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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS


 

The Ten Commandments must be kept to attain eternal life. We’ll go through every commandment to make sure all are kept. Every commandment is broken by most people.

 

We must have no other gods before God the Father. Jesus Christ should be worshipped, but God the Father must come first.

 

Exo 20:1  And God spoke all these words, saying:

Exo 20:2  “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Exo 20:3  “You shall have no other gods before Me.

 

Exo 34:14  (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

 

No idols or graven images must be bowed down to. Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego chose death other than bowing down to a false idol. Mercy is shown to people who keep the commandments.

 

Dan 3:12  There are certain Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego; these men, O king, have not paid due regard to you. They do not serve your gods or worship the gold image which you have set up.”

Dan 3:13  Then Nebuchadnezzar, in rage and fury, gave the command to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. So they brought these men before the king.

Dan 3:14  Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the gold image which I have set up?

Dan 3:15  Now if you are ready at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psaltery, in symphony with all kinds of music, and you fall down and worship the image which I have made, good! But if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you from my hands?”

Dan 3:16  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

Dan 3:17  If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king.

Dan 3:18  But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.”

 

Exo 20:4  “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

Exo 20:5  you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Exo 20:6  but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

 

Lev 26:1  ‘You shall not make idols for yourselves; neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves; nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.

 

Deu 27:15  ‘Cursed is the one who makes a carved or molded image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ “And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen!’

 

Blasphemy is on nearly every television show, and most people have blasphemy as part of their talking.

 

Exo 20:7  “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

 

Jas 2:6  But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?

Jas 2:7  Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called?

 

Psa 139:20  For they speak against You wickedly; Your enemies take Your name in vain.

 

The Sabbath must be kept forever.

 

Exo 20:8  “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Exo 20:9  Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

Exo 20:10  but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.

Exo 20:11  For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

 

Exo 31:14  You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.

 

Exo 31:16  Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

Exo 31:17  It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’ ”

 

Children can be put to death if they do not obey their parents.

 

Exo 20:12  “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

 

Deu 21:18  “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them,

Deu 21:19  then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city.

Deu 21:20  And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’

Deu 21:21  Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.

 

Deu 27:16  ‘Cursed is the one who treats his father or his mother with contempt.’ “And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

 

There are murders in cities nearly every day. Murderers will not be in God’s kingdom.

 

Exo 20:13  “You shall not murder.

 

Rev 21:8  But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

 

Adulterers are very common these days. There are many clubs that help people to commit adultery, and all sorts of sexual deviations.

 

Exo 20:14  “You shall not commit adultery.

 

Lev 20:10  ‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.

 

Stealing is very common because of the greed of most people.

 

Exo 20:15  “You shall not steal.

 

Deu 24:7  “If a man is found kidnapping any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and mistreats him or sells him, then that kidnapper shall die; and you shall put away the evil from among you.

 

Most people are liars.

 

Exo 20:16  “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

 

Joh 8:44  You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

 

Coveting is everywhere as people want bigger houses than their neighbour.

 

Exo 20:17  “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

 

The following verse is happening in our countries.

 

Hos 4:2  By swearing and lying, Killing and stealing and committing adultery, They break all restraint, With bloodshed upon bloodshed.

 

The Sabbath is only kept correctly by the very few.

 

Exo 31:16  Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

Exo 31:17  It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’ ”

 

We have to keep God’s Ten Commandments to attain eternal life.

 

Deu 27:26  ‘Cursed is the one who does not confirm all the words of this law.’ “And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’ ”

 

Rev 22:14  Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.

 

Deu 28:9  “The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.

 

1Jn 2:4  He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.