{"id":440,"date":"2016-09-18T19:21:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T19:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=440"},"modified":"2017-06-13T19:23:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T19:23:06","slug":"03-the-first-commandment-thou-shalt-have-no-other-gods","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/sermons\/03-the-first-commandment-thou-shalt-have-no-other-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"03 The First Commandment &#8211; Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>The First Commandment &#8211; Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Exodus 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Written across the Ten Commandments should be written \u201cI need Jesus\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Person of This Commandment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>God spoke these commandments<\/p>\n<p>Breaking of this commandment \u2013 Romans 1:18-32<\/p>\n<p>Immorality immediately follows idolatry<\/p>\n<p>Until we see God\u2019s person with the commandments God\u2019s work will not be done in our lives<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Place of This Commandment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No other commandment can be broken until this one is broken<\/p>\n<p>Before \u201cin my sight\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Purpose of This Commandment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To reveal who God is<\/p>\n<p>Romans 3:9-20 \u2013 The law reveals sin<\/p>\n<p>I Samuel 15:23 \u2013 Any time you want your way, you become an idolater<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Discerning \u201cgods\u201d in our life<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Could we do without it?<\/p>\n<p>Has it begun to rule us?<\/p>\n<p>Does it stir us to urgency?<\/p>\n<p>Is it for me, or for the Lord?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Commandment &#8211; Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Exodus 20 Written across the Ten Commandments should be written \u201cI need Jesus\u201d The Person of This Commandment God spoke these commandments Breaking of this commandment \u2013 Romans 1:18-32 Immorality immediately follows idolatry Until we see God\u2019s person with the commandments God\u2019s work will not be done in our lives &nbsp; The Place of This Commandment No other commandment can be broken until this one is broken Before \u201cin my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[73,36],"ctc_sermon_book":[23],"ctc_sermon_series":[82],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[12],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-440","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_topic-ten-commandments","ctc_sermon_topic-theology","ctc_sermon_book-exodus","ctc_sermon_series-ten-commandments","ctc_sermon_speaker-scotty-backhaus","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/440\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}