The 10 Commandments - Pastor Jonathan Shelley | Stedfast Baptist Church

Christ. Amen. Amen. I want to preach a sermon this morning on the 10 Commandments, and so the goal

is that when we all leave here today that we're going to have a really, really good idea of what

the 10 Commandments are, and we're going to hopefully even have them memorized whether you

like it or not, all right? So we're going to work on the 10 Commandments. And the thing is,

children, is that many adults, they break the 10 Commandments and they don't care anymore.

And so the goal is for you to learn these while you're young so that hopefully you'll continue

following them even when you become an adult. And the sad thing is that very few people care about

the 10 Commandments. It used to be, if you went to a public school, the 10 Commandments were

even hung on the wall. The 10 Commandments have been a major part of our culture and our society.

And it's not to say that these are the only things God cares about, but they are emphasized

in the Bible. They have a name of the 10 Commandments. They were written in a stone by God's finger,

and the Bible says that he spake these audibly. Look at verse one again,

and God spake all these words saying. So God spoke these words to Moses on the mountain.

When Moses took the children of Israel out of Egypt, they eventually got to Mount Sinai or Mount

Horeb, and Moses went on the mountain, and God met Moses on this mountain, and God spoke

what we're reading here in Exodus chapter number 20. It's a very famous portion of scripture,

and he even wrote these 10 Commandments with his finger into tables of stone and gave them to Moses.

And so it's important for us to learn them. They are emphasized in the Bible, and they're

very important to God. It says here in verse two, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought

thee out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage. So he's saying, I got y'all out

of Egypt. So this is really important. I've delivered you. So you need to then therefore

harken to these 10 Commandments. And this first one kind of is related to, if you think about it,

what he's saying. If all the gods of the Egyptians could not deliver the children of

Israel, and they had no impact, they couldn't stop them from leaving the Egyptians, then we ought

to harken to the God that delivered them, the God that saved them, the God that has

rescued them from bondage and slavery and from Egypt. And so then he asks here in verse three,

thou shalt have no other gods before me. And he's demanding that since he is the only God,

and he has delivered them, and they are his people, that this is a reasonable request,

that thou shalt have no other gods before me. Meaning that you cannot have multiple religions.

You cannot have multiple gods. You cannot have multiple Bibles. You need to have one God,

one Bible. You can't have any others and we shouldn't mix religion. And in this world,

there are other religions. You live in America where Christianity is a big part of our culture,

but not necessarily every American is Christian. And then we go into other parts of the world,

there's very few Christians in some countries. Some countries worship a different God or a

false God. And when it's a different God, that God doesn't exist. It's made up. It's fake.

It's not real. And so God doesn't want us to worship a fake God or to have a different God.

God doesn't want us to read other texts that are not the Bible. And you know, it's really

important that we adhere to the King James Bible because this is God's word. All the other

Bibles or texts, whatever you want to call them, because the word Bible just simply means

book. It's kind of its root, basic level. And so, you know, some people might call their book a Bible,

but there's only one Bible and it's been preserved in English in the King James Bible. And so that's

why kids, we only use this book. We don't want to have any other gods before God. And so, you

know, when I think about this commandment, I think about my Bible and I think about like,

hey, we shouldn't have any other gods before God, you know, we should have no other gods.

This is our God, you know, the God of the Bible is our God. And that's the only one we want to

worship. Hey, if there's another text out there, like the Koran or something like that, that's trash.

And since we're not supposed to have any other God, any other texts out there like a Koran,

you know, this is what I think of the Koran, you know, I just think that we should just

tear it up or rip it up, you know. Hey, I'm going to tell you something. The Koran is trash.

It's literal trash. It should just be burned. Okay. The Koran, you know, why are we letting

this stuff in America? Hey, let me tell you something. The Talmud is trash. It should

be ripped up too. And just burned, you know, it's just mysticism. It's a horoscope. Hey,

the Book of Mormon, which should be the Book of Moron, it's trash too. And yeah, we do burn

those things. Now do we burn a King James Bible? No. That's what I've no other Gods before me.

So we say, hey, this trash, we don't want this trash in here. We don't want any kind of trash.

Now this isn't a Koran. Okay. This is an NIV, but I don't care. I'm going to rip it up anyways.

All right. I don't want to bring the Koran in here. Okay. Or the Book of Moron. Now if

you brought one in, we'll rip it up. All right. We'll pour bacon on it or whatever,

you know, I don't, I don't know. But hey, we shouldn't have any other God. We have, you know,

this is the God of our religion is the God of the Bible, God, the Father, God, the Son, God,

the Holy Spirit. We worship Jesus Christ. That's who we worship. We shouldn't have any other God.

No other religion. All other religions are fake. Hinduism is fake. Islam is fake. The Mormon

religion is fake. The Jews are basically atheists. They're fake. Their religion is fake.

And, you know, people say, oh, there's all these religions. There's really not that many.

It's basically just kind of like Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, atheists, you know,

and then a few like fringe cults and weirdos. A lot of perverted versions of Christianity.

But at the end of the day, there's not that many options. And let's be honest,

this is way better than all the other options. It's the best text.

It's the best thing that we have. Now, let's read our second commandment here.

It says in the next verse, it says thou shalt not make under the any graven image. So, of course,

image is something that we can see. It's something that we can look at. Graven, the Bible talks

about wood or stone and to some kind of like sculpture. And again, obviously, there's a

religious connotation typically associated with these graven images. But notice what it says.

It says, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath

or that is in the water under the earth, thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them.

For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the

children under the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and showing mercy on the

thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. Notice that God doesn't even

just punish one generation for idolatry. He punishes multiple generations for idolatry.

And so we don't want to be going backwards as a group of people. We don't want to be like the

Gentiles used to be where they worshiped pagan gods and false images. We want to be

Christians that deny those graven images and nothing to do with the graven images.

Now, unfortunately, the children of Israel sinned. They broke this commandment.

And so kings at certain times throughout history would have to rectify the situation.

I want to go to 2nd Chronicles, chapter 34. You can keep a finger because we're going to be going

to Exodus 20, the whole sermon, but I want to go to 2nd Chronicles for a moment,

chapter 34. And I want to read about Josiah.

Now, this is what I like about Josiah. He's your guy's age, all right?

Look what it says here in verse 1. Josiah was eight years old. You know what? That tells me that

even an eight-year-old can realize that idolatry is wrong because we're going to read about it.

Josiah was eight years old. Keep that in mind. Who in here is eight years old? Anybody?

We got a couple eight-year-olds. All right. Nice. See, that's how old Josiah was

when he was the king. Isn't that crazy? Now, we're not going to make y'all a king,

okay? But that's how old he was when he was king. It says Josiah was eight years old when he began

to reign and he reigned in Jerusalem one in 30 years. And he did that, which was right in the

side of the Lord. So is what Josiah going to do in this chapter right? Yes. And he walked in the

ways of David his father and declined neither to the right hand or the left. For in the

eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David

his father. And in the 12th year, he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high

places in the groves and the carved images and the molten images. And they break down the

altars of Balaam in his presence and the images that were on high above them. He cut down and the

groves and the carved images and the molten images. He break in pieces and made dust of them

and strode it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. So here, obviously he ages

a little bit in the text. It says for in the eighth year of his reign. So maybe he's about

16 when he actually enacts this. But hey, Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign.

He realizes there's a lot of idolatry in the land and he wanted to cleanse it. And notice,

I mean, in verse four, he breaks stuff. He cuts stuff down the carved images,

the molten images. Notice this. He break in pieces and in some cases he was even able

to make it turn into dust. And so, you know, what I thought we should do is maybe we should

do that. All right? So I need an eight-year-old boy volunteer, all right? All right, come on down.

Now, I need some help from my ushers here for a moment because we're going to do an object

lesson this morning, okay? You could move this back. Sometimes we need to cleanse the land,

all right? I got to be like Mary Poppins. I want to reveal all my secrets yet, okay?

Okay. So I've got some gloves for you here, all right?

And a hammer, okay? See if you can find something in there you want to put on.

Different sizes, all right? Now, I went to Goodwill

and I found some stuff, okay? I found this thing, all right?

And this is what you would call a graven image, okay?

It's graven and it's kind of, it's overtly religious. I don't know what it is.

You might say it's an angel, but the Bible says that in some cases angels were the

ministers of Satan. They were transforming themselves. Now, before anything happens,

if you're anywhere in this section and you feel like you're in danger, you may leave, okay?

