WEBVTT 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:07.440 Hello everyone. 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:08.880 This is Pastor Benjamin. 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:12.000 You're listening to Sermon Audio from New City, Orlando. 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:15.439 At New City, we long to see our Father answer the Lord's Prayer. 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:20.239 For more resources, visit our website at Newcity Orlando.com. 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:25.440 Now let's stand for the reading of God's Word. 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:34.719 And before we do that, we're going to have our prayer of illumination to ask the Holy Spirit to illumine our minds, open our ears, and make ready our hearts for God's Word. 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:36.240 Pray with me. 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:42.960 Give us understanding that we may keep your law and observe it with our whole hearts. 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:47.359 In the path of your commandments, for we delight in it. 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:55.200 Turn our eyes from looking at worthless things, and give us life in your ways through Jesus Christ our Lord. 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:56.159 Amen. 00:00:56.159 --> 00:01:03.039 Please remain standing if you're able for Deuteronomy chapter 5, verses 1 through 22. 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:16.640 And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:19.760 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:27.200 Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today. 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:40.319 The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, where I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord. 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:44.879 For you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:51.760 He said, I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:55.280 You shall have no other gods before me. 00:01:55.280 --> 00:02:07.680 You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven or above, or any or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:26.080 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 fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to those thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:34.879 You shall not take the Lord, you should not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:40.879 Observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:47.520 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. 00:02:47.520 --> 00:03:05.599 On it you shall not do any work, you or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your ox, or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:15.199 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:20.000 Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:31.439 Honor your father and your mother as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God has given you. 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:52.879 You shall not murder, and you shall not commit adultery, and you shall not steal, and you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor, and you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's. 00:03:52.879 --> 00:04:04.319 These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly at the mountain of the mist of fire, the cloud, and the dark thickness with a loud voice, and he added no more. 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:09.199 And when and he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:10.960 This is God's word. 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:13.840 Please be seated. 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:16.720 Good morning, New City. 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:22.399 You know, when you heard that we're preaching through the Ten Commandments, you hear Jason read that. 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:27.279 You may be thinking this morning, hey, I've heard this sermon hundreds of times. 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:28.800 I don't need to hear it again. 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:30.800 Don't murder, don't lie, don't steal. 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:34.959 You know, or maybe you're thinking, hey, does this really apply to me this morning? 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:36.639 I don't have idols in my house. 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:39.600 I don't kiss a little Buddha before I come to church on Sunday. 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:41.040 Uh I pay my taxes. 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:42.560 I'm a decent husband. 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:43.759 I'm a decent wife. 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:48.959 You know, I'm a pretty good kid most of the time, or I'm a good student majority of the time. 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:51.120 You know, I don't have other gods before God. 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:52.800 You know, what are you gonna share with me? 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:56.000 Or maybe you're thinking, hey, here we go again. 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:00.000 You're gonna start beating me up with all the things that I fail at. 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.360 Tell me everything I'm doing wrong, and then send me home and say, hey, go try harder. 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:09.040 But that's not what Deuteronomy 5 is doing. 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:13.519 This isn't that God restricts you. 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:16.480 The sermon is that God actually frees you. 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:20.160 Because the question isn't, will you serve a master? 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:24.079 The question is, which master will you serve? 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:28.639 Career, children, money, success, approval, comfort. 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:37.199 Whatever you look to for identity, security, maybe significance, or even satisfaction will eventually enslave you. 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:39.759 And Deuteronomy shows us why. 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:42.800 You know, Israel knows what it means to be enslaved, right? 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:50.560 They remember Egypt, they remember Pharaoh, they remember what it was like to live life belonging to someone who never let them stop. 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:53.680 But then God rescued them. 00:05:53.680 --> 00:06:01.040 And in Deuteronomy 5, God is essentially saying, You are not Pharaoh's people anymore. 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:07.040 You have been redeemed, and that changes everything. 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:10.879 Here's the problem that we tend to bring into this passage. 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:17.680 We often see God's law as restrictive and burdensome rather than life-giving and freeing. 