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Now we'll go on with our little heart-to-heart talk

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regarding that wonderful heart-to-heart talk

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that God and Moses had on the Mount of Sinai.

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Oh, that was wonderful!

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And when he talked to Moses up there on the Mount,

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it was not only just regarding the children of Israel,

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but he talked about you and he talked about me,

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he talked about something that concerned every person

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who was ever born or will ever be born.

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For in that great heart-to-heart talk that God and Moses had,

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God gave to him the ten rules for successful living.

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And do you want to know something?

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No man is big enough or smart enough

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to violate the unchangeable laws of the eternal God

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and get by with it.

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I don't care who that man is, I don't care how smart that man is.

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I don't care how famous, I don't care what prestige that man may have.

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No person is big enough or smart enough

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to violate the laws of God and get by with it.

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You cannot break God's law without suffering a penalty.

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Man only breaks himself when he breaks any one of the laws of God,

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and it's just like that.

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Now, it's very important to consider the order

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in which God stated his laws.

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The first four deal with man's relationship with God,

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and the last six deal with man's relationship with man.

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Do you want to know something?

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Before man can live rightfully with each other,

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he must first get right with God.

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That's right.

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You cannot live successfully with your fellow man.

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That's what all this trouble is about.

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That's the reason we're having such an awful time trying to live with each other.

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Man cannot live successfully with his fellow man

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unless first of all he has learned how to live successfully with God.

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That's why in these ten rules for living,

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the first thing that God talks about is man's relationship with himself.

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Somebody says, the golden rule is my religion.

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Oh, I get so sick and tired of hearing that.

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Invariably, when you begin talking to some people about the things of God,

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you can even begin talking to them about the Ten Commandments,

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and then invariably they hark back to the golden rule,

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and they'll say the golden rule is my religion.

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I live according to the golden rule, but my friend,

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the golden rule is nobody's religion because it is not a religion.

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It is merely the expression of religion.

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That's what the golden rule is.

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You're only kidding yourself.

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You're not going to be the loser in the long run when you feel

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and honestly, consciously feel that you're all right and very smugly.

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You hide behind the golden rule and saying that the golden rule is your religion.

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Don't be deceived. Don't deceive yourself.

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The golden rule is not a religion. Please hear me.

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The golden rule is wonderful, but it is merely the expression of religion.

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Until a man has found God, he begins at no beginning.

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He works to no end.

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You have no beginning, no end. You have no foundation.

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You have nothing to work to. There really is no goal.

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You have no starting place.

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This is one of those heart-to-heart talks.

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We're just going to take the whole thing out, lay it on the table,

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and be honest with yourself, and for 20 minutes, be honest with God.

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If you are a man who has not found God,

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if I'm talking to a person who has not found God as a heavenly Father,

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you have no personal relationship with God,

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no direct relationship with God Almighty.

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Then you have no beginning, and you are working to no end.

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It's just like that.

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Now, the First Commandment is somewhat surprising.

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We would think that it would begin with these words,

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Thou shalt believe in a God, which of course would be a law against atheism.

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There is no such law. God took care of that in our creation.

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Every man, every woman is made with the capacity for God.

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Every time a newborn baby cries,

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every time a precious little bundle of flesh comes into the world,

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every time there's a birth,

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remember that in that little bundle of flesh, God has so ordained,

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God has so created capacity in that little body for Himself.

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There is a knowledge of the Great Creator in that brain.

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It's just like that.

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God has so ordained, He's made provision for it.

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God took care of that in our creation.

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We do not have to teach a baby to hunger or to thirst.

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Nature does that.

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We say nature, but after all, who is nature but God?

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You never saw a little baby in your life.

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and yet that baby does not have to be taught to be hungry.

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That baby does not have to be taught to thirst.

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That baby is born to hunger, to thirst.

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God took care of that.

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However, we must train our children to satisfy their hungers

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and their thirsts with the right things.

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Every man is made with a capacity for God.

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Every man is born knowing there is a Supreme Being.

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something he has to give himself over to.

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Something that is bigger than himself.

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He's born with that.

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Man instinctively believes and worships.

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Sure, all you have to do is to go over to India.

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You'll realize that.

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Those poor ignorant people, tens of thousands of thousands of them,

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I watched them.

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I watched them as they have worshiped the sun.

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They worship the idols.

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They have given their bodies over to be burned.

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Oh, beloved, if only Christians could worship

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with such sacrificial worship and with such intensity

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as they worship their false gods.

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Christianity would shake the world for God.

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Man instinctively, I don't care whether it's in darkest Africa,

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I don't care in the very darkest of hedonism.

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Man instinctively believes and worships.

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Nowhere does the Bible attempt to prove the existence of God.

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Man is created incomplete.

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He cannot be at rest until there is a satisfaction of his deepest hunger,

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the yearning of his deepest soul.

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But the danger lies in that fact that man can promote his worship instinct

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and make for himself a false god.

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That's why God had to take Moses aside in that heart-to-heart talk

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and say, Moses, now look here, I've got to talk to you about your people down there.

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They have been led out of Egyptian bondage.

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I am leading them now into a land that literally flows with milk and honey.

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There'll be temptations beyond your middle conception,

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as we're talking together now.

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They will be blessed with a prosperity that they never dreamed possible.

