Sermon Outline
- The first four commandments show us how to delight in and enjoy God's covenant love.
- Enjoying God's covenant love is only possible if He is our only God.
- Delight in God's covenant love by refusing to trust in anything other than Him.
- Delight in God's covenant love by glorifying His name above all else.
- Delight in God's covenant by resting in his deliverance
Discussion Questions
- If the ten commandments are not the way that we can gain God’s favour, what is their function?
- How do God’s title and the introduction of the commandments help us understand why we should love to keep the commandments?
- In what ways does the first commandment relate to what Jesus called the greatest commandment?
- What can things in our own lives compete to be “gods” before God?
- What are things in our own churches and family that we can trust in instead of God’s name that might make us guilty of breaking the second commandment?
- What ways can Christians be guilty of taking God’s name in vain, even if we do not swear oaths or curse Him?
- How can we exalt God’s name higher in our words and actions?
- What was the purpose of resting on the Sabbath?
- How are we as Christians called to keep the Sabbath holy?
- What particular dangers are there in our own community that would keep us from honouring the Sabbath?
- Is there one (or more) of these commandments where you feel you are struggling?
- Are you enjoying the rest you have in the freedom of Christ? Do you love God’s commandments as His framework for enjoying your relationship with Him?
