Exodus 20:3-17

Choice 1 Exodus 20:3-17

A. The 10 Commandments
1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me (Love God)

2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. (Love God)

3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. (Love God)

4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. (Love God)

5. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. (Love Neighbor)
6. Thou shalt not kill. (Love Neighbor)
7.Thou shalt not commit adultery. (Love Neighbor)
8. Thou shalt not steal. (Love Neighbor)
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. (Love Neighbor)
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. (Love Neighbor)

2 Great Commandments:

1. Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart and with all they soul and with all they mind.
2. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.


B. The three commandment that I feel are neglected today most and that would make the most difference if followed are:
1. Thou salt have no other gods before me
2. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
3. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house.
The first commandment is that we shouldn’t have anything above God, honestly I always thought that this was because we should appreciate his love and sacrifice that he has always given us freely. After reading the manual I see that there are many more reasons, I didn’t think of the fact that God said himself that his work is to bring man to immortality and eternal life. When we don’t remember him then we can’t make it back to him, therefore we mess with his goal. We have to have God first in our lives, it makes it easier to hear and listen to him, if we put things like money first then we are only ruining our communication ability with God. If the world would put God first then we could all listen harmoniously making the world work flawlessly.
The second thing I feel the world is not following is keeping the Sabbath day holy. I know that even we as church members do this too. This doesn’t even mean just going out and spending money on Sunday but remembering God the whole day. I watch movies and visit friends on this day when I should be reading scripture or writing in journals. There are so many good things to do, but because we put things before the Lord we quickly and easily forget Him. Imagine if no one ever spent money on anything on Sunday, it would eliminate the need for people to work making it possible for everyone to be at home with family, focus on the Lord and to rest their bodies from the 6 other days of labor.
The last commandment that I thought would make a huge difference in the world if followed by everyone is to not covet thy neighbor’s house. I feel that coveting others’ things is the source for people breaking other commandments. Do not kill, do not steal, do not commit adultery; theses all happen when you covet something of someone else. The manual explains how this commandment is so intertwined with the other commandments and I see how that is so true. This is the reason that we can’t really pick and choose commandments to keep. When we don’t follow one then it is interesting how other commandments follow in the decline. Not following one commandment is the very epitome of a slippery slope. If the world were to learn to not covet there would be less crime, murder, discontent and anger. Peace and charity would reign.