Raise Them Up (Part 3) | Pastor Jayson Workman | 05-23-2021

Raise Them Up—Part 3

Deuteronomy 5:6-10

Pastor Jayson Workman

South Gate — May 23, 2021

 

Introduction

 

Our passions and pursuits will mold our children for generations to come.

 

We are warned that idols lead to imitation and imitation leads to iniquity.

 

1. COMMIT to pursuing God. (vv.7–8)

 

An idol is anything that has to be a part of your future in order for your

life to be worth living.

 

 

James 4:2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

 

 

2. CLEAN out your idols. (v. 9)

 

Quote: “Jesus demands everything, not just so we would submit to his control, but to free us from the control of things that were never designed to control us.” — Paul Tripp, A Quest for More

 

confront your idols

 

confess your idols

 

Psalm 51:1-2 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!

 

3. CLAIM God’s love. (v. 10)

 

Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

 

Romans 5:20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,