Importance of the Ten Commandments Today.
Without God’s Laws, a man or even a nation can fall.
If man will not allow himself to be ruled by God’s laws, he will be ruled by tyrants controlled by the influences of Satan.
These are the only two influences in the world, good and evil.
No tyranny is more devastating than man’s own selfishness without God’s Law. The Ten Commandments cannot be broken, only man or a nation can break themselves against them.
God our Heavenly Father wants us to be free and that is why we have Free Agency, and the Ten Commandments are very important for each of us.
We are being tested here. That is why we have our Free Agency to see which way we will choose.
Where are the Commandments found in Scripture?
They are found in three places. Two times in the Old Testament and one time in the Book of Mormon.
See Mosiah 13: 12-24
It was delivered by the Prophet Abinadi to the wicked King Noah.
Abinadi was protected by divine power so he could deliver his message, just before he was burned at the stake.
He also explained that Salvation did not come by the Law of Moses.
When the Lord emphasizes something with that much repetition, it must be important.
Exodus 20: 1-17 This is the first place in the Old testament where the Lord gave them to Moses.
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.
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. (How much of this is going on in the world right now.)
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.
The Prophet Moses repeated it again here and Moses tells of the covenant God made with Israel in Horeb.
See Deuteronomy 5: 6-21
These Commandments are fundamental to our relationships with God.
They are an important part of the restored gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It is an important part of us in trying to become perfect like our Savior Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father.
It is also the foundation for human conduct with our other brothers and sisters on the earth.
The Commandments are divided up into three priorities.
First: The first four commandments show us our proper relationship to God.
Second: The fifth commandment shows us the importance of family relationships and how we should treat each other.
Third: The last five commandments show us how to treat others that are not in our own family.
We must be committed to perfecting our attitudes and relationships in these three areas if we want to be perfected in all things.
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