The 10 commandments are known in Scripture as the
or the
for short.
The Decalogue is part of the
given to God’s people to govern how they relate to
and how they relate to
.
There are a total of
commands given in the Law of God and every one of them can be traced back to
or
commands in the Decalogue.
The first
commands are about how we relate to God and the final six are about how we relate to our
.
Adherence to the Decalogue is the key to the
.
True
is the freedom to live
.
A priest
God to the people and the
to God.
God didn’t just rescue us
something, God also rescued us
something.
If you aren’t
to the lawgiver, you have neither the
or the
to obey.
God’s law can be broken down into three basic categories:
,
, and
.
law governs how we relate to God in
.
law governs how Israel was to conduct their systems of
and
in the promised land.
law represents God’s moral character and moral expectations for His people and is just as unchanging as God’s own character.
Command number 1: No other Gods.
Translated as one word (before) in English, is actually two words in Hebrew. Al (in or
) and Paneh (
).
You shall have nothing of
or
than God.
First Commandment & Jesus
His promise is that He
reshape your
into someone who serves him
above all else.