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:27.600 We think God's commands are keeping us from freedom when in reality God is teaching redeemed people how you actually live free. 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:31.120 That's why Deuteronomy 5 is so relevant for us today. 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:42.560 The Ten Commandments aren't simply a list of rules for us to keep, but they show us what life looks like when people have been rescued by God and now belong to Him. 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:46.399 So here's the message of Deuteronomy 5. 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:51.920 Redeemed people listen to their Redeemer and live like they are free. 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:59.439 And so the question I hope that you'll wrestle with today isn't simply, do I know the Ten Commandments? 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:06.480 Here's the better question: What has the gospel actually reordered in my life? 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:18.000 Because if the gospel is true, if Christ has actually redeemed us, then redemption should change the way that we listen, the way that we love, and the way that we live. 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:23.120 Deuteronomy 5 is taking us through the reordering of our lives. 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:26.160 And that happens when we understand what God has done for us. 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:32.480 So if you have your Bible or if you have your device, go ahead and turn with me to Deuteronomy 5, and we're gonna begin in verse 1. 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:42.000 And as we walk through this passage, we'll we'll be able to, we're not gonna be able to dive deep into each commandment, but what I hope you'll see are kind of three movements through this passage. 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:44.800 First, listen to the Redeemer. 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:52.000 Second, love the Redeemer, and finally, live like the Redeemed. 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:58.240 Deuteronomy 5 isn't primarily giving Israel information that they've never heard before, right? 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:04.639 Moses is showing a new generation what redeemed people look like when they actually live like they belong to God. 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:06.800 So let's begin with our first movement. 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:08.160 Listen to the Redeemer. 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:09.759 Look with me in verse 1. 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:22.240 Verse 1, and Moses summoned all of Israel and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:23.839 Now this is important. 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:27.519 Hear, O Israel, this isn't just a poetic way of speaking. 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:31.600 Moses isn't saying, hey, hey, come listen to an interesting sermon. 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:40.399 Moses is saying, listen in such a way that what you hear changes how you live. 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:46.879 You see, we see in the verse, hear, then learn and be careful to do them. 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:49.360 And that's our encouragement this morning. 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:57.519 Hey, let's come together and listen in a way that what we hear changes how we actually live our day-to-day lives. 00:08:57.519 --> 00:08:59.679 Look down in verse 2. 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:02.240 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:09.039 Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us who are all of us here alive today. 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:11.600 Notice something remarkable here. 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:14.639 Moses says, the Lord made this covenant with us. 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:20.159 Now remember, the people standing before him, this was not the exact generation at Sinai. 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:22.240 Ben shared this a couple of weeks ago. 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:25.519 Moses, though, brings the covenant into the present. 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:30.960 He says, Hey, what God did for their fathers actually becomes their story. 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:35.120 Moses even goes further to say, hey, this was not with your fathers. 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:37.679 This is with you here, right now. 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:42.240 The redemptive work, God's redemptive work becomes their identity. 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:47.759 The covenant was made with them before some of them were even born. 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:50.960 And Moses is saying, hey, that was with you. 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:55.440 The gospel isn't God did something back then on the cross. 00:09:55.440 --> 00:10:00.879 The gospel is God's redemptive work becomes your identity today, here and now. 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:09.840 Moses goes on into verse 4, and he says, The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, while I stood between the Lord and you. 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:13.759 And I want you to notice the emphasis on a relationship there. 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:17.039 God speaks face to face with his people. 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:27.440 The law comes from a covenant Lord who entered into a relationship with his people through a mediator, pointing to someone we will land with today. 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:31.440 And look where our response comes from in verse 6. 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:36.399 This is the crucial theological foundation to what we're studying this morning. 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:42.240 I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:44.399 Notice what comes first there. 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:45.600 I am God. 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:50.240 I redeemed you, therefore live as my people. 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:53.519 Grace precedes obedience. 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:57.679 Grateful obedience is the response to being rescued. 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:03.679 The gospel pattern is God rescues, God speaks, God's people respond. 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:08.000 Israel's obedience doesn't create the relationship with God. 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:10.000 Redemption creates the relationship. 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:13.759 God doesn't say, hey, keep these commandments and I'll rescue you from Egypt. 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:15.840 He says, I rescued you from Egypt. 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:17.120 Now hear me. 