Immanuel Baptist Church Immanuel Baptist

1. We have enemies we need protection from

2. There are paths we must walk, and we need guidance

3. We need a place to call "home"

4. We need someone to take us in (as family)

5. We need beauty to satisfy us. So, seek the Lord, seek Him patiently, seek Him confidently.

"If we want God to come and bless us, we need the right kind of alter."

1. The people of God needed an altar

2. They needed the right kind of altar

3. Church, we have an altar

"No unwarranted desires allowed"

1. What does this command forbid and require?

2. Where this sin comes from.

3. What can we do about it?

4. How then shall we live?

"Though we are all condemned by the ninth commandment because of our evil words, there is hope for us in Christ."

1. What this command forbids and requires

2. This command condemns us all...

3. ...But there is hope in Christ!

4. How then shall we speak?

Main Idea: "Because of our selfish adulteries we need the self-sacrificing love of Jesus"

1. What this command requires and forbids

2. We are adulterers who need the self-sacrificing love of Jesus

3. How then shall we love?

Main Idea: "Because we are all murderers at heart, we need the blood of Jesus."

1. What this command requires and forbids

2. What we ought to do about it