and your female 
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You shall remember that you were
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and the Lord your God brought 
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an outstretched arm. 
Therefore the Lord your God 

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commanded you to keep the 
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Honor your father and mother, as
the Lord your God commanded you,

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that your days may be long and 
that it may go well with you in 

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the land that your Lord your God
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You shall not murder, you shall 
not commit adultery, you shall 

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not steal, you shall not bear 
false witness against your 

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neighbor, and you shall not 
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And you shall not desire your 
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his male servant, or his female 
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or anything that is your 
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These words the Lord spoke to 
all your assembly at the 

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mountain, out of the midst of 
the fire, the cloud, and the 

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thick darkness, with a loud 
voice. 

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And he added no more. 
And he wrote them on 2 tablets 

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of stone, and he gave them to 
me. 

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The 10 commandments is actually,
in the Bible, never called the 

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10 commandments. 
And many of you know this. 

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It's the 10 words and that word 
debar is, is has a wide range of

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meanings. 
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10 commandments, some would say 
it's the 10 words. 

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And there are many who would 
leave others to suggest it be 

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translated. 
The 10 principles of covenant 

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relationship. 
And I tend to go that way. 

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This is God swearing himself to 
his people. 

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This is them entering at a 
covenant, them swearing 

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themselves to God. 
And this is the nature of that 

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covenant. 
This is a covenant of love. 

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His law is his love. 
And so I want to work through an

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overview of the 10 commandments.
But you all know it's 1138, and 

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so we could spend weeks going 
through all of this, a week on 

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honoring your father and your 
mother, and a week on having no 

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other gods and not murdering or 
stealing. 

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But in this short time we have 
together, what I want to do is 

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to focus on this. 
Why did God give this law? 

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What does it matter for a New 
Testament Christian that God 

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gave the law to Israel at Sinai?
What's the relevance for us? 

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And from the time of the 
Reformers, the church has 

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recognized that there are three 
uses of this law. 

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We get to see them all. 
There's three reasons. 

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It's just another way to say it.
Three reasons that God gave the 

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law, and we see all of them in 
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We're going to see him today. 
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law restrains evil. 
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political use of the law. 
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evil of society, to put 
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that constraint and that 
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consequences for evil. 
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teaches us of our sin and it 
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Savior. 
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for you, and the third is that 
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We call this the didactic use. 
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premier use. 
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leads us to righteousness. 
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us the pattern for godliness. 
It basically shows us who have 

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God's Holy Spirit. 
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already desire to do with all 
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strength. 
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It gives us the pattern. 
It shows us how to do that. 

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And we're going to look at these
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It restrains evil, it reveals 
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living. 
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the political use. 
It's it restrains evil. 

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So remember, this is God 
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What do you need? 
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nation? 
You need people. 

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He's elected to people Now he's 
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three million. 
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You need a law. 
Here is their law and you need a

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land, and here they are looking 
at the promised land, waiting to

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take it. 
He has all of the ingredients 

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for this and this body of laws 
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community of faith as God 
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That's what he does in the 
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He's brought us together and 
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community of faith that lives by
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I'm sending you in to be in the 
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I'm sending you in and you're 
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the nations that are surrounding
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I'm telling you how to live. 
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the church. 
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your culture is going to believe
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You are not to value those 
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You are to insofar as they don't
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I've given you my word. 
Seek it and do it. 

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And when we look at this civil 
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you understand we've built our 
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commandments, sometimes people 
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they'll get online and go 1 by 1
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no, there's a disconnect here 
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all these commandments in our 
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That's not what we're doing. 
We're not saying our forefathers

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literally got out the 10 
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not how what we're saying is the
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comprehended in the 10 
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It moves from God to society to 
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property. 
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all of your life. 
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life. 
The ethics come to all of our 

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these commandments. 
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not fully, but in part on this 
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we're talking about is that a 
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principle of the imago day, 
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image of God. 
Everybody is of equal and 

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infinite dignity and worth. 
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God. 
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you're not going to find if you 
go somewhere like Afghanistan or

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India, you're not going to find 
these principles because they're

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built on the Scriptures. 
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must be restrained. 
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the severity of the punishment, 
much must match the severity of 

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the offense. 
Where do we get that principle 