By staying in this room, you accept all risk.

Everyone in this room has accepted all risk, okay? Now, here's the thing.

As the Bible says, thou shalt not make under the any graven image, so take a swing. That was

awesome. Good job, all right? Take off the gloves. Nice. Now, that looked like fun, okay?

I'm just going to be honest. If you want to participate your teen and under,

we're going to do a Bible drill to see who can come up next, all right?

So, you all have to sit down for a second because it's the first person to stand up.

But if you can turn to this verse and read it correctly, you can be the next contestant,

all right? On thou shalt not make any graven image. Actually, for the first two, it's

12 and under, all right? And then I'll expand the age, all right?

12 and under. Bible's up. Bible's up. Deuteronomy 4 verses 15 through 19.

Deuteronomy 4:15–19

Make a great, a graven image in the simulitude of any figure in the likeness of male or feet in the

male. The likeness of any beast that is on the day of the earth. The likeness of any winged

fowl that flies in the air. The likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground,

like the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth.

Unless thou lift up thy eyes unto heaven, and when thou seeest the sun and the moon,

shouldest be driven to worship them and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations

under the whole heaven. Nailed it. All right, come on down. We're going to let you prepare

yourself, okay? So if you want to put on gloves or whatever you want, and then we'll

let you choose your victim, okay?

But before then, we'll get another one. You have to sit down. Bible's up. Sit down. Bible's up.

Deuteronomy 5 verse 8.

Deuteronomy 5:8

Thou shalt not make thine an graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above,

or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth. Nailed it. All right,

you can go and prepare yourself too, all right?

Here you go. So I'm going to give you a few options here, okay? We've got a Mary

for all the Catholics, okay? We've got another angel thing.

Demon is what you could call it if you want. And then another weird, it already lost some wings,

but it needs to lose some more. So you can choose what you'd like. All right, Mary's going down.

Catholics, I'm sorry. Bam! All right, Jojo, as you prepare yourself, you're prepared.

Wait on my cue, okay? No early smashing yet, all right?

All right. This is for any teens and under. Deuteronomy 7-5.

Nailed it. Now we're not going to burn anything today, okay? Just...

All right, choose your victim. This demon's going down. I have a feeling. All right.

Bam! Nailed it. All right, as she's preparing herself,

we're going to have one last one, all right? This one's going to be...

Well, I'm going to do a couple more, actually, potentially. We'll see.

Bible's up. Deuteronomy 12-3. Oh, okay. I'm sorry.

And ye shall overthrow the altars and breakthrough their pillars and burn their grows with fire,

and ye shall you, you, you down the graven images of God, their gods and destroy the names

of them out of the place. Nailed it. All right, come on down.

We're cleansing Goodwill one demon at a time. All right, here's your victim, okay?

You ready? She's even got her purse. She's ready. Oh, let's reload. Reload. We want this

thing going down, all right? Bam! Nailed it. No head now. It's like bail. The head just falls off.

You know what I mean? All right, prepare yourself, okay? Now, the reason why I might do more just

kind of depends, all right? This last one, we might go a couple rounds on it. We've got Buddha,

all right? Happy Buddha. So, I'm going to give you one strike. If you miss, I'll let you go again,

but one good strike, all right? Let's see how Buddha handles this. Hey, he lost an arm. All right,

so there's a chance. All right, next man up.

That was a good one. I'm going to still go another round on him, all right?

Bible's up. Deuteronomy 27, 15. Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image

in abomination unto the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsmen, and puteth it in a secret

place, and all the people shall answer and say amen. Amen. Prepare yourself. Now, here's the thing.

He's looking, he's just standing too tall. What if we, what if we elevate the game a

little bit? Bring out the big one. Now, now just to preserve a few things though, okay? We're not

going to go full bore, all right? So, you can go, you can go, you can go about that. You can't go

rear and back, all right? Here, okay? I'm going to put it in the center. We'll take one at a time.

Let's see how you do, okay? All right. It's okay. It's okay. Sometimes there's collateral

damage. Let's try, let's just try just the Buddha. I'm going to give you just a swing.

You might have to aim it. Go ahead and line it up and then rear back. It'll be better for you. It's

a small target. Nice, direct hit. All right. People are getting too nervous, okay? All right.

