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okay well last week I uh left off with uh just a brief overview of where I was going with uh honor your father and mother which uh in if you remember in in my neonic I am calling the second rubric
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however I forgot uh something that I wanted to open up with and I I I want us to bear in mind the attitude uh here
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exhibited in Psalm 19 um uh stands a MIM starting in verse 97 oh how I love your law it is my
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meditation all the day your commandment makes me wiser than all my enemies for it is ever with me I have more understanding than all my teachers for
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your testimonies are my meditation I understand more than the Aged for I keep your precepts I hold back my feet from every evil way in order to keep your in
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order to keep your word I do not turn aside from your rules for you have taught me how sweet are your words to my taste sweeter than honey to my mouth
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through your precepts I get understanding therefore I hate every
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way my my goal in in going through the commands as I'm doing is that is that that we may come into a fuller understanding of of that attitude relative to what we know all of us if we
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are in Christ we know our condemnation in the in the law and we know the freedom of of Christ from that condemnation and the writing
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of that law on our hearts um so we can come fully into the attitude of the of the psalmist U at least presumably
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in reality that uh Journey has proved difficult for many of us not the least of which myself um so in going through I
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just something to bear in mind as we're going through this but um were there any questions from uh last week's session before I move
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on okay always feel free to bring them uh at the beginning um the second rubric honor your father and your mother as Yahweh your God commanded you that your days may be long that it may go
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well with you in the land that Yahweh your God is giv you that is Deuteronomy 5:116 honor your father and mother um I have in front of you a a
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diagram um a table obviously I can't think of anything in an organized fashion without making a table um It's Not Meant To pre-bias You toward what the teaching is that underlies uh the
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commands it's simply giving you what I think um and I'm certainly still open to other input um but I figured it'd be easier as we go through the last six to have something in front of you that kind
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of shows you the trajectory of my thinking so uh for this the the teaching seems evident um although my w seems
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we have one father even God and within the context of this or with within the I guess the outworking of this command uh we honor God by honoring those he has put over us for our good for all generations incumbent
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upon each upon each generation um as Yahweh your God commanded you Moses adds adds this over and above
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what was recorded in Exodus so that this command becomes the rubric for all that follows it in in my way of thinking where our father and mother become an an analogy to Yahweh
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Our God to exemplify the commands that follow and I mentioned last week that in following the commands down and most of you are probably well familiar with the order right beginning with and you shall
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not murder that as our father and mother gave us life God gave us life and particularly our life in the spirit as a people that that again as father and
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mother as our bodies came from father and mother God made our bodies and we acknowledge this gave us brothers and sisters to the end that we should have mutual love and help and godly Offspring
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um he supplies all of our needs he teaches us his truth and he grants us our inheritance Deuteronomy Bears witness
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that this analog is even within the text of the law Deuteronomy 85 says know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son Yahweh your God disciplines
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you um Paul helps us even more and calls attention to something within this Commandment that is unique um in Ephesians 6 uh which I'll read the first
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nine verses uh because they're helpful in not only fleshing out the the application on on the back end but also the wisdom before it children obey your parents in
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the Lord for this is right in the Lord honor your father and mother this the first commandment with a promise
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that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land fathers do not provoke your children to anger but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord slaves obey your
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Earthly masters with fear and trembling with a sincere heart as you would Christ not by way of ey Service as people Pleasers but as Servants of Christ doing
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the will of God from the heart rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man knowing that whatever good anyone does this he will receive
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back from the Lord whether he is slave or free Masters do the same to them and stop your threatening knowing that he who is both their master and yours is in
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heaven and there is no partiality with him the First Command with a promise um not only I said last week this is the
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only one that is just an out andout positive command um what what one should do rather than what one should not do Paul calls it the First Command with a
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promise and I'll I'll admit up until doing this study I really hadn't come down with what exactly he means by that and why that's important but I found a
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parallel passage in in Hebrews 5 that I think sheds a lot of light on this this is Hebrews 5 7-9 in the days of his flesh Jesus
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offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to him who is able to save him from death and he was heard because of his reverence his
