Exodus 20:15Commandment #8 – No Theft If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus, chapter 20, and the 15th verse. I am so appreciative of the many folks who encouraged me in the wake of last Sunday's sermon on the seventh commandment. Many of you even asked that I continue the application this week. You don't know how that encourages a preacher. I have included an outline of the message for you and its application in the first epistle this week. You will know, most of you, that the 10 Commandments are revisited in the Book of the Covenant from Exodus 21 to 24, and various aspects of those commands are detailed for the life of Israel, and so we will have opportunity to address this most important issue again in detail and I'll have opportunity to…

Exodus 20:16Commandment #9: No False Testimony If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 20:16. We are continuing our study through the ten words this morning, the words that God spoke to Israel and wrote with His own finger. We are in the second table of the law, and over and over we have seen the lesson repeated that our love to neighbor — especially as we have been studying from the fifth commandment to the ninth today — our love to neighbor is closely tied to our love to God. Remember, John can say in 1 John 3 that this is how we know that we have passed into light, that we love our brother. What's he stressing? He is stressing that our obedience to the second table of the law — our love of neighbor — is a reflection, it is an index of the reality…

Exodus 20:17#10 – No Coveting If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 20:17. Today, we come to the tenth of the C. And, looking at the big picture from what we have seen already, we can tell that there is an upward, an outward – and we'll see today – an inward focus of these commandments. It's obvious when you look at the first four commands, as they especially have to do with our duty towards God, that the thrust, the focus, of those commandments is 'Godward'; it's upward. We are obedient, especially in view of our relationship with the heavenly father, but that is also true of the so-called second table commands, – from the fifth to the tenth commands – as we are called to love our neighbor. The focus of those…

Exodus 20: 18-21The Fear of God If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus chapter 20, verses 18 through 21. Today we come to the last in our series on the ten words. We've already seen how exceedingly rich the application of these commands are to our daily lives, and we barely scratched the surface of so much of what these commands say to us. Today's passage gives us the response of the people of God to this spectacular display of His presence and His…