The Ten Commandments: the just love that Jesus works in us and through us by Gregory S. Supina - HTML preview

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A Study of the Decalogue

 

In exegeting the Ten Commandments, my goal is to prove some of God’s own intended meaning and our tremendous need for Jesus to teach us that meaning, in full, as well as how to rightly apply that meaning. For we desire the kind of righteous love that Jesus works in the lives of all whom He is saving. Once we can recognize the power of sin and carnal hypocrisy in our lives, as we strive to do good through our own human wills, we will hopefully repent to Jesus, our God, and beg Him for His gift of His Holy Spirit, for His effective power to build a new life of just love in and through us, to save us by permeating our spirits with our Father's authoritative teachings, to write His Law on our hearts and in our minds. After this salvation process is completed, on the judgment day, we surely will fulfill all Ten Commandments, from the first to the last. But, since this process only begins in us while we live in unruly flesh on this training ground of the earth, and since Jesus begins to sanctify us for our salvation by teaching us the least of His Ten Commandments first, I will exegete the tenth archetypal commandment and some of its related laws first, then work my way up to the first-order commandments. Jesus and His apostles illustrated our inability to obey God by demonstrating how we are unable to obey even the least of God’s commandments. So now I too will try to do the same.