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reverence for who god father God the Father okay he was heard because of his
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reverence although he was a son he learned obedience through what he suffered and being made perfect became the source of Eternal salvation to all
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who obey who obey him I think that gets at why Paul is saying it's important that it is the First Command with a promise that there was a promise embedded in this command
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that runs way deeper than the law the Seed of Abraham who reverenced his father in Heaven would inherit the earth through that
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reverence so the people of God are told honor your father and mother and a promise is attached to it Paul juxtaposes the command to reverence
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father and mother with honor paid also to Earthly authorities which is also not an accident okay that this parallel passage does the same thing Jesus was heard in his prayers and tears and found
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God faithful to reward righteousness and we have that same certainty that Jesus will repay his servants the First Command with a
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promise it is it we rest very heavily in in observing and in contemplating this command on God's essential faithfulness
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to his promises U more heavily perhaps than on the others Deuteronomy 6 uh then also shows us that this command is unique and that
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there is a reciprocal nature uh to the command um in Deuteronomy 6:7 he says you shall teach them that is
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the commands diligently to your children and shall walk excuse me talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk in the way and when you lie down
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and when you rise similarly in verses 20- 2 there is a scenario painted in which when your son asks you in time to come what is the meaning of the testimonies and statutes and the rules
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that Yahweh your God has commanded you then the fathers are are to and mothers are to say to their sons we were slaves in Egypt and Yahweh Our God brought us
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out with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and deeds of Terror brought us out to bring us into the land that he that he promised so the reciprocal aspect not
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being found in the other commands just makes us look at this harder the implied obligation of parents to their children to teach them the very words of God um
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it isn't I'm not saying it's in the text of this Command right here but in the full teaching of Deuteronomy it is evident that there is a reciprocal aspect and I think that in the P
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passages previously read from Paul that's also brought out fathers do not provoke your children to anger is just opposed with their POS with their obedience and and it is in part the
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honor due to parents to pass on their faithful teaching to our children it may be at the essence of that honor paid to parents to pass on
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their teaching especially as that teaching entails the word of God and conversely when the reciprocal obligation of parents to their children is not met I I truly do think it sets a
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comparatively heavy burden on the children as to honoring their father and mother FL that out if you have as many of us have had unbelieving and
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even contentious parents what then um for my own part I think gleaning as much as possible from
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what they're was good uh is a practice that is consistent with the spirit that God has put in us um to be to be um to to walk in the way of
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love that Paul talks about believing all things hoping all things keeping no record of wrongs that we are loved by God in in the face
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of all of our sin and our witness to that love of God is to first I think gather whatever is is right um there um
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and also to forgive uh I I what if what if the good is like mana on the Sabbath how much can you
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[Laughter] gather I I sympathize um I I can only offer that uh as as one who is but a youth um could this also be
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perhaps right in that there is a it's a mixed bag um and right that the that the slave ought to serve the unbelieving master um with as much difference as as as he can um
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same as the believing master and that I this was many sessions ago but read from um a passage I think it was in I want to say it was in first Timothy where he talks about like hey just because just
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because you're a Believer doesn't mean you get to take advantage of your of your brother who is your master uh nor the other way around like that just the opposite in fact but but right putting a
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relationship between those things please where does I'm sorry Abigail I missed you admonition who is my father who is my mother who are my sister my brothers those who do the will of my
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father Yes how does that incorporate now I think as a bare minimum you do no dishonor the father or mother but in
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reality and and I know from a pastor pastoral perspective people deal with this every day to what extent do you honor parents who dishonor your father
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to what extent are they your parents your brothers your sisters I mean if you incorporate what Jesus is saying there I know it's relative Parton the upon uh it you know it's it's there's still the
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Commandment but there's there's also the reality and I have seen many go the wrong direction and go on the basis of the fifth
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commandment in some cases almost dishonor their father in Heaven which which I think that's really the that that's why it's so necessary for us to to see what is the what is the
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teaching what is the doctrine behind the command that and and why I rest perhaps at risk heavily on the idea that the command is not the sound Doctrine the
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command grows out of it that this is the truth be out of which that command grows um not the other way around we have one fall
