Episode Transcript
So last week we looked at the manna.
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We looked at God bringing them through that wilderness,
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testing them to see if they would listen to His Word,
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showing them that, "Look, I'm bringing you into a place that has nothing to sustain you."
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They got out of Egypt by nothing but the power of God.
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They were there for 400 years.
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If they could have gotten themselves out on their own, they would have in that 400 years.
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Remember, that's the increment of 40, that perfect test.
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And so after 400 years, they still couldn't get themselves out.
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Only by the power of God and only through the blood of a Passover lamb were they made free,
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which is a picture of us.
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There's no way that we can get ourselves out of the bondage to sin, Satan, and death,
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but through the gospel of Jesus Christ, the blood of our Passover lamb who died for us.
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And then they get into the wilderness, and once again, there's nothing there to sustain them.
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There's no bread. There's no water.
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God brought them into the desert on purpose to show them that man does not live by bread alone,
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but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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In other words, if they follow God, if they take heed to His word, He will provide for them.
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And there was no way they could get themselves across that desert on their own into the Promised Land.
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They began by the power of God, and they would finish by the power of God.
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To show us that salvation from start to finish is all by God's grace in His work in not ours.
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We can't start it. We can't finish it.
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Some people say, "Well, we start off by trusting Christ as our Savior,
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and then we've got to keep living good enough, doing good enough, and all these things.
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And we've got to keep ourselves saved, and we can no more keep ourselves saved
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than they could supply bread from the sky and water from that rock.
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And so now we're moving on into the next phase.
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I told you last week that we were going to be at Mount Sinai today,
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where God told Moses when He first met with Moses in that burning bush, He says,
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"You will be back here at this same place, worshipping Me with the people of Israel."
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And now here they are today.
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And so, in fact, let's do this. Let's turn to chapter 19 first.
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We're going to be in chapter 20, but let's go ahead and look here in chapter 19 first, please.
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If you'll look with me in verse 9,
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"And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud,
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that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee forever.
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And Moses told the words of the people unto the Lord.
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And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow,
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and let them wash their clothes, and be ready against the third day.
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For the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Sinai."
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So here's what's happened. Here's the back story to this.
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God told Moses, "If these people will follow My word, My law,
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then I'm going to make a great nation out of them.
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They're going to be a nation like no other nation.
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I'm going to bless them and all these things."
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The people said, "Oh, we'll do that. We'll follow His law."
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So God says, "Okay, here's what you do, Moses.
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Have them get washed, dressed, clean, and ready.
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Because on the third day I am going to descend down upon Mount Sinai in a thick cloud,
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and the people will be able to hear Me when I speak and give My commandments to them."
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Man, everyone's ready. This is exciting.
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We're going to hear God's voice. He's going to tell us what He wants us to do.
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This is going to be wonderful.
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Let's go ahead and look here now in verse 12.
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"And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about,
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saying, 'Take heed to yourselves that you go not up into the mount,
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or touch the border of it. Whosoever toucheth the mount
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shall surely be put to death. There shall not in hand touch it,
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but he shall surely be stoned or shot through, whether it be beast or man.
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It shall not live. When the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.'"
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Now, it's not quite so exciting.
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So here, we're going to have the mountain here.
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Let's see here. This is going to represent the mountain, Mount Sinai.
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And so God says, "Get ready. Get clean. Get presentable."
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And on the third day, "I'm going to descend down in the cloud upon this mountain."
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They won't see me, but they're going to hear me when I speak.
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But before I do this, there are some preparations you need to make.
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You need to put borders up around the mountain.
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So we're going to say we set some stones up, kind of like we would cones or something, you know.
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And so they set stones up around the mountain. They set a border around it.
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Now we've got a border around this mountain.
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We've got two million people coming up to the mountain.
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God said, "Have them come to the mountain, but don't pass that border."
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If you so much as touch the mountain, you're dead.
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I'm going to require the people to stone you or shoot you through with a dart or something.
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You're dead. All right?
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And so now it's not quite so exciting anymore.