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:18.559 This is for your good. 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:22.720 Let me teach you how redeemed people are to live. 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:28.720 Let me share a story with you about a man named Jed, a poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed. 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:30.480 And then one day he was shooting at some food. 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:31.279 No, I'm just kidding. 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:32.960 But I'm going to use Jed as an example. 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:34.559 So if your name's Jed, I'm sorry. 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:36.159 But Jed, he's successful. 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:37.039 He has a good career. 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:38.320 He makes good money. 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:39.840 He provides well for his family. 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:41.360 He's respected. 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:44.960 But Jed checks his email before he gets out of bed. 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:47.440 He's answering messages at dinner. 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:50.480 He's thinking about work while playing with his kids. 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:54.240 He takes vacation, but he's never really on vacation. 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:57.679 He's not working nine to five, what a way to make a living. 00:11:57.679 --> 00:11:59.759 But he is working eight to eight. 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:02.000 Thank you, somebody that got the Dolly reference. 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:03.679 Had to, sorry. 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:10.240 Each time he reaches his next goal, he's thinking, finally, I'm able to relax. 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:12.320 But he doesn't. 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:16.559 Eventually, someone says, Hey, hey, Jed, how much would be enough? 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:20.080 And Jed realizes, I don't know. 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:33.519 Because underneath all of his work is a belief or an internal script that says, hey, if I work hard enough, if I provide enough, if I accomplish enough, maybe one day I'll finally be okay. 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:38.559 His work isn't just something he does anymore. 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:41.519 His work is becoming something that owns him. 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:50.320 And the question for us is, what would happen, what would have to happen today for you to say, hey, now I'm enough? 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:54.320 Whose approval do you need? 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:59.840 See, because the answer to those questions will begin to expose our own Egypt. 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:07.440 Now listen, God doesn't just rescue Israel from Pharaoh, He rescues them for Himself. 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:13.679 He frees them from the master who enslaved them so that they can belong to the God who redeemed them. 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:18.080 And so God shows them what freedom really looks like through the Ten Commandments. 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:21.519 And Jesus, he helps us understand and see the heart of the commandments. 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:26.799 When Jesus summarizes the law, he doesn't begin with this long list of rules. 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:28.480 He begins with love. 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:34.960 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and then love your neighbor as yourself. 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:38.639 And that's exactly the movement that we'll see here in Deuteronomy 5. 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:40.159 Because God has redeemed us. 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:44.799 We don't just stop serving our old masters, but we love our Redeemer. 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:47.840 And so look, our second point, love the Redeemer. 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:49.120 Verse 7. 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:52.320 You shall have no other gods before me. 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:57.840 You know, Jed doesn't have a little statue on his desk, but Jed does have a God. 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:00.480 His God is achievement. 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:01.600 Why? 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:05.120 Because achievement gives him something he wants from God. 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:07.279 Tell me I'm valuable. 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:09.120 Tell me I matter. 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:11.200 And that's what an idol does. 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:14.240 An idol isn't merely something that you worship. 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:20.559 An idol is something that you ask to give you what only God can give you. 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:24.159 Jed asks his career, tell me I'm significant. 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:25.679 Tell me I matter. 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:27.679 Someone else asks a relationship. 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:29.840 Hey, tell me I'm lovable. 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:33.039 Someone else asks money, hey, tell me I'm secure. 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:36.480 Someone else asks their children, hey, tell me I'm successful. 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:40.960 And God says, You shall have no other gods before me. 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:45.039 This is fundamentally about exclusive allegiance. 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:48.720 You know, the issue isn't merely believing that other gods exist. 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:55.039 The issue is that Israel must have one God, one allegiance, one Lord. 00:14:55.039 --> 00:15:01.200 Then verse 8, you shall not make a carved image, make for yourself a carved image. 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:05.600 The second commandment moves from who we worship to how we worship. 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.919 Israel cannot domesticate God. 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:11.279 They cannot make God into something manageable, visible, controllable. 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:17.919 And then notice in verse 9, you shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:19.840 God says, hey, I'm jealous. 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:24.240 And we kind of think in human terms of jealousy, and we're kind of like, oh, wait a minute, we don't like that. 