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even God and we are to call no man father on earth right and and as you said the the that he who uh they who uh uh do the will of my Father in Heaven are are my brother and sister and mother
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uh he said when called for um I yes um I think you had something you wanted to contribute similar direction
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that Jesus in many of his teachings um teachings um show The Commandments in in a very and he also says ien come to bring sword
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specifically between father that complicates what would appear to be a
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very straightforward commandment so like everything is more complicated it looks on the surface certainly absolutely Ariel I was going to say that
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I think we have to rely on the spirit within us we're blessed in a way that the Israelites were not when they were facing this problem because they would not have had the
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spirit they would had to just go back to the law we have the spirit and our conscience to tell us because you can on the one hand you know say well I
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have no father I have no mother I only have the Lord but Jesus also rebuked the phes putting phes putting and saying I don't have to give you this right and he said you know you're
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honoring the law but you're actually dishonoring God because you're specifically using the law to cheat your parents out of the honor their own yes so I think we we are faced with a
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complex question has many facets and if we don't go back to the spirit within us we're we're going to end up basically following a legalistic solution yes
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more complex the problem the more legalistic the law becomes right there's no there's no easy answer and and to seek an easy answer is to essentially seek uh not only from the gospel what it
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it is not there to give you which is a new law but also to seek out of the law what it is not there to give you either um the the law will not support you in
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in the kind of rigid reasoning that the Pharisees used and because the because such reasoning from from people is
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necessarily geared towards self-justification there is no such thing about quibbling over words well what is it you know and I'm I'm definitely not making light of the question because the reality is it is a
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very very tough thing but if we get down to quibbling over the words of well what does it mean to honor my father and mother Etc I I think we need to fear that we are doing so out of a desire to
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justify ourselves not out of a desire to justify God I mean God gave us the father and mother we had have on purpose just as he gave us M uh lesser Earthly
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authorities and and employers and employees even and the children we have um this is why I I think the the only
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charge I would lay down as as a planned part of uh the teaching is is that we who have children need to consider very carefully whether we are making our
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children's uh service in honor of us an easy burden or a hard one um we we have all that we need for life and
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godliness in the spirit of God and and we should seek to make our children's uh burden in that sense uh a light one um and I think we primarily do that by
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doing what God has done and revealing God's truth to them uh by teaching them
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aie yes certain brothers and sisters and so you can hon your father can father and mother you don't need to necessarily honor an unbelieving father and mother
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who are dishonoring God I don't think that we are called to Hon people who are dishonoring God I think the very least we can do is
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CH all do them are we assuming no um nothing worth uh nothing worth honoring in in such a scenario are and I don't
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think just real quickly please yes just to bring it home uh Jerry verus is facing that situation right yes I mean absolutely you know you talk with Jerry
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I can think to my parents and I can find character traits that were honorable not Behavior toward
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God but you know different traits and characters that I can look to and say you know my dad was was really great in that I'm not sure Jerry can do that at
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okay yeah question yeah question is don't what the word means but it is important to important to understand what is the Lord really telling us by telling us to
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advise uh every last scenario either that's why I go back here what does the command mean that's what it means fundamentally in honoring whatever we
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honor we should be honoring God yes so you know as Aaron said if we're not I if we're honoring our parents in that which by which they dishonor God then it seems
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to me we are participating in the dishonoring of God and our parents by the way because I would I would go so far as to say we do not honor our parents by dishonoring God no we don't
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and we don't honor God by dishonoring our parents that that it cuts both ways which comes down to perhaps the tentative solution that sometimes the
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best you can do is not dishonor is to refrain yeah and I don't disagree with that uh at all um it
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like I said I I would I think I would be remiss if I did not try to redirect to what how shall we be toward and with
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another um and um and and straining toward what lies ahead for us okay setting our face toward the goal
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um we we all of us have um wounds and hurts we all of us have uh regrets for our own behavior and um we
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will pile up more and more as as we age um but we ought strain toward the promise of God that we will fully
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realize a new creation in which we are we are every last one of of us the children of our one father and where there is no distinction
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there where where we greet believing fathers and mothers and grandfathers and uh grandmothers um and aunts and uncles and cousins uh as as the kids in this house
