Sermons on Deuteronomy 5:10

… you didn't start it but we can move this thing down the field and I want to let you know because Deuteronomy chapter 5 verse 9 and 10 you can read the whole context he's talking to the children of Israel right here but he God says to us he says listen I'm a jealous God I need people to understand and listen to me and he said and the iniquities of the fathers they pass down to the third and fourth generations of those who hate those who hate and then it says those who hate me and God's saying, when you hate your brother and sister, you're hating me because they were made in the image of me. Come on. That's so good. I need everybody to see this right now. He said, it passes down. We're dealing with third and fourth generation hate. We're dealing with third and fourth generation taking scriptures and religious things and building them for gain and all that other stuff. And God's saying, these are just sins that are visiting sons and grandsons and great-grandsons that I wanted somebody to stand up and deal with. …

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… visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. the heidelberg catechism lord's day 35 question number 96 you can see in your bulletin summarizes and explains the principles behind this second commandment what is god's will for us that we in no way make any image of god nor worship him in any other way than has been commanded in God's word. I'd like to say it this way this evening, the holy God is jealous for your faithful worship. Let's explain what we mean by that. If we talk about worshiping the living and true God, we are talking about a form of worship that is laid out for us in scripture, not because our God is arbitrary, not because our God loves to set out rules, but because as a jealous God, he wants what is best for his people. He wants to bless us. He wants to feed us. He wants to sustain us week to week as we make pilgrim journeys. And so loving God looks like worshiping him the way that he wants to be worshiped. Of course, God is the authority on worship because he invented worship, because he is perfect and wise and good. …

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there are four classes of sins mentioned here. First, Paul mentions sins of lust—adultery, which violates the most sacred ties—fornication, which defiles the body. Uncleanness, which is secret, not known to others, but which is fully known to God. Fleshly thoughts, fleshly words and fleshly acts—lasciviousness, the outward uncleanness which "society" condemns, yet often practices. He who is doing any of these things is sowing to his flesh and he will, most surely, "of the flesh reap corruption." You who are true Christians, of course, hate all these things, as Jude says, "hating even the garment spotted by the flesh." But mind that you also hate all books in which these things are worked up into attractive narratives, for you cannot even casually glance at such books, much less read them, without polluting your whole being! But as for those who practice these sins, which the Apostle here enumerates, let them not dream that they can be saved while they continue to love that which God hates with a perfect hatred! The next sins in the Apostle's black catalog are idolatry and witchcraft. Idolatry, which is forbidden by the Second Commandment—"You shall not make unto you any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in Heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me: and strewing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My Commandments." To bow in worship before a so-called "altar," or a cross, or an image or picture of a saint, or before a real or supposed "holy" relic, or anything of the kind, is nothing but sheer idolatry! Yet multitudes are committing this great sin under the notion that they are doing God service! There is a form of idolatry which is not so gross as this, yet it is also sinful—the idolatry of loving ourselves, or our wife, or husband, or child, or father, or mother, or sister, or brother more than we love the Lord. …

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