Welcome to the Faith
Chapel ministry of 3ABN.
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I'm Pastor Stephen Bauer from
Southern Adventist University
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in Collegedale TN.
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Welcome to our program and thank
you for sharing part of your day
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with us here at 3ABN.
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In today's program I'm going
to be exploring the moral nature
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of the Ten Commandments
especially focusing on the first
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three of them but before we
begin our program today I'd like
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to pause for a word of prayer.
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Lord Jesus I want to thank
you that you love us enough to
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provide moral instruction
so that we know how to live our
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to your glory. Thank you for
giving us Ten Commandments that
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simplify what we ought to do
and make it easy to understand.
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Bless the viewers and listeners
of this program and bless me as
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I speak I ask in
the name of Jesus. Amen.
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Recently in the United States
news media there was a story
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about a judge who is suing
a dry cleaner for $54,000,000.
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The dry cleaner apparently
did not deliver the suit on time
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and when they did
the pants were missing.
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They offered to buy a
replacement suit of similar
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value but the judge refused
and sued them for $54,000,000
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in an attempt to show the
American people how to stand up
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For their personal rights.
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He's choosing $54,000,000
impart for the emotional damages
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of not getting his suit on
time and the loss of his pants.
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In a follow up story he admits
that he doesn't expect to get
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anywhere near $54,000,000 but
he plans to use whatever he wins
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to promote the idea that people
should fight for their rights
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even in court if necessary.
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Another recent news story a few
months earlier had a girl suing
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her school over the dress code
because it infringed with her
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free right of
speech and expression.
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Our TVs today bulge with
ads for personal injury lawyers
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telling us how their
going to fight for our rights.
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It seems that here in America
especially we have developed a
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culture that focuses on 'me'
and 'my rights' and defending my
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rights and don't you
dare infringe upon them or be
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offended by my exercise of them.
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Unfortunately many Christians
have adopted this attitude in
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their own life and they would
like to use the Ten Commandments
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as a means of protecting their
own rights and they want to use
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them as a sledge hammer to
get other people to honor their
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rights but I would propose
to you that such an attitude is
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out of harmony with the
moral nature and character of
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the ten commandments.
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When we look at the
ten commandments we find an
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interesting little phenomena
that is rarely thought about.
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I invite you to open your bible
and turn with me to Exodus 20.
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The 20th chapter of Exodus and
we want to look at the opening
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lines of several of the Ten
Commandments that start, in the
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King James with thou or in
my version here with the pronoun
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You. Exodus 20:1.
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We come down to verse
seven and the third commandment.
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Moving down to
verses 13, 14, and 15.
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The question is who is this
'you' that is being addressed
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in these commandments?
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Who is this 'you' who
is not to have other gods?
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Who is this 'you' who is
not to have graven images?
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Who is this 'you' who is
not to steal or commit adultery?
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Who is this 'you'?
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Well we could answer
it's the ancient Israelites.
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Look at the text, it says I am
the Lord your God who delivered
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you out of the land of Egypt.
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Obviously this was written
to the ancient Israelites.
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But the problem with that then
is that this is only for ancient
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Israel and it's
not for us today.
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We really wouldn't need
to pay attention to the ten
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commandments that way would we?
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But we read in the New Testament
that Jesus applies the ten
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commandments in His sermon
on the mount to Christian life.
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Paul, in Romans, applies it
to how we find Christ and know
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what sin is and James tells
us that we're going to be judged
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by the Ten Commandments
therefore we see that the early
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Christian apostles and
Christ saw those commandments as
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applicable to Christians and
not just to ancient Israelites.
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But that still leaves us with
a problem because we can say
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Christians need to keep the ten
commandments but we can never
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maybe bring it quite home to us.
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Its easy to say they need
to keep the Ten Commandments.
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But its harder to say I need
to keep the Ten Commandments.
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So who is this 'you'
who is supposed to keep
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the Ten Commandments?
