The Ten Commandments of God

Sin is the transgression of the law." 1 John 3:4.

Answer: Sin is breaking God's Ten Commandment law. And since the law of God is perfect (Psalm 19:7), it covers every conceivable sin. It is impossible to commit a sin that is not condemned by at least one of God's Ten Commandments. The commandments cover "the whole duty of man." Ecclesiastes 12:13. Nothing is left out.
 

He that keepeth the law, happy is he." Proverbs 29:18. "Keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee." Proverbs 3:1, 2

Answer: A. As a guide for happy, abundant living.
God created us to enjoy happiness, peace, long life, contentment, accomplishment, and all the other great blessings for which our hearts long. God's law is the road map that points out the right paths to follow in order to find this true, supreme happiness.'' By the law is the knowledge of sin." Romans 3:20. "I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." Romans 7:7. 
B. To show me the difference between right and wrong.
God's law is like a mirror (James 1:23-25). It points out wrongdoing in my life as a mirror points out dirt on my face. The only possible way for a person to know if he is sinning is for him to carefully check his life by the mirror of God's law. Hope for this mixed-up, sinking generation is found in God's Ten Commandment law. It tells where to draw the line! 
''And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes [commandments] ... for our good always." Deuteronomy 6:24. "Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes." Psalm 119:117, 118.
C. To protect me from danger and tragedy.
God's law is like a strong cage at the zoo, which protects us from fierce, destructive animals. It protects us from impurity, falsehood, murder, idolatry, theft, and many other evils that destroy life, peace, and happiness. All good laws protect, and God's law is no exception.
Special Note: The eternal principles of God's law are written deep in every person's nature by the God who created us. The writing may be dim and smudged, but it is still there. This means, of course, that you cannot find true peace unless you are willing to live in harmony with your inner nature, upon which God has written these principles. We were created to live in harmony with them. When we choose to ignore them, the result is always tension, unrest, and tragedy--just as ignoring the rules for safe driving leads to serious trouble.
 

Answer: Because the Ten Commandment law is the standard by which God examines people in the heavenly judgment. How are you measuring up? It is a life-or-death matter!
 

It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one title of the law to fail." Luke 16:17. "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips." Psalm 89:34. "All his commandments are sure. They stand fast for ever and ever." Psalm 111:7, 8.

Answer: Absolutely not! The Bible is very clear on this point. If the law could have been changed, God would have immediately made that change when Adam and Eve sinned instead of sending His Son to die in the sinner's behalf to pay the penalty of the broken law. But this was impossible, because the commandments are not laws in the sense of rules or regulations that have been enacted. They are revealed principles of God's holy character that will always be true because God spoke them with his lips'' exodus 20:1.The one thing God cannot do is lie. Just as sure as heaven and earth has not passed neither has His Ten Commandment law. Notice on the chart below how God and His law have the same characteristics

The wages of sin is death." Romans 6:23. "He shall destroy the sinners." Isaiah 13:9. "Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." James 2:10

Answer: No! They will be lost. The Ten Commandment law is the guide we must use in finding our way to God and holy living. If I ignore even one of the commandments, I am neglecting part of the divine pattern, or blueprint. If only one link of a chain is broken, its entire purpose is undone. The Bible says that when we knowingly break any command of God, we are sinning (James 4:17), because we have refused His will for us. Only those who do His will can enter the kingdom of heaven. Sinners will be lost.
 

By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight." Romans 3:20. "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:8, 9.

Answer: No! The answer is too plain to miss. No one can be saved by keeping the law. Salvation comes only through grace, as a free gift from Jesus Christ, and we receive this gift by faith, not by works. The law serves only as a mirror to point out sin in our lives. Cleansing and forgiveness from that sin come only through Christ.
 

1 I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts." Hebrews 8:10. "I can do all things through Christ." Philippians 4:13. "God sending his own Son ... That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us." Romans 8:3, 4.

Answer: Christ not only pardons repentant sinners, but He restores in them the image of God. He brings them into harmony with His law through the power of His indwelling presence. "Thou shalt not" then becomes a promise that the Christian will not steal, lie, murder, etc., because Jesus lives inside and is in control. God could not change His law, but He made a blessed provision through Jesus to change the sinner so he can measure up to that law.
 

