Worship This Way (2 of 10)
Series: 10 Commandments (Life's Blueprints)
Robert Dawson
Exodus 20.4-6
In an article for the Wall Street Journal, writer Leonard Mlodinow shares this story from the life of baseball great Joe DiMaggio, he off the great 56 game hitting streak. It was the summer of 1945, and WW II had ended. Former soldiers including famous baseball stars, streamed back into America and American life. Yankees slugger Joe D was trying to be 'Yankee fan Joe D,' sneaking into a mezzanine seat with his four year old son, Joe, Jr., before rejoining his team. A fan noticed him, then another. Soon throughout the stadium people were chanting, 'Joe, Joe, Joe DiMaggio!' DiMaggio, moved, gazed down to see if his son had noticed the tribute. He had. ''See Daddy.'' Said the little DiMaggio, 'everybody knows me!'
The junior DiMaggio made the innocent child's mistake of assuming all the glory at the Yankee Stadium that afternoon in 1945 belonged to him and not to his father. Human beings make a far less innocent mistake when the human heart purposefully fails to honor God as God and give God the glory in the form of worship that He alone is due and take it for ourselves or give it to another.
Following God's blueprint for life not only begins with the recognition there is only one God and there are no others but learning to relate to him and worship Him as He demands and deserves to be worshiped.
As you look at the first two commands you notice they are very similar. Some traditions see these as one command and separate what we would consider the 10th command. While we cannot deny there is a strong parallel between the two there is also an important distinction.
The first command tells us who we are to worship.
- Exodus 20.2-3 - ''I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 ''You shall have no other gods before Me.
The second command deals not with who we are to worship per se but how we are to ...
Series: 10 Commandments (Life's Blueprints)
Robert Dawson
Exodus 20.4-6
In an article for the Wall Street Journal, writer Leonard Mlodinow shares this story from the life of baseball great Joe DiMaggio, he off the great 56 game hitting streak. It was the summer of 1945, and WW II had ended. Former soldiers including famous baseball stars, streamed back into America and American life. Yankees slugger Joe D was trying to be 'Yankee fan Joe D,' sneaking into a mezzanine seat with his four year old son, Joe, Jr., before rejoining his team. A fan noticed him, then another. Soon throughout the stadium people were chanting, 'Joe, Joe, Joe DiMaggio!' DiMaggio, moved, gazed down to see if his son had noticed the tribute. He had. ''See Daddy.'' Said the little DiMaggio, 'everybody knows me!'
The junior DiMaggio made the innocent child's mistake of assuming all the glory at the Yankee Stadium that afternoon in 1945 belonged to him and not to his father. Human beings make a far less innocent mistake when the human heart purposefully fails to honor God as God and give God the glory in the form of worship that He alone is due and take it for ourselves or give it to another.
Following God's blueprint for life not only begins with the recognition there is only one God and there are no others but learning to relate to him and worship Him as He demands and deserves to be worshiped.
As you look at the first two commands you notice they are very similar. Some traditions see these as one command and separate what we would consider the 10th command. While we cannot deny there is a strong parallel between the two there is also an important distinction.
The first command tells us who we are to worship.
- Exodus 20.2-3 - ''I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 ''You shall have no other gods before Me.
The second command deals not with who we are to worship per se but how we are to ...
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