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So we come up to the mountain to hear God's word, but we can't come to the mountain.
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We can't climb up to where God is.
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In fact, we can't so much as even touch the mountain that God is descending on.
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There's this boundary, this barrier that separates the people from God.
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Why? Why is this boundary there?
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It's to show us that God is a holy God.
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These people are sinners. They were born in Adam.
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And unholy people and a holy God, God can't fellowship with unholyness.
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God can't accept unholy people.
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And so right off the bat, before God even gives the law, He shows them.
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No matter what, no matter how clean you wash yourselves, no matter how prepared you are,
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you can't come to Me.
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You can't come to Me. The law that God's about to give can't bring those people to Him.
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They have to hear it. They have to obey it.
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But there's this border that separates us and God.
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Do you remember the dream that Jacob had, the ladder set up on earth and the top reached to heaven?
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That bridged that gap between God and man. The ladder did.
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And what the ladder would accomplish, which was Jesus.
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But right now, we have to understand, no matter how hard we work, no matter how clean we get ourselves,
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a holy God cannot accept unholy people.
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People say, "Well, God's a loving God.
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You know, He loves everybody and He accepts everybody. He's inclusive."
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The boundary says God's exclusive. You see?
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The boundary says otherwise.
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God is the one with the original border walls, okay?
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I mean, He says, "Can't come here. The penalty's death if you try."
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Now that cuts across the grain of modern theological thinking, doesn't it?
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He says, "We're all God's children. He accepts us like we are. He's tolerant."
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No, He's not.
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So let's go ahead and look here now.
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Exodus 19, 14, "And Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.
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And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day, or be ready for the third day.
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Come not at your wives.
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And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings in a thick cloud upon the mount."
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Okay, how about that?
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So now, the third day, God comes down, and there's no rainbow up there.
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No rainbow.
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The rainbow was a promise that God made that represented the covenant He made with Abraham.
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The covenant He made with Abraham was based on God's promise that He would perform alone.
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Remember when He walked between those pieces by Himself?
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This covenant is not a promise that God made to do alone.
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This covenant is, "If the people obey My law, I'll accept them."
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So this covenant is not based on what God will do for His people, because He loves them.
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It's based upon what God will do for His people if His people obey what He says.
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So there's no rainbow.
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We've got, what do we have here?
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He says, "Thunders, lightnings, in a thick cloud."
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[POW!]
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Wow.
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You can see the storm on that mountain.
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Now thunder and lightening, what does that do?
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Does that bring them closer to the border?
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Oh, no, no, no.
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We're going to create a little distance here.
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No one there that.
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So let's put some little lightening bolts up here, okay?
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Let's go ahead and look here now.
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"In a thick cloud upon the mount, in the voice of the trumpet,"
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that's meaning the voice of God, "exceeding loud, that all the people that was in the camp trembled."
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What did God's law show us now?
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Number one, there is division between God and the people.
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Number two, it brought fear.
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It brought fear.
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The law brings fear.
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God's commandments bring fear.
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They bring division, okay?
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Look here now.
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Verse 17, "And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God.
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And they stood at the nether part of the mount.
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And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke,
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because the Lord descended upon it in fire.
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And the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace,
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and the whole mount quaked greatly."
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Wow.
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Now we've got earth quaking in fire and smoke like a furnace billowing and lightning and thunder
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in the voice of God so loud they could...
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Man, these people are scared to death.
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And not one commandment's even been given yet.
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Look here now in verse 19,
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"And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long and waxed louder and louder,
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Moses spake and God answered him by a voice.
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And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai on the top of the mount,
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and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount.
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And Moses went up, and the Lord said unto the people,
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"Let's they..." I'm sorry.
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And the Lord said unto Moses,
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"Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze.
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And many of them perish."
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In other words, remind them, don't have them try to come up here and look at me because they'll die.
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Verse 22,
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"And let the priests also which come near to the Lord sanctify themselves,
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lest the Lord break forth upon them.
