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Did you know the Bible
contains love songs?
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Hard for some to imagine,
but it's true.
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Now some of our more
biblically savvy viewers
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might think of the Song of Solomon, which is, indeed,
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a beautiful part
of the Bible.
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But that's not what
I'm thinking of.
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Rather, I'm thinking
of Psalm 119, which
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the songwriter, King
David, filled with
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passion, praise, and
heartfelt devotion.
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What was the object
of such emotion?
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Believe it or not,
the Ten Commandments.
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Does this surprise you?
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It shouldn't.
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Because they paint a beautiful picture of the mind of God
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and play a key role in the transformation of the whole
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world that Jesus Christ will return and establish.
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Join us for this episode
of Tomorrow's World, where
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we'll uncover The Beauty
of the Ten Commandments.
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♪
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Greetings, and welcome to
Tomorrow's World, where we help
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you make sense of your world through the pages of the Bible.
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Today we're going to spend
time talking about one
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of God's greatest gifts to mankind--the Ten Commandments.
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We're also going to give
you the opportunity to
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request our extensive
resource on putting the
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commandments into action
in your life, our free
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booklet titled, simply,
The Ten Commandments.
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Be sure to watch for the
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get your own free copy.
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When you look closely
enough, the core doctrines
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of common and mainstream
Christianity seem to tell
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you these divine commands
from God are done away with--
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as if God makes no binding obligation on us any longer,
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and we've been freed
from the need to obey--
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freed from the
Ten Commandments.
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But when you come to understand the commandments and what they
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represent, you see that you might as well speak of being
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"freed" from food and water,
or freed from air and light.
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Or, for that matter, freed from understanding, freed from
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righteousness, and freed from freedom and liberty, itself.
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In fact, in his inspired
letter, James, the brother
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of Jesus Christ, twice
refers to the Commandments
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as "the law of liberty"--even
"the perfect law of liberty."
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Now, some preachers might
dither and say that they
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would never preach against
the Ten Commandments.
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Yet most who would say
that are preaching in a
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pulpit on Sunday after
having gone to the mall or
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the lake or the ball game
on Saturday, in violation
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of the Fourth Commandment.
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And in March of 2021,
Christianity Today exposed
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modern Christianity's opinion
on the Seventh Commandment to
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keep sexual relations within
the confines of marriage
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by reporting that,
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"Evangelicals, especially
those under 40, increasingly
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see cohabitation as
morally acceptable.
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Most young evangelicals have engaged in it or expect to."
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And how many cathedrals
are filled with statues
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and images that people
bow before, pray before,
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or even weep before, filled
with religious devotion--
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when the Second Commandment forbids such objects of worship?
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Yes, a lot of lip service is paid to the Ten Commandments,
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but few people really take
them as seriously as
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God the Father and
Jesus Christ do.
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And what a shame that is.
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Because when they're embraced and taken seriously as merciful
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instructions handed down by a merciful and loving God,
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the Ten Commandments are a source of beauty in life that
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is unmatched by any competing laws or philosophies of men.
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At the beginning of the
program, I mentioned King
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David's "love song" to
the Ten Commandments.
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Let's read just a few of
the words of praise and
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fondness penned by the
Warrior Poet of Israel
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for these beautiful
laws of God.
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We'll find them
in Psalm 119.
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For instance,
verse 35:
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"Make me walk in the path
of Your commandments,
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for I delight in it."
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And verse 47:
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"And I will delight myself
in Your commandments,
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which I love."
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Verse 73:
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"Your hands have made
me and fashioned me;
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give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments."
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Verse 127:
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"Therefore I love Your commandments more than
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gold, yes, than
fine gold!"
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Verse 131:
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"I opened my mouth and
panted, for I longed
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for Your commandments."
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Verse 143:
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"Trouble and anguish
have overtaken me,
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yet Your commandments
are my delights."