For sin [breaking God's law--1 John 3:4] shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin [break the law], because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid." Romans 6:14, 15. "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." Romans 3:31.

Answer: No! The Scriptures teach the very opposite. Grace is like the governor's pardon to a prisoner. It forgives him, but it does not give him freedom to break one single law on the statute books. The forgiven person, living under grace, is under double obligation to keep the law. A person who refuses to keep God's law, saying that he is living under grace, is mistaken. He is living under disgrace.

Answer: No, they are not the same. Study the following notes and comparison carefully Note: Moses' law was the temporary, ceremonial law of the Old Testament. It regulated the priesthood, sacrifices, rituals, meat and drink offerings, yearly Sabbaths or feast days, etc, all of which foreshadowed the cross. This law was added "till the seed should come," and that seed was Christ (Galatians 3:16, 19). The ritual and ceremony of Moses' law pointed forward to Christ's sacrifice. When He died, this law came to an end, but the Ten Commandments (God's law) "stand fast for ever and ever." Psalm 111:8. That there are two laws is made crystal clear in Daniel 9:10, 11.

Special Note: Please note that God's law has existed at least as long as sin has existed. The Bible says, "Where no law is, there is no transgression [or sin]." Romans 4:15. So God's Ten Commandment law existed from the beginning. Men broke that law (sinned--1 John 3:4). Because of sin (or breaking God's law), Moses' law was given (or "added"--Galatians 3:16, 19) till Christ should come and die. Two separate laws are involved: God's law and Moses' law.

Answer: The devil hates the people who uphold God's law because the law is the pattern of right living. And if you decide to follow the pattern outlined in God's law, you will feel the devil's wrath upon you at once and with all fury. It is not surprising that the devil hates and bitterly opposes all who uphold God's law. But it is shocking and astounding to hear religious leaders denying the binding claims of the Ten Commandments while at the same time upholding the traditions of men. No wonder Jesus said, "Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?" "In vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." Matthew 15:3, 9. And David said, "It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law." Psalm 119:126. Christians must wake up The facts are in. God did not write His law on paper with a pencil and place it on the desk of man to erase and rewrite to suite his own beliefs and traditions. As sure as there is no chance of breaking into fort knox and changing the wording on the master printing plates that stamp our modern currency. There is even less chance of breaking into Gods safety deposit box, the ark of the covenant, and changing His master plates, the original copy of his ten commandments. The same plates He used to stamp the heart or mind of every single soul who ever lived. When God warned us in Dan 7-25 that someone would try to erase and rewrite His law, he had to be talking about the tablets of our heart, because its  guaranteed that nobody will  ever get there pencil on his master files. Not even He can change or alter any one of them. He cant lie. Satan has always sought to erase them from our mind and write in his own counterfeit law. Many have fallen for his trickery, even honest hearted people, who by placing a ten commandment sign in there yard take a stand for Gods law to be placed in public view .Many in an attempt to do right by God have mistakenly trusted there soul to what man says the bible says about Gods law, rather than studying the whole subject out for themselves. We must remember Satan is not locked out of the churches, or the pulpits. With tradition being so strong today it is real easy for pastors to be mistaken. As honest hearted as they may be, one or two bible verses that or not studied out and applied to the master plates don’t override the Masters hand writing. We are not downing pastors. Praise God for all the honest hearted Christian leaders. We are just reminding you that no matter how much you may trust any man, he is not perfect, he is only human, and just as likely to catch a cold as you are. He is also just as susceptible to Satins dreaded yea but disease. Satan knows full well what's written on those two tablets. He hates them because they are the very nature of God. He knows he will never get his pencil on those tablets, his only revenge is to try and tamper with the tablets of our heart. The lead in his yea but pencil is nothing more than assumptions and preconceived notions that make up traditions that, to often gets passed down through generations. This disease is easily cured if one is willing to take Gods word over mans. Example. On one hand we reed from Gods word that His law is holy, true, perfect, eternal and unchangeable. On the other hand we reed from books and here from false teachers honest hearted or not, yea but this, yea but that, yea but the law is bad, faulty, was changed, done away with, nailed to the cross, legalism, old testament, for the Jews only old covenant, ,on, an on, an on goes the yea butts. No wonder crime and immorality stalk's the land today. Somebody told the murder, the homosexual and adulteries that Gods law was done away with at the cross. All of us have been shot at by these false pagan theories which came straight out of the bowels and pits of Rome. We should have figured out by now that for every truth God has, Satan has a counterfeit that looks real. especially when it comes to Gods law. Example, Satins lust in adultery is not Gods love in marriage. As Christians we know that. Most of us have tried to council a friend or loved one caught in this hellish trap. We see straight through Satins yea but blame game. We listen to them turn ants into elephants while we pull our hair out trying to get the truth through to them, but to often, no matter what the coast to there children and spouse that God gave them, thay refuse to see. Thay fall so in love with the sin of lust that thay allow Satan to deceive them into believing that his counterfeit lust in adultery is even better than Gods gift of love, so thay give there heart to this person Satan sent them. Just how dangerous is this? Watch closely, the results are the same with breaking any one of Gods commandments. Seeing as the heart, soul and mind are all one and the same, as any bible concordance will tell us. When the adulterer or adulteress gives there heart or mind to a person Satan sent them, who have thay sold there soul to? Unless we are the one caught in that trap, that’s all easy to see, right? Consider for a moment that there are nine other commandments besides adultery that Satan plays the exact same mind game with. As loving and patient as God is, could He be pulling His hair out trying to get through to us that there are ten commandments, not one, not nine, but ten. Is it possible we could understand some like adultery, but have the same yea but disease on others, and be committing spiritual adultery against God. Listed below are some mind game yea but germs that Satan has tried to infect Gods people with  by twisting and turning Bible verses to try and make us believe God's Commandments are not binding. Also listed is plenty of bible anti dope in case you may have been infected. No dougnt the germs are on us. We all need a blood bath daily to kill those germs.

