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The Ten Commandments. Do you I have tablets laying all over the
know them? Before reading further, see how house, placed in strategic locations. The
many you can recite. How many can you Lord speaks to me about various subjects at
call to mind? Sadly, most of us can only re- any given time of the day, whether it's 8:00
cite three to five of them. Here's the list be- in the evening or 2:30 AM. Several morn-
low, from Exodus 20. ings ago, I had just gotten in my car, and the
1. You shall have no other gods before Me. Lord spoke to me, telling me I needed to
2. You shall not make for yourself a carved write a series about the Ten Command-
image-any likeness of anything that is in ments. He also told me I needed to heed
heaven above, or that is in the earth be- the same things I'm going to be sharing with
neath, or that is in the water under the earth; you.
you shall not bow down to them nor serve
them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jeal- I've been a Christian for thirty-plus
ous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers years, and I feel several things as I type.
upon the children to the third and fourth gen- First, I am under deep conviction at how of-
erations of those who hate Me, but showing ten I've forgotten or haven't heeded the
mercy to thousands, to those who love Me Commands God gave to Moses to pass on
and keep My commandments. to us. Second, I feel genuine remorse due
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord to failing the Lord in these ten areas. And
your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold third, I am filled with gratitude that the Lord
him guiltless who takes His name in vain. forgives me for my failures and helps me to
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it be a better man in the future. It's my
holy. Six days you shall labor and do all prayer that as you read, you will heed my
your work, but the seventh day is the Sab- words, and if you're not doing so already ,
bath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do put into practice what God has not
no work; you, nor your son, nor your daugh- asked...He has commanded you and me to
ter, nor your male servant, nor your female do.
servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger
who is within your gates. For in six days the Right before giving us the first Com-
Lord made the heavens and the earth, the mandment, God tells us in Exodus 20:2, "I
sea, and all that is in them, and rested the am the Lord you God, who brought you out
seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
the Sabbath day and hallowed it. bondage." Now... you might thinking, "Well,
5. Honor your father and your mother, that God was talking to the Israelites, so you're
your days may be long upon the land which talking about clear back in Exodus. The Ten
the Lord your God is giving you. Commandments are outdated." But listen to
6. You shall not murder. this verse in Colossians 1:12: "He has deliv-
7. You shall not commit adultery. ered us from the power of darkness and
8. You shall not steal. conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of
9. You shall not bear false witness against His love."
your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor's The whole premise of this verse in
house; you shall not covet your neighbor's Colossians is that anyone who is now living
wife, nor his male servant, nor his female for the Lord Jesus Christ was once living un-
servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor any- der the tyranny of another ruler...Satan.
thing that is your neighbor's. Just like God delivered Israel from the tyr-
anny of Egypt and the Pharaoh, he has de-
livered you and me from Satan's rule and
put us under the rule of His Son. In other
