No Other Gods

Series: Biblical violations

Deuteronomy 5:6-10

I. The Lord brought the Children of Isreal out of Egypt.

1. Egypt is synonymous with sin
There are two actual palces that we can find on anchient maps that the Bible uses to relate to sinfulness. One is the nation and city of Babylon and the other is the nation of Egypt. When God says, "I brought you out of Egypt", He is relating to a time and a place where the people of Israel were degrated to slavery.
We are also degrated to slavery when we are trapped in sin.
Just as the Slavery in Egypt was destructive to the Children of Israel the slavery of sin destroys the soul of all who are trapped in it.

2. What has the Lord brought you out of?
Where were you when the Lord delivered you?
Have you ever been delivered?
To be delivered from sin you need to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Recieve Him as your Lord and Savior.
Develop a relationship with Him through prayer, studying God's Word, and fellowship with
other believers.
Confess Him to others.

II. Have no other gods before Me.

The gods that the Isrealites might have substituted, replaced with, or included in thier worship might have been: Amen Ra, Baal, Ashtoreth, Dagon, or many others.
Today the gods that we have on hand or available for idol worship are Buda, Allah, Angels, the Sun, and a plethora of others.

I want to say something that might very possibly get misquoted when you tell others what pastor Al said, so listen real close to what I have to say. God is not so concerned with the heathen that worships another god as He is with the person who claims to be a believer of the true God, the maker of heaven and earth, the one who sent His one and only Son to pay the penalty for the sins of the whole world. If you have been saved, delivered from sin and claim allegiance to Christ, if you call yourself CHristian this law applies to you just as much as it applied to the Isrealites that were led out of Egypt and through the wilderness by a cloud by day and a pillar of fie by night.

Now here is another surprise; If you are a Christian, you can avoid worshipping all the other gods that I previously mentioned and still violate this commandment.

As a nation we have become more involved in entertainment than in church attendance.
We have been more concerned with natural resources than our relationship with God and fellow believers.
We watch, listen, and read more about the news and weather than we ingest of the Bible, God's Holy Word.
We have come to rely more on money and power than on our faith in God.

Ask yourself these questions:
1. Is entertainment more important to you than church attendance, Bible study, or prayer?
2. Does family ever keep you from serving God and attending church?
3. Does your work ever get in the way of you sharing your faith?
4. Does anything ever keep you from or get in the way of your fellowshipping and worshipping in the body of Christ?

You might say, "Well, pastor, you just don't understand my situation!"
That might be true, I don't understand or know everything that there is about everyone, but I'm not the one that you need to convince. You need to address your situation to GodHimself and then see what He has to say about it! You'll find His response in His Word the Bible!