Text: Matthew 6:19-21

1 - You are a stockpiler 

2 - There are two places to stockpile

1 Tim 6:17-19

3 - Your heart goes to your stockpile

Three things to do this week:

Speaker: Pastor Joshua Hughes 

Scripture: Matthew 28:16-20

We are re-commissioned 

Text: Exodus 20:4-6

Big idea: God will not be worshiped as less than he is, so the only image we will ever need in worship is the one he gave us in Christ.

1. The Prohibition

"Worship of the living and true God is essentially an engagement with him on the terms that he proposes and in the way that he alone makes possible."

Exodus 32:4-5

"It needs to be said with the greatest possible emphasis that those who hold themselves free to think of God as they like are breaking the second commandment."

2. The Premise

- Idolatry diminishes God

- Idolatry destroys us

“What people revere, they resemble, either for ruin or for restoration."

- God is a jealous God

3. The Punishment

Ezekiel 18:20

4. The Promise

2 Cor. 3:17-18

Speaker: Pastor Joshua Hughes

The Ten Commandments: Why we Need Them

The Ten Commandments: How to Read Them

Big idea: Since God is God uniquely and God owns us completely, we worship him exclusively.

"Familiarity with the biblical narrative of the Crucifixion has dulled our sense of just how completely novel a deity Christ was. In the ancient world, it was the role of gods who laid claim to ruling the universe to uphold its order by inflicting punishment—not to suffer it themselves. Today, even as belief in God fades across the West, the countries that were once collectively known as Christendom continue to bear the stamp of the two-millennia-old revolution that Christianity represents. It is the principal reason why, by and large, most of us who live in post-Christian societies still take for granted that it is nobler to suffer than to inflict suffering. It is why we generally assume that every human life is of equal value. In my morals and ethics, I have learned to accept that I am not Greek or Roman at all, but thoroughly and proudly Christian."

1. What's Commanded

2. Why it Matters

A. Because of who we are

Idolatry defined: “Idolatry is having or inventing something in which one trusts in place of or alongside of the only true God, who has revealed himself in his Word.”

9 Reasons idolatry was tempting for Israel and us (Douglas Stuart)

1. It was guaranteed

B. Because of who God is

Speaker; Rob Hodges

Scripture: Exodus 19

Big idea: Because God preserves a questioning people and protects a questionable people, we can meet him at the place of grace.

 1. God preserves a questioning people

Speaker: Pastor Kyle Kraeft

Scripture: Exodus 18

Big Idea: The wonder of God’s redemptive rule is seen in unexpected windows of ordinary welcome.

I. A Welcomed Witness (vv. 1–12)

II. A Welcomed Wisdom (vv. 13–27)

1. Welcome the Wisdom of Humility

2. Welcome the Wisdom of (your) Humanity

“You and I were never meant to repent for not being everywhere for everybody and all at once. You and I are meant to repent because we’ve tried to be.”  Zack Eswine

"God delights in our finitude: he is not embarrassed or shocked by our creatureliness. Since he is not apologetic about it, we should stop apologizing for it ourselves." - Kelly Kapic

3. Welcome the Wisdom of Help

Deut. 4:5-7, “See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?”

4. Welcome the Wisdom of Holiness

5 Welcome Wisdom Himself

Speaker: Jason Hollister

Scripture: Exodus 17 

1. His provision 

Speaker: Pastor Joshua Hughes 

Scripture: Exodus 15

(these two will come in rapid succession, adding the parenthetical):

Big Idea: The God who rescues his people gives them a song to sing as they journey home to him, so let’s sing until we get there 

Big Idea: The God who rescues his people gives them a song to sing as they journey home to him, so let’s sing until we get there (then we’ll sing some more).

1. We sing because we’ve seen

Psalm 106:7-12

Psalm 119:68

2. We sing because we’re saved

3. We sing because we’re needy

Psalm 107:12-14

Psalm 81:10

4. We sing because we’re loved

Speaker: Pastor Funmi Ojetayo 

1. Sovereign Setup (vv. 1–9)

2. Slavery's Shadow (vv. 10–12)

3. Saving Stand (vv. 13–15)

4. Sea-Splitting Salvation (vv. 16–31)