Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, May 22nd.

The Law of God is much more than a collection of archaic rules.

They are key for the proper functioning of any society.

Today's podcast helps us understand more about the Ten Commandments.

Let's look at these Ten Commandments in the light of what God has given us.

And so I want you to turn to this 20th chapter of Exodus.

And let's look at it from the perspective of what do they really say?

Not what would we like for them to say, but what do they say? And so let's

begin of course with number one. He says you shall have no other gods before me. Here's what that means. No God, not one, not any. Somebody says well thank

God that's the one I don't have to worry about. Hold it. Hold it. What does it mean to have no other gods before me? Do you

know what becomes a God in your life? Listen carefully.

Jehovah, Yawe, the ultimate and final authority.

He says he's established his throne in the heavens.

His sovereignty rules over all.

Listen carefully.

Anything, anybody, whatever you place in your life and you,

you don't have to physically bow before it, but emotionally,

mentally, whatever, anything, any person you place in your life

in the position of being above God in your life. You said, well how would I do that? That is you would obey

them rather than God. You would follow after them rather than God. You just worship their

talents and skills and abilities other than God. People worship money.

They worship people. They worship prestige and prominence and power and all kinds of things. And so he said you shall have no other gods before me.

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