Help me clean this up just a hair, all right? Hey, we're just trying to clean up our city here,

okay? Let's, let's go back to Exodus chapter number 20, okay?

We're going to have some guys help us clean this up a little bit. But you know, hey,

what did God in America, we would break all the graven images?

I'm not going to hide what I believe and I'm not going to hide what God said.

I mean, how many verses did we read? Not to make them, break them down,

hew them down, break them in pieces. And hey, you know, I'm just not for these religious

statutes and graven images and icons. And look, you go to a Catholic church,

they'll bow down to these things. They'll kiss these things. They'll venerate them.

And so we don't want to do such a thing.

Exodus chapter number 20, let's keep going down our 10 commandments.

You're going to remember that second one I'm telling you, all right? Look at what it says

in verse number seven, thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain,

for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that takeeth his name in vain. Now,

why would someone take the name of the Lord thy God in vain?

And what does that usually look like? I don't even need this one, right? I'm just using it.

Well, sometimes you're out there, you're working, you're just hammering.

You got to hold that nail and then you just,

but it's saying that you say God's name. Now, why would you ever do that?

Is it God that did that to you? No. Is there anything wrong with saying Jesus Christ or God?

No, but here's the thing. What we don't want to do is hit our thumb and then use his name

because we're mad, because we're angry, using it as a bad word, taking it in vain, meaning

there wasn't a reason to use his name in that sentence. And you know what the Bible says,

God will not hold him guiltless that takeeth his name in vain. So we don't want to be guilty

of doing such a thing. Now, as we're going through these 10 commandments, I've kind of

tried to think about a way for us to have some hand actions to think about them, right?

So the first one is that we shouldn't have any other gods before them, right?

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. So when we do that, we're going to raise our Bibles up

and I want all you kids to say it with me, okay? Ready? Thou shalt not have any other gods before

me, all right? And then it's Thou shalt not make any graven image. So we're going to do a

smash, all right? So we're going to say it. We'll try to say it together. Thou shalt

not make any graven image, okay? And then we're going to cover our mouths and say

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain and we're going to cover our mouth,

okay? Ready? Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord God in vain, all right? So we've got some

hand motions that we've been going through. The next commandment we're going to get to is the

Sabbath day. He says here in verse 8, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days

the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it Thou shalt not do any work, Thou, nor thy son, nor

thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within

thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is in

rest of the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. So

according to the Bible, in the Old Testament, they had to take a day off

and it was the same for everybody. Everybody took the Sabbath day off. So they're not

going to work, dads didn't have to go to work, and everybody's trying to take a day of rest.

So it's not a bad thing, it's a good thing. Taking rest, they're not having to work,

they're not having to labor, they're basically just being able to take a break.

In the New Testament, the Sabbath is a picture of the gospel message, because what the Bible

teaches is that salvation was accomplished through the work of God, that Jesus Christ died on

the cross for all of our sins, and since he died on the cross for all of our sins and

did all the work, and he rose again from the dead, all we have to do is just trust in him.

And it's a picture of rest, that we're resting in Jesus Christ. And so in the New Testament,

there's not a specific day that we necessarily have to take off like we did in the Old Testament,

but what we do need to do is we do need to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved.

And we need to rest on him for salvation. I want to go to one place, keep your finger

in Exodus, but go to Hebrews. Keep your finger in Exodus chapter 20, but go to Hebrews chapter 4.

Exodus 20 · chapter mention Hebrews 4 · chapter mention

Hebrews chapter number 4. Now again, God uses earthly examples. He created the whole world in

six days basically, and then rested the seventh day. So the week that we celebrate every single

week is a picture of what God did, that God created the world in six days, rested the

seventh day, and then we start that same cycle again. So that's what we have a week.

There's nothing in the heavenly calendar or anything that makes us do that.

We're all observing what the Bible says. Isn't that interesting? Whether you're Atheist,

Buddhist, Hindu, whatever, you know what? We all have the same week and it's based on the

Bible and it's based on what God did. There's been some cultures and some very weird people

that did this occasionally. Okay, I get it. Some Romans tried it in French and stuff like

that, but they all failed. Seven day week, you can't get away from it whether you like it or not.