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And Moses said unto the Lord,
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The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai,
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for thou charge'st us, saying,
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Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
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And the Lord said unto him,
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Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up,
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thou and Aaron with thee.
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But let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord,
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lest ye break forth upon them.
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So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them."
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Verse 20,
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And God spake all... I'm sorry, chapter 20, verse 1.
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And God spake all these words, saying,
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Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt,
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out of the house of bondage,
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thou shalt have no other gods before me.
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A lot of people, when they look at the Ten Commandments, they think,
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well, I've kept these Ten Commandments.
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What we have to understand is the Ten Commandments is the base.
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It's the foundation of all of God's commands.
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These Ten Commandments that we're about to look at,
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every other commandment in the Bible is derived from them.
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It's the essence of God's righteous will.
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So if you could think of it like this,
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if God says, you know,
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if God says, have no other gods before me,
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then that means you're to put nothing before God, you see?
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So there's things that you deduct from these Scriptures,
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these commands, and we're going to look at that here now.
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So how many of you all would say that you've never broken the First Commandment?
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Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
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Anyone think they've never broken that one?
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You would think maybe you haven't? Alright.
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[inaudible]
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Okay. Alright.
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[inaudible]
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Sure, right.
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[inaudible]
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Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
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Let's say that, let's say that you,
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it's Sunday morning, you need to come to church,
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listen to God's Word being taught,
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and you've got company that comes over.
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They pull up and toot their horn, you got family,
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friends, whatever, they come over,
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said, hey, we thought we was going to come by and visit you.
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Would you like to go out to the lake with us?
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Thought we'd watch the football game together,
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or have a barbecue.
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Instead of going to church,
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you stay home with your friends or your family.
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Did you just put your friends and family before God?
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You just had to put another God before him.
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At that moment in time, you know what you did?
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You just said, God's important,
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but you are more important than God.
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I choose to honor you with this time on this day
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instead of going and honoring God in learning His Word.
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Barbecue is more important, family is more important,
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the lake is more important,
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the cowboys are more important,
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whoever you're watching or cheering for.
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At that time, you just put another God before him.
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Any time God says, have no other gods before me,
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whatever you deem to put before God,
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that at that time was what you worshiped.
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The word worship is taken from the root word that means worth.
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These people are worth my time more than God is.
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You see who you just worshiped?
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You see what you just worshiped?
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They're worthy.
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You see worthy a lot in the Bible.
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They're worthy of my time.
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They're worthy of my service more than God.
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You just worship.
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Worship is not bowing down like this.
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That's not worship.
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Getting on your knees and doing all this stuff right here.
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That's not worship.
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That's ritual.
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That's ceremony.
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Worship is done in here where you esteem God
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to be a God that you love more than anything else,
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a God that is more valuable, more important,
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more worthy of your time and your loyalty than anything else.
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That's where worship comes in.
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It's the heart that does not worship God as it should.
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So you can say, "Oh, God's most important,
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but today I'll do this.
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God's most important, but I'm going to watch a movie instead of read my Bible today."
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Have you ever spent, would you say that you spent more time watching TV
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and scrolling on your phone than you have studying God's word?
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Which is more worthy of your time?
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Everybody's broken this commandment.
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God began this commandment here,
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and really all the rest of the commands will flow from this one.
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Does that make sense?
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The Ten Commandments are basically broken up into two halves.
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The first half is about our relationship to God.
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The second half of the Ten Commandments is about our relationship
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to the people God created, our fellow men.
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If we love God as we should,
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the first half of the commandments,
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then we're going to love the people God loves as we should,
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the second half of the commandments.
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Everything flows from here.
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Have no other gods before God.
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Let's go ahead and move now to verse 4.
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"Thou shalt not make into thee any graven image
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or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above,
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or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water that unto the earth.
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Thou shalt not buy down thyself to them, nor serve them,
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for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God,
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visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
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and to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
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and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments."
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So now here we have this next commandment,
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and that is you don't make any graven image or any likeness of anything
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that's in heaven, that's on earth, that's in the water under the earth.
