“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
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… There is inherent in scripture a monogamy, asking the people of Israel to make a commitment Commitment to the God who brought you out of enslavement and cared for them through the wilderness. An idol would be the shifting of one's heart and spirit along with one's physical resources to one who has not been committed, to one who ain't done nothing in your life. It is Eric Fromm, that psychoanalyst who talks about an idol, an image, or an alternative to our ultimate concern fashioned by our hands that needs to feed our ego but does not feed our soul. He defines idols or idolatry this way. He says idolatry is not the worship of this or that particular idol. It is the deification of things or partial aspects of the world and our submission to those things. And I make a declaration today not to create any fear or to frame myself as some prophet. But I offer an observation that America is living in her last days as a world power. …
… What he does, he gives them actually a reminder. In Exodus 20, verse 2, he says, I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. And that really matters when we look at this text and we look at all the different questions that we have. We have a lot to go through tonight. When he says this, he's saying that the order matters, right? That God does not say to you and me, and this is exciting, he does not say, obey me and perhaps I'll rescue you. But he says, I rescued you, now this is how my redeemed people live. So that's the mode of operation that the Lord gives us as his people. So you have grace before obedience, right? You have the sense of redemption that God gives us before requirement. And I always tell people that God actually catches fish before he cleans them, right? That was like a grenade joke. It would take a little bit, you know? …
… commandment, which in the first place is not really a command at all, but a promise. God promises to be God for us. See Exodus chapter 20 verse 2. Luther wrote in the large catechism, commenting on the first commandment, what more could you desire than God's gracious promise that he wants to be yours with every blessing and also yours in every tragedy. The Ten Commandments tell us what we are to do and not to do, but the commandments were never meant to be transactional, but relational. They never told us, do this and then God will love you. But always, because God loves you, this is how you live in response. the commandments are not transactional but they are diagnostic they help us see what's wrong with the way things have gone in the world they help us see what's wrong with us they reveal how we've corrupted our relationships with god and with our neighbors choosing instead the hallucinations of self-sufficiency the commandments show the sickness but they are not the cure The cure is knowing God and Jesus, trusting in his promise to forgive us and to be God for us. …