{"id":21899,"date":"2022-06-08T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/deuteronomy_4_32-49-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T17:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T00:34:24","slug":"deuteronomy_5_1-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/deuteronomy_5_1-22\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Reasons God Gives Us the 10 Commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deuteronomy\u00a0 5:1-22 \u00a0Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hi\u00a0 GAMErs!<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s passage is Deuteronomy 5:1-22.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 5:1-3 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Moses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, O Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them.
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0It was not with our fathers that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 1-3:\u00a0 Moses reminds this current generation of Israelites that God\u2019s commandments were not just for their ancestors or for an older generation that is long gone.\u00a0 Rather, they are relevant for them as well (v3).\u00a0 Likewise, God\u2019s Word is not a relic of the past, or something that belongs in a museum.\u00a0 Rather, God\u2019s Word is relevant for us, for \u201call of us who are alive here today\u201d.<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 5:4-22 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0(At that time I stood between the\u00a0LORD\u00a0and you to declare to you the word of the\u00a0LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) And he said:
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“I am the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“You shall have no other gods before me.
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments.
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“You shall not misuse the name of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God, for the\u00a0LORD\u00a0will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God has commanded you.
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor the alien within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest, as you do.
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“Honor your father and your mother, as the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God is giving you.
\n17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“You shall not murder.
\n18\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“You shall not commit adultery.
\n19\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“You shall not steal.
\n20\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
\n21\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor’s house or land, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
\n22\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0These are the commandments the\u00a0LORD\u00a0proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 4-22:\u00a0 The same 10 commandments which Moses recorded in Exodus 20 he restates here for this new generation of Israelites.\u00a0\u00a0Rather than glossing over them, take a good look at the 10 commandments God laid down, which continue to apply to us today.<\/p>\n

1. You shall have no other gods before me (v6-7)
\n2. You shall not make an idol out of anything and worship it (v8-10)
\n3. You shall not misuse the Lord’s name (v11)
\n4. Observe the Sabbath day by resting every 7 days (v12-15)
\n5. Honour your father and mother (v16)
\n6. Do not murder (v17)
\n7. Do not commit adultery (v18)
\n8. Do not steal (v19)
\n9. Do not spread lies and false rumours about others (v20)
\n10.\u00a0 Do not covet what belongs to your neighbour (v21)<\/p>\n

Which of these commandments do you struggle the most to keep?<\/p>\n

Keep in mind the reasons God gave us these commandments.\u00a0 First,\u00a0God gave us the 10 Commandments not to limit our freedom or to kill our joy, but to protect us from getting hurt and from hurting others.<\/strong>\u00a0 God’s commandments are not prison bars, but guardrails on a highway to keep us from falling into the ditch.<\/p>\n

The second reason God gave us the 10 Commandments was to show us that God’s standards are perfect, and since we are not perfect and have all broken God\u2019s laws in many ways, we need a Saviour.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Praise God.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus Christ is that Saviour we need.<\/strong>\u00a0 Jesus fulfilled all of God’s commandments perfectly on our behalf, and then He died on our behalf to pay for our failure to obey God\u2019s commands perfectly.\u00a0 Jesus lived for us and He died for us.\u00a0 That is why John 1:17 says, \u201cFor the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

God, I worship You as the only One who is morally perfect.\u00a0 I and everyone reading this sharing have not lived up to Your commands.\u00a0 But thank You that, whereas the wages of sin is death, You sent Jesus Christ to live on our behalf and to die on our behalf.\u00a0 Thank You, Jesus, for being the Saviour we need.\u00a0 Thank You Holy Spirit for living in us to empower us to live like Jesus.\u00a0 In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi\u00a0 GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Deuteronomy 5:1-22.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 5:1-3 (NIV)
\n1\u00a0\u00a0Moses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, O Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them.
\n2\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
\n3\u00a0\u00a0It was not with our fathers that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today.
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\nOn verses 1-3:\u00a0 Moses reminds this current generation of Israelites that God\u2019s commandments were not just for their ancestors or for an older generation that is long gone.\u00a0 Rather, they are relevant for them as well (v3).\u00a0 Likewise, God\u2019s Word is not a relic of the past, or something that belongs in a museum.\u00a0 Rather, God\u2019s Word is relevant for us, for \u201call of us who are alive here today\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21902,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21899\/revisions\/21902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}