Exodus 20

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 

 

1 And God spake all these words, saying,

 

2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

 

3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

 

4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

 

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate ME;

 

6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love ME, and keep MY commandments.

 

7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh HIS name in vain.

 

8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

 

(The New Testament sabbath is not the same as the Old Testament Sabbath in requirements.  In the OT the people could not go out of their tents on the sabbath.  They could not cook their food on the sabbath.  NT sabbath is a continual rest, day by day, trusting in the Word of God and ceasing from their own works as God did from HIS.  Hebrews 3  For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; 15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.17 But with whom was HE grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom sware HE that they should not enter into HIS rest, but to them that believed not? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. Hebrews 4  Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. 6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.)

 

Acts 15  (New Testament Church)

 

1 And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

 

2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

 

4 And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.

 

5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

 

6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.

 

7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.

 

8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as HE did unto us;

 

9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

 

10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

 

(The of the Jews weren't even able to keep the Law of Moses, says Peter.  The New Testament Church has the New Testament Scripture which show the NT laws of God for the NT Church.  We in the church today keep those commandments of God that are in the NT Bible.)

 

11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

 

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Exodus 20

 

9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

 

10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

 

11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

 

12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

 

13 Thou shalt not kill.

 

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

 

15 Thou shalt not steal.

 

16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

 

17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

 

(All commandments apply to the New Testament Church except for the rules pertaining to the sabbath and we have different rules for the sabbath.  We have a continual sabbath daily as we rest in God's Word and do HIS works told to us by the New Testament Bible and the Holy Spirit.)

 

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18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

 

19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

 

20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that HIS fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

 

21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

 

22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.  (Today God speaks to us from heaven through the Holy Spirit who brings thoughts from God to our mind and dreams.)

 

23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.

 

24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. (We do not sacrifice animals today as they did in Old Testament.  The blood of Jesus is our sacrifice in the New Testament church today.)

 

25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

 

(Basically man pollutes all that he touches except for that which God tells him to do.)

 

26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

 

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