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Exodus chapter 20 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 20, verse one, and God spoke all these words
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  saying what did he say? Well, let's go to verse two.
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  I am the Lord your God which have brought you out of the land
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  of Egypt, out of the House of bondage.
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  So we need to understand that we were all in bondage to sin.
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  We were all sins to selfishness and vanity to mammon friends.
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  We were all in bondage to violence.
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  We were all in bondage to gossip and slandering.
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  We were all in bondage at one point in time and God chose us
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  before the foundations of the earth and rescued us from
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  ourselves. Praise God.
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  Hallelujah, verse three. You shall have no other gods
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  before me. So we are going to get to see
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  the 10 commandments, friends, and we're going to see them in
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  the correct order. There are those who omit the
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  second commandment to their own demise.
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  Verse 4. You shall not make unto you any
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  graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above
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  or the OR that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water
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  under the earth. So here we can see that God is
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  preeminent. He takes first place.
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  We don't get to replace him with any other thing, whether it be
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  self, whether it be money, whether it be something that
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  we've carved an idol. Your heart is a perpetual idol
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  factory that pumps out idols left and right and willingly and
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  unknowingly we pump out the idols that we laid down and
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  worship. Too far be it from us to ever
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  let anything take the first place over a holy God who
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  deserves all of our affection and adoration and worship.
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  Friends, verse 5 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor
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  serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting
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  the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the 3rd and
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  4th generation of them that hate me.
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  So You can see here that the sins of the fathers follow unto
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  the children because they learn these things and they are
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  impressionable friends. And it is high time for men to
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  be men and to be fathers unto their children, and to work on
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  the family unit and to stay when it's hard.
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  Friends. And to not let the enemy drive a
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  wedge and to not let the enemy cause you to go by the wayside
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  and to go into these addictive tangents.
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  Friends, we need to be men who actually uphold the Word of God
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  and teach them to our children. Because there is so many things
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  that are at stake and there are generational blessings and
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  generational curses, friends. And you need to understand that
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  we are called to be the chain Breakers over those generational
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  curses so that we can pray for generations upon generations
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  upon generations of our ancestors and our predecessors
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  to be blessed. Friends, we need to know that
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  God is fighting our battles. We need to understand that God
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  is for us. We need to understand that there
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  is no weapon formed against us that shall prosper.
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  And we break those down in the name of Jesus Christ. 6 and
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  showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my
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  commandments. That is the whole crux, friends,
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  is that we teach them to our children in the way.
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  We teach them on the road, we teach them while we dine, we
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  teach them in our house, we teach them whenever we are at
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  leisure. We teach them at all times.
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  We write them on the doorpost, Friends, at all times, 24 hours
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  a day, seven days a week. We teach our children whether it
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  is in Word or indeed they are watching us.
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  Seven. You shall not take the name of
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  the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him
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  guiltless. That takes his name in vain.
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  How many of us are witnesses to those who think that it is a
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  funny thing, who think that it is a cultural thing, who think
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  that it is a nothing to take the Lord's name in vain and we need
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  to stop our ears. We need to run away, flee you
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  from those who do not see the error of their ways.
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  Tell them that they are going to have to answer for it.
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  Friends, they do not need to continue on in taking the Lord's
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  name in vain, and far be it from us to be silent on those
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  matters. It is offensive unto a holy
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  God's ears to hear people use His name in a flippant way,
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  friends, and there will come a time in a day that they will
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  desperately need that name, but it will not hold any power for
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  them, because to them it is just a cuss word or a byword.
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  To them it is just a slang word. To them it means nothing.
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  And that is the great tactic of our enemy who tries to get
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  people to think nothing of a holy name.
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  And Jesus is the name that is above all names, friends.
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  And Yahweh Everlasting is the name that has all power of life
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  in it, friends, and we do not take it lightly.
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  We do not take it irreverently. We call upon that name, and we
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  are saved. 8 Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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  So he's going to tell us why we need a day of rest?
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  Because it was good for God, so it is good for mankind. 9-6 Days
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  shall you labor and do all your work. 10 But the 7th day is the
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  Sabbath of the Lord, for God. In it you shall do no work.
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  You shall nor your son, your daughter, your manservant, your
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  maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within
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  your gate. So look at how God is a God who
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  actually shows equality and he shows that he is no respecter of
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  man and that we are all on equal playing fields and even the
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  cattle within our own house. He says give them a break, let
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  them rest, let the ground rest. Friends, we need to kick our
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  feet up. We need to enjoy our time with
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  the Lord and focus on His face and get out of the rat race of
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  life. We need to make sure that we
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  take one day and do absolutely nothing and break the cycle of
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  the week and let your mind rest, let your emotions rest, let your
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  body rest, and watch how much more productive you are for the
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  six days. 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the
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  sea, and all that is in them, and he rested on the 7th day.
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  Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and he hallowed it.
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  So we need to understand that God thought that it was good to
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  rest even though God is at work still up to this day.
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  You need to understand that God modeled for us how it is that
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  mankind is to you operate within the 7th 7 day frame.
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  And you also need to understand that God could have made us to
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  where we didn't even need rest, that we didn't even need sleep.