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:29.919 But God's jealousy isn't insecurity, it's covenant love. 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:37.039 See, God refuses to share his people with the very things that enslaved them. 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:39.440 That's his jealousy. 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:44.720 Then look at verse 11: You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:52.639 The third commandment is taking God's name in a way that is emptiness, worthlessness, or even falsehood. 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:56.000 It's not merely, hey, do you use God's name as a swear word? 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:57.759 Though don't do that. 00:15:57.759 --> 00:16:03.679 But it is, does the way you live make God's name look empty? 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:11.360 The command concerns how God's people carry God's name into the world. 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:11.919 Right? 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:15.759 Last week Ben asked, what kind of God produces people like this? 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:18.320 And then he he gave us some things of how those people look. 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:22.960 They embody a wisdom that is attractive, they seem to know the way to the good life. 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:27.919 Or in the language of chapter 4, surely this is a wise and understanding people. 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:32.799 Those are people who do not make God's name look empty. 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:36.320 They live like the redeemed. 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:39.039 Now look at verse 12 quickly. 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:43.600 Observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy as the Lord your God commanded you. 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:47.120 Six days you shall work, seventh day you shall take a rest, right? 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:54.960 The Sabbath command here is particularly interesting because Deuteronomy changes the emphasis from Exodus 20. 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:59.519 Exodus 20 emphasizes creation for the reason that they take the Sabbath seriously. 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:01.519 Listen to the words from Exodus 20. 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:08.960 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:12.720 Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:16.240 Deuteronomy changes the emphasis, though, to redemption. 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:18.400 Look down in verse 15. 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:27.759 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:32.799 Therefore, the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:38.319 Israel rests because they are no longer Pharaoh's people. 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:39.920 They are no longer slaves. 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:44.240 And this gives the Sabbath a deeply gospel-shaped theology. 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:46.000 Slaves don't get to stop. 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:49.440 Like when they were living in Egypt, they didn't get to stop. 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:51.519 Redeemed people, though, can rest. 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:53.759 And that's important for us to grasp today. 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:58.880 Jesus came to set us free from the very things that enslave us. 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:05.039 I wonder this morning where your heart is when you hear more bricks, less straw. 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:09.440 Pharaoh's command to Egypt, to Israel. 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:14.160 We get so focused on go, go, on more, more, more, more. 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:17.200 And God says, Hey, I rescued you. 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:18.319 Rest. 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:20.799 Like, slow down a little bit. 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:24.000 And this isn't simply, hey, go take a day off. 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:31.440 This is you are no longer Pharaoh's slaves, so don't live as though Pharaoh still owns you. 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:34.799 That leads to our final point. 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:36.400 Live like the redeemed. 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:40.799 If God has rescued you from Pharaoh, then don't live as though Pharaoh still owns you. 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:43.680 But there's another side to that freedom. 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:49.119 Don't treat others as though you are Pharaoh and they belong to you. 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:53.359 That's where Moses takes us now. 00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:56.240 The first commandments teach us how to love God. 00:18:56.240 --> 00:19:01.119 And now, verse 16 through 21, the law turns towards relationships with one another. 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:04.480 And so look at verse 16, and I'm gonna run through these fairly quickly. 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:06.960 Verse 16, honor your father and your mother. 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:08.720 Verse 17, you shall not murder. 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:11.119 Verse 18, you shall not commit adultery. 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:13.359 Verse 19, you should not steal. 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:16.640 Verse 20, you should not bear false witness. 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:21.759 And then notice where the commands kind of culminate in verse 21. 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:23.200 Coveting. 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:29.039 See, God doesn't stop with what you do, He addresses what you want. 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:32.880 The law moves from your hands to your heart. 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:35.119 And really that's the deeper problem. 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:37.279 We don't merely break God's rules. 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:40.480 Our hearts want the very wrong things. 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:45.839 The law exposes not merely bad behavior, but our disordered loves. 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:50.400 And this becomes enormously important when we get to Deuteronomy 6. 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:58.400 The commandments aren't ultimately about behavior modification, they're about loving God who redeemed us from slavery. 00:19:58.400 --> 00:20:01.680 And maybe you're thinking, hey, listen, I know all this. 00:20:01.680 --> 00:20:03.279 I know I shouldn't covet. 