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1. The Ten Commandments

Exodus 20:1-21

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Brett Blair

... but they will not. I would conclude this sermon with these thoughts. The Law was a gift from God just as the Messiah was a gift from God. Jesus himself said that he did not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill the law. Jesus affirmed the Ten Commandments time and again by defining their original intent. He spoke in the Sermon on the Mount: You have heard that it was said to the people long ago “Do not murder,” but I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment.” Sin ...

2. One Commandment is Enough!

Exodus 20:1-21

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... When, in the corners of the mind, we have covetous feelings for what is another's, soon we are dissatisfied with what God has given us, and we decide to take it as our own. The mind must be cleaned up, or this evil can never be defeated. Jesus' Two Commandments Jesus did not destroy the Law written in the Decalogue; he simply boiled the ten down to two. "Thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind (Mark and Luke added, "and with all thy strength" This is ...

3. The Ten Commandments: One God, Only One

Exodus 20:1-21

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David E. Leininger

... as well. That is why we need this study. If we take our faith seriously, we do not want to sin. Rather than being a part of the problem, we want to be a part of the solution. Lord willing, over the next few weeks, we will delve into the commandments, one by one, to see just what our instructions are. The place to begin, of course, is at the beginning. Number One: Exodus 20, verse 3 - "You shall have no other gods before me." In other words, "I am to be your only God!" That seems clear enough. No problem ...

4. Envision: The Great Commandment

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

James Merritt

... time with that person as you possibly can. You don’t enjoy anything more than when you do spend time with that person. The very first step to loving God is taking time every day to spend with Him and just worship Him, love Him, and learn His commandments so you will know how to obey Him. There are all kinds of terms that are used for doing this. Some people call it a “quiet time”, some people call it “doing devotions”, some call it “time alone with God” and some people call it “spending time ...

5. "He Who Commands Is He Who Fulfills"

Matthew 22:34-40

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... risen Lord. His unbounded love for us has worked in us a change of heart, a change in the way we view our lives and live them. To the new creature who lives by faith, no longer are the words "love God, love your neighbor" only demands or commands. No longer are they merely prescriptions, but rather also descriptions of our new life in Christ. No longer are they but rules and laws stated in the imperative: you shall, you must. They are now also narratives stated in the indicative: you will, you are. Who are ...

6. The Ten Commandments - Part 2

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... anyway. His reasoning when they confronted him? The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. The point is, we needn’t become too legalistic on this issue or we risk falling into the same trap that the Pharisees fell into. We need to understand that what this commandment is suggesting is that we need some day in the week when we get in touch with God. The Bible says: Be still and know that I am God. We need time when we can be in a place of holiness and hear the voice of God speak to us ...

7. The Ten Commandments - Part 3

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... to get the young people to fetch water, or clean out their tent, or quite asking for use of the camel on Saturday night. Rather, this was originally meant to be a way of honoring those who were aging in society. In other words, we are to view this commandment as children looking up, not as parents looking down. Now, I want you to visualize your parents when I ask these questions. How many times were they there for you when you needed them? How much sacrificing did they do for you? Was it from them that you ...

8. Living the Ten Commandments

Exodus 20:1-21

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Eric Ritz

... , or her, enough to say "No" at an appropriate time and place. Our world is less civilized and a poorer place to live when God is not honored and human life is not held sacred. As E. Stanley Jones once said, "We don''t break the Ten Commandments. We break ourselves upon them." There is nothing wrong with these eternal rules except our ever-present resistance to their rightful authority in our lives. It is my great hope and prayer that, as we examine these holy laws over the next several weeks, we will move ...

9. The Ten Commandments - Part 4

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... , but they will not. I would conclude this series with this thought. The Law was a gift from God just as the Messiah was a gift from God. Jesus himself said that he did not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill the law. Jesus affirmed the Ten Commandments time and again by defining their original intent. He spoke in the Sermon on the Mount: You have heard that it was said to the people long ago “Do not murder,” but I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment.” Sin ...

10. The Ten Commandments #6: No Murder

Exodus 20:1-21

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David E. Leininger

... . War. Capital Punishment. Euthanasia. Much has been written on each of these ethical questions, and there is no way we could possibly get into all of the issues in the course of a short sermon (or even a very long one). But in connection with what the commandment says, we will consider them at least briefly. What about abortion? Is it murder or not? Despite what some folks would have us believe, the scripture is NOT crystal clear on the issue. (We might WISH it were, but it is not!) In Bible times, we have ...

11. The Ten Commandments #10: No Covetousness

Exodus 20:1-21

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David E. Leininger

... a desire...a covetousness...for more and better of almost everything, these are hard words to hear. The concept is fine, but, as the old phrase goes, "the devil is in the details." How do we boil the water? At first blush, this does sound like a strange commandment. Why on earth would God tell us not to want things? And frankly, how could a normal person KEEP from wanting things? Does it make sense for God to tell an African mother not to want food for her starving baby? Does it make sense for God to tell ...

12. Old and New Commandments

Exodus 34:29-35

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... and statutes that we find scattered through the Torah, the first five books of our Bibles? Obviously the Apostle Paul does not think so, according to our Epistle lesson in 2 Corinthians 3:12--4:2. Paul reinterprets our Old Testament text in such a manner that the commandments become the "veil" whereby God is hidden from us, whereas God's revelation of himself in Christ removes the veil and allows us to know the glory of God. "We have seen the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ ...

13. The Ten Commandments #3: God's Name

Exodus 20:1-21

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David E. Leininger

... among the devout. Be careful. "You shall not use the name of the Lord your God for mischief." Another situation that prompted the commandment was one to which Jesus made reference - taking an oath.(5) Lines such as, "AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, I promise to...do ... will, do it; if you say you won't, don't. 'Nuff said. And, at its heart, that was the reason for this third commandment in the first place, because basic honesty is one of the building blocks of a just society. We would do well to remember that ...

