The Law of Greatest Love
In the history of the world, there has never been anything like what Moses and Israel experienced at Mount Sinai. God manifested Himself in a tremendous firestorm of lightning, thunderous booms, smoke, and the trumpet blast (Exodus 19:16-20). The smoke covered the mountain to such an extent that it was no longer visible and the earth quaked and shook. And out of the midst of this terrifying storm, God commanded His people to stay away from the mountain, lest they gaze upon God's glory while still in their sins and be destroyed. But God called for Moses to ascend the mountain, where God wrote with His own finger in stone the Ten Commandments.
These Ten Commandments are the perfect self-revelation of God's own moral character. They are the Law of God written with His own finger (Exodus 34:1). They are perpetually binding on all people, and will never fade away, even into eternity, for they are the full expression of love for God and our neighbor (Matt 22:37-40; Rom 13:8-10; 1 John 2:3-8). Jesus was very clear in the sermon on the mount:
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (Matt 5:17-18)
It is in light of this that I am branching out into a new writing venture, specifically focusing on the Ten Commandments. How can these commandments comprehensively cover our relationship with God with other people around us? Are Christians still obligated to keep them all? What do we do with the hundreds of other commandments in the Bible? Lord willing, we shall seek and discover some answers...
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