Every human being born into this world needs to gain an understanding of how to live and function successfully. We quickly master the use of the basic five senses (Touch, Sight, Smell, Hearing and Taste) with which we communicate with the physical world, but it is not as clearly apparent how we are meant to deal with things that are spiritual in nature. What follows is a basic representation of a spiritual aspect of life that influences us all and is especially important for those interested in Christian parenting. In this teaching we will show God's original purpose in giving mankind the Ten Commandments, and Jesus' teaching on fulfilling the Ten Commandments through love.
UNDERSTANDING GOD’S LAWS
Fulfilling The Ten Commandments Through Love
Initially it is important to understand that God Himself makes a differentiation between the Jewish people and those of us who are non-Jews (also called Gentiles). When God spoke to Abraham He called him to become separate from the other nations of the world, and through Abraham God chose to establish a people who were set apart to Himself. The nation of Israel (Jews) are direct natural descendants of Abraham and it was through this nation that God brought forth His Son Jesus Christ.
God chose Moses to bring the children of Israel out of the slavery of Egypt, and he led them (guided by God) to the mountain of Sinai, where God delivered The Ten Commandments to Israel.
Fulfilling The Ten Commandments Through Love- The Ten Commandments
(Exodus 20:1-17)
And God spoke all these words, saying:
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
“You shall have no other gods before Me.
“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; 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, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
“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.
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 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. 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.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
“You shall not murder.
“You shall not commit adultery.
“You shall not steal.
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
“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.”
It is these same Ten Commandments that are the basis for much of the legal system that we use in the Western world, and indeed by extension our systems of democracy and their government.
God gave the Ten Commandments to give mankind knowledge and understanding of what was right and what was wrong. It defined how we as created beings should relate to Him as our Creator, and how we should deal with our fellow-man here on earth. The knowledge of God’s law was originally kept only by the Jewish people, but there came a day when God Himself chose to send that knowledge forth into the whole world.
Fulfilling The Ten Commandments Through Love- God's Answer Revealed
Jeremiah the prophet declared under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit that God was going to do a new thing in the earth and send forth the knowledge of His law into the hearts and minds of all mankind directly.
(Jeremiah 31:33)
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people
God did this when He sent His Holy Spirit upon the earth on the Day of Pentecost after Jesus Christ’s resurrection and ascension to heaven. Now the Ten Commandments are written in every human heart upon the earth and we perceive them spiritually through our conscience.
Fulfilling The Ten Commandments Through Love- Jesus Teaching On The Commandments
(Matthew 22:37-40)
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.
Jesus taught that the way to fulfill God's commandments was through love, loving God first and then loving our neighbor as we love ourself. Love restores to God the relationship with man that He created us for, and love protects us from hurting our fellow man whom God made. The statement 'The Law and the Prophets' is often used to refer to all the Old Testament scriptures, from the first book of 'Genesis' to the final book of 'Malachi'.
Fulfilling The Ten Commandments Through Love- Forgiveness Available
It is the Ten Commandments and the words of Jesus Christ that are the standard by which all the world will be judged when we stand before the Throne of God on Judgement Day. Every time we break one of the Ten Commandments, we are alerted in our conscience that we have broken God’s law again and we feel shame as a human being. Our shame is meant to be an indicator that we have sinned against God’s Law and need to find His forgiveness and mercy lest we be judged.
(John 3:16-18)
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Fulfilling The Ten Commandments Through Love- Faith Requirement
The way that God chose to reveal His forgiveness to man is through our faith in the Death, Burial and Resurrection of His Son Jesus Christ. Jesus came to take our sins upon His own body and paid our debt before the Throne of God so that we as human beings would not be found guilty on Judgement Day. By turning away from our sins and asking Jesus Christ to be our Savior and Lord we are brought back into relationship with God and are born again spiritually.
Fulfilling The Ten Commandments Through Love- Summing Up
In summing up here are the main things to remember:
· The Ten Commandments teach us what is right and wrong
· We all have this knowledge written in our hearts and minds
· Our conscience is the indicator of whether we have failed or succeeded by God’s standard
· We must all stand before God on Judgement Day and give an account of our lives
· Jesus Christ paid the debt for all our sins when He died for us
· Forgiveness and mercy are available to us all through faith in Jesus Christ
God Bless
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