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Now some people read that and they say,
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"Oh, well then it's wrong to have a picture of an angel
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or have a picture of Jesus at the Last Supper."
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You may see a picture of Jesus with his son for the Last Supper.
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You may see a picture of, if I draw an image of a stick figure,
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a man on a cross, and I teach you about that,
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well that just made an image of something on the earth or in heaven or whatever.
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I just made an image of that. I just made a likeness of that.
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And some people say, "Well, that's sin."
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If that's sin, then it's also sin to have a photograph of your loved ones in your home,
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because that's also an image of something in heaven above or in the earth beneath.
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That's not what God's saying.
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What God's saying is don't make these things for the purpose of bowing down and serving them.
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We know that it's okay to have an image of something in heaven above
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or in the earth beneath or in the water under the earth,
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because later on God's going to give them specific commandments concerning building the tabernacle,
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in which he will tell them, "Make graven images for the Most Holy Place, two cherubim.
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Make these images and likenesses of these things, but they won't be bowing down and serving them."
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So that's the difference.
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It's okay to have an image as long as you're not bowing down and serving it.
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But what does an image do?
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If you make an image of something, even an image of what you think would be Jesus,
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and you worship the image,
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that image now is becoming a replacement for the person of Christ.
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The image now becomes something, a subtle false God, and you're now worshipping that.
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Does anyone in here think they've ever broken this commandment?
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You have?
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You have?
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Anyone think they haven't broken the commandment?
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I once scared to raise their hand, and I said, "He's going to say, 'I got you.'"
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Back in the late '80s, early '90s, there was this huge fad about people wearing angels, little angels.
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You weren't alive then.
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I remember the policemen would have a little angel on their uniform, on their lapel or something.
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Women would have a little angel necklace or a little angel bracelet or a little angel pin somewhere on them.
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It was such a big deal. Billy Graham even wrote a book about angels because everyone was angel crazy at the time.
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I remember asking someone one time, "Why are you wearing that angel?"
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"Well, I'm hoping that it will bring me good luck. I'm hoping it will help bring me fortune."
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Do you see what those people were doing? That was an idol.
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They were saying, "This little graven image, maybe it will help bless me in my life."
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Like that little thing that a man made and carved out, out of metal, that could have just as easily been turned into a can opener.
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That somehow something a man made could give them fortune and protection in life.
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The policemen wore them on their uniforms for protection.
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Catholic churches are filled with idols.
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They walk up to a statue of Mary, "Hell, Mary, Mother of Jesus," and all this stuff, or "Mother of God," whatever.
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They even have a crucifix, which is an image of what they think Jesus looked like, and he did not look anything like the Catholic.
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Catholics have weird images. It's weird.
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Little shiny halos over the head and all that stuff.
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But what happens when they come to a work of a man's hands, a statue, and they come to that statue and they bow down and pray to that statue?
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That now is standing. They're worshipping a piece of wood or a piece of stone or a piece of metal, or probably, due to inflation today, a piece of plastic.
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Seriously, plaster or something, and it's not God. That is wrong to do.
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Never hang something up in your house that you think is going to give you good luck.
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Rabbit's foot. Have you all had a lucky rabbit's foot?
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You put it around your rearview mirror hoping it would bring you good luck. That's an idol.
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That dead rabbit's appendage has no ability to give you any blessing in life.
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At that time, you're saying, "Instead of seeking God for this blessing, I'm going to seek a dead rabbit's foot."
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Or, better than that, say, "No, I know only God can bless me, but I'll use the foot. Maybe God will use the dead rabbit's foot to bless me."
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Which isn't true. It's still false worship, you say, because it's not according to God's word.
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There are many ways to have idols that you worship instead of God.
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Let's say that you make something, or you have something. It could even be a sports car. It could even be something you love so much.
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You spend so much time doting on it so that it has your affection more than God does.
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That then becomes an idol to you. You see?
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All right, let's move on. God says, "Don't do this because I'm a jealous God."
