No Graven Image
Ten Commandments: How Free People Live
Part of Sermon Notes
May 26, 2019

Bible Reading

Exodus 20:4-6

4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or 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. 5 You shall not bow down to them or 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 the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Main Idea

The

commandment tells us to worship the right God.

The

commandment tells us how to worship the right God, the right way.

Observations

  1. It is impossible for ONE image to represent the of God accurately.
  2. How we view God directs our and our impact our .
  3. How we informs our and our drives our .

Main Takeaway

The image is wrong not because of what it

, but because of what it to .

How Should We Respond?

Resist the temptation to

God to our of His nature.