14. The Uniquely Christian Commandment

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

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David E. Leininger

... necessary for an orderly society, and I am willing to put up with them. All I ask is that the rules be defined clearly enough so I might know whether or not I am doing what I should. We all feel that way. The special problem I have with this commandment to "love one another" is that it sounds so open-ended. It strikes me as a bit like a traffic law requiring that we drive at a safe speed without the law ever saying what the limits are. I would be uncomfortable with that, too. Perhaps there is help in ...

15. The Ten Commandments #5: Honoring Parents

Exodus 20:12

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David E. Leininger

... for a child cursing his or her parents was death.(5) (You hear that, kids?) A father could say to a recalcitrant son, in the Hebrew equivalent of Bill Cosby's words, "Listen, boy, I brought you into this world; I can take you OUT." But this commandment was not a threat; it was a promise. For the individual, the sound teachings of the parents - the good habits, the intelligent care of body and mind, the proper approach to spiritual things - would all tend to promise a longer and more productive life than if ...

16. He Commanded Us to Preach

Acts 10:23b-48

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... to the Jews and Gentiles. In our time we must preach the Good News to the Jews, the Gentiles, and those who are in the church. For being in the church, many have grown weary of hearing and are in need of a conversion or reconversion experience to Christ. He commanded us to the gospel of peace. The Good News of peace is still needed in our time. In a world that is still torn by war, bloodshed, and strife, the message of peace and goodwill should go forth for all time. Nations are not only at war with each ...

17. The Ten Commandments #2: No Idols!

Exodus 20:1-21

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David E. Leininger

... a world into which a rag-tag band of former Egyptian slaves would come to form a new nation, Israel. And it was the religion of this kind of world from which Israel's God, the God of all the universe, wanted to protect the chosen people. Enter the Ten Commandments, and number two in particular: You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or worship ...

18. The Ten Commandments #9: No False Witness

Exodus 20:1-21

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David E. Leininger

... or learned about, he will be held responsible."(3) "False witness" could be given, not just by OPENING your mouth, but by keeping it shut as well. There is a bias toward truth in assuring a society that is as God intends, not only in this ninth commandment and the rest of the Jewish law, but throughout history. As to PERSONAL truthfulness (not simply judicial), we learn early on. One of the first Bible verses my parents taught me was "Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord."(4) And every time I would be ...

19. One Commandment, Slightly Used

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... that love is likely to cost us something. In fact, we might say that a love which costs us nothing is worth precisely that—nothing. At a minimum it costs us our self-sufficiency, to admit that we need God and one another. In order to fulfill the Lord’s command, we need other persons, for love must not only have a subject but an object. At maximum it may cost us our very life. It has often done so down through the Christian centuries, and may well do so again. However, most of us are not called upon to ...

20. Our Unmanageable God (The Second Commandment)

Exodus 20:1-21, Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... them. I remember a young man who was preparing to take a rather dangerous whitewater canoe trip. Someone asked if he was worried about the dangers involved. He replied he was not because he was guaranteed divine protection. First he quoted Matthew 4:6 which says, "God will command his angels to care for you so that you will not dash your foot against a stone." Then he quoted Matthew 18:19 which says, "If two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven." This ...

21. The Seventh Commandment: Indecent Proposal

Exodus 20:1-21

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Eric Ritz

... we do not harness our God-given sexuality and allow it to be controlled by principles other than those established by God. The word "adulteration" means the mixing of a base substance with a pure substance. It really goes to the heart of the First and Second Commandments in which we are to worship God and God alone. We cannot mix a little devotion with idolatry and expect the Real Thing. The same principle works in the spiritual realm that applies to the physical realm. As a matter of fact there is a deep ...

22. Commandments of Conduct

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... of Jerusalem, and "they told Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had given to Israel" (v. 1). They demanded to hear the Torah. We would not want that, would we? If someone wanted to read us a story that contained commandments for our lives, we might quickly leave the scene. Our pious excuse, of course, would be that we are Christians who are saved by faith and not by some law. But the Jews in Ezra's time had a different understanding of the Torah than we have, and they ...

23. The Ten Commandments #7: No Adultery

Exodus 20:1-21

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David E. Leininger

... , but rather its relevance. You see, I was serving a congregation at that time that was OLD. I mean REALLY OLD - twenty percent of them were over 80! Did they NEED to hear, "You shall not commit adultery?" But I was in the midst of a series on the Ten Commandments, so I could not comfortably skip this one. I mentioned my concern, and the word that came back was, "THIS is the one we have been WAITING FOR - just because there is snow on the roof does not mean there is no fire in the furnace." OK. On the other ...

24. The Sixth Commandment: Respect and Reverence for Life

Exodus 20:1-21

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Eric Ritz

... . Everybody was wearing bracelets and T-shirts with the letters W.W.J.D. on them. W.W.J.D.--What Would Jesus Do? You could not get away from its message. Maybe, just maybe, that is the key to understanding the words and spirit of this sixth commandment. If we can''t do it in the name of Jesus, perhaps we should not attempt it in the first place. The movie Dead Man Walking contains a strong message against the death penalty and capital punishment. If life is sacred in the womb then it is sacred outside ...

25. The Ten Commandments For Today

Exodus 20:1-21

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Erskine White

... . So, in essence, what follows is ten mini-sermons. You might say that you are getting your eggs scrambled this time, instead of poached, like you usually get them. There is no grand theme, no effort to tie everything together, just ten short, separate sermons on "The Ten Commandments For Today." (1) "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me." You cannot worship more than one god. You cannot have a first god and a ...

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