The Ten Commandments
Before we understand what is the purpose of the Ten Commandment, let’s go throught what’s in it.
1. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.
So, my question is how many commandments do we break each and every day?
We lie almost everyday, we commit adultery, we left our fathers and mothers at old folks home, etc. From God’s perspective, we are dead, we don’t even deserve to live, we don’t deserve back to God.
The purpose of the Ten Commandments is like a mirror, to show us how imperfect we are and how sin we are.
According to bible (New International Version):
Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone.
- Mark 10:18
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
- Romans 3:23
If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?
- Psalm 130:3
Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you.
- Psalm 143:2
All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.
- Isaiah 64:6
Although you wash yourself with soda and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me,” declares the Sovereign LORD.
- Jeremiah 2:22
From the verses above, we know that no matter what we do, how hard we do, we can’t wash away our sins. We know as well, only God can help us by His Grace. Which mean no even a single person in this world can obey the Ten Commanments. God knows it before He created us.
But God is love, He loves us. That’s the reason He sent and scarified for our sins. Jesus Christ is the true way, we can’t go back to God without going through Jesus Christ.
Conclusion is, the Ten Commandments show us our sins and Jesus Christ saved us from our sins.
