My Explanation of the Ten Commandments

My Explanation of the Ten Commandments

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
5. Honour thy father and thy mother.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
10. Thou shalt not covet

Everyone knows about the Ten Commandments, but the thing is about the Ten Commandments is that people who are not Christians see this as God trying to hold us back. They think God is trying to say that we need to be good to please god. They actually think they need to be good to get into heaven.

One example of that is that couple of weeks at my bible club I run at my school I did a sermon on what it means to be a “Christian” I was basically saying how it is not about pleasing God because that is impossible because we live in an imperfect world and we are hopelessly flawed and hoe God still loves us, he actually loves us because we are his. Okay that is beside the point, at the beginning of the meeting I asked what they think it mans to be a Christian and one of my friends tat is new in his walk with God said it is all about being a good person. I am extremely happy that he was at the Christian club that day because he now knows that it is not about pleasing God but about having a relationship with God.

The Ten Commandments are first mentioned in Exodus 5 when God told Moses what the Ten Commandments where. Now this was back before Jesus had come to Earth and die for our sins so these people where Jews so they had to sacrifice lambs and other animals to take their sins away. The lambs and other animals where way of people of the Old Testament to say that they are willing to give their fine lambs to God. We do not have to sacrifice our lambs (even though I do not have lambs because I live in the suburbs with a code for all the homes. Can you believe they do not allow you to have farm animals in my small backyard?) Jesus Christ was the ultimate sacrifice for us so we do not have to be good to please God and we do not need to sacrifice our pets.

The Ten Commandments were written as guidelines for our lives. We do not need to follow these commandments to get in to heaven we can follow these as a way to say God, I thank you for your love. There are two main reasons people do good things the first is as a please, like asking for something; for instance the belief in Karma has people do good things so good things will happen to them, the other reason to do something good is as a thank you; like Christianity, we do not do good deeds as a please like asking for something we do it as a thank you to God for all he has done and will do in my and your life too. Lots of people do good deeds so they look good, so it exalts them. Something that my older brother told me was about something he heard from someone at a Christian summer camp called Mount. Herman said that his youth group did a thing called Jesus Ninjas where they went around at like 3:00 a.m. and did good deeds when no one could see them. So if you are going to do good deeds make sure you are doing it for the glory of God not for the glory of you.

May God bless you!!
Live for Jesus!!

Jake Vanderwell