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Is it right for God to be jealous? Sure. There's a difference between jealousy and envy.
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God doesn't envy anybody, but he is jealous.
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Tanya, if some woman were to flirt with your husband, would you be jealous?
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Yeah. Would she be right to be jealous? Absolutely.
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If she wasn't jealous and she didn't care, she would not love her husband.
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She would be jealous because the relationship is very valuable in her eyes.
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If someone is not jealous in a relationship, they do not value the relationship.
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God was jealous over the people of Israel because he considered them his spouse, spiritually speaking.
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He loved them like a wife. The Bible calls the Church of Jesus Christ the bride of Christ.
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He's jealous over us with that godly, loving, protective jealousy in that he says,
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"I value this relationship between me and my church. I don't want to lose you."
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Isn't that precious? It would hurt me if my wife said, "Oh, I don't care if Richard runs off with someone else."
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I would think, "What? You don't value me."
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God is a jealous God in that sense. Let's go ahead and look here in verse 7.
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"Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless, that taketh his name in vain."
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"And be valor broken that commandment before."
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Probably everybody in here.
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But taking God's name in vain, here's what all that consists of.
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God's name is holy. God's name is special. It should never be used lightly.
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It should never be used in a vain or empty way.
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When we see somebody go, "Oh my God, that's taking his name in vain."
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It's wrong. O-M-G. It's wrong. It's taking his name in vain.
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To where God's name becomes something we just throw around as a byword, it's disrespectful.
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Very disrespectful.
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God, D-A-M-N-E-D. That's taking his name in vain.
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But let me tell you another way that's taking his name in vain.
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When we take God's name and we call ourselves by God's name, we say, "I'm a child of God."
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But then, having identified ourselves as a child of God, we then do not live according to God's word.
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We have now taken that name in vain.
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People call themselves Christians, and they don't live like Christians.
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They took God's name in vain, absolutely in a worthless, empty way.
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The Bible says God will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
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Any time you've claimed to be a Christian, any time you've claimed to be a follower of God,
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and you have not followed God according to the name you've identified yourself by,
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you were taking God's name in vain and never do that.
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What does that teach us?
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It teaches us that we should honor God with our lives and with our mouth.
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The words we say should never defame God's name.
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The actions that we take should never defame God's name.
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No one should be able to look at us and say, "Well, now that's why I wouldn't want to be a Christian."
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Because look at them right there, living that way.
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And that happens all the time.
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I don't want to go down there to that church, a bunch of hypocrites down there.
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Let's go ahead and look here now in verse 8.
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"Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work,
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but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.
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In it thou shalt not do any work,
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thou nor thy son nor thy daughter nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant nor thy cattle
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nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.
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For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth,
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the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day.
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Wherefore, or because of this, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it."
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So let's look here at the Sabbath day.
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It may not be what you think.
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Let's look here at the Sabbath day.
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The Sabbath day is the seventh day, we see clearly.
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If you think that today is the Sabbath day, you're wrong.
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Yesterday was the Sabbath day.
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Back then, and still in Israel today, they use Saturday as the Sabbath.
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Back then it was still Saturday being the Sabbath.
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Coming to church, Sunday is not the Sabbath day.
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Someone say, "Well, I can't cut the grass today, it's the Sabbath."
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When they get out of church, that's not true.
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It's not the Sabbath day, that was yesterday.
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So what do we do? Do we say, "Well, we can't work on Saturday."
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What does this mean?
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For them, back then, the seventh day being Saturday was a day of absolute rest.
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On the seventh day, they were to remember that God made everything in six days.
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So on the seventh day, they rested like God did.
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But resting on the seventh day, they were acknowledging that all of God's creation work was done.
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Make sense?
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When the promised Savior came, something changed.
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When the promised Savior came, the disciples no longer met on the seventh day.
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Do you remember when they started meeting? Anyone?
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They started meeting on the first day.
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Anyone remember why they started meeting on the first day?
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Because that was the day Jesus rose from the dead.
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It was Sunday morning, that Jesus rose from the dead.
