How not to miss the point of the Bible
Earlier in the week, I wanted to spend the morning talking about a rationale for doing what we're doing in the current series. Right now, we're going through the Ten Commandments. We're studying the Law of God. That is so basic. It answers a few very important questions: How has God ordered the universe? What is it that God requires of us? How does he want us to live in relation to him and in relation to one another? Another question our study on the law answers—and this is perhaps more central—is who is this God we worship, anyway? That's really what Gordon has been wanting us to focus on when he points out the covenant and how God is not only our Lord, he's also our husband, in that sense. So that's the central question we're answering. What is God's character?