Exodus

Exodus 20:7#3 — Do Not Wrongly Take God's Name If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus chapter 20 and the 7th verse. For the last few weeks we have been looking at the Ten Commandments themselves. Before that we tried to give some sort of a context for the ten commands by looking at Exodus chapter 19, and the first two verses of Exodus chapter 20 so that we could appreciate this setting of God's household instruction which we call the Ten Commandments. We've looked at the first 2 commandments. In studying the first commandment, we indicated that that commandment was about the proper object of our worship. That only the one true God is to be worshiped. “You shall have no other gods before Me.” In saying that, God does not mean that He…

Exodus 20:8#4 – The Command (Blessing) We Love to Hate If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus chapter 20. We're continuing our study through the ten words which God spoke to Israel and which he gave to Moses, these ten commands. And we've come to the fourth command. It is the commandment we love to hate. Really, it's the blessing we love to hate. We chafe under the fourth commandment. And we rarely relish the fourth commandment, much less delight in it. And it's my desire today to see you come to relish the Lord's Day, to revel in it, to long for it, and to exalt in it. Now I'm perfectly aware that there is a controversy amongst Bible-believing Christians as to the applicability of the fourth commandment. And I'm going to…

Exodus 20:12#5 — Honor Parental Authority If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 20, as we continue to make our way through these ten words. These ten commands, spoken by God Himself directly to His people at Sinai, recorded by Moses in his five books of the law are given to us for our instruction, Paul said, “Upon whom the ends of the ages have come for our profit, for our reproof, for our correction, for our training in righteousness.” God's word is not simply relevant, God's word is absolutely necessary for growth in grace. And this word too, the first four commandments, which we have already studied, have a Godward tendency. They focus on our duty to God, our love to God. They tell us who we are to worship, how we are to worship, how…

Exodus 20:13#6 – Do No Immoral Killing. If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to exodus chapter 20. We're continuing in our study of the ten words this morning. Those ten commands which are the summary expression of the moral law of God, spoken by God Himself to the people of Israel at Mt. Sinai. But once again we are coming to a command that had its origin in revelation to the world long before Moses and Mt. Sinai. For this commandment which is set forth in the…

Exodus Commandment # 7 — The Scarlet Letter If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 20:14. We're continuing to work our way through the ten words, the ten commands, which are the summary of God's revelation of His moral law to the people of God in the Old Testament. They came from God 's own lips to His people at Mt. Sinai. We are in the second table of that law. The first four commandments are known as the first table of the law. The second six…

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…

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…

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…

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…