but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.and showing lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
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… fourth commandment in Exodus 20, we see its original and abiding purpose is to give rest from our toil, a break from our work. Why is that? Remember verse 9 of Exodus 20. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. Sabbath or Shabbat in Hebrew literally means rest. And skipping down to verse 11, we see this six plus one pattern based in God's work in creation itself. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, a sea and all that is in them, and rested on the Sabbath day. So we have this pattern, this pattern laid out for us in Exodus 20 of six days in which we labor and one on which we rest, and that this pattern, key here, is an imitation of God and his creation of the whole entire world. So Genesis tells us, Genesis 2, that when God finished his work, he rested on the Sabbath day. He blessed the Sabbath day or the seventh day, and he made it holy. Now, just four verses before those in Genesis 1, we learn that God created man and woman in his image so that there is this likeness between us and God. And godly living and reflection of God entails imitating him in certain ways in our lives. We're called to be holy. Why are we called to be holy? Because God is holy. Righteousness reflects him. There's all kinds of ways because …
… 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. …
… There is nothing that we can come up with that communicates the majesty of our maker. Exodus chapter 20, verses 4 through 6. And this text is pregnant with power and theology. Exodus chapter 20, verses four through six. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, 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 to them nor serve them for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me. To give you a little bit of a backstory on this text, God had miraculously led the children of Israel out of Egyptian bondage. And it's very interesting theologically to understand they were first redeemed, then God resourced them with how to live. So he said, okay, here's where to walk, And here is how to walk. …