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Exodus 20:3
That hit the pharasees right between the eyes with something they did not even see coming. And it does the same thing to us today. Even today we get the Idea that Christianity is all about rules or that the only way to show love to God is by observing some set of rules and regulations. GO to Church. Dont cuss. Dont do this. But you have to do that. But GOd reminds us here that this is not what our relationship with him is about. It is about doing everything you do as if it was for the Lord.
Unfourtunatley it is the doing things for the lordthat we have a problem with most of the time. Just like the pharasees our rules and regulations tend to serve our interest just as the pharasees rules and regulation seved them. many people have been told that have to guard against other idols such as money and power and movie stars. Most people however, fail to guard against themselves becoming thier own idols.
This is especially easy in todays society with all the focus on getting ahead and making the most of yourself. Be all that you can be. the Self made (wo)man. But God says to put nothing be fore him and to do everything for him not for yourself. So ask your self now who you are doing things for. Will it advance your own kingdom or the kingdome of God. Because we are not Kings but slaves to Christ, because he bought us and brought us out of the slavery of sin, and now we serve him who grants us eternal life. So serve him in all that you do and place nothing and no one 9evenyourself) before him.
"You Shall have no other Gods before me "Ahh the Ten commandments. You remember all those rules you learned in sunday school? Remember honor your father and mother. Don't lie. Don't steal. Don't go around killing people. All good rules to Live by, but as humans often do we put rankings on these rules and impose our own hierarchies to them. Do not kill is obviously more important than do not steal which is more important than do not lie, and so on, every one has their own hierarchies with them as did the men of Jesus time. They pharasees ask Jesus which of the comandments given by God is the greatest, obviously hoping to trap him but Jesus sums up the entire Law in two sentences, with the first and greatest comand being " you shall love the lord with all yoour heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind." Perfect. Almost everything in the Law is summed up right there with the loose ends being tied up by " you shall love your neighbor as your self".
That hit the pharasees right between the eyes with something they did not even see coming. And it does the same thing to us today. Even today we get the Idea that Christianity is all about rules or that the only way to show love to God is by observing some set of rules and regulations. GO to Church. Dont cuss. Dont do this. But you have to do that. But GOd reminds us here that this is not what our relationship with him is about. It is about doing everything you do as if it was for the Lord.
Unfourtunatley it is the doing things for the lordthat we have a problem with most of the time. Just like the pharasees our rules and regulations tend to serve our interest just as the pharasees rules and regulation seved them. many people have been told that have to guard against other idols such as money and power and movie stars. Most people however, fail to guard against themselves becoming thier own idols.
This is especially easy in todays society with all the focus on getting ahead and making the most of yourself. Be all that you can be. the Self made (wo)man. But God says to put nothing be fore him and to do everything for him not for yourself. So ask your self now who you are doing things for. Will it advance your own kingdom or the kingdome of God. Because we are not Kings but slaves to Christ, because he bought us and brought us out of the slavery of sin, and now we serve him who grants us eternal life. So serve him in all that you do and place nothing and no one 9evenyourself) before him.
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