Sermon on Exodus 20:1-17, for the 6th Sunday after Trinity (1 Year Lectionary), "The Ten Commandments"
See also the catechetical hymn that I wrote as a paraphrase of the commandments and their explanations, to use as a sermon hymn: http://thejoshuavictortheory.blogspot.com/2017/06/a-hymn-on-ten-commandments.html Sermon Outline: · The most widely recognized set of laws—often represented with the symbol of two stone tablets. But how well are they known, individually? Name by heart? 1 st Table, 2 nd Table (Jesus made this division—Love God, Love neighbor). Which is the first? “ I am the Lord…out of the house of slavery …” or “ You shall have no other gods before me ?” Numbering is not so important; content is; don’t reduce. · In Proverbs 1, Solomon describes the foolishness of violent and greedy men, and says that their plans for evil are in reality setting an ambush or a trap for their own lives (Prov. 1:18-19). The point is that they are greedily pursuing their own interests, b...