Some Thoughts about the 10 Commandments
Exodus 20:1-17 (NAS):
"Then God spoke all of these words, saying, 'I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, our of the house of slavery.
You shall have no other gods before Me.
You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness or what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the 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.
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
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 belongs to your neighbor.'"
(italics added by me)
Something our pastor said made me see the tenth of these commandments in a different light.
Coveting, when given reign, will inevitably lead to breaking the commandments against murder, adultery, theft, and false witness.
Coveting is a form of idolatry.
Coveting means we do not believe that the LORD our God and what He sees fit to either give us or withhold from us is or ever can be sufficient.
The tenth commandment covers all the heart sins that we so easily and lightly commit.
"Then God spoke all of these words, saying, 'I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, our of the house of slavery.
You shall have no other gods before Me.
You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness or what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the 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.
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
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 belongs to your neighbor.'"
(italics added by me)
Something our pastor said made me see the tenth of these commandments in a different light.
Coveting, when given reign, will inevitably lead to breaking the commandments against murder, adultery, theft, and false witness.
Coveting is a form of idolatry.
Coveting means we do not believe that the LORD our God and what He sees fit to either give us or withhold from us is or ever can be sufficient.
The tenth commandment covers all the heart sins that we so easily and lightly commit.
posted by Ebeth | 11:20 AM
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