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except the Scriptures? 
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like North Korea or Saudi 
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before the law. 
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courthouses that it's a Pagan 
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But we, we take these as as 
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impartiality. 
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and she's blindfolded and she's 
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balanced. 
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our judgments. 
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himself, who says in a few 
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impartial. 
I'm the great, the mighty, the 

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awesome God. 
I am impartial and I take no 

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bribe. 
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these principles. 
This Is Us exercising this, this

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restraining of evil, this use of
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And so each term, I hope you see
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of direct address, they get 
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it's literally no murder, no 
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It's kind of hard to miss the 
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is actually for those who might 
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they're written toward you, not 
to necessarily establish your 

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rights, but to keep you from 
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somebody else. 
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your rights, but protecting 
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First and foremost, I want you 
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protect God's divine rights. 
There are certain rights 

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inherent to God by His nature of
being God as your Creator. 

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He's the author, so He has 
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He's your Redeemer, the supreme 
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commandments. 
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action, Yahweh has the right to 
demand Israel's exclusive 

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allegiance. 
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other gods before me, so God 
created them, and then he bought

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them, and so now they are doubly
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Jesus Christ. 
You created me, and then you 

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bought me. 
I am doubly yours. 

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And so he says it's so much to 
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creator, as your Redeemer, that 
you worship no other gods. 

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Did those other gods deliver 
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No, He says, I delivered. 
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second commandment. 
It says He has right to to 

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proper representation. 
He says I have given you my 

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name, He named them Israel. 
I have given you my glory and 

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now he has a right for them to 
live appropriately. 

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The same is true for you, 
Christian. 

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You have taken the name 
Christian, Christianos. 

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What does Christianos mean 
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He's given you his Holy Spirit. 
He's bought you. 

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Now He has a right to you 
representing Him. 

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Well, these are the divine 
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And more than divine rights, 
even further, there's also human

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rights. 
He gets into the the people that

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are under a household. 
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within a household have a right 
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even the animals. 
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that reason, Deuteronomy 512 to 
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He's protecting those in the 
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right to respect from their 
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So he says honor your father and
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even add, as you read through 
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the the implications that are 
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these laws. 
Paul's going to say in first 

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Timothy that honor your father 
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to widows. 
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truly widows. 
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them financially and with care 
and providing and protecting and

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including. 
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these laws actually go. 
There's a right for us to care 

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for our elderly. 
There's a right of parents to 

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have respect from their 
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Honor your father and mother. 
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life, therefore he says you 
shall not murder. 

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The next person has a right to a
secure marriage and to sexual 

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purity. 
Therefore you shall not commit 

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adultery. 
The next person has a right to 

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property. 
You shall not steal. 

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The next person has a right to 
honest and truthful testimony in

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court. 
You shall not bear false 

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witness. 
The next person has a right to 

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enjoy property without fear that
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it for themselves. 
You shall not covet. 

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where we began. 
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the 10th commandment, you may 
have noticed or learned before, 

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takes the laws. 
They're no longer external 

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things that you do with your 
hands and feet. 

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But it's an issue of the heart. 
We can violate God's commandment

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in our inner man. 
So there's these rights. 

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What is our Declaration of 
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We hold these truths to be 
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That all men are created equal 
and are endowed by their Creator

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with certain unalienable rights.
These are not rights that we 

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invented. 
These are rights that were 

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revealed to man by God. 
So these 10 commandments are the

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law of God summarily 
comprehended. 

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They are the summation of the 
laws on which a healthy society 

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will be based. 
Again, God's ethic extends from 

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the society to the family to the
life to sex, to property. 

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It restrains evil and promotes a
just society when we live 

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according to it. 
And I want you to remember last 

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week we saw that obedience to 
God's law was actually part of 

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Israel's mission. 
And they were. 

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They were to live by these 
things and invite the comparison

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of the world where the whole 
world is going to look at them 

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and recognize their life is 
better. 

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You're you as being a Christian 
or inviting other people to 

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compare themselves to you and 
they're supposed to say it is to

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use the language of Deuteronomy 
for and more just and more 

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righteous. 
They're supposed to look at your

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marriage and say they have 
something that I don't to your 

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family to your society. 
They have something that I 

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don't. 
What's the missing ingredient 

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And that's our evangelistic 
opportunity to say it's Jesus 

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Christ and his righteousness. 
And God knew that when others 

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looked at Israel, they were 
going to see someone that was 

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more just and righteous. 3000 
years after Moses led the 

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Exodus, the reformers begin to 
to order their society and, and 

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to put pressure on their society
to live according to these 

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Christian principles. 
And it made such a splash that 

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it LED people like Max Weber to 
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And he said wherever the 
Reformation went, wherever good 

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theology went, there went 
prosperity and flourishing. 

