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1. #Graven images biblical full
2. #Graven images biblical registration
3. #Graven images biblical series
4. #Graven images biblical windows

Are these the graven images, the idols, prohibited by the Scriptures? Ever since, the Church has made various symbols and images, icons, of the wonderful mysteries of Christ and of his servants the saints. That re-established relationship was fulfilled in the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Word-made-flesh who dwelt among us and whose glory the apostles saw and preached, bringing it to us. This is a relationship established by the living God – or re-established, since Adam and Eve disrupted that relationship by disobedience in the Garden of Eden. You shall be my people, and I shall be your God you shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. These various symbols, that is, images, expressed God’s coming down from heaven, down to the top of Mount Sinai, down to speak with Moses and write the Ten Commandments, down to dwell with, converse with, and lead Israel from bondage in Egypt to life in the Promised Land.

There are the ceremonial instructions for sacrifice, changing of garments, and burning incense. In the same Book of Exodus which gives us the Ten Commandments, there are also the commandments, in chapters 25 through 29, concerning the making of the ark of the covenant and tabernacle containing the Ten Commandments, the sanctuary curtains, the images of the cherubim over the ark, the priestly vestments including the sacred lots Urim and Thummim in the priest’s breastplate and the stones symbolizing the Twelve Tribes.

#Graven images biblical windows

Then why do we not hire a demolition crew to come in here, and smash and remove all the images? Why are we doing everything we can to restore our beautiful stained glass windows and to protect our statuary? Because we believe and love JESUS – and we want everything around us to promote the worship of Christ, our Lord and our God. They make them are like unto them and so are all such as put their trust in them. They have hands, and handle not feet have they, and walk not neither speak they through their throat. They have ears, and hear not noses have they, and smell not. “They have mouths, and speak not eyes have they and see not. Idolatry is the replacement of God with something else, the work of human hands. Holy Scripture prohibits, in a strong voice beginning with Moses and running through the prophets, idolatry. God will not have anything become between ourselves and Him. Visitors sometimes come in and ask innocently, Why does this church have all these graven images? Doesn’t the Bible prohibit them?

#Graven images biblical full

Saint Thomas Church is full of images: stained glass windows depicting mysteries of the faith and saints of the Church statues of Christ, our Lady and the other heroes of the faith in the reredos behind the high altar images of Christ crucified and of the angels.

Or: You shall not make for yourself any idol.

Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in the heaven above or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them. He is putting us on the level by showing what a living relationship with him means in terms of our thoughts, words, and deeds. In the first two sermons in this series, we heard truly that God, in giving us the Ten Words of Life (The Commandments), gives us Good News. In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost.

#Graven images biblical registration

#Graven images biblical series

Lent and Holy Week 2022 Classes and Sermon Series.