93 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 1 - Book 8 - The Ten Commandments and the Tabernacle

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 8 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND THE TABERNACLE Exodus 20-36 The last five, the LORD thy God is never mentioned. Exodus 20:2-5 "I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage (and here comes the direct command) Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Abuse. If you have an abusive father, he in turns abuses his wife, and who will she invariably turn on? The children. That is all wrong, and so God is warning that these traits will take off down the line for generation after generations. Now, for the third command, let's read verse 7: Exodus 20:7,8 "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Work. People don't really want to work. So part of the commandment to keep the Sabbath also says six days you will work. Exodus 20:10 "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God:...." Now, I know there are some groups that take this commandment and put it with the final six as being part of man's relationship with man, but I prefer to keep it up here in the first five.Remember the first five are man's relationship to God because of that connecting link - The LORD thy God over and over. And the other five, man's relationship with man, because The LORD thy God is not included in any of those five. Let's read on in verse 11: Exodus 20:11 Exodus 20:12 "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." Well it can't. In Romans the apostle Paul tells us for those who did not have the written law, where did God put the law? Even the uncivilized people of the world, in order to maintain their little tribes, must have some sort of a law that is patterned after what God gave here to Moses. Now verse 13, this is the sixth commandment: "Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery (number seven). Thou shalt not steal (number eight). Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour (number nine). Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's(number ten). Thou shalt not covet is the one commandment that puts the apostle Paul in an awareness of all the others. Romans Chapter 7. Romans 7:7 `Is the law (The Ten, the moral law) sin?' God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin (I wouldn't really understand what God's perfect demands were), but by the law: for I had not known lust (that is desire), except the law had said, `Thou shalt not covet.'" If you have never thought about it, you won't answer. I suppose the one most people would wonder about is taking the name of the LORD thy God in vain. How can you maintain that a man who curses and swears, using God's name in vain, is coveting? Why do people curse and swear? Attention. Attention. If you noticed as we read those commandments in Exodus, there was one word glaringly absence. Love. I know when you get to Deuteronomy Chapter 6, Moses tells the children of Israel,"Know that the LORD thy God is one God." You can't force someone to love anybody. And God knew He couldn't. So I think that is the reason the word love is not in any of the Ten Commandments. But from the very onset of the creation of man, why did God create man in the first place? So that He (God) could have someone, that after He had extended His love, would love Him back. Turn to Matthew 22: Matthew 22:35-40 Jesus said unto him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.'" Now, wait a minute; was that last statement in the Ten Commandments? Did you read it in there back in Exodus Chapter 20, "that thou shalt love thy neighbor?" To love Him. The home is part and parcel of God's plan for the ages. With our home, family, and neighbors. Everyone of us as a child of God are going to fail, but hopefully by God's Grace, how are we responding to these Ten commandments? Romans 13:8 "Owe no man any thing (this could have been translated defraud no man), but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath (past tense) fulfilled the law." My definition of the love that Paul is talking about is not erotic love, or Hollywood's idea of love. Paul here is talking about a love that seeks the other person's highest good. Satan. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible