I would like to thank all of you who stayed with us on the last series of the dispersal of the apostles after Pentecost. I greatly appreciate your support by reading these blogs thank you. This week. We start a new journey looking for The Good Way and we’re going to begin our journey with the 10 Commandments.

10 Commandments, also known as the Decalogue, a basic set of rules carrying binding authority. Old Testament law consisted of 613 laws and the Ten Commandments are viewed as a summary of them. If we decide to kinda break them down into segments, the first four Commandments deal with our relationship with God. The last six Commandments deal with our relationships with one another. The 10 Commandments are recorded in the Bible in Exodus 20: 1–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21. First thought to pass along to you would be these are not rules that if you follow them, it’ll be a guarantee that you’ll get into heaven. Laws often tell us the things we are not to be doing, and we know as Christians that  no one was perfect, except Jesus Christ. The Christian perspective would be that the believers cannot perfectly obey the law and therefore are in need of God’s grace and mercy as written in Romans, 7:7–11. Consider this… the 10 Commandments demonstrate that we’ve all sinned  and therefore are in need of God’s mercy and grace, which is only available through faith in Jesus Christ. (Romans chapter 3: 23.) 

The term Ten Commandments does not appear in the New Testament, but nine of the original 10 are restated and are alluded to throughout the New Testament with of course, the exception of the Sabbath commandment. Jesus summarized the 10 Commandments into two great Commandments, and that was recorded in the New Testament book of Matthew 22:37–40 and it reads as such “love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind and love your neighbor as yourself.” …he finished that discourse by adding to that…. all the law and the prophets depended on these two principles. Whenever I consider where to begin when we start looking for the good way, I am convinced that it starts with the 10 Commandments. Let’s take a quick look at those. In that first commandment Jesus affirms that only God should be worshiped, Jesus condemns idolatry in the second Commandment under the third commandment Jesus teaches about using God’s name in a vain manner. Moving to the fourth commandment, the Sabbath commandment is the only one as we mentioned before that is not repeatedly used in the New Testament as a new covenant command for Christians. We are instructed next in the fifth commandment to honor our parents, and that is still part of our culture today… in the six commandment Jesus confirms that the prohibition against murder still applies. The seventh commandment, the commandment against adultery is  upheld, and the eighth commandment the prohibition against stealing continues to be relevant. In looking at the ninth commandment, Jesus includes the prohibition against false witness or lying and then the last commandment here is against coveting which is also mentioned in New Testament teachings on desire and sin.

Jesus came to take the law off the tablets and put them into the people’s hearts. Jesus himself says he did not come to destroy the law and the prophets but to do something even more striking: fulfill them, that is fulfill the prophecy. The Commandments are one of many things God has given us and they perfectly conform with God’s law and display His holy character. They are the first steps we take as we start or search for The Good Way.

Life is Good

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