The 10 commandments

1. Giving &
Taking Life
On the first and last
commandment

3. #1 What We Worship,
We Become

6. “But their idols are silver and gold,
made by human hands.
They have mouths, but cannot speak,
eyes, but cannot see.
They have ears, but cannot hear,
noses, but cannot smell.
They have hands, but cannot feel,
feet, but cannot walk, nor can they utter a sound
with their throats.
Those who make them WILL BE LIKE THEM,
and so will all who trust in them.”
Psalm 115: 4-8

7. Never
underestimate
the importance
of role models

12. “What people revere, they
resemble…either for ruin
or restoration”
GK Beale

13. “And we all, who with unveiled
faces contemplate the Lord’s
glory, are being transformed
into his image with ever-
increasing glory…”
~ 2 Corinthians 3:18

14. #2 What We Worship
Gives Us Life

16. My Sunday School confusion:
What’s with the 10th
commandment?

18. “No lusting after your neighbor’s
house—or wife or servant or maid
or ox or donkey. Don’t set your
heart on anything that is your
neighbor’s.”
~ Exodus 20:17 (The Message)

19. Coveting is…
• The only prohibition among the 10 that
even Christians gleefully flout (and may
even ‘defend’!)
• The driver of our ‘liberal free-market’
system
• Today’s key factor of which causes us to
get life APART from God!

20. But the serpent
said to the woman,
“You will not die;
for God knows that
when you eat of it
your eyes will be
opened, and you
will be like God…”

21. “Man’s desire is the desire
of…the Other”
Jacques Lacan

23. 70-80% of the 10 Commandments
are about what NOT to do!

24. “Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all
your heart and with all your soul and with all your
mind.’ This is the first and greatest
commandment.
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as
yourself.’
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two
commandments.”
~ Matthew 22: 37-40

25. Conclusion
• We fast from everything which tempts us
with life
• We fast from our desires, the ‘engine’ of
the world system
• We feast on God, our only true Life

26. “Love God, and do
whatever you please…in
that order.”
St. Augustine of Hippo