10 Commandments Today, 1of14

~ Introduction to the “10 Commandments Today” Series ~

Background  ~  There are some Christians who have either been taught or assumed that The Ten Commandments are no longer in effect—that they were for the Old Testament era.  Nothing could be further from the truth!

Key Passage  ~    “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets.  I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.  For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.  Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.  For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:17-20).

Additional Passage  ~  “But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.  Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, ‘Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?’  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” (Matthew 22:34-40). 

An Important Reality  ~  God does not change.  “For I am the Lord, I do not change; therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob” (Malachi 3:6)  “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning” (James 1:17-18).  “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.  Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines.  For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them” (Hebrews 13:8-9).

Comment  ~  In this series we will look at one of the Ten Commandments in each subsequent post and how it applies to the individual Christian today. 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW

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