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No Other Gods

July 10, 2022 • Pastor Logan Ames

Ronald Reagan once said, "Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only chaos and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression". When God brought the Israelites out of captive Egypt, where they had been forced to adhere to unjust and oppressive laws, the people experienced something they never had before - freedom. When sinful human beings don't know what to do with freedom, it can be a very dangerous thing. Chaos threatens to destroy the nation before it even begins. But laws are necessary within any society to govern the conduct of the people toward one another and toward authority. For the Israelites, God saw fit to give them laws, ten of which were written directly by Him onto stone tablets. You know them as the Ten Commandments, and they were given to establish a standard of behavior for the people to follow as they related to God and to each other. This week at Friendship, we begin our new sermon series based on these commandments to examine how they instruct our morality still today as followers of Jesus Christ. We may not be under the law as Israel was, but God is unchanging in His holiness. We will talk about what it means to fear Him, to cast off idols, and walk in righteousness. Join us for this very important first step back toward Biblical morality!