Sermon Series: The Good Law and The Good Life
Sermon Text: Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16
Sermon Title: “Neighborly Love Begins in the Family”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title SlideSLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea: Christianity is Not Only a Love for God … But a Love for Neighbor.And Neighborly Love … Begins in the Family.
SLIDE 3 – Matthew 22:36-40 – “‘Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?’ And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and firstcommandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.’”SLIDE 4 – James Durham (1622-58) – “It was a great mistake of the Pharisees that they placed the main part of religion in the external performance … of the first part of the Law; whereas the Lord Jesus … purposely puts these together … and what God has joined together, let no man pull apart.”SLIDE 5 – Victor Hamilton (1941-Present) – “What the reader of the Bible might have expected is ‘Obey your father and mother.’ It is, however, easier to obey than to honor. One can hate but obey. One cannot both hate and honor.”
SLIDE 6 – Point 1: Our Duty to Honor in the Family … DemonstratesNeighborly Love (20:12a)SLIDE 7 – Genesis 1:28 – “And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’”SLIDE 8 – Proverbs 22:6 – “Train up a child in the way he should go;even when he is old he will not depart from it”SLIDE 9 – Ephesians 6:4 – “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”SLIDE 10 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon
SLIDE 11 – Point 2: God’s Blessing for Honor in the Family … Results from Neighborly Love (20:12b)
SLIDE 12 – Five Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and LivesSLIDE 13 – The 5th Command Represents God’s Pattern of Authority and Care on Earth.SLIDE 14 – Parents, are we Training Up? … Children, are we Growing Up?SLIDE 15 – John Frame (1939-Present) – “God wants to spread His kingdom, even today, not only through mission work, but throughchildbearing and nurture. He wants to raise up godly families to glorify Him.”SLIDE 16 – Ultimately, God Calls Us to Take Care of Our Own …SLIDE 17 – 1 Timothy 5:8 – “But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” SLIDE 18 – Sovereignly, God Always Takes Care of His Own.SLIDE 19 – Neighborly Love Begins in the Family … But Doesn’t End There.
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