1.Yea but Doesn't the Bible say the law was (or is) faulty?
Hebrews 8:8
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No. The Bible says the people were faulty. God found "fault with them." Hebrews 8:8. And in Romans 8:3 the Bible says that the law "was weak through the flesh." It is always the same story. The law is perfect, but the people are faulty, or weak. So God would have His Son live within His people "that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us" (Romans 8:4) through the indwelling Christ.

2.Yea but Galatians 3:13 says we are redeemed from the curse of the law. Can you explain this?

The curse of the law is death (Romans 6:23). Christ tasted "death for every man." Hebrews 2:9. Thus He redeemed all from the curse of the law (death) and in its place provided eternal life.

3.Yea but Don't Colossians 2:14-17 and Ephesians 2:15 teach that God's law ended at the cross?

No, these passages both refer to the law containing "ordinances," or Moses' law, which was a ceremonial law governing the sacrificial system and the priesthood. All of this ceremony and ritual foreshadowed the cross and ended at Christ's death, as God had intended. Moses' law was added till the "seed should come," and that "seed ... is Christ." Galatians 3:19, 16. God's law could not be involved here, for Paul spoke of it as holy, just, and good many years after the cross (Romans 7:7, 12).
Seeing as Jesus died because we broke His commandments. If he was going to do away with any of them and make sin legal. He would have done so before the cross and never would have had to suffer and die.Our God could never do away with his law and still save us.Praise His Holy Name he proved he loves us by dying in our place instead of doing away with His law.How does He ask us to prove we love Him ? If you love Me do what?
 

4.Yea but  The Bible says, "Love is the fulfilling of the law."  Romans 13:10. The Bible also, in Matthew 22:37-40, commands us to love God and to love our neighbors, and ends with the words, "On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." Do these commands replace the Ten Commandments?

No, the Ten Commandments hang from these two commands like our 10 fingers hang from our two hands. They are inseparable. Love to God makes keeping the first four commandments (which concern God) a pleasure, and love toward our neighbor makes keeping the last six (which concern our neighbor) a joy. Love fulfills the law by taking away the drudgery and by making lawkeeping a delight (Psalm 40:8). When we truly love a person, honoring his or her requests becomes a joy. Jesus said," If ye love me, keep my commandments." John 14:15. It is impossible to love the Lord and not keep His commandments, because the Bible says, "This is the love of God, that we keep His commandments: and his commandments are not grievous." 1 John 5:3. "He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him." 1 John 2:4.


