Fifth Commandment - Honor Father And Mother
This is the first commandment with a promised blessing. At the very least, your parents have a 15-20 year experience ahead of you. They provided shelter, food and clothing while you were otherwise helpless. But that is only a fraction of countless reasons why we should respect, reverence, esteem, even obey our parents - our elders! Our world would be radically improved if this generation would obey this command.
Exodus 20:12 - "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee."
Sixth Commandment - Thou Shalt Not Kill
Here is a stark warning from the Giver of all life to all the potential Takers of life. DON'T DO IT! There is no greater created miracle in the entire universe than the human creature. Not even the angels have freedom of choice, or the ability to freely partake of both mortality and immortality, including their respective worlds. This marvelous entity called mankind is God's pride and joy. Not one of us should have the arbitrary prerogative to terminate another. And we do not.
Exodus 20:13 - "Thou shalt not kill."
Seventh Commandment - No Adultery
An adulterer is someone who is married, but commits sexual intercourse with someone other than their lawful spouse. Strong's Concordance compares adultery to apostasy. An apostate abandons faith, departing former beliefs. Adulterers abandon wedlock - breaking vows and destroying the sanctity of matrimony. Since marriage typifies God's relationship with His holy people, an adulterer grievously trespasses against holy principle. The Hebrew language from which "thou shalt not" comes is "lo, lo, lo," which is "no, no, no" or "never, never, never" commit adultery. God says, "NEVER commit adultery."
Exodus 20:14 - "Thou shalt not commit adultery."
Eighth Commandment - Do Not Steal
God supplies all our needs according to His riches. Every person receives what God has appointed to him. According to the talents and abilities that God gives, we earn our daily sustenance. God forbids you and me from taking anything that belongs to others. That is THEIR portion. Imagine the world descended into chaos, where no one could keep that which he has worked to attain; a world without borders, boundaries, privacy or safety. That is the world of thieves. Obedience to God's laws would prevent such a world.
Exodus 20:13- "Thou shalt not steal."
Ninth Commandment - No False Witness
God defends the integrity of the individual by forbidding false testimony. Slander is a heinous, grievous sin against anyone. Lives are destroyed by lies, false accusations and misrepresentations. God demands truth and right-doing in our relationships with others. The devastating sinfulness of malicious gossip and scandalous rumor-mongering ranks equally with murder and adultery in this context. If you cannot say something nice about someone, do not say anything at all. Get the stick out of your own eye before assailing them for their splinter.
Exodus 20:16 - "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour."
Tenth Commandment - Do Not Covet
Coveting is a synonym for lust. When Jesus warned that lusting after a woman was adulterous, He spoke of covetous desire. Since the Garden of Eden, God has always forbidden certain things. The desire for ANYTHING that God forbids is covetousness. Learn what belongs to you, and leave everything else alone. The forbidden fruit is NEVER good.
Exodus 20:17 - "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."
God Is Specific God gave Adam everything in the garden except one specific tree. The story of Cain and Abel taught that God insists on a specific offering (blood sacrifices - not garden produce). Later, God even made specific requirements for the altar itself - unhewn stone. Learn a lesson. If you want to receive God's blessings, you have to do everything His specific way.
Exodus 20:25 - "...if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it."
Sundry Laws Besides the Ten Commandments, God gave Moses countless "miscellaneous" laws. Every aspect of domestic life was considered. Laws about family, commerce, criminal and civil laws, moral, even sexual codes were defined. God's laws were to define right and wrong, with a prescription for punishment for non-compliance. Centuries earlier, Hammurabi of Babylon had written sundry laws on the now-famous stele, but his code has mostly perished. Today, in governments and societies around the world, the influence of "Moses'" law is still profound.
Exodus 21:1 (to 22:31) - "Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them."
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