The Ten Commandments

The Law-Writer is Moses

    Moses wrote down everything that God told him.

The Law-Giver is God

    “I AM” the Lord your God

The Law itself:

The first four of the Ten Commandments are called the first Table or Tablet of the Law.
They concern our duty to God.

The last six Commandments are called the Second Table or Tablet of the Law.
They concern our duty to ourselves and to one another.

 
INTRODUCTION TO LESSON 

This study is going to be just a little different than any of you may have heard before on THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. We can all go to (Exodus 20) and read them for ourselves and on the whole can understand them as they are written. We know that we can’t steal, we can’t kill, we can’t commit adultery and so on but there is so much more depth to them and they mean so much more than just what is written.

   We will go into the general meaning but also go deeper and see how they relate to our lives today.

    Some of you may think but “This is the Old Mosaic Law” and you would be right but none of that law in the Old Testament was done away with except the Blood Sacrifice of bulls and goats.

    Jesus said He did not come to do away with the Law but to fulfill it. This He did when He shed His blood at Calvary for without the shedding of blood there is no remission (doing away with) sin. (Hebrews 9:22)

     Pat Robertson from the 700 Club has a book out called THE TEN OFFENSES and has to do with how the TEN COMMANDMENTS offend the world and the different religions.

    I think we will call this study THE TEN PRETENSES of the “Christian.”

The one thing you need to remember is this:

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are not SUGGESTIONS or something we TRY to keep.

These are COMMANDMENTS (or orders) straight from GOD the FATHER.

 (Malachi 3:6&7)…..I AM THE LORD I change not! From the days of your fathers you have gone away from My ordinances, (my laws or my orders) and have not kept them. Return unto Me (My laws) and I will return unto you, says THE LORD OF HOSTS.

So if they were commandments then, they are commandments now as He does not change!

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are a blessing and gives freedom to the Christian.