Aug. 20, 2024

Ten Commandments Misunderstood

A look at the Ten Commandments and a common misunderstanding about them

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A look at the Ten Commandments and a common misunderstanding about them

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central.

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Did you hear that?

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This is the Theology Central podcast, Making Theology Central.

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I want you to listen to that one more time.

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That's not played just because I have nothing else better

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to do. It is played because it really establishes what

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you are going to hear. Let's listen to it one

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more time.

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central.

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Looking at our world from a philological perspective.

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That is what we attempt to do here.

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Now with that, I would like to say good afternoon everyone.

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It is Tuesday, August the twentieth, twenty twenty four. It

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is currently two ten pm Central Time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio from

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which I try to make Theology Central. And when you

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look at things, I know this is going to be

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a shock, But sometimes when you look at things from

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a philological perspective, you find yourself in conflict with the

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very people who should be looking at things from a

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theological perspective.

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When you look at things from a theological.

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Perspective, you'll find yourself in conflict with the Church, with Christianity.

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Who has been so politically hijacked, and.

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So they've so reduced Christianity to nothing more than a

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moral system, a political ideology that you're you're looking at

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it from a theological perspective. You go to the church,

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into Christians, into Christian ministries, and you find yourself you're

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in conflict with the very people you thought would be.

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On your side. You find yourself there's no longer a

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place for you at the table.

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The table of Christianity is now a politically hijacked system

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that has reduced Christianity to simply morality.

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It's moralism.

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Theology has been thrown out. Theology is no longer welcome.

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And basically there's a sign at the door. Leave your

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theology out here, pick up your politics, pick up your

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desire for morality, and now you can have a seat

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at the table. All of you theology people leave. You're

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not welcome anymore. Christianity is no longer philological, it's political

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and it's morality.

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That's the way it is.

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Now.

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I know when I say that, many of you shake

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your heads and go, no, that's just ridiculous. I believe

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that what I'm saying is an accurate description of where

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Christianity is today. And we're going to talk about one

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of those situations. When you read your Bible and you

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come to the Book of Exodus, you will read these words.

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The Book of Exodus. I'm turning there. You will read

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these words. You're very familiar with these words, very familiar.

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You probably know them. Some of you may even have

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them memorized. And God spoke all these words, saying, I

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am the Lord your God, who brought you out of

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the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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You shall have no other gods before me. You shall

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not make for yourselves a carved image any likeness of

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anything that is in heaven above, or that is on

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the earth beneath, or that is in the water under

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the earth. You shall not bow down to them or

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serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a

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jealous God. That's Exodus, chapter twenty, and those are the

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beginning words of what we reference we refer to as

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the Ten Commandments. Now, Christians for a very long time

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have made this a very important issue. The Ten Commandments

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need to be placed in public places. They need to

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be in courtrooms. They need to be in public schools,

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they need to be in a monument and a public park.

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Christians have had this like their agenda. We've got to

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get the Ten Commandments everywhere. We got to put it

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in school, we got to put it in the court,

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we got to put it anywhere and everywhere, because the

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people need to see the Ten Commandments, because they perceive

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the Ten Commandments in a very specific way. And I

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am making the argument that many Christians look to the

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Ten Commandments, want to promote the Ten Commandments, want their

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placement to be put in public places because they listen

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to me carefully, don't see the Ten Commandments from a

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theological perspective. They only see it from a moral and

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political I will argue that how many churches teach the

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Ten Commandments absolutely is incorrect, and it actually does more

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damage to the young people who are being taught the

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Ten Commandments. I will argue many kids would be better

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off never going to church and never hearing the Ten

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Commandments because they are so mistaught and the kids walk

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out utterly confused about what the Ten Commandments are actually

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supposed to be about. Now, I mention this because just

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a little while ago I picked up my iPad, I

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did a refresh on one of the podcast apps, and

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American Family News. We just talked about the American Family

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Association and they have the American Family Radio. Well, they

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also have the American Family News Right, which produces their podcast,

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which is a news broadcast that happens four or five

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times a day. It's about five minutes long. So I'm like, oh,

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here's the noon update, all right? Hit play of course?

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Politics politics, politics, Trump is good, Biden is evil, Trump

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is great, Harris is a communist. You're the typical like

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Fox News sounding stuff.

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And then.

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They got to this report at the very end, with

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just like a little over a minute left. You want

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to hear it. I think you have an idea what

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it's about.

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Here we go.

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The Ten Commandments have been a big topic this year,

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and not just in churches. Chris Woodward has prepared this report.

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God gave us the commandment so that we can follow

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him and obey him and love him and trust him

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and follow him the way that he wants us to live.

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That is, did you hear that God gave us the

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Ten Commandments so that we can follow them, so that

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we can obey them? God gave us the Ten Commandments

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so we.

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Can be good little boys and girls.