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Especially if we look at it
not so much from a theological
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perspective but rather from a
moral and ethical perspective.
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Who is this 'you'?
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I would propose that this 'you'
is a free moral agent who has
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capacity and power to violate
someone else's rights with his
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or her choices.
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The Ten Commandments are thus
written to me to protect other
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people from my choices.
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Notice there is nothing in
those Ten Commandments that says
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here's how you, Steve Bauer,
how I, Steve Bauer, am to assure
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that I get my rights, rather
I am told, Steve Bauer, here's
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what you need to do to
protect other people's rights.
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The Ten Commandments call Steve
Bauer to restrain himself and
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think of other
people's right before his own.
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The first three commandments
protect God's rights.
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The fourth commandment is a
transition commandment designed
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to protect both God's rights,
other people's rights and even
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some rights of animals.
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and the last six commandment
number 5-10 are designed to
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protect the rights of
the other people around me.
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So again, the Ten Commandments
are written to you and to me as
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free moral agent and it is
designed to get us to restrain
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ourselves to protect other
peoples rights ahead of our own
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desires and our own interest.
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Lets look now at these
commandments individually.
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Starting with the first
commandment, again Exodus 20:1-3
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God has a right of
first priority in our lives.
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He has a right of exclusive
claim on us as God and as our
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maker God has the right to
say I have certain expectations
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of you, I want you to do certain
things, I want you to live
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this certain way.
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And those claims of God
take priority over anything else
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in our life.
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God has a right of
supreme priority in my life.
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Now there's an interesting tie,
in my opinion, to the seventh
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commandment here which says
thou shall not commit adultery
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because the commandment
on adultery deals with the
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exclusive claims between a
man and a woman in affection and
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commitment and marriage is a
model of God's relationship to
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His covenant
people and so just as
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the seventh
commandment deals with
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exclusive claims between
two people the first commandment
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deals with exclusive claims
between God and me and it is
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calls me to restrain my desire
to do whatever I please and to
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honor God's right of priority in
my life and submit to His will.
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Now these are some pretty strong
claims, for example, the claims
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of God supersede even the claims
of family if these two come into
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some kind of
tension or contradiction.
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The Bible says in Matt. 10
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This is a very strong claim.
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Its telling me that if there's
a contradiction between say what
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my wife wants me to do and what
God wants me to do that God's
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claims take precedents
over my wife even if it makes
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her unhappy.
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As a child, especially when I'm
still under the authority of my
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parents, if there is a
contradiction between God's will
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and what my parents want me
to do, God's claims are to take
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priority over my parents claims,
so as I say this is a very very
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strong claim to the point that
it could risk causing division
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in a family.
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Like wise this claim has
been championed by missionaries
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when they leave friends and
family to go in obedience to
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Christ's command to go ye
therefore and teach the nations
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and you think back a
hundred years ago we didn't have
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internet and telephone,
high speed communications.
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A lot of these people left their
families knowing they would
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probably never see them again
because the claims of Christ
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were that high.
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God has a right of first
priority in my affections and in
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my commitments and in my life.
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Not only that, God's claims take
claim over the civil authorities
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in my life as well and religious
authorities in my life as well.
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When the apostles were arrested
there in the book of Acts and
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they were called on trial
for preaching in obedience to
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Christ's command when the
authorities said don't preach
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their reply was we have
to obey God rather than man.
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These claims are so high that
they take precedents even over
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our very life.
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I look at Mark 8:34-35
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This is another
very strong claim.
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That God's rights supersede
even my right to my own life.
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You see, in the Bible God's
glory is even more important
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than my own life.
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and I need to restrain my
desires and my will in order to
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glorify God even if it cost me
my life that's why we sometimes
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have martyrs who die for their
faith because they would rather
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die than violate
God's glory and His rights.
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God also has a right to be
first in authority in my life.
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Not just first in
priority but first in authority.
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I was visiting a friend in China
last summer and he made a very
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insightful comment to me.
