Exodus 20:1 - 11

1 And God spoke all these words, saying,  2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 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 the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. 7 “You shall 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. 8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

We all long for more than we have. Rev. Scott Seaton will begin a sermon series looking at how the Ten Commandments are part of the redemptive story. How does the gospel enable us to be a community where God’s mercy and grace is shown to each other and our neighbors in Arlington?

The Ten Commandments are part of the redemptive story. Instead of viewing the Ten Commandments as restraints or threats to our happiness, or as a means to gain God’s favor, how do the Commandments free us from lesser affections? How do we see the five themes below in the Ten Commandments?

• God is a God of relationships
• God is your protector
• God is absolute sovereign
• God is supreme
• God is our redeemer