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And so now, the early church are in meeting on the first day,
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and even in the Scriptures, it spoke of them coming together on the first day.
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Because the Sabbath day was just like that bread in the Old Testament, the manna that came down.
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It was a picture of Christ.
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Now, the church follows the Sabbath commandment, not by worshiping the day,
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but by worshiping the Savior the day represented.
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Now, on the first day of the week, why are we here on the first day of the week?
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Don't say, "Well, because it's Sunday." No, that's not why.
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We're here on the first day of the week because Christians or people,
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just as they on the seventh day, remembered that all of God's creation work was done,
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so they rested in God's rest.
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So we on the first day come together remembering that all of God's redemptive saving work is done.
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And as God has rested from his work of salvation, we rest in that too.
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Make sense?
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All right.
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So now, Christ has become our Sabbath.
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All right.
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Real quick, turn to the book of Colossians.
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Let me find this real quick.
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I think it's Chapter 1, but it's been a while since I've turned there.
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Colossians Chapter 2.
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Colossians Chapter 2. It's in the New Testament.
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Colossians Chapter 2, Verse 13.
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Remember God's electric power company.
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If you find Galatians, the next is Ephesians, the next is Philippians,
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the next is Colossians, God's electric power company.
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All right.
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Look in Colossians 3, Verse, I'm sorry, 2, Chapter 2, Verse 13.
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Ready?
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"And you, being dead in your sins and the incircumcision of your flesh,
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"he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses."
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How many trespasses has God forgiven those who trust in Christ?
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All of them.
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Watch this now.
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"Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us."
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The handwriting of ordinances means all the laws we broke.
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"He blotted them out and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross."
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They're gone.
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All the accusations of us breaking God's law were nailed to Jesus' cross.
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Look here now.
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Verse 15.
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"And having spoiled that his conquered principalities and powers,
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"he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
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"Let no man therefore judge you in meat that is what you eat,
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"or in drink that is what you drink,
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"or in respect of an holy day,
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"or of the new moons," look here now, "or of the Sabbath days,
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"which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ."
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All right?
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So if I was out in the sunshine right now,
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the sun is shining over here.
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It hits my body.
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It's going to cast a shadow, well, there's one right there, of Chris' body.
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There's a shadow of Chris' body right there.
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It looks like Chris.
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It resembles Chris, but it's not Chris.
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Look over here.
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I'm going to stomp on that shadow.
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Did that hurt you, any?
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(Laughter)
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It's not Chris.
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So the Sabbath day was a shadow of Jesus Christ.
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Resting on that Sabbath day was a shadow.
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It was a figure of Christ.
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But the actual body, the Apostle Paul said, is Christ Himself.
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So if we rest in Jesus Christ and the work He's done
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on the cross to His death, burial, and resurrection,
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we are honoring the Sabbath.
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We rest in His rest, remembering that all the work of salvation is done.
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On the other hand, if having known Christ has come,
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we say, "I'm not going to rest in that.
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I'm going to rest in the seventh day."
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Well, you'll have the seventh day rest, but you won't have eternal rest.
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The thing about the seventh day rest is this.
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Every Saturday, they had to quit working and rest again.
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But the next day, they had to start working again.
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The Sabbath rest never gave them eternal rest.
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The shadow couldn't give them true rest.
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They had to get back to work the next day.
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But the body, Jesus Christ, gives us rest so we never work again.
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We are resting in the finished work of Christ on the cross.
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Makes sense?
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All right.
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So this command in the Ten Commandments was a preparatory command,
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a command that necessitated God's people to rest.
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We still obey this command today, not by resting in the day,
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but by resting in the Son of God.
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Makes sense?
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All right.
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Let's move on now.
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Verse 12, "Honor thy father and thy mother,
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that that days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."
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Wow.
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Have you ever disobeyed your parents before?
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Have you ever talked to us respectfully to your parents before?
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Every one of us have.
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When you don't honor your father and mother,
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that doesn't mean you have to agree with everything they do.
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That doesn't mean you have to accept their sin.
