Try Not To Break These

Deuteronomy 10: 1 – 22

Try not to break these

10 “At that time the LORD said to me, ‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an ark of wood. 2 And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you shall put them in the ark.’ 3 “So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. 4 And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the LORD had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me. 5 Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are, just as the LORD commanded me.” 6 (Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron died, and where he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his stead. 7 From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of rivers of water. 8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to Him and to bless in His name, to this day. 9 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, just as the LORD your God promised him.) 10 “As at the first time, I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; the LORD also heard me at that time, and the LORD chose not to destroy you. 11 Then the LORD said to me, ‘Arise, begin your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’ 12 “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I command you today for your good? 14 Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the LORD your God, also the earth with all that is in it. 15 The LORD delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day. 16 Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer. 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. 18 He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. 19 Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20 You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name. 21 He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen. 22 Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.

With a warped humor I have heard some bible teachers try to be funny by saying that the Israelites broke the first two commandments when they made the molten image but when Moses came down from the mountain he broke all of the Ten Commandments at one time (He threw the stone tablets down when he saw the Israelites worshiping the golden calf).

I think from our last study in chapter 9 after hearing Moses further description of what took place that day there was nothing funny which could be taken from this sad event. In fact if it wasn’t for Moses intervention with prayer and fasting to our Holy God Yahweh all the Israelites would have been killed including Aaron for their sin.

A very important fact for us to solidify in our minds is that we need to be aware that when we break one of the Ten Commandments we have done worse than the Israelites for we in truth have broken or violated all of the Ten Commandments.

You are probably wondering how you can break them all. We do so in two ways; first by our actions we break them all and secondly, by God’s standards we break them all. If you are sincere in regards to understanding the importance of this fact then I want you to be honest and take your own inventory. I want you to think about a time that you committed a certain sin. What is interesting is that it does not become a factor on what sin you did. Sin is sin. Now I am going to go over each Commandment and how you broke it.