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A Summary of the Big Ten Feb 07 2008
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind." - Matthew 22:37-39
I believe the Ten Commandments are a great guide for successful living. The Big Ten are the ultimate foundation on which to base spiritual and ethical behavior. The first four commandments focus on our relationship with God. The last six deal with our relationship to our fellow man. In short, right spirituality leads to right living with our fellow man.
The first four are: 1) put God first, 2) have no idols, 3) respect His name, and 4) have a weekly Sabbath. The last six are: 5) honor your father and mother, 6) don't commit murder, 7) don't commit adultery, 8) don't steal, 9) don't lie, and 10) don't covet your neighbor's possessions.
These are stated so negatively, like a bunch of don'ts. And when someone says, "Don't," something within us makes us want to do it. Jesus summarized them positively. I like His best.
He said, "Love God with all your heart, soul, and mind," (the first four in a nutshell). And he said "Love your neighbors as yourself," (the last six, in five words). Wow! The perfect summary of The Big Ten.
Both versions, The Big Ten or the Big Two, teach us how to be in right relationship with God and right relationships with our fellow man. When we get right with God, we'll be right with our fellow man.
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Yes, report it NevermindSo simple yet often so hard to do.
Today we Americans have so many rules and regulations, but God summed everything down to just 10.
Maybe we should try harder to follow the big 10. They're really the only ones that matter. No father could leave his children a better list of do's and dont's.
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Yes, report it NevermindThe only list the Bible refers to as "the ten commandments" is in Exodus 34. Check it out if you get some time.
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Yes, report it NevermindIn the 20th chapter of Exodus are the list of acts God intends for his people to follow. In Exodus 20:1-23:3 is a list of prohibited acts which is the primary and most complete list of sins, but is not the only ones. Other lists of a similar nature are found in the law of Moses in (Lv 18:1-19:37 Dt 27:15-26). Though the lists differ, all are expressions of the same presuppositions: we are to love the one true God with all our being and our neighbor as ourselves. Any act that fails to express these demands is a SIN. Check these out also if you have time, (God's word is truly awsome).
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Yes, report it NevermindNice devotion. I'd suggest that the 10 commandments could be partitioned as 3 for God and 7 for man since the Sabbath (4th Commandment) was made for man (Mark 2:27). =)