learning righteousness and wickedness from the ten commandments

the roadmap to national restoration

“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” 2 Chr 7:14

We learned that the Ten Commandments summarize the Torah, which is God’s definition of righteousness and wickedness. If He is calling us to turn from our wicked ways, so that He can hear us from heaven, forgive our sin, and heal our land, we ought to know what He considers righteous and wicked, so that we can turn from it!

Deuteronomy, the final book of Torah, is the book in which Moses undertakes to “explain this Torah” to Israel, as his last act before he passes on and Joshua leads the people into the promised land (Deu 1:5). He does so by explaining what it means to keep the Ten Commandments. The Ten are further summarized by the Two Great Commandments (Mat 22:37-40), and that the Two are summarized by the one verb, Love (Rom 13:8-10). We saw that the Torah, the Law of God, is the Law of Love.

Here is the summary of my posts and notes on each of the Ten Commandments: (the next post in this series is the 1st commandment explanation):

1st commandment: have no other gods before God explained
2nd commandment: do not make idols explained
3rd commandment: do not profane YHVH’s name explained
4th commandment: honor the Sabbath day explained
5th commandment: honor your father and mother explained
6th commandment: do not murder explained
7th commandment: do not commit adultery explained
8th commandment: do not steal explained
9th commandment: do not bear false witness explained
10th commandment: do not covet explained

ten commandments study index