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Believe me, there were
more, but those should
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help paint the picture.
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The Bible says that King
David was a man after
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God's own heart,
and in his trials,
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he found comfort in
the Commandments.
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In his distress, he
found wisdom in them.
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He found them more
beautiful and precious
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than gold and silver,
and he says he longed to
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understand them and live
them, like the thirsty
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deer longs for water.
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No one writes such songs
of heartfelt devotion and
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passion about speed limits
or legal regulations
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pouring out of Congress.
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The Ten Commandments are
different--they provide
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guidance, aid,
and understanding.
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They represent the core of the way of life of the very Creator
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of mankind, who has shared
them with us in His mercy.
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And as we get to know them
and understand them--
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not just in our minds,
but with the sort of
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understanding that only
comes from acting and
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doing--then we begin to
better understand the
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character and mind
of God, Himself.
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Actually, with the help of
God, it is more than that:
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Keeping the Ten Commandments changes us, and helps us not
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only to understand the mind
of God but even to begin to
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share the mind of God and to think like Him, ourselves.
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As David writes in
Psalm 19 and verse 7,
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"The law of the LORD is perfect,
converting the soul...."
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It is no wonder that Jesus
Christ told a young man
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quizzing Him about salvation,
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"[I]f you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
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Clearly the Ten Commandments mattered to Jesus Christ.
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In fact, they matter so much
so that the Apostle John wrote
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in his first letter, in
1 John 2:4, speaking of Christ,
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"He who says, 'I know Him,'
and does not keep His
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commandments, is a liar, and
the truth is not in him."
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Anyone preaching that you
do not need to keep the
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commandments to know Jesus Christ is a liar and a false
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preacher, whether he knows it or not, and should be avoided.
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In our next segment, we'll
take a closer look at the
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commandments, themselves,
but first, let me give you
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a brief opportunity to
request our free booklet,
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The Ten Commandments.
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This resource is one of the largest in our library--
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written by the late evangelist Roderick C. Meredith,
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longtime fellow presenter
here on Tomorrow's World.
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Reflecting the wisdom of his lifetime in the ministry,
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this book, The Ten Commandments, takes you slowly and thoroughly
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through each of the Ten Commandments, helping you
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to understand the depths
of these ancient but
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remarkably relevant rules
for life and living.
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You need to bring the beauty
of the Ten Commandments
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into your life.
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Take this opportunity to
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begin taking a closer look
at these remarkable laws.
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Welcome back.
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You know, if we're going
to spend all this time
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talking about the Ten
Commandments, maybe
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I should take the
time to read them.
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You'll find them listed in Exodus chapter 20, where we
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find the heart of God's law is listed in only 16 verses:
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"I am the LORD your God,
who brought you out of
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the land of Egypt, out of
the house of bondage.
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You shall have no
other gods before Me.
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You shall not make for
yourself a carved image,
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or any likeness of anything
that is in heaven above,
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or that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in
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the water under the earth;
you shall not bow down
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to them nor serve them.
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For I, the LORD your God,
am a jealous God,
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visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
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to the third and fourth
generations of those who
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hate Me, but showing mercy
to thousands, to those
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who love Me and keep
My commandments.
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You shall not take the
name of the LORD your God
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in vain, for the LORD will
not hold him guiltless who
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takes His name in vain.
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Remember the Sabbath
day, to keep it holy.
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Six days you shall labor
and do all your work,
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but the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the LORD your God.
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In it you shall do no
work: you, nor your son,
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nor your daughter,
nor your male servant,
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nor your female servant,
nor your cattle,
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nor your stranger who
is within your gates.
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For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the
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sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day.
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Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
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Honor your father and your
mother, that your days may be
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long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
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You shall not murder.
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You shall not
commit adultery.
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You shall not steal.
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You shall not bear false
witness against your neighbor.
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You shall not covet
your neighbor's house;
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you shall not covet your
neighbor's wife, nor
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his male servant, nor his
female servant, nor his ox,
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nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."