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God gave us the ten Commandments so we can be

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good mommies and daddies. God gave us the ten Commandments

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so we can be good everything. They see that right

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there is the perfect example of how the church sees

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the Ten Commandments simply as a system of morality which

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we are to take, we are to memorize, and then

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we are to do so. They see the Ten Commandments

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as a way to morally change the country. If we

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give everyone the Ten Commandments, then they will obey the

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ten Commandments, and then morally the world will be better off.

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I will argue that is an absolute misrepresentation and a total,

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utterly fraudulent way of looking at the Ten Commandments. I'm

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going to back this up one more time. I'm gonna

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back this up. Well, you can hear this again, all right,

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can back this up? All right, here we go. Let's

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listen to this again.

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The Ten Commandments have been a big topic this year,

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and not just in churches. Chris Woodward has prepared this report.

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God gave us the commandment so that we can follow

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him and obey him and love him and trust him

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and follow him the way that he wants us to live.

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That is an excerpt from one of the speeches given

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by a participant in American Family Radios Ten Commandments Speech Challenge.

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This year's challenge coincided with the state of Louisiana passing

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a law that requires a display of the Ten Commandments

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and public school classrooms from kindergarten to state funded universities.

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While that rule won't be implemented until at least November

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as a lawsuit makes its way through the courts, people

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are still saying it is important for children and adults

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around the world to learn and live by the Ten Commandments.

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Joseph Parker of American Family Association.

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The Ten Commandments are what one might call a curriculum

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God gave us in his word that is foundational to

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the laws and the needs of human beings all over

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the world for all time. The Ten Commandments are the

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moral of of God. They're just as relevant today as

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they ever were, and they're important, and so it's important

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for us as adults to know them and to live

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by them, and it's important for us to teach and

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pass them on to our children as well.

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According to Way of Far's Ten Commandments Project. Parker calls

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it a distinct discipleship project, one that helps children learn

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how to honor God and understand the principles in which

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our laws are based.

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I really thank God for all of that every day.

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I'm Chris wood word for American Family News. I'm must dp.

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Utterly ridiculous that, ladies and gentlemen, that is not biblical Christianity.

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That is an utter complete misunderstanding of God's law. God

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did not give us the law so that we can

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keep it and be good. God gave us the law

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to demonstrate that we cannot keep it. The law is

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to show you your inability.

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It's to show you your sin.

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It is to condemn you so that you seek refuge.

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And only the one person who can keep the law,

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and that is the one who gave the law, and

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God himself in Christ, Jesus, who obeyed the law for you,

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and by putting your faith in him, his obedience to

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the law is imputed to your account. So you stand

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before God as someone who's obeyed the law, even though

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you have it.

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The law was not given so that we can keep it.

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The law was given so that we would see that

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we cannot keep it. We cannot keep the law. We

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never can.

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You've got the entire Old Testament to show you, over

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and over and over the law that was given to

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Israel they did not keep.

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They broke it.

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Over and over and over and over and over again.

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When you get to the New Testament, Jesus to try

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to demonstrate to them you didn't even understand the law.

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The law was more than just an external obedience. It

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requires an internal obedience. So he goes in Matthew five,

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six and seven and the Sermon on the Mount to

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expound the law, so we'll see just how far we

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have fallen short of it. And then we have the

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story of the rich young ruler. Hey, what must I

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do to have eternal life? We'll keep the law. Well,

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I've kept it since I was young. Well, the didn't

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go sell everything you have and give it to the poor.

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He walks away because he's rich, because he thought he

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was keeping the law.

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He was not keeping the law. We do not keep

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the law.

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Christians want the Ten Commandments everywhere? For what if you

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want the ten Commandments everywhere so that people will be

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shown that they can't keep it, and then they will

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come to Christ but Christians don't want the law to

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be shown that will.

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Drive people to christ.

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Christians want the law because somehow we think this will

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make everyone act like good boys and girls. Hey, this

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is the way we can make the world act better.

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Show them the law. The law won't make them act better.

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The law. I know this is gonna come shocking.

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It actually provokes sin, It actually provokes it. It provokes rebellion,

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it provokes disobedience, It actually.

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Spurs it on.

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It doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't push it down. It

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creates more disobedience because our sinful nature is in constant

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rebellion to it. And you're this little kid, I'm so

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thankful God gave me the law so that I can

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keep it. No, God give you the law, little girl,

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little boy, so that you will see that you can't.

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And you're gonna learn really quick how quickly you don't

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keep it. Because God, God gives you these commandments, and

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you've got to keep them, not only externally, you've got

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to keep them internally. And if you violate one, you're

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guilty of all. You're in a perpetual state of failure.

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So what do I do You come to Jesus who

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kept it for you who obeyed it. For you, the

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law is to drive us to Christ. The law is

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not to be The law is not there for moral reformation.

