AUGUST 19, 2021 Exodus 20:8-10 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.” What does it mean to “remember” the Sabbath day? Is it merely call to mind that the seventh day is the Sabbath? And if that is […]
AUGUST 18, 2021 Exodus 20:7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.” Growing up, I was always told that to take the name of the LORD in vain was to curse while invoking the word, “God.” While we, as God’s people, […]
AUGUST 17, 2021 Exodus 20:5 “You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.” Those that hate Him and who risk feeling the consequences of that antagonism toward the Almighty are measured in three […]
AUGUST 16, 2021 Exodus 20:5 “You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.” In this verse there arises a question: is it just for God visit the “iniquity of the fathers upon the […]
AUGUST 15, 2021 Exodus 20:5 “You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.” The Hebrew word translated as “jealous” is kana and conveys the idea of being “envious to protect ownership” of something […]
AUGUST 14, 2021 Exodus 20:3-4 You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.” Let us consider that if we acknowledge the first command — that our God is sovereign over […]
AUGUST 12, 2021 Exodus 20:1-2 And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” No doubt by design, the commandments given to us from Mount Sinai are categorized into two sections. The first tablet contains man’s duties toward God -– the first five […]
AUGUST 11, 2021 Exodus 20:1-2 And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” In Hebrew, what we commonly refer to as the Ten Commandments is called the Ten Words. In fact, the Greek term Decalogue comes from the word deka, “ten,” and […]
AUGUST 10, 2021 Exodus 20:1-2 And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” Unlike in Christianity, the first of the ten commandments in Judaism is “I am the LORD your God.” Thus, the first command is to believe in His eternal existence […]
AUGUST 8, 2021 Exodus 19:20 Then the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. It is interesting that the text tells us that the LORD descended upon the mountain and that Moses ascended. There is an interesting concept revealed […]