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uh and uh I I would that we look ahead toward that and Orient Our Lives toward one another uh with such orientation um I also think of the
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promise of uh that that Jesus called attention to in John 6 he said that that the the kingdom of God would would come upon he his people and that the promise
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will be fulfilled that they shall all be taught by taught by God is the responsibility of parents but to teach their children the promise of God is that that we shall all be taught by God um
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we have what we need um I'm going to move forward um to uh verse 17 and you shall not murder perhaps that's a good thing to have that juxtaposed with honor
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to father and mother uh when we think of some of and and you shall not uh kill them um you shall not
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murder you know there's some irony in that though yeah the child of an unloving parent the child's mind will will not go
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yeah it's an ultimate selfishness which is why which is why you shall not murder doesn't cover the full spectrum as a Prohibition it is inadequate to to teach us the the way of righteousness this is what's behind it that God is The Giver
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of Life and its taker um in from and I always am seeking in every last one of these to justify something of why a holistic view of
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Deuteronomy would lead you to saying that this is behind this command which is at the beginning so in effect I'm working from stuff that comes later to to illustrate to illustrate what is behind what comes before that's
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a lot of prepositions Deuteronomy 19 11-13 if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and Strikes him fatally so that he dies and
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he flees into one of these cities the Cities of Refuge then the Elders of his City shall send and take him from there and hand him over to the Avenger of blood so that he may die your eyes shall
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not pity him but you shall Purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel so that it may be well with you an interesting phrase right there that it
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may be well with you or go well with you right so you shall Purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel so that it may be well with you and it's really appropriate to find the the the ultimate
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essence of and you shall not murder and all its judicial penalties in the law um nearby to the granting of life to mankind uh and also to the judicial outp
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pouring of God's judgment on man's violence uh in the flood who uh Genesis 9:6 whoever sheds the blood of Man by man shall his blood be shed for God made
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man in his own image and if I had to revise this at all that would be where i' where I'd put it um not secondarily this is again just a way of thinking
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about it that God made man in his own image um this is this is why uh we must
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uh th this is why all of the legislation concerning who must die um so that it may be well with you we how do I put
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this the the murderer affronts God as as they would a father by assaulting
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his son I guess that's the that's the the logic I'm seeing there um God made man in his own image uh which is a phrase that's used for Adam having a son
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as well after his own image um Verse 18 and you shall not commit adultery um this one's this one's another easy one where all I have to do
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um but I want to be with Paul on this and say and I am saying this is referring to Christ and his church
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okay Hebrews 13:4 though concerning marriage let marriage be held in honor among all and let the marriage bed be undefiled for God will judge the sexually immoral and the adulterous find
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it interesting that the text of Deuteronomy does not necessarily show us in in my reading of it the deeper meaning uh of the command um but I did
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find it of of interest that the legislation contained therein shows us the importance of of marriage relative to the man and his wife independent of their um production of Offspring um that
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once contracted the importance of marriage is more basic than than even the bearing of Offspring and actually has something to do with the well-being of the man and his wife themselves um
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and you can see this in the legislation in other words how they relate to one another fundamentally affects the Integrity of the people of God so Deuteronomy 20:7 and is there any man
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who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her let him go back to his house lest he die in the battle and without reference to Children another man take
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her I found that interesting okay uh again uh in chapter 24 veres 1-5 this is a compound uh
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legislation on this matter when a man takes a wife and marries her if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her and he writes her a certificate of divorce and
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puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house and she departs out of his house and if she goes and becomes another man's wife and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate
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of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house or if the latter man dies who took her to be his wife then her former husband who sent her away may not take her again to be
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his wife after she has been thus defiled for that is an Abomination before Yahweh and you shall not bring sin upon the land that Yahweh your God is giving you
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for an inheritance and I'll pause notice nothing is said about children here the the Abomination is that of that between the man and his wife or the men and the woman and the wife they have he goes on
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in the same this is continuing when a man is newly married he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty Duty he shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife
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whom he has taken I hadn't really noticed uh that um that's a beautiful thing and it and you know so then we think of the very
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familiar in in Ephesians 5 when Paul is saying that this this mystery of marriage is profound and I am saying it refers to Christ and his church we we
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see that the the way the man and his wife relate to to one another is is an analog in and of itself irrespective of the producing of Offspring a witness to
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the wisdom of God and his love for his people um they are I think it's in the Song of Solomon um he referred the the man refers to to the speaker as his
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sister um I find that just just beautiful and that is the truth and I I summarized uh earlier saying our bodies were made by him and he gave us brothers
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and sisters to the end that we should produce mutual help love and godly Offspring um again the Lord uh as the justification for the deeper meaning
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behind this command and Pharisees this is um sorry this is Matthew 19 3-9 and Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking is it lawful to
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divorce one's wife for any cause he answered have you not read that he who created created them from the beginning made them male and female and said
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therefore a man shall leave who his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife and the two shall become one flesh so they are
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no longer two but one flesh what therefore God has joined together let not man not man separate they said to him why then did
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Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and send her away that's the passage we just read he said to them because of your Hardness of Heart Moses allowed you to
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divorce your wives but from the beginning it was not
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so and I say to you whoever divorces his wife except for sexual immorality and marries another commits adultery from the beginning it was not so I if you if you just repeat that
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phrase over in your head from time to time I think you'll do well I've contemplated that many many
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times but as to the point about the law I think this is another place where we're helped to see the the nature of the law by the teaching behind it that that the Lord Jesus helps us to see in
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this specific command a case in point of how the law is for death to those who are in the flesh since the legislation that we reviewed above about divorce was added because of your Hardness of Heart
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think it's an important marker for how we view the law and like the command uh against murder um the significance of this command is found close to the act
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of God's creation itself okay from the beginning it was not so um so God God made our one father made man in his own image and from the
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beginning to them male and female U verse 19 and you shall not
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um and at all times I'll entertain other um other basic things other sound Doctrine from it uh but this is the way I taught the law to my children uh if
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all that we have is from God and all that our neighbor has is from God um Deuteronomy 22 1-4 you shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray and ignore
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them you shall take them back to your brother and if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is you shall bring it home to your house and it shall
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stay with you until your brother seeks it then you shall restore it to him and you shall do the same with his donkey or With His Garment or with any lost thing
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of your brothers which he loses and you find you may not ignore it you shall not see your brother's d monkey or his Ox fallen down by the way and ignore them
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he shall help him to lift them up again again having so much to do with one's motivations in in recognizing what I have is from God and all that my neighbor has is his because it is from
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God as well um another thing I naturally thought of is one of my favorite Proverbs this is one of the Proverbs of Aur uh in uh proverbs 30 uh I commend
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all of those to you as well worthy of contemplation over years and years and years but I remember when I first saw this one and it meant a lot to me and still does and I think you'll see why
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two things I ask of you deny them not to me before I die remove far from me falsehood and lying give me neither poverty nor riches feed me with the food
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that is needful for me lest I be full and deny you and say who is Yahweh or lest I be poor and steal and profane the
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name of my God I the the phrase profan the name of my God I mean it does kind of remind you of uh and you shall not misuse the name
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of Yahweh your God but I think it has more to do with disgracing more with the disgrace of one's God of one's father Yes it strikes
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me as a lesser but similar uh situation to what Moses protests about God wiping them all out in the wilderness and starting a new nation
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which is to say at a certain point you're saying God isn't able to do this yeah right yeah and so that stealing events is God is not able uh or God is
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mistaken uh in giving me what I have is that the point okay yes and um I'll just say that one that one hits
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close to home for me um Paul helps us to see then uh as well uh that this ties in with God's will
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that we work as well Ephesians 4:28 let the thief no longer steal but rather let him labor doing honest work with his own hands so that he may have something to
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share with anyone in need and see that that even gets beyond the negative and says that our the the end of our work and the end of what we
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have is that we may love one another okay and I hope you're seeing the be beginning to see a pattern uh there as to the love of God being
