Two-Faced God

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Two-Faced God
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The Big 10 Exodus 201-17

1. You shall have no other gods before me
2. You shall not make for yourself an idol
3. Do not take the name of the Lord in vain
4. Remember the Sabbath day, keep it holy
5. Honor your father and mother
6. Do not murder
7. Do not commit adultery
8. Do not steal
9. Do not bear false witness against your neighbor
10. Do not covet

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What did Jesus say about these laws?
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• Matthew 517-20 17Do not think that I have come
  to abolish the Law or the Prophets I have not
  come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18For
  truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass
  away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the
  Law until all is accomplished. 19Therefore
  whoever relaxes one of the least of these
  commandments and teaches others to do the same
  will be called least in the kingdom of heaven,
  but whoever does them and teaches them will be
  called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20For I
  tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that
  of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never
  enter the kingdom of heaven.

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• Matthew 22 34-40 34But when the Pharisees heard
  that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered
  together. 35And one of them, a lawyer, asked him
  a question to test him. 36Teacher, which is the
  great commandment in the Law? 37And 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. 38This is the great and first
  commandment. 39And a second is like it You shall
  love your neighbor as yourself. 40On these two
  commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.

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Why did Yahweh give Israel the 10 Commandments?
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What does it mean to be holy?
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• Leviticus 2026b . I have set you apart from
  all other people to be my very own.
• Romans 122 2 Dont copy the behavior and customs
  of this world, but let God transform you into a
  new person by changing the way you think. Then
  you will learn to know Gods will for you, which
  is good and pleasing and perfect.

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Why are we to be holy?
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• Leviticus 191-2 And the Lord spoke to Moses,
  saying, 2 Speak to all the congregation of the
  people of Israel and say to them, You shall be
  holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

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• Deuteronomy 617-19 17 You must diligently obey
  the commands of the Lord your Godall the laws
  and decrees he has given you. 18 Do what is right
  and good in the Lords sight, so all will go well
  with you. Then you will enter and occupy the good
  land that the Lord swore to give your
  ancestors. 19 You will drive out all the enemies
  living in the land, just as the Lord said you
  would.

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• Matthew 5 48 48 You therefore must
  be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

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What happens if we fail to be holy?
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• Genesis 319 By the sweat of your face you shall
  eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out
  of it you were taken for you are dust, and to
  dust you shall return.
• Genesis 323 therefore the Lord God sent him
  out from the Garden of Eden to work the ground
  from which he was taken.

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• Leviticus 517-19 17 If anyone sins, doing any
  of the things that by the Lord's commandments
  ought not to be done, though he did not know it,
  then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his
  iniquity. 18 He shall bring to the priest a ram
  without blemish out of the flock, or its
  equivalent for a guilt offering, and the priest
  shall make atonement for him for the mistake that
  he made unintentionally, and he shall be
  forgiven.19It is a guilt offering he has indeed
  incurred guilt before the Lord.

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• Romans 623 23 For the wages of sin is death, but
  the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ
  Jesus our Lord.

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Why should I still follow the 10 commandments if
Jesus has already forgiven me?
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• 1 Peter 29-12 9 But you are a chosen race, a
  royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his
  own possession, that you may proclaim the
  excellencies of him who called you out of
  darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you
  were not a people, but now you are God's people
  once you had not received mercy, but now you have
  received mercy. 11 Beloved, I urge you as
  sojourners and exiles to abstain from the
  passions of the flesh, which wage war against
  your soul. 12 Keep your conduct among the
  Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak
  against you as evildoers, they may see your good
  deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

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Why does this matter?

1. Affects the way we see God
2. Affects the way we read the Bible
3. Affects the way we live our lives