THE BIBLE PRAYER LINE – Bible Questions Answered
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Bible Questions Answered:
“Why are the ten commandments so important?...”
Brandi/ Chicago, Illinois U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
The Ten Commandments are important, Exodus 20:1-17, Deuteronomy 5:6-21, because they tell us what our relationship should be to God, we are to love and serve Him, with all our hearts and lives.
The second set of commands ( 6-10), concerns our relationship to each other.
Exodus 20:1-17 KJV
1 And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 (#1) Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
4 (#2) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I The Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments.
7 (#3) 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.
8 (#4) Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of The Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days The Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore The Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 (#5) Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which The Lord thy God giveth thee.
13 (#6) Thou shalt not kill.
14 (#7) Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 (#8) Thou shalt not steal.
16 (#9) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 (#10) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
In our trying to live for The Lord, we stumble and fail, this is why we need The Savior.
Romans 3:10 KJV
10`As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
II Corinthians 5:21 KJV
For He (God The Father) hath made Him (Jesus Christ, God's Son) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
“Do The Ten Commandments, apply to people today?”
Yes, because, God does not change, neither do people change. The things that bring sin into men and women's lives today, are that same things that brought ruin to the lives of past centuries.
Malachi 3:6 KJV
For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
(Speaking of God's love and mercy)
Ecclesiastes 7:20 KJV (B.C. 977)
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Prayer:
John 3:14-21 KJV
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must The Son Of Man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of The Only Begotten Son Of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth The Light, neither cometh to The Light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth Truth cometh to The Light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