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manifest among among his children if the love of God is Manifest among his people you do not murder you do not commit adultery you do not
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steal and you do not bear rather false witness against your neighbor um I repeat this I've repeated this phrase a
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lot in in our house and if I had to give one piece of advice as to something specific uh to repeat to one's children this
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our God is a god of Truth and his people are a people of truth from Deuteronomy 19 a single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in
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connection with any offense that he has committed only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three Witnesses shall a charge be established if a malicious witness Ares is to accuse a person of
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wrongdoing then both parties to the dispute shall appear before Yahweh before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days the judges shall inquire diligently and if the
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witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely then you shall do to him as he meant to do to his brother in this way you shall Purge the evil from your midst now pause here and
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say that I if I generally don't um Advocate uh aping the uh leg ation of the law but with regard to Justice in the home and and truth and lying um I
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would highly recommend patterning your uh courts in the home uh after that of the law um I think there's a there's a good application to be made there and there's nothing out of accord with the
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sound doctrine of the Gospel to administer Justice in your home when children when children wrong one another um and especially as goes their telling of the truth um again if could strongly
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urge uh all present and all future to um stamp lying out of your home uh and to promote Truth uh I think that's one of
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the most important things so enough of my uh opinion um let's look at what Paul says because this does also touch our life with one another Colossians
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39-10 do not lie to one another seeing that you have put off the old man with its practices and have put on the new
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man you have God as your father in other words do not lie to one another okay you have put on the new man which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of
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its creator but again going back to the image of God in man and our identity as his children
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and you shall not covet your neighbor's wife and you shall not desire your neighbor's house his field or his male servant or his female servant his ox or his donkey or anything that is your
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neighbors uh this was one I said I said last week where um there are 10 prohibitions and they don't fall nicely uh along the traditional way of
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numbering the commands I have no no care in the world about numbering the commands in particular but this one I just want to call attention to is a double prohibition okay you shall not
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covet is repeated twice I am not saying that I think that the romanist are uh right in splitting hairs about well their separate Commandments because interestingly enough we'll look at this next week um in Exodus the um what is
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put at the first you shall not covet and the second you shall not covet are reversed uh in the text the word so so that that all of the terms being used are mixed up so I'm not at all saying
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that well it's actually two separate Commandments no it's just a command with two prohibitions in it that are the same thing uh doubled for our emphasis and they bear looking at what does this
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command mean again will entertain others but uh but in that I'm focusing on the love
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of God and his people and and how this grows out of
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that that this double prohibition has behind it something that touches all the others that our God is loving toward all he has he has made so we are to want what God wants and to be content with what we have
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um interestingly enough Deuteronomy contains nothing further uh that I could find uh on coting um I think that's kind of appropriate Hebrews calls uh these
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things regulations for the body uh until the time of reformation and and the the command that we shall not covet or desire our neighbors possessions or
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people um is one that is entirely up in our in our secret thoughts um I don't think it's the reason I just think it's
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an irony that it's at this point that uh the people uh petition Moses that they hear no more just thought that was interesting um who can bear uh such
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prohibitions who can bear the prohibitions when they start to touch what you what you think um these are hard things um but so I think it's appropriate that
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Deuteronomy has really nothing further to say there is no legislation that you can make about the mind um and the the law is not for fixing what this
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fingers in us but our brother Paul uh helps us to see the import of these things 1 Timothy 6 6-10 but godliness with contentment is great gain for we brought nothing into
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the world and we cannot take any anything out of the world but if we have food and clothing with these we will be content but those who desire to be rich
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fall into temptation into a snare into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction For the Love of Money is the root of all
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kinds of evils it is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs
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so Paul shows us that to be discontented is to push against the love of God for us is it not the love of God that has that in which our faith is in wandering
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away from the faith are we not wandering away from the love of God our God is loving toward all he has made and we are his people and we can know that he meant everything he gave to
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us as hard as that uh may be to to set our minds on the things of Earth and not on not on the Lord Jesus
