First Commandment
185The Law on Mount Sinai
18 Mar 2024
24:02¶ 84
“It’s not talking about rank, it’s talking about where you are. “Before me” literally is “in my presence” or “before my face.” Where is…”
24:24¶ 86
“Yeah, that one, the all-seeing God. But the other thing is that God’s face, particularly as we find out in the New Testament in…”
25:15¶ 88
“God is the only God. It is God who defines right and wrong. It is God who makes the laws. It is God who…”
155The Lord is There
30 Jan 2023
17:20¶ 52
“Now, as Christians we would say now look back at the first commandment. “I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out…”
17:36¶ 53
“So in saying no made-up religions, no man-made value systems, he’s sweeping them away to make room for his value system, for his law.…”
148Through Fiery Trials
12 Dec 2022
21:28¶ 75
“Yes, God did. The first two commandments, if anyone does not know, are “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Before me means…”
29:50¶ 105
“The one exception, of course, would be human beings because man is the image of God, and if you bow down to a man…”
29:28¶ 104
“So at the very least, these two commandments are on the line, and the young men say, “No. God may deliver us. He has…”
36Polytheism and Pluralism (part 2)
6 Sep 2020
0:24¶ 3
“I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt…”
0:33¶ 4
“Last week we talked about how “no other gods before me” means no other gods at all, and how this God, the Lord, is…”
8:12¶ 23
“As Christians, we have to insist that the starting point for any examination of the broader culture has to be this – no other…”
35Polytheism and Pluralism (part 1)
30 Aug 2020
2:57¶ 13
“The first thing we have to nail down is the “before me.” Loads and loads of liberal historians and even theologians have said, “See,…”
3:31¶ 15
“What’s the Latin phrase for the third Isaiah, because there’s a third one too, supposedly. No, that’s not what it means. The Hebrew has…”
4:19¶ 18
“Exactly. That’s not what this is saying, either. God has already revealed himself in Genesis, and certainly in Exodus with the plagues and all…”