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Some fathers and mothers are not good parents.
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I understand that.
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But the idea here is this, that God gave his parents to rear us up
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and put us under their authority.
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And while we're there, we need to subject to it.
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And then when they get old, we're to take care of them, you know?
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And help take care of our parents.
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And so there's this honor that comes with the parents,
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and God says it will help us live long upon the land,
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which if people would listen to their parents, generally speaking,
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they would last a lot longer.
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I know a few that I went to school with that would be alive,
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possibly right now, had they listened to their parents
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and not gone out drinking and driving.
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All right.
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Let's go ahead and look here now.
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Verse 13, thou shalt not kill.
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So I know I haven't broken that commandment, Brother Richard.
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Yes, you have.
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Because life, Jesus said that he came that we might have life
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and that we might have it more abundantly.
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So that means life is given in measure.
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You can have life in the sense of mere existence.
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You can have life in the sense of ecstatic joy.
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Some people live life to the fullest.
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Some people just are starving and skinny
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and just trying to keep living
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and hoping they can find the next meal somewhere.
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The thing about killing is this.
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Anytime I deprive somebody of the full, perfect, joyful life
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that God created them to have,
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I have then killed them in a measure.
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I've robbed them of a portion of that life.
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Make sense?
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If I, Jeff, right?
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Yep.
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I haven't called your name in a while.
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So if I were to see Jeff today
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and I were to say, Jeff, your tie looks way too much like mine.
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And it does look a lot like mine.
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But I think mine's much shinier and yours is dull
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and that's probably not a brand name tie anyway.
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And I don't like your tie.
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Well, Jeff is probably not going to say,
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"Well, what a blessing that Brother Richard would tell me that, Jeff."
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It could hurt his feelings.
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It could be an insult that he would leave and go next door and think,
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"Shall I even stick around here? This guy preached."
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And it would trouble him in his heart.
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If I troubled that man wrongfully,
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did I just deprive him of the life of joy that God...
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Yes.
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The Bible says, Jesus said,
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"If you hate your brother without a cause, you've broken this commandment."
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Because in your heart, do we care what people think about us?
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In our pride, we may say, "I don't care what people think about me," but we do.
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That's how come on Facebook we always say,
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"Look at me! Look at me!"
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And here we are. We're out eating together.
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We have the wonderful marriage and wonderful life.
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Celebrate us. We do care what people think about us.
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We definitely do.
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And I don't want someone thinking wrong about me.
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Man, if someone thought, like if I'm in Walmart or something,
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if I have an item in my hand,
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I'd do my best to make sure that people on camera, anyone watching me,
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they can see that item in my hand, they know, I haven't slipped in my pocket.
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I care what they think about me.
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And if I knew that one of y'all thought I may have shoplifted something from Walmart,
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if I thought one of y'all for a moment thought that I have done somebody wrong,
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I would want to correct that in your head.
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And you would want to correct that in my head,
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because you don't want me thinking that about you.
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So killing someone is not just being mean to them, not just taking their life away,
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but it's thinking wrong about someone in your mind.
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Okay?
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Let's look here.
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Verse 14, "Thou shalt not come into adultery."
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If you look at another man or another woman,
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and you lust after that person in your heart,
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you were just unfaithful to your spouse.
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I don't want, and you don't want,
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your spouse to be thinking and daydreaming about anyone but you.
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Isn't it great to think that your husband or wife is crazy about you,
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and that you satisfy all of their needs and their desires,
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and they're just head over heels in love with you?
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Everyone wants that.
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And to think that they're thinking,
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"Huh, I remember that girl back in high school.
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Boy, I sure wish I'd have wound up with her.
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Boy, she sure was.
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I wonder what she's doing today, man."
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And you start daydreaming about,
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"You're committing adultery in your heart."
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You see?
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That's breaking that command.
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Look here now.
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You see how we've gotten into,
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away from our relationship with God or relationship with people?
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Look here now in verse 15, "Thou shalt not steal."
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You take something that doesn't belong to you stolen.
