Ten Commandments

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The Ten Commandments
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Introduction to the Commandments

• Original Setting Thou Shalt vs. Therefore
• Three uses of the Law
• Curb
• Mirror
• Guide

• Two Tables of the Law
• First Table Actions Towards God (I-III)
• Second Table Actions Toward Neighbor (IV-X)

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1st Commandment

• Thou shalt
• have no other gods before Me.

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What does this mean?

• We should fear, love, and trust in God above all
  things.

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False Gods
Whatever we fear, love, and trust in
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Who is the true God?
Triune
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Ways to think about the Trinity
G O D
1 X 1 X 1 1
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Why we believe in the Trinity

• Three Persons
• Matthew 313-17 Then Jesus came from Galilee to
  the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. 14
  John would have prevented him, saying, "I need to
  be baptized by you, and do you come to me?" 15
  But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now, for
  thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all
  righteousness." Then he consented. 16 And when
  Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from
  the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to
  him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like
  a dove and coming to rest on him 17 and behold,
  a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved
  Son, with whom I am well pleased."
• One God
• Deuteronomy 64 Hear, O Israel The LORD our
  God, the LORD is one.

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2nd Commandment
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy
God, in vain.
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What does this mean?
We should fear and love God that we may not
curse, swear, use witchcraft, lie, or deceive by
His name, but call upon it in every trouble.
Pray, praise, and give thanks.
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Wrong Ways to Use Gods Name
"Honest to God!"
Teaching
F a l s e
When not telling the truth
Living
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Right Ways to Use Gods Name
Pray
Witness
Sing
Praise
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Bible Verses

• Exodus 207 The LORD will not hold him
  guiltless who takes his name in vain.
• Psalm 962 Sing to the LORD, bless his name
  tell of his salvation from day to day.

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3rd Commandment
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. (Thou
shalt sanctify the holy day.)
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What does this mean?
We should fear and love God that we may not
despise preaching and His Word, but hold it
sacred and gladly hear and learn it.
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Two Main Ideas
Time with God
Rest
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Bible Verses

• Genesis 22-3 And on the seventh day God
  finished his work that he had done, and he rested
  on the seventh day from all his work that he had
  done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made
  it holy, because on it God rested from all his
  work that he had done in creation.

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Bible Verses

• Colossians 316 Let the word of Christ dwell in
  you richly, teaching and admonishing one another
  in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and
  spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts
  to God.
• Luke 1128 "Blessedare those who hear the word
  of God and keep it!"

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Sabbath is not
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Sabbath is
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4th Commandment
Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother, that
it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live
long on the earth.
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What does this mean?
We should fear and love God that we may not
despise our parents and masters, nor provoke them
to anger, but give them honor, serve and obey
them, and hold them in love and esteem.
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Why honor authorities?
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One Exception
Acts 527-29 And when they had brought them,
they set them before the council. And the high
priest questioned them, saying, "We strictly
charged you not to teach in this name, yet here
you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and
you intend to bring this man's blood upon us."
But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must
obey God rather than men.
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Bible Verses

• Romans 131-2 Let every person be subject to the
  governing authorities. For there is no authority
  except from God, and those that exist have been
  instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the
  authorities resists what God has appointed
• Matthew 154 For God commanded, 'Honor your
  father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever reviles
  father or mother must surely die.'

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5th Commandment
Thou shalt not kill.
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What does this mean?
We should fear and love God that we may not hurt
nor harm our neighbor in his body, but help and
befriend him in every bodily need.
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No Just About
But About
All Kinds of Hurt
Matthew 521-22 You have heard that it was said
to those of old, 'You shall not murder and
whoever murders will be liable to judgment.' But
I say to you that everyone who is angry with his
brother will be liable to judgment.
Murder
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• Abortion
• The Truth
• Life begins at conception
• The statistics
• Number of abortions per year Approximately 46
  Million
• Number of abortions per day Approximately
  126,000
• One Verse
• Psalm 13913-14 For you formed my inward parts
  you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 14
  I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully
  made.

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Euthanasia
-the act or practice of killingof hopelessly
sick or injured individuals in a relatively
painless way for reasons of mercy
Merriam -
Webster

• General principles of end of life decisions
• Death is neither greatest friend or greatest foe
• We never aim at death
• All done with prayer and trust in Gods gracious
  nature