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Yes, the whole of the
Ten Commandments fits
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in these 16 verses.
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But the art of living by
them, and the depth of
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truly understanding them,
only really comes through
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practice, the light of
Jesus' teachings, and the
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help of God's Holy Spirit.
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Let's take some time to
appreciate their structure
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and organization.
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In Matthew 22, we read an
account of a young lawyer
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who asked Jesus an
important question.
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We begin in verse 36:
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"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?"
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Jesus said to him, "'You
shall love the LORD your
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God with all your heart,
with all your soul,
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and with all your mind.'
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This is the first and
great commandment.
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And the second is like it:
'You shall love your
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neighbor as yourself.'
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On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."
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Notice, Jesus said that the entirety of the law and the
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prophets hang on these
two great commandments:
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To love your God and to
love your neighbor.
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Now look again at the
Ten Commandments to see
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how they're structured.
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The first four of the Ten
Commandments teach us how
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to fulfill the First Great
Commandment to love God.
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And the six Commandments
that follow teach us how
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to fulfill the Second Great Commandment to love others.
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The Ten Commandments
aren't just some
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legalistic list
of dos and don'ts.
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When you understand what
Jesus is saying, you
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see them as essential
instructions in love.
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In fact, let me ask you:
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What is more beautiful
than the love of God?
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Not just receiving it, but growing in it ourselves,
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in compassion and
outflowing concern?
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Well, if we seek to know the beauty of God's love in our
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lives, then we will want to
keep the Ten Commandments.
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Don't take my word for it--
take the Apostle John's.
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Often called the Apostle of
Love because love was such a
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consistent focus of his writings in Scripture, he teaches us
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a very important truth of
God in his first letter--
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in 1 John 5:3...
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"For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments.
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And His commandments
are not burdensome."
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When you understand this
connection between how
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the Ten Commandments are
central to teaching us how
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to love God and to love
each other and the fact
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that, as 1 John 4:8 tells
us, "God is love," then
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you begin to see how the
Ten Commandments represent
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God's own mind and
character in print.
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And how learning to practice them and to make them a
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part of your life is a vital part of the beautiful
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transformation God seeks to achieve in all of us.
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Before we look in detail
at some of these beautiful
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commandments, let me pause
very briefly to give you
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another opportunity to
request today's free offer,
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The Ten Commandments.
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Some memorize them as
children and others
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have them hanging on a
plaque in their home.
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But nothing compares
to the joy of deeply
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understanding the Ten
Commandments, one by one,
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as guides to a life of
fulfillment and as
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keys to understanding
the mind of God.
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As Roderick Meredith explains
in this free resource,
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the Ten Commandments are
central to understanding God's
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will for your life and for the fulfillment of His profound
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and eternal purpose for your glorification in eternity.
14:29.802 --> 14:33.606
The Ten Commandments takes you slowly and thoroughly through
14:33.672 --> 14:36.609
each of the commandments, helping you to understand
14:36.675 --> 14:40.479
the depths of these ancient
but remarkably relevant rules
14:40.546 --> 14:42.181
for life and living.
14:42.248 --> 14:45.618
Take just a few moments to
request your own copy now of
14:45.684 --> 14:48.921
this life-changing resource,
and I'll be right back to
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reveal the depth and
insight to be found in
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some of these individual
wonders of God's word.
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Don't go away.
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♪
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This clear and
straight-forward resource
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will help you understand
this vital truth--
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straight from the
pages of the Bible.
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♪
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Let's dive into some
of the individual
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commandments, themselves.
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Just as the beauty of a
gemstone is shaped by how
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its individual facets
reveal its brilliance,
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each of the commandments
contributes to the
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overall beauty of
these laws of God.
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In fact, consider the first
one, given in Exodus 20:2-3...
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"I am the LORD your God,
who brought you out of
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the land of Egypt, out of
the house of bondage.
