In the wake of getting away from the Egyptians through the Red Sea, the Israelites went through the wilderness and showed up at Mount Sinai. It is here that the Ten Commandments and guidelines on how to fabricate the Tabernacle were given to them. We also find out the significance of obedience to God and how His laws uncover sin, and what we are to do to for living righteously.
For what reason was the Law fundamental for God's new country? At the foot of Mount Sinai, God showed the people the genuine capacity and magnificence of the Law. The Law was intended to lead Israel to an existence of commonsense sacredness. Its orders and rules were planned to guide the local area to address the issues of every person in an adoring and mindful way. By Jesus' time, notwithstanding, the vast majority saw the Law the incorrect way. They considered it to be a way to flourish in both this world and the following. To submit to each law was the method for acquiring God's insurance from foreign attack and cataclysmic disasters of nature, so they thought. Law-keeping turned into an end in itself, not the resources to satisfy God's definitive law of affection.
1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Matthew 4:10
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Luke 16:13
The Israelites had quite recently emerged from Egypt, a place where there is numerous gods and idols. Since every god addressed an alternate part of life, it was normal to worship numerous divine beings to get the greatest number of gifts. At the point when God advised His people to venerate and put their faith and trust in Him, that was not really hard for them, He was only another god to add to the rundown. Yet, when He said, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," that was difficult for the people to acknowledge. In any case, if they did not discover that the God who drove them of Egypt was the only genuine God, they could not be His people, regardless of how reliably they kept the other nine commandments.
Along these lines, God made this His first commandment and accentuated it more than the others. Today we can permit specific qualities to become divine beings to us. Cash, notoriety, work, or any other thing can become divine beings when we focus a lot on them for importance and security. Nobody sets out with the goal of revering these things. However, with how much time they involve in our lives, they can develop into gods, or divine beings, that at last control our energies and our thoughts. Allowing God to hold the focal spot in our lives holds these things back from transforming into divine beings.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Matthew 5:34
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Mark 2:27-28
God's name is extraordinary, for it conveys His own personality. Utilizing it in a curse or in a pointless manner is so normal today that we might neglect to acknowledge how genuine it is. The manner in which we use God's name passes on how we truly feel about Him. We should regard His name and use it properly. That is saying it in worship or respect rather than in a revile or jokingly. We will not be viewed as guiltless if we disrespect His name.
The Sabbath was a day saved for worship and rest. God commanded to have a Sabbath since we really need to invest energy in rest and worship every week. A God who is so concerned to the point of appointing one day every week for us to rest is by all means worthy. To notice a customary time of worship and rest in our rushed world exhibits the significance of God in our lives while having the additional advantage of invigorating our spirits.
Question... Does it really matter what day of the week is observed as our Sabbath day? Why argue about it and what purpose does it serve in debating it?
5. Honor thy father and thy mother. Matthew 10:37, 15:4; Ephesians 6:2
6. Thou shalt not kill. Matthew 5:22
7. Thu shalt not commit adultery. Matthew 5:28
8. Thou shalt not steal. Matthew 5:40, 15:19
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Matthew 12:36
10. Thou shalt not covet. Luke 12:15
The fifth commandment is the first commandment with a promise connected to it. To live in harmony for ages in the Promised Land, the Israelites would have to regard authority and construct solid families. In any case, what is the significance here to "honor" our parents? Mostly, it implies speaking well and pleasantly to them. It additionally implies acting such that shows them kindness and regard (however not to comply with them if this implies noncompliance to God). Parents have an extraordinary spot in God's sight. Indeed, even the individuals who think that it is hard to coexist with their folks are as yet instructed to respect them.
Bearing a false witness implies providing a false statement in court. God realized that Israel could not endure except if its justice system were honest. We ought to be straightforward in our private dealings just as in our public articulations. Regardless, we "bear false witness" by avoiding something with regards to a story, telling a misleading statement, winding current realities, or creating a deception. God cautions us against double dealing. Despite the fact that double dealing is a lifestyle for some individuals, God's people are not to surrender to it.
To covet is to wish to have the assets of others. It goes past essentially respecting another person's assets, or figuring, "I might want to have one of those." Coveting incorporates envy, detesting the way that others have something that we do not have. In any case, God realizes that belongings never satisfy anybody for long. Since no one but God can supply our needs in general, genuine satisfaction is found just in him. When we start to covetousness in, we should attempt to figure out whether a more essential need is remaining behind our jealousy. For instance, we might desire somebody's prosperity, not on the grounds that we need to remove it from him, but since we might want to feel as valued by others as he is. If so, we ought to implore that God will assist us with managing our hatred and meet our essential requirements.
No one can serve two masters.
• Matthew 6:24, No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
We are not to love the world.
• 1 John 2:15, Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
We are not to be conformed to this world.
• Romans 12:2, And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Whoever is a friend of the world is being an enemy of God.
• James 4:4, Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Me and my house will serve the Lord.
• Joshua 24:15, And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
How long will you wait to decide?
• 1 Kings 18:21, And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
