RIGHT GOD, WRONG WAY (3 OF 11)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Exodus 20:4-6
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Right God, Wrong Way (3 of 11)
Series: The Ten Commandments
Scott Maze
Exodus 20:4-6
Last week we focused on the first commandment: “You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me.” Last week, we focused on the “what” of worship: You Shall Worship Only God Himself. This week, we focus on the “how” of worship: You Shall Worship God the Right Way.
The first commandment implicitly excludes all idolatry. Yet, what is implicit in the first commandment is explicit in the second commandment.
You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments” (Exodus 20:4-6).
“Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, 16 beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth. 19 And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven” (Deuteronomy 4:15-19).
Idols belong in the magazine, National Geographic and in the movies of Indiana Jones, not to us. Americans are not into Buddha statues surrounded by flowers and incense. Everyone of us has a battle raging within us over ...
Series: The Ten Commandments
Scott Maze
Exodus 20:4-6
Last week we focused on the first commandment: “You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me.” Last week, we focused on the “what” of worship: You Shall Worship Only God Himself. This week, we focus on the “how” of worship: You Shall Worship God the Right Way.
The first commandment implicitly excludes all idolatry. Yet, what is implicit in the first commandment is explicit in the second commandment.
You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments” (Exodus 20:4-6).
“Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, 16 beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth. 19 And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven” (Deuteronomy 4:15-19).
Idols belong in the magazine, National Geographic and in the movies of Indiana Jones, not to us. Americans are not into Buddha statues surrounded by flowers and incense. Everyone of us has a battle raging within us over ...
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