The Jealousy of God - Dr. Timothy Keller

19th Sermon the the Series : To Know the Living God

27 March 2011

Exodus 20:1-6

1 And God spoke all these words:

2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

• Bad jealousy is basically envy as in Saul and David; its about ego and anger.
• Godly jealousy is angered love that stays love--It's a love that rescues and fights extinction.
• Love is dead in bad jealousy.
• Loving anything more than God is an idol and incurs the jealousy of God.
• Fidelity is a holiness of behavior.
• Love forgives the most and confines the least.
• Intimacy is the essence of love---I want to give it all to you because your love is my command--This is how we should serve God.
• How do we achieve it? God's love will die for us as did Jesus.
• John Dunn poem about chastity.