Crossroads Church of God, Lima OH

Exodus 20:8-11 NIV

• Wired for rhythm
• Reminder of worth/value
• Meant for God

The Sabbath is not just a ‘day off’. We can take a day off and not experience the Sabbath. We are commanded to stop in order to intentionally worship and enjoy God in an undistracted way.  - Eugene Peterson, Working the Angles

• Keeping the commandment…

Mark 2:27-28 NIV

• Desire
• Decide
• Change

I must restructure my activities so that I can set aside the day with the great Lover of my soul. If I have so many commitments that I cannot change the routine, I can be sure that at least one of them is not the will of God for my life. For God will not lead us into so many commitments that we can no longer enter into the Holy day. - Marva Dawn, Keeping the Sabbath Wholly

• Seek
• Celebrate
   

Exodus 3:7 (NIV)

Exodus 3:7 (KJBV)

1. God Almighty – Genesis 17:1
2. El-Shaddai
3. “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Issac and the God of Jacob.” – Exodus 3:5-6
4. “God of my master Abraham” – Genesis 24:12
5. “The God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac” – Genesis 28:13

“Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’Then what shall I tell them?”God said to Moses, “I am who I am.This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I amhas sent me to you.’” God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘TheLord,the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ “This is my nameforever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation.”

                                                                                                                            Exodus 3:13-15

1. “I AM” / Yahweh – Exodus 3:13-15
2. Immanuel – Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23
3. “I Am” – John 8:58

Question: How do we misuse and empty God’s name, making it of no value?

Answer #1: When we treat God’s name like a magical formula. (Matthew 5:33-37)

Instead Do This: Pronounce His name with care and wisdom. (Colossians 3:17)

Answer #2: When we don’t live in a way that shows we belong to Him.

Instead Do This: Live a life consistent with who God is. (John 14:21a / John 15:8 / Matthew 25:35-36)

Answer #3: When we throw God’s name around “carelessly, thoughtlessly or flippantly.”

“No using the name ofGod, your God, in curses or silly banter;Godwon’t put up with the irreverent use of his name.” (The Message)

Instead Do This: Treat God’s name with honor and reverence.

“A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.”

Luke 6:45 NIV

Gathering together, with Special Guests: Mike & Elizabeth Rumschlag

Exodus 20:4-6 NIV

• Idol worship obstructs our relationship
• God is Holy
• God is personal

Quote by JI Packer: “[T]he heart of the objection to images is that they inevitably conceal most, if not all, of the truth about the personal nature and character of the diving Being whom they represent.”

• God is present

John 4:21-24 NIV

• Role of the arts/creation
• Keeping the commandment…
• Embrace mystery
• Center on Jesus

Colossians 1:15 NIV

Hebrews 1:3 NIV

Quote by Brian Zahnd: “God is like Jesus. 

God has always been like Jesus. There has never been a time when God was not like Jesus. We have not always known what God is like; but now we do.”

Exodus 20:1-5a, 7-10a, 12-17 NRSV

• No other ‘gods’ before Me
• We were made for God

Exodus 20:5 NIV

• How can we live for God alone?
  • Admit and own
  • Ask soul-searching question
  • Deal with it aggressively
    • Practice of abstaining/fasting

1 Peter 2:11 NIV

Matthew 6:33 NIV

John 14:23 NIV

• Context of Grace

Exodus 20:2 NIV

  • Law comes after grace

• Commandments ‘fit’ us

  • Demonstrate our essential nature

The Law is not an imposition on the human species; it is an exposition of how the human species was created to live.  by E. Stanley Jones

  • Emerge from character of God

• Dealing with our inability to live…

  • God forgives

Colossians 2:13-14 NIV

  • God empowers

Jeremiah 31:33 NIV

  • Prayer Walk

John 17:3 NIV

• God’s Design for Humanity

Hebrews 2:6-7 NIV

• Shared Experience of Suffering

Hebrews 2:17-18 NIV

Hebrews 2:14-15 NIV

• Renders Fear of Death Powerless

Hebrews 10:19-25 NIV

• Reminders of a life of faith…

  • Freely Confess

  • Persevere in Faith

  • Necessity of Community

Week 7:

Hebrews 1:1-14 NRSV

• Only begotten One

Hebrews 1:5 NRSV

• Jesus gets the Glory

Hebrews 1:6-8 NRSV

• Sure Victory of Jesus

Hebrews 1:13 NRSV

• Implications…

  • Passionate Worship

  • Live in Service to God and others

Mark 3:21-27 NIV

• Multi-dimensional world…
• Enemy-occupied house
• Jesus liberates hostages
• Jesus blinds the ‘strong man’
• We do not live in fear

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV

Matthew 16:18b NIV

• Prayerful action

John 8:12 NIV

• Festival of Tabernacles
• Illumination of the temple
• Gracious Guidance

Psalm 27:1 NIV

Psalm 43:3 NIV

Isaiah 2:5 NIV

Isaiah 60:19 NIV

• Jesus: I am the Light of the World
• Jesus reveals…
• who God is
• what it means to be human
• the truth of the human condition
• God’s purposes

Matthew 11:29 NIV

John 17:3 NIV

Romans 8:28-29 NIV

• our heart for healing/change
• Prayer of Relinquishment…
• Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalms 139:28-29 NIV