Now in Hebrews chapter 4, this is brought up a little bit. Look at verse 10,

Hebrews 4 · chapter mention

for he that has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works as God did from

his. So a picture of rest is doing no work and kind of like our common rest that we all

experience is sleeping. When we go to sleep, we're not doing any work while we're sleeping.

Sleeping on the job will get you fired because you're not really working unless you have AI.

We shouldn't be sleeping on the job, but here's the thing. We shouldn't be trying to work our way

to heaven and that's the bigger thing. And so when we say these 10 commandments,

one of them is to remember the Sabbath. And so what I thought is we could all

go like this. We can remember the Sabbath. So let's go through those again.

Thou sought up no other gods before me. Thou sought not make unto the any graven image.

Thou sought not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. And what?

Remember the Sabbath. Good job. All right. Good job. All right. Number five,

we're going to go to the fifth commandment here back in Exodus chapter number 20.

The Bible says in verse number 12 honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long

upon the land which is the Lord thy God giveth thee. So all of you children, you need to obey

mom and dad, mom and dad. Okay. So to remember this one, we're going to say, hey, we're supposed

to honor thy father and mother and it's yes sir and yes ma'am. All right. Can y'all do that

with me? We're going to say honor thy father and mother. Yes sir and yes ma'am. All right.

So let's go through all five of those. All right. Y'all ready? Thou sought have no other gods before

me. Thou sought not make unto the any graven image. Thou sought not take the name of the Lord thy

God in vain. Remember the Sabbath. Honor thy father and mother. Yes sir. Yes ma'am. All right.

Y'all are doing good. I feel like y'all are learning these really well. Okay.

And if you learn them really well and you're doing a really good job,

hopefully what will never happen is someone just walks up and kills you.

Okay. Because that's not cool. All right. So someone just walk up and shoot you. Okay.

That's scary. You know what I mean? And the Bible says, Thou sought not kill.

Now I need a volunteer. All right. Okay.

But we're going to do it. We're going to do a sword drill so I can, I have no idea who raised

their hand. All right. Oh no. I'm out. Good thing I have more ammo.

Okay. All right. So let's do a sword drill.

Tains and under. All right. Luke 4-4. All right. Come on down.

Now in the state of Texas, you can have a duel. All right.

Now he's got to give me a minute here to reload. That would be unfair, wouldn't it?

All right. So in a duel, come on out. We'll do it right here. Okay. We got some room. You

got to come here. You got to go back to back. Okay. Back to back. And then you got to take

three big paces, you know, like, like one, two, three. Then you can turn and fire. Okay.

No cheating. He wasn't supposed to kill me. Nailed it.

All right. You can give this to someone else. All right. So our commandment is thou shall not

kill. All right. So we're going to have to, we're going to have to turn. We're going to have to

smack that gun away. All right. Break the wrist and walk away. Okay. You know, they got the gun

at you. Okay. So let's go through our commandment so far. Okay. Thou shall have no other

gods before me. Thou shall not make it into any grave and image. Thou shall not take the name of

the Lord thy God in vain. Remember this. Honor thy father and mother. Yes, sir. Yes, ma'am. Thou

shall not kill. All right. Good job. Y'all are doing really good. Okay. So let's go back to our

texts. Let's read the next one. Exodus chapter 20, verse 14. Thou shall not commit adultery.

Exodus 20:14

Okay. Now, before we explain this one, let's go to Mark chapter number 10. Okay. Mark chapter

number 10. And I want to read a couple of verses here. Look at verse number 11.

The Bible says, And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife

and marry another committed adultery against her. And of a woman shall put away her husband

and be married to another she committed adultery. So the Bible teaches that when you get married,

you're supposed to stay married to your husband or stay married to your wife. And if you were to

not stay married to get divorced and be married to someone else, that would be adultery.

So I have an object lesson. Okay. There once was a new IP single named Link.

All right. He played a lot of video games.

And he won the game a lot. So he attracted a young princess named Rosalina.

And they got happily married. All right.

Happy Link and happy Rosalina. All right. Now what does the Bible say? They should just stay

married until one of them dies or both of them die. Right. That's what the Bible says.

It says to not divorce, but here's the problem. There's always a Barbie in the world.

All right. And this one's cast Barbie. Okay. So she needed some help with her cast.