15:40.706 --> 15:45.277
You shall have no
other gods before Me."
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Now, compare this to, say,
the beginning of the
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U.S. Declaration of Independence, which lays
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a foundation based on the
idea that all men are
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created equal--or the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of
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Human Rights, which states
in its first article that
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all human beings are free and equal in dignity and rights.
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In today's free resource,
The Ten Commandments,
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Roderick Meredith explains
the stark difference
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between works like these
and the Commandments:
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In our day of human reason, agnosticism, and creeping
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materialism, it is important
to notice that the Almighty
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spoke first not about the "brotherhood of man," but
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about obedience and worship
to God, the Creator and Ruler
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of heaven and earth--and
the personal God of those
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who serve and obey Him!
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What a difference.
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Unlike human philosophers
or politicians who ground
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our obligations to each
other in moral theories
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or passing ethical fashions,
God grounds our obligations
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on His own eternal and unchanging status as the
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Creator of all things,
who does not change.
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Consequently, the Ten
Commandments have a
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beautiful and immovable
foundation that grounds
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them in the firmest
foundation possible.
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For instance...
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The Fourth Commandment about keeping the Sabbath holy is
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about the day He, Himself, sanctified at Creation.
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The Sixth Commandment
against murder, we're
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told in Genesis 9:6,
is grounded in the fact
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that man is made
in God's image.
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The Ninth Commandment against bearing false witness runs
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afoul of the fact that God
is a "God of truth" and
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that His word is truth.
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This grounding in the nature
and character of the
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Eternal God who created
all life--indeed, the
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God who created all of
reality--gives these
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inspired commandments
a richness and depth
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that few ever take the
time to truly explore.
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Consider the Third
Commandment against
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using God's name in vain.
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How often is this
commandment trampled
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in this world--often by the
very ones who claim to be
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living a godly life.
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Yet, not using God's name in
vain is so much more than
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simply not using His name in curse words or swearing.
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For instance, everyone who
claims to be a Christian is,
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in a very real way, taking on the name of Jesus Christ--
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yet, if we behave in an un-Christian manner and set
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a bad example, we've taken
on that name in vain.
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Keeping the Third Commandment means taking our lives
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seriously enough to bring
honor to the name we bear.
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And in that way, the
commandment becomes far
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more than a guide concerning statements we make with
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our mouths, but a motivation
to consider the statements
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we make with our lives.
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Even the commandments that
might seem obvious--such as
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the Sixth Commandment, "You shall not murder"-- have so much
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more to say than those four words might seem to reveal.
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Jesus Christ, Himself,
makes this plain,
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explaining in Matthew 5:21
and 22 that hating your
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brother in your heart is
the spirit of murder, and
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that hating others violates
the Sixth Commandment.
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When you look at the
world today and see how
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anger-filled it is, and
then when you recognize it
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as the spirit of murder that
you're seeing in the faces
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of rage that fill our
streets and news feeds,
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suddenly you realize just how far we've fallen from what
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God seeks to make of us.
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And further still, the
command against murder is
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rooted in the fact that
every single human being
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is created in God's image.
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In contrast to the culture
of death we see around us--
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in which abortion, euthanasia, and assisted suicide are
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considered moral progress instead of the signs of
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moral degradation they truly represent--a devotion to
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living the values of the Sixth Commandment is a devotion
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to respecting the beautiful image of God inherent
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in every human life.
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Not just the life of the
healthy and strong,
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but the life of the
infirm and the weak.
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As God told Moses in
Exodus 4 and verse 11,
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"Who has made man's mouth?
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Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind?
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Have not I, the LORD?"
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The Sixth Commandment
declares that no life is
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without value and meaning
in the eyes of God.
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And even a supposedly simple
and obvious command like
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"You shall not murder"
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has beautiful depths that
are worth exploring.
