What Are the Ten Commandments All About? – Exodus E7

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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We often think of the ten commandments as a list of dos and don’ts—the things you need to know to make God happy. But is that what they’re really about? In this episode, join Tim and Jon as they take a deep dive into the ten commandments, and find out why they’re far less about simulating moral perfection than they are about preserving proper worship of Yahweh and the shared dignity of humans as his image bearers.

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0:00.0	The Ten Commandments are still referred to today as a wise and good moral code that we should
0:10.4	follow in honor.
0:11.6	But it's important to remember that these Ten Commands came at a specific part of a
0:16.9	story.
0:17.9	And they're the first of many covenant commands that God gives Israel when they sign on the
0:22.4	dotted line to be His covenant partners.
0:25.2	The equivalent is when you see a couple at a wedding ceremony and if they integrate
0:30.0	into their ceremony, some kind of statement of vows.
0:33.7	That's what the laws are.
0:34.8	They're the vows.
0:36.3	Here are the terms of our relationship and here's the ideals and the practices that I'm
0:40.6	going to do to uphold this relationship.
0:43.1	Now there's going to be 613 commands that we're going to read about as we finish the Torah
0:49.2	and they're all covenant commands.
0:51.4	And these are just the first 10.
0:54.2	They're a primer, if you will, a thesis.
0:57.8	These first 10 set the tone for what kind of people God wants Israel to become.
1:03.8	Their life and their environment and their choices, everything was molded to serve the Egyptian
1:10.0	Empire and its gods.
1:12.4	And so now Yahweh is redeeming a people.
1:16.0	He takes them out to the middle of nowhere.
1:18.3	They have no land, no social identity anymore.
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