And Link being a hero thought he would go help her, but he made a sin. He decided he didn't

want to be married to Rosalina and he decided to divorce her and marry Barbie.

That's a sin. We don't marry Barbie. All right. We're married to Rosalina. Okay.

But see, here's what people do is they do this and it's bad. It's not right.

They shouldn't do it. The Bible tells us not to. We should stay married to who we've

been married to. But some people commit adultery, they divorce and they marry someone else.

And then Rosalina, being sad, she's going to probably make the same mistake as Link did.

Mary's Mario.

But we all know Mario is supposed to marry Peach.

What's Mario's problem? I don't know. Okay. This isn't cool.

The only way that it would have been okay for Rosalina to marry Mario

is if we killed Link. Okay.

Now if Link's dead, okay. It's okay for Rosalina to marry Mario. All right.

But here's the problem. If Link's still alive, if Link's still alive, then you can't do it.

Otherwise it's adultery. Okay. Now here's the thing. These characters

need a home because I'm not taking them home. All right. So we're going to do a couple sword drills.

So, Bible's up if you want one of these. All right. You can come down and take your pick.

Matthew 527. Agree with dinadultery quickly. That is not correct.

I think it was over here. Which of you? That is not correct. All right. We're going to do

a new verse because I can't tell who was there. I said Matthew 527, which was,

you have heard that it was said by them of old time. That was what not committed adultery.

All right. So we're going to do a new verse.

Sit down. Bible's up. You got to get the right verse. Matthew 531.

Wait.

Testament said,

whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement.

Read verse 32 as well.

Nailed it. Come on down.

Bible's up. Matthew 19.

And I say unto you, whosoever shall put away his wife,

accept it be for portacation, and shall marry another committed adultery.

And whosoever marries her, which is put away doth commit adultery. Nailed it. Come on down.

Got two more. Bible's up.

Revelation 21.8.

But the fearful and the believing, abominable and abominable,

and whoremongers and sorcerers and adulterers, and all liars shall have their part in the lake.

You didn't nail it.

But the fearful and

unbelieving, abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and adulterers,

and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone,

which is the second death. Nailed it. All right. Come on down.

Whoremongers. All right. So I'm not sure. Are you going to get the Barbie or?

All right. So we're just going to do ladies only on this one. I don't want to embarrass you boys.

Okay. So the ladies only one. All right. Esther 111 and 12. Okay.

To bring Vashti the queen before the king, which the crowned royal to show the people

and the princess her beauty. And for she was fair to look on. But the queen Vashti refused to come

at the king's commandment by his cherubin chamberlains chamberlains before the

therefore was the king very wroth and his anger burned in him. Nailed it.

We should just call her Vashti. All right. Barbie.

All right. So for our hand motions, what I came up with is since when you get married,

it's supposed to be forever. It's going to be a picture of us putting our hands together like

this. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Do you remember? Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not

commit adultery. All right. Let's go back to Exodus 20. We got a few more. Exodus chapter 20.

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Look at verse 15. Thou shalt not steal. All right. So I need two more volunteers.

Right here. Daniel, come on down. All right.

Never mind me your name again. Matthew. We've got Matthew and we've got Daniel over here. Okay.

I've got some other things in my bag here. I've got some M&Ms and some nice looking fruit snacks.

But you know, life's not fair. So Daniel gets all of it. All right. You can hold it, both of them.

All right. Okay. But I need you to do something for me real quick. Okay. Well,

you just set them down right there for just a second because I need you to do something for me.

Now, where's your, where's your, where's your snacks?

He took them. What? That's not fair. I gave them to you. What did he do?

He stole them. What a thief. Well, you know what? Thou shalt not steal. You have to give him back.

All right. Now, you can go ahead, Daniel. You're good. You're good. What are you doing

with the stealing here? Nope. All right. There you go. Don't steal. All right.

So our next one is Thou shalt not steal. All right. We don't take things that don't belong to us.

Okay. You kids sometimes do this. All right. And the lost and founds not an excuse. All right.

Thou shalt not steal. Okay.

Now I need two more. All right.

Chamlee, Chloe, Chloe, come on.

Just, I already got the two. Sorry. Next year.

