“You shall not make for yourself a carved image…” (3) The Regulative Principle
“This is why worship that is authorized by the Bible is so simple and unadorned. God wants us to focus on what he is saying to us and on what we say back to him. He wants our attention to be focused like a laser on him, and anything that detracts from that is counter-productive as far as what God is looking for in our worship is concerned. God is not interested in us feeling worshipful because of a worshipful atmosphere. God wants us to love and rejoice and adore and tremble and fear and exult because our attention is riveted on what he is saying to us.”
Sermon Series: The Ten Commandments
Final Exhortations and Benediction
Read: 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28
(Text: verses 25-28)