_Over the next two weeks I thought I’d do a series of posts on the Ten Commandments because these stand as the moral law of God, his law on what is right and what is wrong. Currently, a lot of people think that morals are to some extent relative so it seems good to go through the absolute moral law of God and apply it to our lives today.
“And God spoke all these words: “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. Exodus 20 v 1 – 2 The most important thing to notice about the short introduction to the Ten Commandments is that God spoke them. As such this is the moral law we need to abide, what God says is right is right and what he says is wrong is wrong because as God he is the only being with the qualifications to make this judgement. Also, as God is eternal so is his moral law eternal and still as binding today as it was thousands of years ago. There are examples in the Bible before these Ten Commandments were given of all the Ten Commandments being broken showing that these Commandments were in force before they were explicitly verbalised here. And they are still in force today. The Ten Commandments is the basic standard by which we must judge ourselves if we are to see ourselves as God sees us. The first commandment is this: “You shall have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20 v 3
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