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It's meant to invite comparison.
People take notice. 

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When you live according to the 
principles of Scripture, it goes

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well. 
And so the first purpose of the 

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law is to restrain evil. 
And God gives us all kinds of 

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ways to do that. 
He gives you at the individual 

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level, He gives you a 
conscience. 

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Your conscience helps you 
restrain evil. 

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At the family level, He gives 
you parents. 

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At the level of the church, He 
gives you a body that holds you 

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accountable and pastors. 
And at the level of society, He 

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gives you just ethical laws that
you can put into practice and to

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live by, praise God. 
Second purpose of the law is to 

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reveal sin. 
The pedagogical use, Romans 7, 

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verse 7. 
If it had not been for the law, 

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I would not have known sin. 
God teaches us sin. 

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So everywhere every Christian 
has to wrestle with the 

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question, how does the Old 
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So what if there's 10 
commandments? 

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What does it matter in Oklahoma 
if we had a lawsuit from the 

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ACLU and they removed him from 
our capital? 

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What does it matter? 
What does it matter if it's at 

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your courthouse? 
What's the relevance today? 

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Paul says in the New Testament 
that the law is a mirror. 

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It functions. 
The metaphor you want you to 

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think of it as is a mirror 
that's reflecting the perfect 

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righteousness of God on the 
earth. 

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That's what the law represents. 
It is the perfect righteousness 

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of God. 
You keep the law perfectly, you 

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00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:26,600
achieve righteousness as he 
defines it. 

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00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,440
But the problem is we can't keep
the law perfectly. 

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00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,560
We can't achieve the perfect 
righteousness of God. 

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And that is why we say the law 
exposes our sin and draws us to 

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our need of a Savior. 
This is why we say that the law 

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has no power to save. 
The law only has power to 

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condemn. 
That's why Paul says in Romans 

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7, the law kills me, it slays 
me, it leads only to death. 

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The law has no power. 
It's just rules. 

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It's the same concept Jesus uses
when he takes that Old Testament

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law and brings it a little bit 
more into our New Testament 

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context. 
He gives the parable of the Good

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Samaritan. 
I know he's talking about the 

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law because he asks what is 
written in the law and how do 

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you read it? 
And they get a little fired 

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about who your neighbor is. 
And Jesus takes that Old 

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Testament law and he puts it in 
a New Testament context. 

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And he says tells the story of a
man who spent his time and his 

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money and his energy on a 
stranger who fell among robbers.

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And he cares deeply for him and 
he commands him just like the 10

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commandments command of you go 
and do likewise. 

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Go and live this way. 
And the point of Jesus to this 

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00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:31,040
lawyer, the the take away was 
you could never live like this. 

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The point of the Good Samaritan 
is that, you know, not that we 

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need a, a world full of good 
Samaritans, it's that there is 

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no world full of good 
Samaritans. 

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There are no good Samaritans. 
No one can live like that. 

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That's the purpose of the law, 
to show our inability to keep 

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00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:45,680
the law. 
It's to undo us. 

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It's to reveal our sin and to 
kill us, which is why if you're 

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00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,880
trying to achieve some measure 
of righteousness on your own 

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00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,240
through works, you're trying to 
impress God with your 

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00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:57,560
righteousness. 
You can't. 

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00:24:58,160 --> 00:24:59,840
It's futile. 
This is why the Pharisees and 

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the scribes and the lawyers were
condemned. 

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00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,360
And even in Deuteronomy 5, if 
you look down to verse 25, you 

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see these people crying out for 
a mediator. 

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Even here he says, they say, Now
therefore why should we die? 

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For this great fire will consume
us. 

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00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,680
If we hear the voice of our Lord
our God anymore, we shall die. 

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For who is there of all flesh 
that has heard the voice of the 

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00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:24,680
living God speaking out of the 
midst of the fire as we have and

501
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,000
still lived? 
They say to Moses, Be our 

502
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,480
mediator. 
In a word he says, Go near and 

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00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,320
hear all that the Lord will say,
and speak to us all that the 

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00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,480
Lord our God will speak to you, 
and we will hear and do it. 

