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All right. Day five on the Ten Commandments. We're looking at Israel's response to the Ten Commandments that there is only one God, that you should cut out the idols, that you need to watch your mouth, don't use the Lord's name in vain, that you should remember the Sabbath, keep it holy, that you should honor your father and mother, that thou shall not murder, that thou shall not commit adultery, that you shouldn't lie, you shouldn't steal and you shouldn't covet your neighbor's stuff. So God gives this law to Moses and then you get the response in verses 18 to 24. Now, when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, because Moses had gone up onto this mountain as required in chapter 19,. And God is meeting one-on-one with Moses, there's three people there, but God is talking directly to Moses and the people are down at the bottom watching from afar. They are not allowed to go up on the mountain because they cannot handle the presence of a holy God, because they have not been consecrated and they are afraid. It says the people were afraid and trembled and they stood far off and said to Moses Let me stop right there, a part of the difference between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant is this right here. You see, the people wanted a mediator between them and God. They're like we don't want to talk to God, we're scared. Moses, you talk to God and then you talk to us.

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Well, when Jesus Christ came and he died on the cross, the curtain in the temple that separated the people of God from the presence of God was torn from the top to the bottom. That Jesus alone is our mediator, not a priest, definitely not Mary. Jesus alone is our mediator. He is the high priest and he has made a way so that us normal, sinful human beings like us, redeemed by the blood of Jesus, can go directly to God and have direct access to him by the blood of the Lamb. So what I see happening today is there are many, many people that would rather listen to a YouTube sermon instead of talk to God themselves. Don't get those things out of order. That you and your relationship with God, your direct connection to him with the scriptures and through the blood of Christ, is primary, and then you use sermons to help supplement that relationship.

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Verse 20, moses said to the people do not fear, for God has come to test you that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin. And the people stood far off while Verse 1. Talked with you from heaven. You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourself gods of gold, and this is what is important. The next commandment, after the 10 commandments, is this an altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

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So God gives the law. And then he immediately says and you're going to need to build some altars, why? Because God knows that none of us can pull off the 10 commandments. Every single one of us. If you're being honest, if you lay your life across the Ten Commandments, we do not have a passing grade. We actually will go 0 for 10. And again, some of you are like I've never killed anybody, I know. But Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount that even if you've hated your brother, then you have already committed murder.

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You see, god knows that this law was given. Like I've said, it's a map and a mirror. It's a map to show us how to live rightly before a righteous God, how to live in God's world, god's way, but it's also a mirror to show us all of the ways that we are in error. I mean, you've seen a picture of the law of God every single day when you walk into your bathroom, you walk up to the sink and there's a mirror and there's a sink, and the mirror there is to show you what you actually look like, and the sink is there to do something about it. The law is there to show us that there are none righteous no, not one. And then the altar is there to show us that we need a sacrifice to be made on our behalf.

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Well, the reality is that the book of Romans says that no one will be declared righteous by works of the law, but God has sent someone, an alien righteousness, to do for us what we could not do for ourself, and Jesus pulled it off. Jesus did not come to do away with the law, but he fulfilled it. He fulfilled every promise and prophecy of the old covenant. He was tempted in every way that we are tempted, and yet never one time did he break any of God's laws, and this perfect one goes to the cross not just to die for us, but to die instead of us. And not only was he the perfect man, but he took sin upon himself and made himself the ultimate sacrifice. This is why John the Baptizer says about Jesus behold the Lamb of God who's come to take away the sin of the entire world. Not another Lamb of God that's going to cover over the sin of just a certain group of people, the Israelites, until next year, but the Lamb of God who's come to do for us what we could not do for ourselves live a perfect life and die the sinner's death to pay the full price. This is why Jesus on the cross pushes up on his nail-pierced feet and says it is finished.

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Tetelestai literally means paid in full, that if you put your faith in that substitutionary atoning death of Jesus and his resurrection and you claim him as your Lord, then all of your sin is paid for fully and finally, and all of Christ's righteous life is credited to you. The Bible says it this way in 2 Corinthians 5.21,. God made him who's without sin to be sin for us, that we would be made the righteousness of God. You see, because of God's justice, all sin must be paid for. Because God is merciful, he delayed the payment, but because God is gracious, he made the payment on our behalf. He is the just and the justifier. The Ten Commandments are a map how we ought to rightly live and a mirror that none of us can do. It, that you and I need a Savior. I hope and pray that you know Jesus Christ as your Savior. If not, then ask him to be your Savior right now.

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