Scripture Text: Exodus 20:1-6

Bryan Buck

Quotes for Reflection

Kevin D. Young, The Ten Commandments

If the first commandment is against worshiping the wrong God, the second commandment is against worshiping God in the wrong way.

John Calvin, Commentary on Exodus

God wishes to be worshiped in a spiritual manner. If we turn away from this, we lapse into idolatry.

Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods

What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.

John Frame, The Doctrine of the Christian Life

Idolatry has two sens ...