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The first law that I give to you, the first rule for living is just this,

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thou shalt have none other gods before me.

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That's the first rule for living.

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Of the ten words of Sinai, the first four, remember, deal with man's relation to God.

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And of these, the first brings us face to face with the object of worship.

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Thou shalt have none other gods before me.

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I am the only one to be worshiped.

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I am the mighty god of this universe.

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I am the great creator.

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I am God Almighty, Jehovah God.

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Now, the second reveals the true mode of worship.

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Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image,

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nor the likeness of any form that is in heaven above.

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The order of worship is to be spiritual, not material.

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We're not to make an image of God.

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We're to not make an image of anything that is like unto God.

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We're not to worship an image.

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We're not to bow down to any image.

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There it is.

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Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image,

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nor the likeness of any form that is in heaven above.

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Again, I repeat, the order of worship is to be spiritual, not material.

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Now, the third states that this relationship of man to God,

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that of worship, is to be a perpetual one, governing all of his life.

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Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain,

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for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

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The fourth provides a very definite statement.

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One seventh of man's time is to be set apart

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for the express and sole purpose of worshiping God.

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One seventh of your time, one seventh of your week,

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shall be set apart for one purpose and one purpose only,

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for the express purpose of worshiping God.

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Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

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After he has laid these laws down regarding man's relationship to God,

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it's then he deals with the relations of man to his fellow man.

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First comes a family relation.

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Honor thy father and thy mother.

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Second, thou shalt not kill.

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Third, thou shalt not commit adultery.

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Fourth, thou shalt not steal.

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Fifth, thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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And the remaining one is also of a moral nature.

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jealously guarded against wrong desire.

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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house and so forth.

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Now go on with this.

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Here we come to that first commandment.

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Let's deal with that first commandment.

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We'll see the meaning of that first commandment.

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If God is what he claims to be,

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he will be, he that is, he that was,

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then he must be the supreme object of our worship.

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He's got to be.

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If it is true that he is Jehovah, man's God,

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then the commandment is a reasonable one.

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It must be a very unreasonable thing to have any other God beside him.

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If God is all that he claims to be,

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past, present, future,

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if he is the mighty God of this universe,

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the glorious creator of all that exists,

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and if in the future he is to be God Almighty forever and ever, eternal,

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then it would be the most unreasonable thing in the world

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to worship anything else but God Almighty.

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In the very necessity of the case,

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if the words spoken by God be true, then God is sufficient,

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and God is God.

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Therefore, there cannot be two who fulfill that description of limitless life,

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point to another God, and he must be limited.

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There can only be one God who is eternal.

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If anyone should claim that position, that one is false.

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Therefore, it is based upon the necessity of the case,

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upon the most absolute reasonableness,

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that God first declares himself and his glory,

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and then utters the first great word,

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thou shalt have none other gods before me.

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Let's consider something for just a few minutes.

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Every man needs a God.

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There's no man who has not somewhere in his heart, in his life,

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in the essential of his being, a shrine in which there is a deity whom he worships.

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It is impossible for a man to live without having an object of worship

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as it is for a bird to fly if it is taken out of the air.

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The very composition of human life, the mystery of man's being,

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demands a center of worship as necessary as man's existence.

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Believe me, that's true.

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All life is worship.

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There may be a false God at the center of life,

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but every activity of being, all the energy of life,

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the devotion of powers, these things are all worship.

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Now, the question is whether the life and the powers of man

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are devoted to the worship of the true God or that of a false one.

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There's a center, a motive, a reason, a shrine, a deity somewhere,

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something which man worships.

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It has been said that when man dethrones God,

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he deifies and he worships himself.

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There are men today of whom it may be said that they worship themselves

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with all their heart and with all their strength and with all their mind,

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and themselves only do they serve.

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The world today, this 12th century, is filled with men and women

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who literally worship themselves.

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They have deified themselves.

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In every case, man demands a God, a king, a lawgiver,

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one who arranges the program, who orders the commandments,

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and demands obedience.

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The moment a man gets out of touch with God

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and loses the vision of God Almighty,

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the one who says, I am Jehovah, the Lord thy God,

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the minute a man gets away from him,

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he puts something else in the place of God,

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and the minute he puts something else in the place of God, believe me,

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I tell you the truth, he gets into trouble.

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Know that, for again I repeat,

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no man is big enough or smart enough to violate

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any one of the laws of the eternal God and get by with it.

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No man can break God's law, he only breaks himself.

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Go if you please now to the New Testament,

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and this is exactly the meaning of the sixth chapter of Matthew.

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Seek ye first God, God first,

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and all these things shall be added unto thee.

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The reason the world situation is going from bad to worse

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is that we are centrally and fundamentally wrong.

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We are worshipping the wrong thing.

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If we as a nation, if we as individuals

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put something else in the place of God,

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if we worship something else instead of God Almighty,

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then all these things shall be subtracted from us.

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Get the central spiritual facts straight, says the word of God,

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and your material facts will be straight too.

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You cannot go wrong in one without going wrong in the other.

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I read it once more and here it is,

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thou shalt have none other gods before me.

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If you are worshipping the wrong God, then my friend,

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you will pay for it.

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No man can break this law of God.

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Man only breaks himself.

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Amen.