RCC Sermon – Precursor to the Ten Commandments

Butch will begin an in-depth exposition through the Ten Commandments starting in February. He will take a couple of Sundays in January to lead up to that new study. These are some of my notes from the January 7th message:

Main passage: Exodus 19:16-20:2

Deut. 29:29 – The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.

QUESTION: Which are you more concerned with – God’s secret will for your life, or God’s revealed will?

• Most are concerned with God’s secret will, instead of His revealed will.
• We have an obsession with trying to figure out God’s secret will, to the point that it dominates us.
• At the same time, we are ignorant of God’s revealed will.
  • The things we don’t know and can’t know we think about all the time.
  • The things we can know and should know we have no interest in.
  • WE WANT TO KNOW
• Is finding God’s perfect will even biblical?
• Instead: pray for wisdom and know that God is directing your steps.
  • Why stress over what you don’t & can’t know?

Rom. 8:28 – “God causes all things to work for good…”

• What should that do to us with regard to God’s will?
• We should place our search for God’s will in the revealed will of God.

Micah 6:8 – “He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”

• This is why we want to study the Ten Commandments
• Do professing Christians follow Micah 6:8?
• The behavior of non-Christians and professing Christians is virtually identical.
• Can we be saved and still be concerned with pleasing self?
• What do you want? Do your wants demonstrate your Christianity?
• Why should we be concerned with removing the 10 Commandments from the courthouse walls when we have already removed them from our hearts?

Look at the preamble to the Ten Commandments – Ex. 20:2

• The beginning of the moral law begins with a reminder…
• “I am YAHWEH your God, who brought you out…”
  • Rescuing wicked, undeserving people (the Gospel)
  • God reminds us of the Gospel before giving us the Law

God was not obligated to do this!

• He had no obligation to save you, He owed us nothing!
• He didn’t have to do it…didn’t need to do it.
• It was according to His good pleasure.

The Law of God will become your joy once you grasp this truth. Where is your delight? What is your delight?

“I delight to do thy will, O Lord.”