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He said Western Christianity
speaks much of commitment
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but little of surrender.
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Authority deals with the
surrender side of God's rights.
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Not only is He to be first in my
commitments but I am called to
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make a surrender to Him and
obey what He tells me to do.
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In Luke 6:46 Jesus said
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Why would we call Jesus Lord
without surrendering to Him?
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This means God has a right to
prescribe even little things in
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my life, God has a right to
prescribe things about my speech
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such as the third commandment.
He has a right to prescribe
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about diet, He has a right
to prescribe about dress, about
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worship, about finance, about
business transactions, about
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the little things in my
life and to honor this right God
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calls me to surrender myself
and seek His revealed will in
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the scriptures but I think
there's more to this commandment
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then just seeking God's
will. If God is to be first in
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priority and authority I need
to make time for Him in my day.
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In America we live such busy
lives that its hard to make God
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first in our living. I know
I run from morning until dusk
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and my schedule is so hectic
with responsibilities and I'm
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sure yours is too, that we
can get up and hit the ground
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running and forget all about
prayer and quite time with God.
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But God calls us to make Him
first in the appointment book
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and that can be challenging
when we have a very full
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schedule with so much on our
plate and yet we can make time
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for entertainment.
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I know I've thought a lot about,
in my own life a number of years
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ago particularly, I never had
time to pray it seemed or time
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to read the bible but I could
cut out three hours on Sunday
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afternoon to watch football and
I wonder what's wrong with my
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priorities, I can make time for
football but I have a hard time
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finding time to pray.
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Why is that? Its difficult
because we get so consumed
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in what we do but God calls
us to make him first and its a
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battle in this modern age but
I challenge you its worth making
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that battle and cutting
something out to have that time
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to really have God be first
in your life to here His voice.
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I also think that means
he needs to be first in our
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entertainment choices not only
how much time we spend watching
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TV and reading books and
that kind of a thing but what we
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watch and what we read needs
to recognize the sovereignty in
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values of Christ in our life.
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Well now its time to turn our
attention to the moral nature of
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the second commandment and I
invite you to turn in your Bible
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Exodus 20:4
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God has a right to
mystery and awesomeness.
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You see man has always had
a tendency to take God and box
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Him in to our own mental
constructs and one of the ways
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we do it, used to do it
especially, was to make idols.
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And we take our god and reduce
him or her, depending on the
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culture, down to a little idol
sometimes a vest pocket addition
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just a little thing this tall
that you could pull out of your
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pocket and set on the shelf
or the table and bow down and
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worship your god but God is
bigger than something that can
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be put into our mind and He
has a right for us to honor His
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mystery and recognize that
not everything about God can be
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figured out by
a mere human mind.
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Not only does God have a right
not to be reduced to a physical
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image but He also has a right
not to be reduced to a mental
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image and a mental construct and
that's where I think we suffer
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great challenges
in our society today.
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I encounter regularly people
who generate mental images of
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God that have little
to do with scripture.
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Two examples can suffice.
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One is that we have the God I
call the God of Sigmund Freud.
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That is, we take a little bit
of the Bible and we take a bunch
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of modern psychology and we weld
the two together and we create a
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God that is somewhat scriptural
but not fully scriptural.
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God is love but we then take a
psychological definition of love
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instead of a
biblical definition of love.
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And we create a God in that
image and the modern definition
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of love tends toward absolute
tolerance and nonjudgementalness
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to the point that God cannot
conduct a judgment, God cannot
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hold people accountable and
He loses His sovereignty and as
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C.S. Lewis put it, becomes
little more than a senile
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grandfather in the sky who
wishes we all have a good time.
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On the other hand, in recent
scholarly work I've done I
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discovered scholars who are
trying to weld God to Darwin's
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theory of evolution and so they
take a little of scripture and
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they weld concepts of evolution
to it until they come up with a
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God that has nothing to do
with the Bible a God who in fact
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evolves with us.
