THE COMMANDMENT WITH A PROMISE (5 OF 10)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: Exodus 20:12
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Title: The Commandment with a Promise (5 of 10)
Series: Written in Stone
Author: Jeff Schreve
Text: Exodus 20:12
June 4, 2023
If you have your Bible, please turn to Exodus chapter 20. We're in a series on the Ten Commandments. We're calling this series, "Written in Stone," because God wrote the Ten Commandments with His own finger. He carved them in stone. These are commandments, obviously to live by, commandments that reveal the heart and the character of God, what is important for us to know and to do. These aren't the ten suggestions. They're the Ten Commandments. And we know that the Ten Commandments were written on two tablets of stone. And the way that our minds work, we have one tablet that deals with the first four commandments, the vertical commandments, the laws of worship, as Voddie Baucham calls them, and what we're supposed to do in our vertical relationship with God. Obviously, that comes first. But then, the next six commandments, that second tablet if you think about it in your minds, that deals with our horizontal relationships. Jesus summed up the Ten Commandments this way when He was asked, "What is the greatest commandment?" He said, "The greatest commandment is vertical. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind; and the second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend the whole law and the prophets." So, the first four commandments are vertical - loving the LORD. The next six commandments are horizontal - loving your neighbor as yourself. Now, the foundation for the first tablet is, "I am the LORD your God who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before Me." That is the foundation of everything, God only. So, we worship God only. We worship God rightly - no idols. We worship God reverently. "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will ...
Series: Written in Stone
Author: Jeff Schreve
Text: Exodus 20:12
June 4, 2023
If you have your Bible, please turn to Exodus chapter 20. We're in a series on the Ten Commandments. We're calling this series, "Written in Stone," because God wrote the Ten Commandments with His own finger. He carved them in stone. These are commandments, obviously to live by, commandments that reveal the heart and the character of God, what is important for us to know and to do. These aren't the ten suggestions. They're the Ten Commandments. And we know that the Ten Commandments were written on two tablets of stone. And the way that our minds work, we have one tablet that deals with the first four commandments, the vertical commandments, the laws of worship, as Voddie Baucham calls them, and what we're supposed to do in our vertical relationship with God. Obviously, that comes first. But then, the next six commandments, that second tablet if you think about it in your minds, that deals with our horizontal relationships. Jesus summed up the Ten Commandments this way when He was asked, "What is the greatest commandment?" He said, "The greatest commandment is vertical. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind; and the second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend the whole law and the prophets." So, the first four commandments are vertical - loving the LORD. The next six commandments are horizontal - loving your neighbor as yourself. Now, the foundation for the first tablet is, "I am the LORD your God who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before Me." That is the foundation of everything, God only. So, we worship God only. We worship God rightly - no idols. We worship God reverently. "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will ...
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