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In a moment, I want to
help us step back and
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take in the larger picture
by imagining the world
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that Jesus Christ will
establish at His return.
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When we do, we'll find the
Ten Commandments are the key
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to seeing that picture.
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Before that, though, I
want to take one final
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one after the other,
explaining how each one
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provides a key to making
your life everything
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God would have it to be.
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Welcome back.
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Before we leave each other
today, I'd like to take a
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moment and ask you to imagine
a world seemingly out of reach,
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but one which will soon become reality with the return of
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Jesus Christ--a world in which everyone is keeping all ten
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of the Ten Commandments.
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Imagine a world in which every human being in every country
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on earth has no other God
than the God of the Bible.
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Every living, breathing soul understands that nothing in
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their devotions should come before God the Father and
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Jesus Christ, and everyone worships Them alone.
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That worship is free of any
and all trappings of paganism.
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There are no statues or
images of so-called saints
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or other distractions.
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Every soul on earth uses
God's name with a sense
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of respect for everything
that it represents,
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because they know that the
words they utter matter.
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Consequently, no one uses
foul language any longer.
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No one anywhere on the
planet utters God's name
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in a curse, and it would
not even cross someone's
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mind to swear or speak
in a filthy manner.
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Imagine a world in
which everyone keeps
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the seventh-day Sabbath.
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Gone forever are the days
when someone worked seven
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days a week, replaced by a joyful, worldwide observance
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of God's ordained rest from labor--a time for families to
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reaffirm their affections for each other and to seek the
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face of their God together.
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Every week, everyone on
earth gathers together
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as God commands, in holy
convocation, to sing
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praises to their Creator
and their Savior, and
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to learn together from
the pages of Scripture.
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Imagine, too, that, in that world, families have been
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restored as the fundamental building blocks of civilization.
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Parents are honored and loved, in accordance with the fifth
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commandment, and grandparents and great-grandparents are held
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in high esteem, as children are taught to respect those who've
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gone before them.
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Those same children play safely in the streets as families
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spend time together in the neighborhood, because violence
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and hatred are no longer a part of anyone's experience.
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Families remain intact for life and marriages remain strong,
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as men and women learn the
joy and peace that comes from
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reserving physical intimacy
for the God-ordained place
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for which it was designed:
their marriages.
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There are no locks on
doors, and children leave
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their bicycles on the front lawns, since no one would
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ever think to take something that is not theirs.
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And relationships in the
community and between people
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and their leaders are built
on a foundation of mutual
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trust and respect, in which everyone speaks truthfully
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with each other.
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Then imagine that, over
all of this lies an air of
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contentment and gratitude-- because the idea that
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happiness is dependent
on the number of things
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you can buy or collect to
keep up with the neighbors
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has long since passed
from the world.
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Instead, everyone finds
their deepest satisfaction
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in the profitable work of
their hands, the joy they
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feel from the love of
friends and family, and
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the knowledge that the God
they worship is One who
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knows them, and loves
them, and is personally
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working in this world, and
in their lives, to bring
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His purpose for their
lives to fruition--
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when they will join His
own Family and step
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into eternity with
Him, forever.
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That beautiful world--which Jesus Christ will establish
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at His return--is one
in which everyone keeps
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the Ten Commandments.
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Of course, you and I don't
have to wait for His return
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to begin manifesting
that world around us.
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We can begin by turning to Him and living the beautiful
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richness of His commandments
in our lives right now--today.
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Our free booklet, The Ten
Commandments, would be a
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I do hope you'll
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And I hope you'll come
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Gerald Weston, Richard Ames,
Rod McNair, and I will be
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right here waiting--working
to help you understand the
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Gospel of God's Kingdom, the end-time prophecies of your
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Bible, the teachings of Jesus Christ, and to help you pierce
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the fog of today's world to
see the hope-filled world of
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tomorrow that Christ
is bringing with Him.
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Until next time,
take care.
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