Tag: ten commandments

  • To Understand What An Unsearchable God Has Spoken

    To Understand What An Unsearchable God Has Spoken

    How can any person possibly understand what God has said? God’s language is creative. When He speaks, things like trees, planets, solar systems, galaxies, and superclusters appear. Here we are, people who hear in English and Spanish and Deutsch and Swahili and Farsi, unable to understand God’s language. If I asked you what language God…

  • Thou Shalt Not Call Someone Empty-Headed

    Thou Shalt Not Call Someone Empty-Headed

    We spent the last couple of weeks walking through the first four commandments, discovering together the holiness of God and our own shortfalls as we strive to relate to God in holiness. The last six commands shift their attention slightly. The first four regard our relationship with God and the last six regard our relationship…

  • No Other Gods

    No Other Gods

    Previously, we discovered the purpose of the Law together. The Law was given as a sign of the covenant that God made with the people of Israel for the purpose of serving as a witness against the people. In this sense, the Law was given in order that sin, which was already present, would be…

  • On Laws Given in Freedom

    God is a great God! In fact He is the only true, righteous and holy God. It is He who, when Israel was starving and without food, provided by sending Joseph to Egypt with the ability to interpret Pharaoh’s prophetic dream. It is He who fought for the survival of many in Egypt, and when…