Exodus 20:1-11 - I AM Your Law, Part 1

[Music] [Applause] good morning everybody well merry christmas what an amazing amazing time of year it is what a tremendous opportunity we have so please just do what troy was exhorting you to do to let god use you to touch somebody else's life this christmas season but let's come before the lord and receive something

from his word so open up your bibles please to the book of exodus chapter 20 exodus chapter 20. father we come before you and we ask for your blessing the presence of your spirit upon our time in the word lord we know that your word is alive your word is active your word is sharper

than a sword with two edges but lord it's uh sometimes our hearts that are dull and that are dark and that are sleepy we need you to come and by your spirit make us alive to your word help us to do it now lord in jesus name amen as we come to these first few verses of

exodus chapter 20 we remind ourselves that israel has come out of egypt in this dramatic way god led them through the wilderness to a place called mount sinai and here at mount sinai is one of the most amazing experiences that israel ever had with god as recorded in the bible you know sometimes the

bible tells us when god speaks he speaks in a very soft and a very subtle in a very deep spiritual way but other times when god speaks he speaks loud and clear in almost a boisterous way and it's that kind of feel that we have right here at mount sinai that many centuries later a great

prophet would come to the same mountain mount sinai to meet with god and god would have passed before him a whirlwind and a storm and lightning and thunder and at each one of those experiences god demonstrated to the prophet elijah that he was not in those boisterous and loud kind of expressions of who he was