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:04.960 I know I shouldn't be controlled by approval. 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:09.440 I know I shouldn't make idols, but knowing doesn't change me. 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:12.160 Exactly. 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:15.359 See, Deuteronomy gives us God's standard. 00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:19.920 The gospel gives us God's grace and God's spirit. 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:24.000 The law is firm and clear, unyielding to the human condition. 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:28.880 The gospel bursts forth with the burning love of God in Christ. 00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:31.759 And so we've we've kind of heard these commands. 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:39.359 And if we're honest, when we hear these commands, they don't simply give us a list of things to do, but hopefully they begin to expose us. 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:44.079 They expose what is happening underneath our behavior in our hearts. 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:46.559 And that's where the gospel begins. 00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:50.960 Because the problem with the law isn't that God's law is bad. 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:53.759 The problem is that we are bad at keeping it. 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:54.319 Right? 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:55.359 We have other gods. 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:59.119 We make idols, we misuse God's name, we refuse rest. 00:20:59.119 --> 00:21:01.599 We dishonor those God has placed over us. 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:05.519 We lust, we harbor anger, we steal, we lie, we covet. 00:21:05.519 --> 00:21:13.680 And here's the problem: knowing God's commands doesn't give us the power to become what God commands. 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:19.839 The law can tell me what righteousness looks like, but it cannot make me righteous. 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:22.960 It can show me my sin, but it cannot remove my sin. 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:29.759 It can tell me what a transformed heart looks like, but it cannot by itself give me a transformed heart. 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:31.920 So where does that leave us? 00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:35.359 We need Jesus. 00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:46.000 John Frame in his discussion on the Ten Commandments and how they lead us to Christ gives us some a different number of things that lead us there, and I'm just going to touch a few of those. 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:49.119 The Ten Commandments present the righteousness of Christ. 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:52.960 See, the first thing the law does is show us what righteousness looks like. 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:57.920 God says, have no other gods, don't worship idols, don't misuse my name, keep the Sabbath. 00:21:57.920 --> 00:21:59.839 This is what perfect righteousness. 00:21:59.839 --> 00:22:02.640 Love for God and neighbor looks like. 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:08.559 But here's the remarkable thing: there's one person who actually lived this way. 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:09.519 Right? 00:22:09.519 --> 00:22:10.079 Jesus. 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:13.839 Israel received God's covenant and they repeatedly failed. 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:17.759 Jesus enters Israel's story as the true and faithful son. 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:20.559 Where Israel failed, Jesus succeeds. 00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:24.480 Where Israel grumbled in the wilderness, Jesus trusted his father. 00:22:24.480 --> 00:22:26.960 Where Israel tested God, Jesus obeyed God. 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:30.799 Where Israel worshipped other gods, Jesus worshiped the Father alone. 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:34.799 And when Satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness, where did Jesus go? 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:36.559 To Deuteronomy. 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:42.480 He answers Satan with the very word of God that Israel failed to obey. 00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:45.680 Jesus is the obedient son. 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:49.599 He is the one who perfectly hears God's word and does it. 00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:55.440 Jesus can say in John 8.29, I always do the things that are pleasing to him. 00:22:55.440 --> 00:22:58.240 I can't say that. 00:22:58.240 --> 00:22:59.519 I'm guessing you can't. 00:22:59.519 --> 00:23:01.920 Israel couldn't, but Jesus could. 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:09.440 The Ten Commandments give us a picture of righteousness, and Jesus is that righteousness in the flesh. 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:15.039 And Christ is not merely someone the law points toward, Christ is the substance of the very law. 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:18.799 The Ten Commandments then show us our need for Christ. 00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:21.359 Something happens when we look at the law, right? 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:22.480 It becomes a mirror. 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:26.640 And when we honestly look at the mirror, we don't see ourselves looking more like Jesus. 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:28.559 We begin to see our sin. 00:23:28.559 --> 00:23:34.480 The commandment says you shall have no other gods, and we realize we put other things in God's place. 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:43.440 The commandment says you shall not covet, and we realize, hey, sometimes what we don't have controls us more than what we do have. 00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:50.559 The law exposes us, and that's good news because the law isn't saying, hey, you're bad, try harder. 00:23:50.559 --> 00:23:56.799 It is saying you're enslaved and you need a savior to rescue you. 00:23:56.799 --> 00:23:58.960 That's what the law is supposed to do. 00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:03.279 It reveals God's righteousness, but it also reveals our unrighteousness. 00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:09.920 It shows us the standard, and then it shows us how we fall far, far short from that standard. 00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:14.400 So if you're here today and you're thinking, hey, basically, I'm a good person. 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:18.079 Deuteronomy 5 says, hey, look again. 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:26.160 If you're thinking, I'm not as bad as those people, the law says, hey, look at God, not your neighbor. 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:26.880 Right? 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:34.960 August the 30th, 1991, Mike Powell, he set an all-time long jump record, 29 feet four and a quarter inches. 