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There was a man in high school one time,
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they were going to take quotes.
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If anyone had a quote,
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then they were going to put it in a yearbook.
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Well, I came up with this quote that I heard from someplace.
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I don't know.
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But it was a good quote.
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It's supposed to have been,
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"You tell a quote that you've heard someone say that was important to you."
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It didn't supposed to be an original quote.
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So I came up with something that I heard someone say that was important to me.
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And I thought, "This is unique."
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Well, a friend of mine said, "Hey, Richard."
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He said, "What's your quote going to be?"
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I said, "I've got a good one."
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I said, "I heard someone say one time,
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I felt sorry that I had no shoes until I met a man with no feet."
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He goes, "That's a good one."
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Do you know what he did?
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He used my quote.
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(Laughter)
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(Phew)
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That's stealing.
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If someone does work and you take credit for it, that's stealing.
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You go put in, you claim eight hours at work and you work seven, it's stealing.
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Thou shalt not steal.
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Let's move on here.
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We've got to hurry up.
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Verse 16, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."
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Don't lie.
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Never bear false witness.
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Your neighbor is owed the truth.
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Don't lie to them.
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It's against your neighbor because you've got to tell somebody something.
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If you're lying, you're lying to somebody.
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So don't bear false witness against your neighbor.
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Don't testify against them wrongly in court.
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Don't lie to them.
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Don't lie about them.
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Next, verse 17, "Thou shalt not cover thy neighbor's house."
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"Thou shalt not cover thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's."
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What is coveting?
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Coveting is saying, you know,
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"Look at that loaf of bread over there.
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Tell you what, why should Gwyn have that loaf of bread?
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What has Gwyn ever done for me?
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I've been better to Jonathan than Gwyn has.
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I should have that loaf.
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What am I doing?
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I'm coveting her loaf of bread.
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Why is it wrong to covet her loaf of bread?
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Because for me to desire that loaf of bread and me want that loaf of bread for myself,
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in order for me, now the people online are going to be wanting to see this loaf of bread,
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for me to have this loaf of bread is for her to no longer have it.
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Coveting is two sins in one.
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Number one, it's a form of stealing in your heart.
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It's a form of, I should be, I should see her with this loaf of bread,
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and I should celebrate the fact that God's been good and blessed her with this loaf of bread.
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But when I look at this loaf of bread, and instead of celebrating that she has it,
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I wish I had it instead of her, that is wrong.
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That's not rejoicing in God blessing her.
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That's wanting me to not want her to have that blessing.
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It's selfishness.
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Covetousness is wrong.
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Covetousness is saying, "God, I am not satisfied with what you've given me."
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The Bible says, "With food and raiment be content."
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You got food in your belly?
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You got a shirt on your back?
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Be happy for it.
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And trust God for the rest of it to supply your needs.
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You say, "Well, we need a house."
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What house did John the Baptist live in out there in the wilderness?
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You know, a shack or a cave or something, you know?
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But, you know, we really don't need much in life.
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And we need to be content with what we have.
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And if someone gets a new car, if someone graduates with a degree,
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if someone gets a promotion at work, hey, praise God, God gave them that.
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And God's got something else for me, and I'll be content with what God has for me.
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Instead of getting upset about it, you know what I can always do?
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I can go make my own bread.
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Instead of wanting what somebody else has.
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People who want to live off the work of other people, they're covetous.
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People who say, "I just want my check to come in, and I'll take my benefits," or whatever.
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Well, I don't want to benefit by looking at what someone else has and saying,
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"Those people need to give to me."
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And there's a whole world full of folks like that.
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So look here now, if you would, and we'll finish.
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We've got to hurry, hurry, hurry.
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And all the people saw the thunderings and the lightnings and the noise,
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the trumpet and the mountain smoking when the people saw it, they removed and stood afar off.
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What did the commandments do? Did they bring them close to God?
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No.
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They magnified the difference between a holy God and an holy man.
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God willing, we'll start here next week and look at the Mediation Ministry of Moses.
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