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00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,920
And they tell Moses, you go, you
go here, you go, stand in the 

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gap and tell us what he has to 
say. 

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And it's a stressful event. 
You remember Moses goes and 

508
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,440
stands in the presence of God 
and he comes back and his face 

509
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,840
is radiating with the 
resplendent glory of God. 

510
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:54,000
It's stressful. 
And in the same way, we need a 

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00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,040
mediator who will stand in the 
gap for us. 

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And we've been given such a 
mediator in the person of Jesus 

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who fulfilled the law on our 
behalf. 

514
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,480
Write this verse down Second 
Corinthians 36. 

515
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,160
The letter kills, but the Spirit
gives life. 

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00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:16,320
The law kills you because it has
no power to do anything. 

517
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,560
The power comes from God's Holy 
Spirit, from the righteousness 

518
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,320
of Jesus Christ. 
There's power in Christ, there's

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00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,920
power in the Spirit. 
That's why Jesus says of the 

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00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,040
law. 
I came not to abolish the law, 

521
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,680
but to fulfill it. 
So is the law relevant for you 

522
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:33,960
today? 
Absolutely. 

523
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,280
The righteous requirement is 
there. 

524
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,360
God's righteousness is still 
there. 

525
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,400
It's that we just don't have to 
accomplish it on our own. 

526
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,720
It's been accomplished for us. 
And Jesus doesn't use the 

527
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,200
language of keeping the law. 
He uses it as fulfilling the law

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00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,240
even as he was baptized. 
Jesus didn't need to be 

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00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,480
baptized. 
Why was he baptized? 

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00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,240
He didn't need to be cleansed 
from his sin. 

531
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,400
He says this was necessary to 
fulfill all righteousness. 

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00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,160
He got baptized because he's 
living your life. 

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00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,320
And you had to be baptized 
because that was a requirement 

534
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,160
of you. 
And so that's what we're 

535
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,440
celebrating even today. 
Jesus fulfilled the law at every

536
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,560
point perfectly. 
How do we know? 

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00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:16,040
Because Resurrection Sunday, 
because Jesus was raised from 

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00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,040
the dead by the glory of God the
Father, we say that was 

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00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,240
validating his work of 
atonement, meaning that Jesus 

540
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,080
was the perfect and acceptable 
sacrifice for sin. 

541
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,720
That's what today means. 
That's the power of the 

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00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,400
resurrection. 
Jesus was who he said he was, 

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00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,320
and he accomplished what he said
he would. 

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00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,160
He fulfilled the law of God 
perfectly so that all those who 

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00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,640
by grace through faith, who put 
their faith in him, he gifts 

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00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,440
them that life. 
He gives them that righteousness

547
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,640
so that we don't have to beat 
our heads against the wall 

548
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,880
trying to fulfill the law. 
He's fulfilled it for us. 

549
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,880
He no longer, He didn't even 
just keep the letter of the law,

550
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:51,360
but He fulfilled the heart of 
it. 

551
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,080
He was the Good Samaritan, the 
only one. 

552
00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:57,240
What does the Bible say about 
our relationship with the Old 

553
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,840
Testament law? 
There's metaphors that the New 

554
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:02,400
Testament gives so that we can 
understand it. 

555
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:07,560
Galatians 324 to 25 says that 
the law was our teacher, It was 

556
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,680
our tutor until Christ came. 
And so Christ has come, but it 

557
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,120
still teaches us about the 
righteousness of God. 

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00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,520
And now we're no, we're no 
longer under the law, Scripture 

559
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,720
says, but under grace, no longer
under the law of Moses, but 

560
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:23,160
under the new covenant, the 
covenant which says simply, all 

561
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,840
those who believe in Christ, by 
grace, through faith, he will 

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00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,560
save. 
Romans 7 gives the metaphor of a

563
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:33,760
spouse whose whose spouse dies. 
You're you're united until death

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00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,880
do you part. 
But once death does you part, 

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00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,400
you're free to marry another. 
And he uses this metaphor and he

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00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:43,280
says we have died to our former 
spouse, which is the law, and we

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00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:47,040
are now are free to marry 
another, namely Christ and 

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00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,320
grace. 
And so now we are married to 

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00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,120
grace James 212 gives another 
one. 

