Principle<\/strong>: Maintain a good attitude toward people and their possessions.<\/p>\nB.Why should Christians study the Ten Commandments?<\/p>\n
1. Not because the Ten Commandments are God\u2019s law for modern mankind.
\n2. Because the Ten Commandments were established on God\u2019s eternal and unchanging principles. Jesus\u2019 law was also established on these same principles.
\n3. Regarding the Old Testament, we are told in the New Testament: “For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope” (Romans 15:4).
\n4. The Ten Commandments are important for society. Any society that obeys the Ten Commandments will be tranquil and peace-loving.
\n5. Therefore it is good for us to study, memorize and practice the Ten Commandments. (Commandment No. 4 is an exception, as Christians worship on Sunday.)<\/p>\n
C. Why are Christians not bound by or subject to the Ten commandments? Because the Ten Commandments originally were not addressed to Gentiles or to Christians; the Ten Commandments were given to the Jews, as we see from the following Scriptures…<\/p>\n
1. Ex. 19:3: Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain and said, “This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel…”
\n2. Deut. 5:1: \u201cMoses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, O Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them.\u201d
\n3. Romans chs. one through three say that Gentiles were under a moral code written on man\u2019s heart by God at creation; this was equivalent to the last six of the Ten Commandments. God expected the Jews to keep the Law of Moses and he expected the rest of mankind to keep the moral law. Rom. 2:12: \u201cAll who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.\u201d Non-Jews are not subject to the law of Moses and will not be judged by it, but they are subject to natural law and the moral code and they will be judged by it.
\n4. Rom 2:13-15: \u201cFor it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. \u00a0(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.)\u201d Nature is \u201cenough\u201d for man to know that there is a God in heaven who created all things, to know that he should be obeyed and worshiped and that natural law and the natural moral code should be obeyed.
\n5. Acts 15, Romans, Galatians and other Scriptures teach us: In the first century, the apostles told the early Christians that those non-Jews who became Christians were not under (subject to) the Mosaic Law. They need not become circumcised and they did not become subject to the Mosaic Law.
\n6. Furthermore, Christians know that he who died on the cross for us was not Moses. And he who said, “I am the way and the truth and the life” was not Moses.<\/p>\n
3. The Ten Commandments were repealed by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ<\/p>\n
A) Colossians 2:13-14: \u201cWhen you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,14 having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross.\u201d<\/p>\n
B) 2 Corinthians 3:4-18, 10: \u201cFor what was glorious has no glory now in comparison with the surpassing glory.\u201d<\/p>\n
C) Hebrews 8:7, 13: \u201cFor if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another\u2026 By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n
D) Matthew 5:17-18: [Several Chinese translations are given: Union Version, New Chinese Version, Today\u2019s Chinese Version, Putonghua Version. The alternate reading in the Today\u2019s Chinese Version is also included.] “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.\u201d The final two translations are correct. Note that Jesus said \u201cuntil.\u201d Jesus did not say that the Old Testament law would not be abolished, rather he said it would not be abolished \u201cuntil everything [regarding Jesus, etc] is accomplished.\u201d After Jesus was crucified, resurrected and returned to heaven, the Old Testament was finally \u201cfulfilled.\u201d Therefore, Christians are not subject to the Old Testament; Christians are subject to Jesus Christ. (Looking at it from another angle, however, the Law of Moses has not been \u201cabolished\u201d in that it is still here! Christians, however are not subject to it and if the Jews would accept Jesus as the Christ and the Messiah, they too would not be subject to the law of Moses.)<\/p>\n
E) NOTE: The reader should not think that I am saying that the Ten Commandments or the Old Testament is useless for Christians! The Ten Commandments and the Old Testament is very valuable for Christians! The Old Testament is \u201ca lamp to our feet and a light to our path.\u201d We can study and obey it daily. However, as said already: We are not subject to the laws of the Old Testament. Christians are subject to the New Testament. For example, Christians should “obey parents,” but not because Moses said to do so, but because Jesus told us to. (Of course people were to obey their parents even before Moses was born!)<\/p>\n
4. The Law of Christ includes nine of the Ten Commandments:<\/p>\n
#1) Command<\/strong>: You shall have no other gods before me. Repeated in the New Testament<\/strong>: Matt. 4:10; 22:37; Acts 17:22-31; 1 Cor. 8:5-6
\n#2) Command<\/strong>: You shall not make for yourself an idol. Repeated in the New Testament<\/strong>: Acts 17:22-31; Rom. 1:22-23; 1 John 5:21
\n#3) Command<\/strong>: You shall not misuse the name of the LORD.\u00a0Repeated in the New Testament<\/strong>: Matt. 5:33-37; James 5:12
\n#)4 Command<\/strong>: Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Repeated in the New Testament? No<\/strong>: God instructed the early Christians to change the day to worship God to the day that Jesus was resurrected, Sunday: Acts20:7; 1 Cor. 16:1-2; Rev. 1:10. Christians should \u201crest\u201d but Sunday is not the \u201cChristian Sabbath.\u201d The principles however remain: People are to rest and time is holy.
\n#5) Command<\/strong>: Honor your father and your mother. Repeated in the New Testament<\/strong>: Matt. 15:4-9; 19:19; Mark 7:10-13; 10:19; Luke 18:20; Eph. 6:1-3; Rom. 3:20
\n#6) Command<\/strong>: You shall not murder.Repeated in the New Testament<\/strong>: Matt. 5:21-22; 19:18; Rom. 13:9
\n#7) Command<\/strong>: You shall not commit adultery.\u00a0Repeated in the New Testament<\/strong>: Matt. 5:27-28, 31-32; 19:1-12; Rom. 13:9; 1 Cor. 6:9-20; ch. 7; James 2:8-11
\n#8) Command<\/strong>: You shall not steal. Repeated in the New Testament<\/strong>: Matt. 19:18; Rom. 13:9; Eph. 4:28
\n#9) Command<\/strong>: You shall not give false testimony… Repeated in the New Testament<\/strong>: Matt. 19:18; Rom. 13:9; Eph. 4:25; Col. 3:9
\n#10) Command<\/strong>: You shall not covet\u2026 Repeated in the New Testament<\/strong>: Luke 12:15; Rom. 7:7: 13:9; Eph. 5:3,5; Heb. 13:5<\/p>\n
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\nChristians and the Ten Commandments
\n\u4f5c\u8005\uff1a\u8c22\u5fb7\u534e \u00a9By Edward Short
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\nA Bible lesson, written in Chinese
\nand based largely on the text of the Chinese Bible.
\nYou may download and print copies of this lesson
\nfor use in your Bible class.
\nWorld Christian Broadcasting
\nFranklin, TN 37067 USA<\/p>\n
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