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:36.240 Like, wow. 00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:37.519 That's impressive. 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:40.559 Mike Powell, if he compares himself to me, he wins every time. 00:24:40.559 --> 00:24:43.359 If I get two feet, I'm going to be pretty happy, right? 00:24:43.359 --> 00:24:50.400 But if Mike Powell and I are both lined up at the Grand Canyon and we're long jumping the Grand Canyon, we both fail. 00:24:50.400 --> 00:24:57.519 Ross Edgeley, he swam 1,780 miles around Great Britain in 157 days. 00:24:57.519 --> 00:25:00.319 If he compares himself to me, he's winning that swimming race every day. 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:01.839 Like I'm not even going to get in the water. 00:25:01.839 --> 00:25:02.559 Have fun. 00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:06.480 But if he and I both are going to swim across the Atlantic, guess what? 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:08.400 We both lose. 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:11.440 Listen, it doesn't matter how moral you are. 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:16.240 If you measure your moral life against the law, you lose. 00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:19.680 And if you're thinking, hey, I'll just try harder. 00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:24.400 The law says you don't need merely more effort, you need a savior. 00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:27.039 The law diagnoses the disease. 00:25:27.039 --> 00:25:29.119 Christ provides the cure. 00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:34.960 The Ten Commandments show us the righteousness then of Christ imputed to us. 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:39.279 And this is where things start to get, as Ben would say, gospel, right? 00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:46.960 Jesus doesn't simply show us what righteousness looks like, Jesus gives his righteousness to people who don't have it. 00:25:46.960 --> 00:25:53.920 Paul said, Romans 10, 4, Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. 00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:57.119 Jesus didn't come because we'd gotten close enough. 00:25:57.119 --> 00:26:00.079 He came because we had no chance of getting there. 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:09.599 So here's the beautiful exchange. 00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:11.920 He gets our sin, we get his righteousness. 00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:14.079 He gets our guilt, we get his obedience. 00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:17.039 He gets our condemnation, we get his acceptance. 00:26:17.039 --> 00:26:20.720 The law says, hey, this is the righteousness God requires. 00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:24.880 And the gospel says, hey, Christ has accomplished it for you. 00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:34.960 This means when God looks at you, Christian, he doesn't see someone who finally managed to do enough, to be enough, to be good enough. 00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:39.200 He sees someone who is covered in the righteousness of Christ. 00:26:39.200 --> 00:26:42.720 See your identity isn't something you have to manufacture. 00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:45.359 Your righteousness isn't something you have to achieve. 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:48.240 Your acceptance isn't something you have to earn. 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:50.240 It's received by faith. 00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:53.759 And listen, that's what changes how you live. 00:26:53.759 --> 00:27:00.000 Because now you don't obey God to become his child, you obey God because you already are his child. 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:05.440 And the law is a great and good gift for you, the best way for us to live. 00:27:05.440 --> 00:27:11.440 Towards the end of chapter 5, probably where we'll get to next week, verse 33 points directly to this. 00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:28.319 See, God's law is for our good and for God's glory. 00:27:28.319 --> 00:27:36.000 And some of you might hear all this and say, listen, if Christ has done everything for me, then why do I need to obey? 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:39.920 And that's really the right question. 00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:44.079 Now, parents with your kids in here, you might say, Thomas, stop, don't do that. 00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:49.599 The answer is, listen, because grace doesn't eliminate obedience. 00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:53.839 Grace transforms obedience. 00:27:53.839 --> 00:28:00.720 We don't obey to earn God's love, we obey because we have received God's love. 00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:06.240 We don't obey to become free, we obey because Christ has made us free. 00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:10.720 How is the gospel reordering our lives? 00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:13.440 Remember the foundation to this. 00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:18.799 I am the Lord, verse 6, I'm the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:22.000 God rescues, then says, Hey, live this way. 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:24.559 Grace precedes obedience. 00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:29.279 So when God says, have no other gods, the Christian can say, Hey, God, you've rescued me. 00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:32.480 I don't want to give my heart to things that used to enslave me. 00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:36.559 When God says, hey, don't covet, the Christian can say, Hey, Christ is enough. 00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:42.559 I don't need to possess everything that I've been programmed to believe that will make me happy. 00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:48.559 God says, keep the Sabbath, the Christian says, I don't have to prove my worth through endless productivity. 00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:51.279 Christ has already finished the work. 00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:57.680 Obedience becomes gratitude, not payment, not performance, not self-salvation, but gratitude. 00:28:57.680 --> 00:28:59.839 That's what redeemed people do. 00:28:59.839 --> 00:29:05.200 They listen to their redeemer and they live like they are free. 00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:11.920 Remember Jed, the man who couldn't stop working, the man who built his identity around achievement. 00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:13.599 What does Jed need? 00:29:13.599 --> 00:29:17.839 He doesn't merely need someone to tell him, hey, work less. 00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:21.119 He needs something much deeper. 00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:24.880 He needs to know I don't have to earn my worth. 00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:26.640 Why? 00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:30.079