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00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:57,200
It says so speak and so act as 
those who are to be judged under

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00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,480
the law of liberty. 
We're not judged by the law 

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00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:02,600
anymore. 
These 10 commandments, those 

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00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,880
have been fulfilled. 
Now we are judged by the law 

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00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,160
that liberates the law that 
liberates is the gospel. 

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00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,480
So Christ fulfilled the law of 
Moses perfectly that all who 

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00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,040
believe in him. 
This is the absolute beauty of 

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00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,600
the gospel, the absolute beauty 
of redemption and salvation. 

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00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,040
God gives you his Holy Spirit so
that you actually have the power

579
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,640
to keep the law, however 
imperfectly. 

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00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,840
That's the graciousness of our 
Savior. 

581
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:32,600
Romans 82 The law of the Spirit 
of life has set you free from 

582
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:37,640
the law of sin and death, and no
gospel is complete without 

583
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:42,080
making a demand of you. 
Jesus says if you come, if you 

584
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,960
are are burdened, if you're 
weary and heavy laden, if you 

585
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:49,400
come to him under this load of 
the law, he will give you rest 

586
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,880
from it. 
That's why he says, come to me 

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00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,320
all who are weary and heavy 
laden and I will give you rest. 

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00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,880
He says, take my yoke upon you 
and learn from Me, for I'm 

589
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:01,800
gentle and lowly in heart and 
you will find what rest for your

590
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,400
souls rest from trying to 
achieve righteousness. 

591
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:09,320
He offers you the law of liberty
that you may find grace. 

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00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,760
The final use of the law is in 
light of your salvation by grace

593
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:15,880
through faith. 
The final use of the law is the 

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00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,720
didactic use. 
It means that the law guides our

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00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,880
Christian living. 
It helps the the Christian to do

596
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,400
what we already want to do, to 
please God and to serve Him. 

597
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:29,480
So studying the 10 commandments 
gives us an opportunity to even 

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00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,360
reflect devotionally and what 
these commandments are saying. 

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00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,080
I want to introduce a guy named 
Daniel Block. 

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00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,520
He wrote a book called The 
Gospel According to Moses, and 

601
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,160
he gives a wonderful list of how
these commands point us to 

602
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,040
worship. 
I want to give you just a few of

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00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,440
them. 
He says laws are not a 

604
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,800
precondition to be saved, but a 
gracious response of those who 

605
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,320
are already saved. 
He says laws are not primarily a

606
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:55,320
duty imposed by one party onto 
another, but an expression of 

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00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,880
covenant relationship. 
He says obedience to the law is 

608
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,640
not a precondition for 
salvation, but a precondition to

609
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,800
the fulfillment of your 
Christian mission and of your 

610
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,040
blessing. 
He says the the revelation of 

611
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:12,000
the law is a a supreme and 
unique privilege and obedience 

612
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,840
to the law is an external 
expression of an inward 

613
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:19,000
disposition of faith. 
And the laws are perceived 

614
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:23,000
holistically or viewing all of 
life under the authority of God.

615
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,880
So what do the laws do? 
They guide us into worship. 

616
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:30,080
They guide us into faithful 
living so we don't throw it away

617
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,280
because Christ is here. 
My wife says it this way all the

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00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:34,680
time. 
And I say to you every couple 

619
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:39,080
months, His law is his love. 
God's law is the expression of 

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00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,520
his love because the law shows 
us things like that. 

621
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,440
God is impartial. 
And so then he says, go and love

622
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:45,880
orphans and widows and 
sojourners. 

623
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,240
And so then when you go out in 
the world and you fulfill this 

624
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,680
command to love orphans and 
widows and sojourners and to 

625
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,360
behave impartially, guess what 
you're doing? 

626
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,400
You're manifesting his values on
the earth. 

627
00:31:55,760 --> 00:32:00,440
You're pleasing him. 
You're showing his values and 

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00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:05,840
his loves, his laws, his love. 
That's why Kevin Vanhooser, he 

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00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,520
has a book upstairs. 
He prevents a a wonderful 

630
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,920
theological framework that he 
calls theodrama. 

631
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,040
It's the the the drama of 
doctrine is the book. 

632
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:16,920
And in this theodrama he gives a
metaphor. 

633
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:21,320
He says God is like a playwright
and the scriptures are the 

634
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:25,280
script and the church is the 
cast and the world is the stage 

635
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,200
and history is the unfolding 
drama. 

