The First Commandment: YAHWEH Alone

Sermon 46 in Series

Exodus 20:3
[3] “You shall have no other gods before me.

DEEP SHEET: Sermon Study Questions
1.   How can the Ten Commandments be divided into two sections? In what ways does this distinction collapse?
2.   How does the idea of “covenant loyalty” give us a better understanding of the meaning of love?
3.   When it comes to worship, how are substituting and supplementing different? How do we know that supplementing ultimately means substituting?
4.   What sorts of “gods” are we tempted to have? To use a well-known phrase, how do good things become “God things”?
5.   What does it look like to forget God? What is the connection between forgetting God and pursuing false gods, and how does this motivate earnest Bible reading?
6.   How are we sometimes deceived into thinking that we are victims of idolatry rather than pursuers/ perpetrators?
7.   In what ways are we surrounded by idolatry/false religion? How have you found yourself conforming to the world around you?

References: Matthew 22:37-40; Colossians 3:5; Deuteronomy 4:39; Jeremiah 10:10; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; Matthew 6:24; John 5:23; Jeremiah 18:15; 1 Kings 9:9; Jeremiah 7:6; Deuteronomy 6:14; Romans 1:21, 25; 12:1-2; 1 Kings 11:4; Daniel 3:17-18; James 1:14.