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The law is there for you to come to a

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revelation of your sin. We just kind of talked about

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this in the last broadcast. The law of God is

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to bring about not moral reformation. It is to bring

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about a total revelation of your sin. It's for you

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to see the Law of God reflects God's holiness and

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man's sinfulness. When you look to the law, you then

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see how sinful you are. Then you know you must

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come to Christ. It's not about you correcting your behavior.

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It's not about moral reformation. It's about coming to Christ

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for salvage. And how are you saved? Not buy an

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infused righteousness, but buy an imputed righteousness by the obedience

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of the Law of Christ being imputed to your account.

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He keeps the law for you. Now, after we become Christians,

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the law does serve as a moral guideline. But even

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as a Christian, you're constantly whenever you look to the Law,

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you're going to realize how far you fall short, how

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far and which will constantly humble you and break you

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will make you run back to Christ, be grateful for

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the imputed righteousness and find peace and hope and rest in.

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That, not in what you do.

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So many kids are raised in churches where they're just

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given the law as a moral code, and then they

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try to keep it, and then they grow up to

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be basically self righteous phariseical thinking everyone else is less

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than them. What they need to see is the law

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Ah is to show you that you can't keep it.

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We've talked about this so many times. This is why

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I said my series on Law and Gospel, over one

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hundred hours of teaching on it, is one of the

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most important series I've ever done, because the modern day

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church Christianity is utterly completely incapable, it seems, of understanding

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the proper use of the law. The law condemns, the

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law reveals, the law exposes, The law drives you to Christ.

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The law will provoke sin. I just wanted you to

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hear that because I was just like unbelievable, unbelievable, and

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they're acting like.

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It's a good thing. It's a good thing. We gotta

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get the law, O.

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We got to get the law into all the classrooms.

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We got to get the law everywhere. We gotta get

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God's law everywhere. This is going to somehow do what

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didn't do anything for Israel, did it? No, they violated

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it and violated it and violated it and violated it

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and violated it and violated it and violated it. That's

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why Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount says, your

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righteousness must be greater than the Pharisees. That's why Jesus

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in the Sermon of the Mount says you must be

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perfect as your heavenly Father.

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Isn't perfect because it's perfect.

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Because what he was trying to demonstrate is that the

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law is to show you well a righteousness that you need,

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and it's a righteousness that you cannot achieve because even

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as a Christian, you can't achieve that righteousness and what

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you do because you will never keep it. What it's

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the law is to demonstrate. I need, Jesus, I need

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a righteousness outside of myself. I need a foreign righteousness.

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I need an alien righteousnes and I obtain this foreign,

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an alien righteousness by faith alone. Christ righteousness is imputed.

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I stand before him as someone who obeys every single

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commandment in my position and my practice, I never will.

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How is your church teaching the Ten Commandments? Go just

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just take a just walk around church. Ask the kids,

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ask the young people, ask the teenagers. So tell me

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about the ten Commandments? What are they for? What's the

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purpose of the ten Commandments? What do you think about

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the Ten Commandments? And listen to them one after another.

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They'll just rattle off a complete misunderstanding, a complete misunderstanding,

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a complete misunderstanding. And then go to your pastors and

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say what's the deal they and you'll be shocked for

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many of the pastors that go, no, that's what the

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Ten Commandments before, and you'll be like, no, it's not

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because your church is probably obliterated the proper distinction between

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long and gospel. Do you have a correct understanding of

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the law or do you believe the law is the

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means to moral reformation. If you think the law of

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God is the means to moral reformation, then you completely

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misunderstand the law. The law is not a means to

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moral reformation. The law is to spiritual revelation, and that

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spiritual revelation is that you can't keep it. You are

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a sinner, you are condemned by it, and you need

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someone who will keep them for you, and that is

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Jesus Christ. Now I'm going to stop right there. We

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could go through all the teaching on it, but I've

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already done. I mean, I've got over one hundred hours

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of teaching on this. So I just wanted to bring

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that to your attention because I heard it a few

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minutes ago and I was just an utter, like, You've

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got to be kidding me. You've got to be kidding

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me that the church does and understand the Ten command

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While the church is so worried about putting the Ten

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Commandments in the classroom, the church doesn't even understand, Like

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the church has no philological understanding of the Ten Commandments?

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What we want the Ten Commandments to be put wherever

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we can in public to I don't know what, Like

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maybe instead of worrying about putting the Ten Commandments in

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the public spaces, maybe we should put them up in

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our churches and ask if anyone in our church actually

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understands what they're there for. If the church doesn't even

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understand the Ten Commandments, why are we worried about everyone

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else being.

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Being shown them?

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Because we're going to teach that we want them taught.

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We want them seen in the public space so that

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they can be taught as a means to moral reformation,

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which means we've lost the plot. We're no longer looking

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at things theologically. We're looking at things from a moralistic

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political perspective, meaning, slowly but surely, biblical Christianity is being

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written out of existence by the very peace bull who

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profess to be Christian. Thanks for listening, everyone, have a

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great day. God bless

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