Exodus 20:17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” Allow me to paraphrase the text above, in hopes of helping...
Exodus 20:17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” There are several basic Torah revelations and issues...
Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” Our indwelling Lord is here to abide within His New Covenant disciples…to live, work and manifest His Resurrection Presence from within them. So what is the risen Lord here to do as He works from...
Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” We’ve seen that the true, ultimate intent of the Ten Commandments is to make us aware of our true state in God’s eyes so we can realize our desperate need for God to redeem and be to us what we...
Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” Throughout all of Scripture, God is revealing His living Word. Everything God does or says comes to us through His Word. And the Word became flesh to reveal His Father in terms we could...
Exodus 20:15 “You shall not steal.” The Tanach tells us that the Covenant relationship God established with His chosen people at Sinai failed from the start. Despite God’s awesome forbearance, patience and mercy, Israel continued to revert to her idolatrous, Sin-full...
Exodus 20:14 “You shall not commit adultery.” If they receive proper, thorough training, disciples will learn God’s Blood Covenant ways from His written Word. And God’s ways will be ‘the narrow path’ on which they will walk out their Exodus Journey. The Covenant of...
Exodus 20:14 “You shall not commit adultery.” After we repent of our Sinful radical independence from God, His Holy Spirit ‘impregnates’ us with the Seed of His living Word’s Resurrection Life. Thus the Word of God begins to live, work and produce His fruit from...
Exodus 20:14 “You shall not commit adultery.” Scripture reveals that Sin is the fatal result of having been cut off from God’s Word, our Life Source. It is an active reality that works within us. We inherit it at conception. It’s not just an idea, or theological...
We learned that when the Serpent lured the first two humans into Sin, he decapitated the entire human race from God’s living Word. Because the Word is the sole Source of created life, Adam, Eve and their descendants were mortally wounded by their rebellious...
The decapitation of the human race from the Headship of God’s Word has greatly damaged our nature. This is why God is so intent on leading all of us on the Exodus from that original fallen humanity…over to the Perfect Humanity of His beloved Son, our resurrected Lord...
Exodus 20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.” (Emphasis added. See also Leviticus 19:2-4; Deuteronomy 5:16) As we move forward in our understanding of God’s commandments, it’s necessary...