The Ten Thou shalt be set free Fall 2018
Once on the surface [after the landing] and realizing the moment was at hand, fortunately I had some hours to think about it after getting there. My own view was that it was a very simplistic statement: what can you say when you step off of something? Well, something about a step. It just sort of evolved during that period that I was doing the procedures of the practice takeoff and the EVA prep and all the other activities that were on our flight schedule at that time. I didn t think it was particularly important, but other people obviously did. (Neil Armstrong, as quoted in James R. Hansen s book First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong)
That s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.
That s one small step for [a] man; one giant leap for mankind.
When Armstrong landed, we all listened to the raw air-toground and when he said the part about the small step it was fuzzy this was the unenhanced version, live and it was not clear if he said a man or man....it was one of the most important quotes in history and it wouldn t do to get it wrong and we didn t have time to pursue the matter. Worse, it wouldn t do to have me say one thing, and the Associated Press another, or to be contradicted by The New York Times. We concluded that he did not say a man and that s the way it went out to the world. (Joel Shurkin, as quoted in Jacob Berkowitz s article Moon Landing: One Small Slipup for (a) Man on theglobeandmail.com, July 17, 2004)
Neil A. Armstrong, the Apollo 11 commander, had said that one small word was omitted in the official version of the historic utterance he made he stepped on the moon 11 days ago. When Mr. Armstrong saw the quotation That s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind in the mission transcript after his return to earth, he said he was misquoted. There should have been the article a before man, the astronaut said.
The a apparently went unheard and unrecorded in the transmission because of static, a spokesman for the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston said today in a telephone interview. Whatever the reason, inserting the omitted article makes a slight but significant change in the meaning of Mr. Armstrong s words, which should read: That s one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind. (From the New York Times article Armstrong Adds an A to Historical Quotation, July 31, 1969)
[Dang] I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn t I? (Neil Armstrong, as quoted in the book Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon by Charles Pellegrino and Joshua Stoff)
(COMMANDMENT I) EXODUS 20:1-3; MARK 10:17-31 SEPTEMBER 9, 2018
Exodus 31:18 (ESV): And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.
The Ten Thou shalt be set free Fall 2018
(COMMANDMENT I) EXODUS 20:1-3; MARK 10:17-31 SEPTEMBER 9, 2018
Exodus 20:1-17 (ESV): And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 You shall have no other gods before me. 4 You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. 7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 13 You shall not murder. 14 You shall not commit adultery. 15 You shall not steal.
16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 17 You shall not covet your neighbor s house; you shall not covet your neighbor s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor s.
Exodus 32:19 (ESV): And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.
Exodus 42:1 (ESV): The LORD said to Moses, Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
Hebrews 9:3-4 (ESV): Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place, 4 having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.
1 Samuel 4:10-11 (ESV): So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell. 11 And the ark of God was captured.
1 Samuel 6:21 (NIV): Then they sent messengers to the people of Kiriath Jearim, saying, The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down and take it up to your town.
2 Samuel 6:17 (NIV): They brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and David sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the LORD.
2 Chronicles 35:3 (ESV): And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built.
Mark 10:17-31 (ESV): And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? 18 And Jesus said to him, Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 19 You know the commandments: Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother. 20 And he said to him, Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.
21 And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me. 22 Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. 23 And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!
24 And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God. 26 And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, Then who can be saved? 27 Jesus looked at them and said, With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.
28 Peter began to say to him, See, we have left everything and followed you. 29 Jesus said, Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, 30 who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life. 31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.
Exodus 20:2-3 (YLT): I [am] Jehovah thy God, who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants. 3 Thou hast no other gods before Me.
Exodus 20:2-3 (YLT): I [am] Jehovah thy God, who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants. 3 Thou hast no other gods before Me. Mark 10:18 (YLT): And Jesus said to him, Why me dost thou call good? No one [is] good except One God.
John 11:25 (ESV): I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.
Galatians 2:16 (ESV): Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ.
MAIN POINT: UNDERMINE COMMANDMENT ONE; THE OTHER NINE WEIGH A TON!
Mark 12:28-31 (ESV): And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, Which commandment is the most important of all? 29 Jesus answered, The most important is, Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. 31 The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Mark 12:28-31 (ESV): And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, Which commandment is the most important of all? 29 Jesus answered, The most important is, Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. 31 The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:40 (ESV): On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.
MAIN POINT: UNDERMINE COMMANDMENT ONE; THE OTHER NINE WEIGH A TON!
2 Peter 2:19 (ESV): They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.
John 8:34 (ESV): Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.
(COMMANDMENT I) EXODUS 20:1-3; MARK 10:17-31 SEPTEMBER 9, 2018
APPLICATION: YOU KEEP THE FIRST COMMANDMENT, AND LET THE OTHER NINE KEEP YOU FREE.
Romans 6:12-14 (NIV): Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
APPLICATION: YOU KEEP THE FIRST COMMANDMENT, AND LET THE OTHER NINE KEEP YOU FREE.
(COMMANDMENT I) EXODUS 20:1-3; MARK 10:17-31 SEPTEMBER 9, 2018
The Ten Thou shalt be set free Fall 2018
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