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*Thomas** S. Myers*
*The 2nd Commandment*
*Exodus 20:4-6*
The 1st commandment tell us who to worship.
The 2nd commandment tells us how to worship God.
The 1st commandment forbids false God's.
The 2nd commandment forbids false worship.
The first commandment tells us that we are to worship the right God.
The second commandment says that we are not to worship the right God in the wrong way.
Do you know what your most effective weapon against the devil is?
It is praise and worship.
Right now, we are at war with the devil.
Have you looked at* Psalm 8:1-2* recently?
Take a good look at it.
God is saying when you worship Him in praise you are silencing the avenger who is the devil.
For centuries the church has tried to fight it's battles without praise and worship and it has been losing the battle.
Find any Christian who is discouraged and defeated and you will find a Christian who does not worship.
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*Psalm 67:5-6** *
*5 **May** the peoples praise you, O God; **may** all the peoples praise you.
6 Then the land will yield its harvest, and God, our God, will bless us.
(NIV)*
Blessings and encouragement begins with worship.
I can meet a total stranger, and I won't know anything about them, except one thing, they have an innate desire to worship God.
It is true of all people everywhere.
Someone will say, an atheist doesn't want to worship God.
That's not true.
First of all, people are not born atheist, and secondly, if a man *1*does not worship the true God, he will worship a false God.
And third, if a man does not worship God in the right way, He will worship God in the wrong way.
*FIRST -- WE NEED TO HAVE THE RIGHT VIEW OF GOD.
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*Exodus 20:4** *
*4** **"You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
(NIV)*
When you come to this verse, some people have the idea that this verse forbids the use of art in any form.
Some even go so far and say this verse forbids even music.
We know that verse 4 does not forbid music, because even in heaven there are musical instruments (Rev 5:8; 14:2; 15:2).
If that were the case, then God Himself has broken this commandment.
And the 2nd commandment does not forbid the making of an image.
Its just that the image can not be used in worship.
Later on in this very book God will command the construction of the tabernacle, which included the building of the image of a angel called a cherubim.
What is God talking about here?
God is forbidding statues, or images made for worship.
Do you know why God forbids the making of any carved image of Him?
Because it misrepresents God.
God can not be represented by any material, physical, visible image.
Why?
Because the Bible says in John 4:24
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*John** 4:24*
*24 **God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
(NIV)*
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We will never be able to represent God with or visible, material creations.
Because God is omnipotent, omnipresent, and immutable.
*Exodus 20:4** *
*4 **"You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
(NIV)*
That is why Isaiah said in Isaiah 40:25
*Isaiah 40:25*
* **25 **"**To whom will you compare me?
Or who is my equal?" says the Holy One.
(NIV)*
You see, an image misrepresents God.
Let me illustrate it.
Do you like to have a bad picture of yourself in circulation?
Neither does God!
Now how would you like someone to start circulating the picture on your drivers license?
Well, the worst thing about an image is that it misrepresents God.
All of us want a picture to at least look like us.
And if we told the truth, we would like the picture to look better than us.
But none of us wants to have the wrong view circulated around.
What's wrong with having an image of God?
It gives the wrong view of God.
Therefore, it degrades God and distorts God.
Look at Romans 16:22-23
*Romans 1:22*
*22 **Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools *
Now, how did they become fools?
*ROMANS 1:23*
*23 **/THEY/** exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
(NIV)*
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We need to have the right view of God.
*SECOND -- WE NEED TO HAVE THE RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD GOD. *
*Exodus 20:5*
* **5 **You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am* *a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and* *fourth generation of those who hate me, (NIV)*
Did you know that the way you worship, communicates what God is like?
For example, when we use statues as an aid in worship it teaches others that the statue is a form of God.
But someone may say, "But Tom, when we use an image in our worship, we're not worshipping that image.
It's just an aid to worship.
We're not stupid.
Why, we have enough sense to know that the image is not really God.
It just reminds us of God."
That sounds good doesn't it?
Well, ladies let me ask you a question.
Suppose you entered into a restaurant and there is your
husband with his arm around another women.
And he's kissing her.
You immediately march up to him and say, "What in the world are you doing?!!!
He says, "Honey, she just reminds me of you.
And when I hug her and kiss her, I think of you.
She's just an aid in loving you."
Now ladies, would you buy that?
Now look at verse 5 again?
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