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00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,800
And he points us to the to the 
Baptist baptism and he says it's

637
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,320
a it's a play, We're acting out 
a play and it's the gospel. 

638
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:34,400
And he says, look at Lord's 
Supper. 

639
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,800
It's another play. 
We're acting out to remind us of

640
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,880
the cross. 
He says, so your life, this 

641
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,440
whole drama of redemption is a 
play. 

642
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,280
We're engaged in the cosmic 
drama where we're the actors in 

643
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,760
the Bible is the script that 
we're performing. 

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00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,280
And with that metaphor, it 
reminds us that the Bible and 

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00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,680
the the commandments are not 
just for intellectual knowledge 

646
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,680
so that we can accumulate them 
and say, look at all I know 

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00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,800
about God. 
He gives us the script so that 

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00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,760
it can guide our living, which 
brings us to our response. 

649
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:06,400
Look to verse 31 and you're 
going to see our responsibility 

650
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:07,880
not only to hear the law, but to
do it. 

651
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,920
Read with me verses 31 and to 
the end. 

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00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,760
But you stand here by me, and I 
will tell you the whole 

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00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,840
commandment and the statutes and
the rules that you shall teach 

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00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,680
them, that they may do them in 
the land that I'm giving you to 

655
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,200
possess. 
You shall be careful then to do 

656
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:24,600
as the Lord your God has 
commanded you. 

657
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:26,840
You shall not turn aside to the 
right hand or to the left. 

658
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,600
You shall walk and all the way 
the Lord your God has commanded 

659
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,800
you, that you may live, that it 
may way go, may go well for you,

660
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,720
and that you may live long in 
the land that you shall possess.

661
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:40,480
Want to highlight verse 33. 
For you walk in all the way that

662
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,080
the Lord your God has commanded 
you. 

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00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,480
So do them, because God promises
that if you do, you'll be 

664
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,480
blessed. 
And do them. 

665
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,120
Because God has revealed himself
in time. 

666
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,440
He spoke from the fire. 
He is there, and He is not 

667
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,480
silent. 
We don't have to grope around in

668
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:58,760
the dark trying to figure out 
what is good and beautiful and 

669
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:00,960
true. 
He has told you, O man, what is 

670
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,800
good. 
And we cannot feign ignorance. 

671
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,400
And God delivered Israel, not 
that they could because they 

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00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,080
kept the law, but so that they 
might keep the law. 

673
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:10,719
And the same is true of 
Christianity. 

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00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,280
Now we've been delivered in 
order to keep and remember and 

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00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,080
do all that God has commanded. 
And we must remember that his 

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commandments are not burdensome 
for those who love Him. 

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00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,320
And we've said it before in 
previous sermons that the more 

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you align your heart to the 
heart of Scripture and the more 

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you come to know God, the less 
you need rules like the 10 

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commandments pointing the finger
at you and telling you the way 

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you you ought to go. 
It's written on your heart, and 

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you long to do them. 
And so today, remember the 

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resurrection and the work that 
Christ did. 

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Remember what the resurrection 
means, that God fulfilled this 

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law perfectly on your behalf. 
And you can live in obedience 

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and confidence and rest and 
grace and mercy with intensity 

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and zeal, not so that you can 
earn a reward, but because you 

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already have the reward. 
And we run that others may know,

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and that the knowledge of the 
Lord might cover the earth as 

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the waters cover the sea. 
Deacons, I invite you please to 

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come forward as we remember the 
work of Christ. 

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We prepare our hearts for 
communion by praying church. 

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Please pray with me, Lord, we 
can keep this law and we 

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recognize now our need for a 
mediator. 

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We see that some 633 laws that 
we can never keep on our best 

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day, Lord, and we recognize that
the glory of you, the only Son 

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of God, you came so that you 
might live a perfect life. 

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You might live in complete 
obedience to this so that we 

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don't have to. 
And we praise you that we're 

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granted your spirit so that we, 
we have the power to please you.

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You've given us the power to 
keep this law, Lord. 

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And so we say, help us. 
Help us to run. 

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Help us not to go to the right 
hand or to the left, but live a 

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life of faithfulness so that the
world will look on us, our life,

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our marriage, our children. 
And they will say, I want what 

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they have. 
Their God is the true God. 

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God, we love you. 
Be with us now in Christ's name,

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Amen. 
Thanks for listening. 

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Church or if you'd like to 

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