Just don't bear false witness. All right. So the Bible says here, Thou shalt not

bear false witness against Thy neighbor. Okay. So here's the thing. Sometimes when people lie,

they do this thing and maybe you've seen it where they cross their fingers. Have you ever seen this?

They'll say something, but they cross their fingers behind their back or whatever.

And they're not supposed to do that. Okay. And so Chloe, I need you to cross your fingers

for me real quick. And what is that? She stole a gun.

What did you do? Where did you get this?

How did she know you stole this gun? Did you take it from Milstead?

Well, we're not supposed to do that.

Now I'm just messing with you because I already have the gun on me, right?

But that's not cool to tell a lie about someone and accuse them of stealing a

gun when they didn't steal someone's gun. So we don't bear false witness against our neighbor,

do we? We don't make up lies. We don't say things that aren't true. Here you can take the gun.

Thank you all so much. So here's the thing. Thou shalt not bear false witness. All right.

So we'll cross our fingers. So Thou shalt not bear false witness. All right. So we don't want

to lie. I think I still have something in here. All right. Let's see. What else we got? Okay.

Let's read the next one. All right.

It says in verse 17, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shalt not covet the

neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor

anything. That is thy neighbor's. Okay. Now I have this really cool orange monster truck right

here. Does anybody like this? Would anybody want this? Raise your hand if you think you would like

this at all. I need a special. Okay, James, I'm going to have you come down and come get this.

All right. This is pretty cool. Do you like it? Do you like it? Come up here. Take it.

Stand right here. Okay. That's a pretty cool car, isn't it? That was pretty cool. But this one's way

cooler. Like way cooler. All right. You come on down.

Isn't this one cool, James? Is it cooler than yours? Come on here. You can come right here.

I want you to stand. You got it, buddy. I want you to show everybody. Okay. Let's turn it

around. Nice. That one's really cool. Now here's the thing. Do you like this one or you like that one?

You like both of them. Okay. All right. Well, see, here's the thing. It's really easy

to look at this one and think, I kind of wish I had that one, isn't it? But see, the Bible says

thou shalt not covet. Hey, James is real happy to get this truck first, wasn't he? But then

sometimes someone gets a bigger truck and they get mad about it and they think, oh, I don't like him

because he's got a bigger truck. But you know what? That's wrong. We shouldn't covet. We should be happy

with what God's given us. Now here's the thing. How do you not covet? Well, here's the thing.

Just don't look at it. Right? So it's this thou shalt not covet. If you're just not looking

at what your neighbor stuff is, well, it'll be easier for you to not have that sin creeping

in your heart where you covet because sometimes they get so mad they go kill them or something,

you know, or steal it or whatever. We don't want to do that. We already know thou shalt not kill,

thou shalt not steal, right? Thou shalt not commit adultery, right? We want to stay together. So

when people are coveting, it leads them to commit those other sins and we don't want to do

that. All right. Congratulations, guys. Good job. So we're going to just, we're going to go

through these times a couple of times. Let's see if we can get them. Okay? Hopefully you're

going to remember these 10 commandments now. Okay? Thou shalt have no other gods before me, right?

Thou shalt not make under the any graven image. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy

God in vain. Remember the Sabbath. Honor thy father and mother. Yes, sir. Yes, ma'am. Thou shalt

not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness.

And what's the last one? Thou shalt not covet. All right. You guys did really, really good.

Let's go ahead and end in prayer. All right? Thank you Heavenly Father so much for these

kids. Thank you so much for giving us these 10 commandments. I pray that you would help

them to sink deep down into our heart. That the kids would look at these commandments as a good way

to live. That they would honor their father and mother. They would follow all these rules. They

would honor you. I pray that you would help them to get saved. That they could see the spiritual

picture of the Sabbath. And I pray that you would help us to be God's people. That we would

realize that you are our God. And we love you and want to follow your rules so that you

understand. My God is so great. If you didn't get a handout from the last one or if it's not in the

bulletin, I don't know if anybody, I don't know if people are missing this. It's a pretty easy song.

All right, you kids, I want you to stand up with me. All right? So you can do the motions,

okay? There in the first. My God is so big, so strong and so mighty. There's nothing

my God cannot do. My God is so big, so strong and so mighty. There's nothing my God cannot do.

He made the... God bless you're dismissed.