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God calls us in this commandment
to honor His right to mystery
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and not to reduce Him to some
over simplified construct that
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we can contain in our
feeble little mind that way.
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I would suggest than that this
commandment is like the trinity
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in function and it reminds
us that God is to big and to
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complicated for me to control
and manipulate and put into my
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feeble little mind, God has
a right to remain mysterious
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and awesome in my mind.
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Now we turn to the third
and final commandment of today's
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lecture Exodus 20:7
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God has a right for us not
to misuse His name in a way that
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brings dishonor to him.
We traditionally apply this
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commandment to things like
cursing and swearing and this
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is certainly true.
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Those who follow Christ ought
not to be cursing and swearing
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and using that kind of coarse
language when we get upset and
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frustrated and other things like
that, we need to be more refined
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and pure like Jesus but there's
more to this commandment than
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just prohibiting foul language
and of course I'm reminded of
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Peter who when he denied Christ
and wanted to prove that he
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didn't belong to Christ, he did
it by using that foul sailor's
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language from the boats.
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This commandment certainly
includes that but I think it
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includes quite a bit more.
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What does it mean to
take the name of God?
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I suggest that this comes from
the metaphor of marriage and
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and in the Bible God's
people like unto the bride and
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traditionally the bride
takes the name of her husband.
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my wife was Leslie Eagles before
we got married but when we got
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married she took my name
and now goes by Leslie Bauer.
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But what does it then mean for a
wife to take her husband's name?
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It means that she's recognizing
that he has exclusive claims on
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her and she on him.
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What would it mean if my
wife and I went on our honeymoon
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and she went out and started
going on dates with other men
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or even sleeping with other men?
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Would that not mean that
she took my name in vain because
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she no longer is recognizing
the excusive claims that we just
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committed ourselves to?
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In like manner, when we take the
name of God and become His child
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and we take the name of Jesus
we are taking exclusive claims
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upon ourselves and we
need to honor those claims in a
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special way.
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You see, when we take Christ's
name and then act in ways that
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dishonor His name not only
by cursing and swearing but by
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abusive treatment of other
people and cheating in business
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and lying and these kinds
of things that bring offence to
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other people when they
know we claim to be Christ's.
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This takes His name in vain
because it means that He's not
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having any great affect in our
life, there's no transformation.
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So this commandment, similar to
the first commandment is calling
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us to honor the exclusive
claims of God in our lives.
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Not just in deed and commitment
but in ethical treatment of our
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fellow men so that people cannot
take offence of the name of
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Christ by how we behave.
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Now a lot of people today seem
to think that there is great
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tension between the law and the
gospel but I would suggest that
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the two are based on the same
moral fiber because just as the
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first three commandments call me
Steve Bauer, and you the viewer
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to restrain ourselves, for me
to restrain myself in my tastes
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and desires and wants so that
God's claims and God's honor
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take precedents over my
own rights and privileges
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so Christ modeled that for
us and this is the nature of the
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Ten Commandments just as
it is the character of Christ.
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I'd like you to turn to
Philippians 2 because we see
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this most clearly reflected
in Paul's description in the
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famous kenosis as its called the
Kenotic Passage of Philippians
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Starting, I believe, in verse 5.
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Have this mind among yourselves
which is yours in Christ Jesus
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who though He was in the form
of God did not account equality
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with God, a thing to be grasped
but emptied Himself, the Greek
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word there is Kenao thus
the term Kenosis, but emptied
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himself taking the form of
a servant being born in the
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likeness of men and being
found in human form He humbled
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himself and became obedient unto
death even death on a cross.
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Jesus Christ the king of
the universe laid aside His
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privileges and His rights
in order to put our need in sin
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ahead of himself, He emptied
Himself of His glory, He emptied
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himself of His privilege, He
emptied Himself of everything
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and took the form of a servant
so the Ten Commandments call
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you and me to empty
self and live for others.
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