Sweat Equity (6 of 8)
Series: The Big Ten
Craig Smith
Exodus 20:15
Introduction Thank you for joining us today. We’re in the midst of a series on the 10 commandments, which might be the most famous set of religious rules in the whole world. These were basically the first rules God gave His people to regulate His relationship with them. And I say it that way because rules don’t create relationships, they regulate them. I’m not married to my bride, Coletta, because I don’t date other women or entertain attraction to other women. I’m married to Coletta because we both committed to each other. It was an act of trust and faith. And that’s really where all relationships, including our relationship with God, comes from. We get a relationship with God by faith in what Jesus did for us. The rules God gives us don’t create the relationship, but they do regulate it. They keep the relationship moving in the right direction and they keep us centered where we can experience all the good things in the relationship that God wants us to experience. Today we come to the one commandment that’s probably the most easily understood and the most commonly broken. In fact, the eighth commandment gets broken so often that our lives are filled with things designed to make it harder to break the eighth commandment. How many of us have these {hold up keys]? It’s to keep people from taking our stuff and making it their stuff without our permission. And it’s not just keys...how many of us have passwords? How many of us have so many passwords that we keep a password-protected list of all the passwords. How many of us have ever forgotten the password to the list of all our passwords? We have pin numbers. We have thumbprint scanners. We have facial recognition. Some people line their wallets with aluminum foil to keep people from stealing their credit card info with a scanner...I don’t even think that’s a real thing...it sounds just a tiny bit more believable than wearing an aluminum foil h ...
Series: The Big Ten
Craig Smith
Exodus 20:15
Introduction Thank you for joining us today. We’re in the midst of a series on the 10 commandments, which might be the most famous set of religious rules in the whole world. These were basically the first rules God gave His people to regulate His relationship with them. And I say it that way because rules don’t create relationships, they regulate them. I’m not married to my bride, Coletta, because I don’t date other women or entertain attraction to other women. I’m married to Coletta because we both committed to each other. It was an act of trust and faith. And that’s really where all relationships, including our relationship with God, comes from. We get a relationship with God by faith in what Jesus did for us. The rules God gives us don’t create the relationship, but they do regulate it. They keep the relationship moving in the right direction and they keep us centered where we can experience all the good things in the relationship that God wants us to experience. Today we come to the one commandment that’s probably the most easily understood and the most commonly broken. In fact, the eighth commandment gets broken so often that our lives are filled with things designed to make it harder to break the eighth commandment. How many of us have these {hold up keys]? It’s to keep people from taking our stuff and making it their stuff without our permission. And it’s not just keys...how many of us have passwords? How many of us have so many passwords that we keep a password-protected list of all the passwords. How many of us have ever forgotten the password to the list of all our passwords? We have pin numbers. We have thumbprint scanners. We have facial recognition. Some people line their wallets with aluminum foil to keep people from stealing their credit card info with a scanner...I don’t even think that’s a real thing...it sounds just a tiny bit more believable than wearing an aluminum foil h ...
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