Title: Ten Commandments Part 3




He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the greatest and most important command. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.”
Matthew 22:37-40 (CSB)

Then God spoke all these words…Do not have other gods besides Me.
Exodus 20:1,3 (CSB)

GOD DOESN’T TOLERATE COMPETITION

Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.
Exodus 20:4 (CSB)

Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commands.
Exodus 20:5-6 (CSB)

Worship involves two things: the internal belief and the external act.
Moody

THE ENTIRE BIBLE, BOTH THE OT AND NT, GIVES WITNESS TO THIS ABOMINABLE QUESTION OF IDOLATRY, WHICH IS A FUNDAMENTAL TOOL OF THE ENEMY TO DETHRONE GOD AND DEHUMANIZE MANKIND

When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered Aaron and said to him, “Come, make gods for us who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt - we don’t know what has happened to him.”
Exodus 32:1 (CSB)

For I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, and I even found an altar on which was inscribed: “To an Unknown God.” Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.
Acts 17:23 (CSB)

THE USE OF IMAGES AND OTHER MATERIAL THINGS AS A FOCUS OR HELP TO WORSHIP, DENIES WHO GOD IS AND HOW WE MUST WORSHIP HIM

SENSUALIZE RATHER THAN SPIRITUALIZE

The built-in habit of fallen minds is to scale God down. Sin began as a response to the temptation (Genesis 3:5) and the effect of our wanting to be on God’s level is that we bring Him down to ours.
Packer

WE CREATE FLASE NOTIONS OF GOD THAT OFTEN REFLECT THE GOD WE PREFER INSTEAD OF THE ONE TRUE GOD

The God who made the world and everything in it - He is the Lord of heaven and earth - does not live in shrines made by human hands. Neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives everyone life and breath and all things.
Acts 17:24-25 (CSB)

Then the Lord spoke to you from the fire. You kept hearing the sound of words, but didn’t see a form; there was only a voice…diligently watch yourselves - because you did not see any form on the day the Lord spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb - so you don’t act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of any figure…
Deuteronomy 4:12, 15-16 (CSB)

IF GOD WANTED US TO SEE HIM IN WORSHIP, HE WOULD HAVE PRESENTED HIMSELF DIFFERENTLY AT SINAI

See! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and him with Me.
Revelation 3:20 (CSB)

God is to be adorned in the heart, not painted by the eye.
Watson

WHAT OR WHO WE HAVE AS 
OUR GOD DETERMINES WHAT OR WHO WE BOW DOWN TO AND SERVE

WHAT AM I GIVING POWER TO?

IS MY HEART DIVIDED?

AM I GIVING EVERYTHING I AM TO EVERYTHING HE IS?

WHAT HAVE I CREATED IN MY MIND THAT LIMITS, HINDERS, AND KEEPS ME FROM EXPERIENCING HIM IN WORSHIP?