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Embryonic Stem Cells Research sounds great. It
seems to be a modern day miracle. so why would
we be against it as Gods people?
Because each time a embryonic stem cell is
removed, that embryo, that tiny baby is killed.
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What about Capital Punishment?
Romans 134 But if you do wrong, be afraid, for
he (the authority or ruler) does not bear the
sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an
avenger who carries out God's wrath on the
wrongdoer.
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What about war?
Basic Principles One may engage in war if the
authorities over them are sanctioning the war and
the war which they sanction is a just war,
seeking to punish the evil.
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6th Commandment
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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What does this mean?
We should fear and love God that we may lead a
chaste and decent life in word and deed, and each
love and honor his spouse.
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Sex belongs in.
Remarriage After Unbiblical Divorce
All other sex is sin.
Premarital Sex
1 Corinthians 69-11
SEX
1 Corinthians 69-11 Do you not know that the
unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?
Do not be deceived neither the sexually immoral,
nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who
practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the
greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11
And such were some of you. But you were washed,
you were sanctified, you were justified in the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit
of our God.
Matthew 199
Romans 126-27 For this reason God gave them up
to dishonorable passions. For their women
exchanged natural relations for those that are
contrary to nature 27 and the men likewise gave
up natural relations with women and were consumed
with passion for one another, men committing
shameless acts with men and receiving in
themselves the due penalty for their error.
Marriage
Matthew 199 And I say to you whoever divorces
his wife, except for sexual immorality, and
marries another, commits adultery."
Exodus 2014 You shall not commit adultery.
Adultery
Homosexuality
Exodus 2014
Romans 126-27
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Not Just Deeds
Matthew 527-28 27 "You have heard that it was
said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' 28 But I
say to you that everyone who looks at a woman
with lustful intent has already committed
adultery with her in his heart.
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• Why does God care so much about marriage?
• It is the most basic unit of all society
• It is a picture of His relationship to His people

Ephesians 522-32 Wives, submit to your own
husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is
the head of the wife even as Christ is the head
of the church, his body, and is himself its
Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ,
so also wives should submit in everything to
their husbands. 25 Husbands, love your wives, as
Christ loved the church and gave himself up for
her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having
cleansed her by the washing of water with the
word, 27 so that he might present the church to
himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or
any such thing, that she might be holy and
without blemish. 28 In the same way husbands
should love their wives as their own bodies. He
who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one
ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and
cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30
because we are members of his body. 31
"Therefore a man shall leave his father and
mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two
shall become one flesh." 32 This mystery is
profound, and I am saying that it refers to
Christ and the church.
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What God says about Divorce?
Malachi 216 For I hate divorce," says the
LORD, the God of Israel.
Matthew 199 And I say to you whoever divorces
his wife, except for sexual immorality, and
marries another, commits adultery."
1 Corinthians 713,15 If any woman has a husband
who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live
with her, she should not divorce him. 15 But if
the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so.
In such cases the brother or sister is not
enslaved.
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7th Commandment
Thou shalt not steal.
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What does this mean?
We should fear and love God that we may not take
our neighbor's money or goods, nor get them by
false ware or dealing, but help him to improve
and protect his property and business.
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Obvious Stealing
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Not So Obvious Stealing
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Robbing God?
Malachi 38-10 8 "Will a man rob God? Yet you
are robbing Me! But you say, 'How have we robbed
You?' In tithes and offerings. 9 "You are cursed
with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole
nation of you! 10 "Bring the whole tithe into
the storehouse, so that there may be food in My
house, and test Me now in this," says the LORD of
hosts, "if I will not open for you the windows of
heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it
overflows.
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8th Commandment
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbor.
Lie
Lie
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What does this mean?
We should fear and love God that we may not
deceitfully belie, betray, slander, nor defame
our neighbor, but defend him, speak well of him,
and put the best construction on everything.
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The Truth Behind this Commandment.
Reputations
W
ords
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• And so we as Gods children refrain from
• Slander Saying what we know is false
• Gossip Saying what we do not know for sure
• Telling Truths that Hurt Saying True Hurtful
  Things

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Oh what a tangled web we weaveWhen first we
practice to deceive. - Sir Walter Scott
The Real Danger with Lies
Lies are like dominoes, one falling usually leads
to another.
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General Principle for Faithful 8th Commandment
Living
put the best construction on everything
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9th Commandment
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house.
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What does this mean?
We should fear and love God that we may not
craftily seek to get our neighbor's inheritance
or house, nor obtain it by a show of right, but
help and be of service to him in keeping it.
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10th Commandment
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his
manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his cattle,
nor anything that is thy neighbor's.
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What does this mean?
We should fear and love God that we may not
estrange, force, or entice away from our neighbor
his wife, servants, or cattle, but urge them to
stay and do their duty.
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The World Says
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Covet
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God Says
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Be Content
Psalm 231 The LORD is my shepherd I shall not
want.
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Coveting leads us down the path to
Stealing
Adultery
Murder
Lying
Disobedience
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Review of the Ten Commandments
Uses 1. Curb 2. Mirror 3. Guide
Love God
Love Neighbor

• Keep God Number One
• Use Gods Name Properly
• Sabbath

• Honor Authority
• Protect Life
• Keep Sex for Marriage
• Protect others things
• Tell the Truth
• Be Content
• Be Content