The Ten Commandments

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Praise you Heavenly Father. We thank you for this day; we bless your holy name, Father. Thank you for this beautiful day. Thank you for your love and your mercy, Amen. I pray you would give us all a revelation of your great love: that you so loved us that you gave your only Son to suffer and die for our sins on the Cross, thank you Father, and rise from the dead to justify us from all things. So Lord, bless this program I pray; give us ears to hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying, Amen. 

Today’s program is called, The Ten Commandments. Let’s read the Ten Commandments. They are found in Exodus chapter 20, verse 1, 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. 

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; 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, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. 

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. 

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. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the Earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. 

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you. 

You shall not murder. 

You shall not commit adultery. 

You shall not steal. 

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 

You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's. 

Now let’s read The Beatitudes (The Blessings), in Mat 5:1, And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying: 

Blessed are the poor in spirit, or humble in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. 

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. 

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth. 

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. 

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. 

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. 

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. 

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. 

Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in Heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. 

If you are going to publish the Ten Commandments on the walls of our schools and public buildings, consider also publishing The Beatitudes, from The Sermon on the Mount. By the Law is the knowledge of sin. And the Scripture says that the Law is weak through the flesh. The law has no power to deliver people from sin. In fact, in Romans 5:20, the Apostle Paul wrote that the Law makes sin abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: God gave His Son. Let’s turn to Eph 2:4, But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 

and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.

Jesus came at the commandment of His Father, because of His great love for us, to take away our sins by the sacrifice of Himself. All of our sins were laid on Him when He hung on that Cross; He literally became sin, the Bible says, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. That’s where we need to be: in Him. Mat 11:28, Jesus said, Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. 

See what the Apostle Peter said of the Law. Let’s turn to Acts 15:5, But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses, (referring to the Gentiles who believed). Now the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter. And when there had been much dispute, Peter rose up and said to them: Men and brethren, you know that a good while ago God chose among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the Word of the Gospel and believe. So God, who knows the heart, acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us, and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they. 

Gal 3:10, For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, 

Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the Book of the Law, to do them. But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for The just shall live by faith. Yet the law is not of faith, but The man who does them shall live by them. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree. that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 

In The Sermon on the Mount, Mat 5:17, Jesus said, Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till Heaven and Earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Then in chapter 7, verse 12, He said, Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. If you are doing, truly doing, to others what you want them to do to you, you will fulfill the righteousness of the Law. 

Jesus was asked by a scribe one time, Master, which is the first commandment of all? Mark 12:28, And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is: Hear O Israel, The Lord our God, the Lord is One. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. So the scribe said to Him, Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth, for there is one God, and there is no other but He. And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. Now when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, He said to him, You are not far from the Kingdom of God.  

Jesus said, You have heard it said of old, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, Love your enemies. He said, Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. The Scripture says that love does no ill, or evil, to his neighbor, therefore love is the fulfilling of the Law. The only way to fulfill the righteousness of the Law is by love. And love is difficult; love is hard. It is hard to love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength in a world that is full of hatred for Him and for His way. It is hard to love those who hate you, and to forgive those who treat you bad. Just remember: Jesus was hanging on the Cross, dying for our sins; giving His life for our sins, and He loved the ones who were crucifying Him: He said, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. He said, Love your enemies; bless those who curse you; do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in Heaven. For He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren only, what do you more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in Heaven is perfect. 

So you see, it is about love: For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever lives and believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Rom 7:4, Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. He has given us His Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth and to lead us to serve Him every day to do the will of the Father. In Christ we are dead to the Law, by His body, that we might be married to another: to Him who is raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God. Glory to God!

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen. (2 Cor 13:14)