No Graven Images

Rev. Bruce Brown

Exodus 20:4-6

August 9, 2020

I.      The Commandment Frees Us from Wrong Images of God (Verses 4-5; Exodus 32)

II.     The Commandment Focuses on God’s True  Nature (Verses 4-5; John 4:21-24)

III.   The Commandment Forms Future Worship  (Verses 5-6; John 14:7-10)

“This (commandment) forbids, not worshiping many gods (the first commandment covered that), but imagining the true God as like yourself or something lower.  God’s real attack is on mental images, of which metal images are more truly the consequence than the cause… No statement starting, “This is how I like to think of God” should ever be trusted.  An imagined God will always be more or less imaginary and unreal.” J.I. Packer