No Graven Images (2 of 10)
Series: 10 Commandments
Zach Terry
Exodus 20:4-6 (ESV)
INTRODUCTION: This week I was invited to speak at the Chapel for Fernandina Beach Christian Academy. It was their first chapel of the year and I got to come in, meet the kids and say a few words. Well it was pretty typical - They said the pledge of allegiance, sang happy birthday to a few people, sang a song and I preached.
Well as the kids were being dismissed. I noticed a few of the teachers laughing together. I walked up and Mrs. Kasley said, ''One of the kids was disappointed because he thought he would get to SEE GOD in the chapel service today''. Keep in mind, some of the students haven't been raised in a church setting, it was all new for this kid. So he assumed that, this is God's house, we are going to worship God, surely God will be there. AND He was in a sense... but not like this little guy expected. He wanted to see God.
That is a very natural and normal human desire. Most of us just aren't as honest about it as that kid was. God gave us eyes and we want to BEHOLD things. We want to SEE things. We are to LOOK UPON God.
That is why the second commandment is so important. It is the prohibition against making an object of worship. 4 ''You shall not make for yourself a carved image,
The God of the Universe is a SPIRIT. You can't see SPIRITUAL REALITY with PHYSICAL EYES, so what do we do? We help God out a little and make an image, an idol, an icon that will give us something to look at while we worship. It's very human and it's very wrong... for multiple reasons.
The text shows us three things... the Law to Live, the Lord to Love, and the Legacy to Leave... Let's start with...
The Law to Live
4 ''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,
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Series: 10 Commandments
Zach Terry
Exodus 20:4-6 (ESV)
INTRODUCTION: This week I was invited to speak at the Chapel for Fernandina Beach Christian Academy. It was their first chapel of the year and I got to come in, meet the kids and say a few words. Well it was pretty typical - They said the pledge of allegiance, sang happy birthday to a few people, sang a song and I preached.
Well as the kids were being dismissed. I noticed a few of the teachers laughing together. I walked up and Mrs. Kasley said, ''One of the kids was disappointed because he thought he would get to SEE GOD in the chapel service today''. Keep in mind, some of the students haven't been raised in a church setting, it was all new for this kid. So he assumed that, this is God's house, we are going to worship God, surely God will be there. AND He was in a sense... but not like this little guy expected. He wanted to see God.
That is a very natural and normal human desire. Most of us just aren't as honest about it as that kid was. God gave us eyes and we want to BEHOLD things. We want to SEE things. We are to LOOK UPON God.
That is why the second commandment is so important. It is the prohibition against making an object of worship. 4 ''You shall not make for yourself a carved image,
The God of the Universe is a SPIRIT. You can't see SPIRITUAL REALITY with PHYSICAL EYES, so what do we do? We help God out a little and make an image, an idol, an icon that will give us something to look at while we worship. It's very human and it's very wrong... for multiple reasons.
The text shows us three things... the Law to Live, the Lord to Love, and the Legacy to Leave... Let's start with...
The Law to Live
4 ''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,
NOTICE the connection to gra ...
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