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  But it is a great gift of God and we thank Him for it. 12 I
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  honor your father and mother that the days may be long upon
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  the land which the Lord God gives you.
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  So that is the first commandment that has a promise attached to
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  it. And he's saying if you will
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  honor your father and mother, then you will have a long life
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  on this earth. How many people have been
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  snuffed out at a young age because of disrespect?
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  They did not listen to their mother and father.
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  They did not listen to the advice of their parents.
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  And it cost them their very life. 13 You shall not kill.
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  So there is a big difference between premeditated murder.
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  There is a big difference between defending your house,
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  defending your land. And you're going to understand
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  that the act of taking life unnecessarily so is a great
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  offense unto God, and he will deal with it.
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  He'll bring it all to the light. 16 You shall not bear false
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  witness against your neighbor, so he's saying, Tell no lies. 17
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  You shall not covet your neighbor's house.
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  You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his
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  manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor
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  anything that is your neighbors. So he's saying, be grateful for
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  the things that you have. Be satisfied for the things that
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  you have. Be content with the things that
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  you have. Do not pant after what someone
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  else has. 18 And all the people saw the thunderings and
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  lightnings and the noise of the trumpet in the mountain smoking.
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  And when the people saw it, they removed and stood far off.
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  They were sorely afraid at the sight, this terrible sight of
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  God's presence upon the mountain. 19 And they said to
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  Moses, Speak you with us, and we will hear, but let not God speak
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  with us, unless we die. The voice of God was resonating
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  through the air, and it made the people fearfully, dreadfully
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  afraid. 20 And Moses said unto the people, Do not fear, for God
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  has come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your
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  faces, that you send. Not so.
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  God's whole intent was for them to have reverence for his power
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  and his might, his omnipotence, his omniscience, his
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  omnipresence. He's all powerful.
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  He's eternal. He's forever to be worthy, to be
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  praised and honored and glorified.
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  And you see, they say, 21 And the people stood far off, and
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  Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
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  Imagine that. See it in your minds.
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  Replay it in your minds, friends, this thick darkness,
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  these rolls of Thunder, these peels of lightning, the
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  earthquaking, and the smoke on the mountain.
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  And Moses goes in, and we are called to go in.
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  Friends, don't stay out there. Don't stay far off from God.
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  Come in to his holy presence by the blood of the Lamb covering
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  you. 22 And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus you shall say unto
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  the children of Israel, You have seen that I've talked with you
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  from heaven. So God revealed himself in all
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  of the different myriad of ways here, but he more than anything
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  he spoke to them in Word. 23 You shall not make with me gods of
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  silver, neither shall you make unto you gods of gold.
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  So they were not to try to replicate any former image of
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  God, they were to worship Him in spirit and truth. 24 An altar of
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  earth you shall make unto me, and shall sacrifice on it.
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  Your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and
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  your ox, and all places where I record my name.
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  I will come unto you, and I will bless you.
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  So here God's giving the precursor to what it was going
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  to be like when the people sin. Not if, but when.
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  Because God already knew, and He wanted more than anything for
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  the people to keep themselves spotless and blameless.
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  But He knew that he was going to have to provide a sacrifice for
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  them, and it was going to come in the form of His only begotten
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  Son. And that is the only way that we
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  would ever make it into the presence of a mighty God. 25 And
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  if you will make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of
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  cut stone, for I will lift, for if you lift up your tool upon
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  it, you have polluted it. He's saying make a simple altar.
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  I do not require an ornate altar.
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  I just want simple worship. We'll end on 26.
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  Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar that your nakedness
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  not be discovered on it. So he wanted them to keep it
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  level with the gravel so that their nakedness would not be
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  uncovered as they go up. What an amazing God we serve.
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  And it won't be but 40 days from this point and the people will
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  be dancing around a golden calf that they have formed because
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  they did not know what happened to Moses.
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  And they've turned their backs on this Almighty God that you
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  see here on Mount Sinai. And we have to come up to Mount
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  Zion, where Jesus Christ knew that we could never make it.
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  So he came down and grabbed a hold of us to take us up.
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  What an amazing God we serve. And you can see this
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  juxtaposition between Mount Sinai and Mount Zion.
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  And thank God we're on the other side of things.
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  And we get to look backwards and we get to see 2020.
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  And there are many things that are happening in our midst today
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  say that we will have to wait to look back on to see the
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  significance of what an amazing God we serve.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you and we will see you back here tomorrow.
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  Let's pray. God we love you.
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  God we serve you. God we want more of you.
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  God, you are our everything. God, we do worship you in spirit
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  and truth. Yes, God, we cover ourselves in
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  the blood of the Lamb so that we can come in and dine and Sup
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  with you. You are our all sufficient
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  sacrifice. We yearn for more of you.
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  Thank you for these holy words. Thank you for allowing us to
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  meditate upon them. God, I pray that they'll go out
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  and change lives and set people free.
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  God, I pray you'll set the captives free.
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  God, I pray that you'll anoint these words and allow them to
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  saturate our lives. It's in Jesus Christ, holy and
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  precious name, I pray. Amen.