5. Yea but Doesn't 2 Corinthians 3:7 teach that the law written and engraved in stone "was to be done away"?

No. The passage says that the "glory" of Moses' ministration of the law was to be done away, but not the law. Read the whole passage of 2 Corinthians 3:3-9 again, carefully. The subject is not the doing away with the law or its establishment, but rather, the change of the location of the law from "tables of stone" to the "tables of the heart." Under Moses' ministration the law was on stones. Under the Holy Spirit's ministration, through Christ, the law is written upon the heart (Hebrews 8:10). A sign posted in our front yard becomes effective only when the words on the sign enters our heart. Christ's ministration of the law is effective because He transfers the law to the heart of the Christian. Then keeping the law becomes a delight and a joyful way of living because the Christian has true love for both God and man.

6.Yea but Romans 10:4 says that "Christ is the end of the law." So it has ended, hasn't it?
 

"End" in this verse means purpose or object, as it does in James 5:11. The meaning is clear. To lead men to Christ--where they find righteousness--is the goal, purpose, or end of the law.

7.Yea but  The righteous people of the Old Testament  were saved by keeping the law?
2 Timothy 1:9
 

No one has ever been saved by the law. All who have been saved in all ages have been saved by grace. This "grace ... was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began." 2 Timothy 1:9. The law only points out sin. Christ alone can save. Noah "found grace" (Genesis 6:8); Moses found grace (Exodus 33:17); the Israelites in the wilderness found grace (Jeremiah 31:2); and Abel, Enoch, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and many other Old Testament worthies were saved "by faith" according to Hebrews 11. They were saved by looking forward to the cross; we, by looking back to it. The law is necessary because, like a mirror, it reveals the "dirt" in our lives. Without it, people are sinners but are not aware of it. However, the law has no saving power. It can only point out sin. Jesus, and He alone, can save a person from sin. This has always been true, even in Old Testament times. (Acts 4:10, 12; 2 Timothy 1:9).
 

8. Why worry about the law? Isn't conscience a safe guide?

Proverbs 14:12

No! A thousand times, no! The Bible speaks of an evil conscience, a defiled conscience, and a seared conscience--none of which is safe. "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Proverbs 14:12. God says, "He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool." Proverbs 28:26.
 

9. Why do so many people deny the binding claims of God's law?

Romans 8:7

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you." Romans 8:7-9.Lets face it sin and confusion has about ran its coarse. The clock is about to strike midnight. If there was ever a time to restudy and rethink Gods simple truths on this subject it is now. We must take the bible test and be willing to answer honestly to ourselves. Do the commandments that is written on our heart match exactly what is written on Gods master copy? Were thay put there by the word of God, or by the counterfeit words of man? Now is the time to take the test. when God takes those two tablets of stone out of the ark of the covenant on judgment day and sets them before the whole universe to see, there will be no confusion on that day. There will be no part of thou shalt not, or remember that you want understand theroly. All those who refuse to see now, will see clearly then. Not one JOT OR TITTLE, that’s dotted I or crossed T will in no wise have passed from the law. Nothing changed, done away with, or faulty. Every word and its meaning perfect. Just like He said. There want be three groups standing there, the lost the saved and the Jews. Just two groups .On one hand those who accepted the bible as truth and followed it, the blood bought ones who keep the commandments and have the faith of Jesus. On the other hand the faulty who refused free salvation. This study was designed to allow the bible to answer any basic question that you may have had concerning any one or All ten of Gods commandments. If you missed something, by all means get your bible out, go back over it and be sure. With prayer and the guidance of the holy spirit you are sure to find truth. The choice to follow it or not is yours. The consequences of your decision are sure. Remember Our lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was not confused about His law. He keep all ten commandments that he vowed would stand fast for ever and ever. Our deepest prayer is that you choose to follow his example.


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The Golden Rule The Golden Rule is found in 2 places:

Matthew 7:12
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.