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where he is seated above as a dangerous thing indeed Hebrews tells us the same thing keep your life free from the love of money and be content with what you
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have and listen to his justification for this because again it it is because our God has set his love on us for he has said I will never leave you nor forsake
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you why do the people of God not covet because God will never leave them nor forsake them because and so that they're godliness with contentment is a great
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gain not only for themselves but for one another not only for one another but for the rest of the world this is our witness in front of the world uh that these things be descriptive of the life
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that we profess in the spirit that God has given has given us the law is good if one uses it lawfully um
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the text of Deuteronomy goes goes on uh and we'll we'll cover these things in the in the last session but I just want to preview them have you thinking about them these words that Yahweh spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out
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of the midst of the fire the cloud and the thick Darkness with a loud voice he added no added no more and he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me and as soon as
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you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness while the mountain was burning with fire you came near to me all the heads of your tribes and your elders and you said behold Yahweh Our
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God has shown us his glory and greatness and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire this day we have seen God speak
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with man and man still live now therefore why should we die for this great fire will consume us if we hear the voice of Yahweh Our God anymore we
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shall die for who is there of All Flesh that has heard the voice of the Living God speaking out of the midst of the fire as we have and has still lived go near and hear all that Yahweh Our God
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will say and speak to us all that Yahweh Our God will speak to you and we will hear and do it and Yahweh heard your words when you
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spoke to me and Yahweh said to me I have heard the words of of this people which they have spoken to you they are right in all that they have spoken oh that
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they had such a mind as this always to fear me and keep all my Commandments that it might go well with them and with their sons their sons forever go and say to them return to
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your tents but you stand here by me and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to
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possess and Moses comments then you shall be careful therefore to do as Yahweh your God has commanded you you shall not turn aside to the right hand or the left you
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shall walk in all the way that Yahweh your God has commanded you that you may live and that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess and I think that
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we can see from this text a truth that is found throughout all scripture that in spite of what I said about and I know I said that the commands are essentially self-explanatory in the 10 words
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um in that they are the basics but the truth is that commands do not explain themselves but they require the man whom God has appointed to explain them to
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us God said they were right in all that they had spoken you think about that not just as to their unworthiness but that they require the man whom God has
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appointed to teach it to them okay uh we we read in Hebrews 12 uh during the lesson on Cities of Refuge how the children of Israel and even Moses
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himself trembled at the law spoken from the mountain begging to hear no more lest this fire consume us uh interestingly the author of Hebrews concludes that concludes that part of
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his teaching with the words of Moses as the rationale for us offering to God acceptable worship with reverence and awe that is our God is a consuming fire
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so as to the people of Israel having heard the heard the law they feared to be overtaken by that fire recognizing themselves the
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connection between the prohibition of coming up onto the burning mountain and their unworthiness okay their unworthiness of God's holiness in their
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midst similarly look surveying the history of the people of Israel the Kingdom of Israel was shaken by this same law they fell short of it okay the
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same law that issued from the voice that boomed forth from the mountain shook the Kingdom of Israel because they failed to do it but in that passage that we read in Hebrews and maybe you need to review
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it maybe you remember it but in that passage he tells us that we have been welcomed up into that consuming fire okay onto the mountain that we may hear
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his Law Without Fear having been guaranteed a kingdom that will never Never Be Never Be Shaken so uh in next session we will we
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will look at um the differences between Deuteronomy and exodus um because those are important to survey and gather some meaning from and then the final session will be uh discussing the lawful use of
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the law uh in general as kind of an overview um because I think we need to discuss specifically now that we've looked through the 10 words uh and seen
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the data points that help to show us something of the way we should view the law go ahead and discuss how do we use the law which is not of Faith but how do we use the law with a heart of
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Faith let's pray our father again I ask please uh help help us help me uh to rightly divide the word of Truth uh and to
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benefit these my brothers and sisters with the things that I say I ask that your word would dwell in me dwell in US
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richly that you would en enable us to see to to to see more and more that knowledge in which we are being renewed
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after your after your image I ask this in Jesus name amen
