Exodus 20:1-7
Louis Tamburro

The big idea of the message is that God’s laws prove we’re great failures, in need of a greater Savior. They prove just how powerless we really are at living out the life God wants us to live. They even prove how powerless a skeptic is, because most skeptics I know agree with many of the 10 Commandments, especially the last 5-6. They agree the last 5-6 commandments are good for human civilization, but they’re failing to live them out. So the 10 commandments prove we’re all hypocritical failures, we’re all powerless at living out these things. It proves we need a greater Savior than ourselves, and Jesus is that greater Savior. As Tim Keller once put it, “The gospel is that we’re more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe. Yet at the same time, we’re more loved and accepted in Jesus than we ever dared hope.”