Loving God With Our Worship (Deuteronomy 5:8-10)

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast. Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW is a community of students learning to love Jesus, to love others, and love our campus. We’re a group for the convinced and the unconvinced, the confident and the doubting, the struggling and the seeking. Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This fall, we’re focusing on the book of Deuteronomy and the Ten Commandments. Tonight’s message looks at the second word which prohibits us from using anything less than the true God to worship and serve him. As we will see, God is fiercely jealous for his people to truly love and honor him. For this reason he commands us to seek to fully know and worship him through both his written word and the incarnate Word, Jesus Christ. https://bibleproject.com/videos/2nd-commandment-no-idols/ “God has chosen to reveal himself through the Scriptures and through Christ. We know the truth about who God is by becoming acquainted with this revelation, by learning the Bible, and by measuring all teaching against his word. And we know the truth about who God is through Christ, the spiritually undiminished image bearer.”- Jen Wilkin “The jealousy of God is the measure of his zeal for our happiness in him. His anger at our spiritual adultery, at our having other lovers besides him, is a reflex both of his zeal for his own worth, but also of his zeal for our joy. If we turn away from him as the greatest treasure, we turn away from our own greatest pleasure.”— John Piper “I need Christ, not something that resembles Him … My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks of his presence? The Incarnation is the supreme example; it leaves all previous ideas of the Messiah in ruins.”- C.S. Lewis “Every human, male or female, rich or poor, slave or free— every human is an image of God, the unique vehicle of the way divine goodness is present in our world. So don’t make an image. Be a faithful image of God.”— Tim Mackie