https://open.spotify.com/episode/7p2LIAG77lorCIWAxGwhZO?si=NH1pvnZpSZSK7HpSJxq4RQ Much as the first three commandments set our minds squarely upon how we ought to love God supremely with all our being, the three before us in this question focus upon how we ought to love our neighbor as ourselves. These are also the three shortest commandments among the Ten, being recorded for us …
Continue reading Question 11: What Does God Require in the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Commandments?
For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all …
Continue reading We Have Such a High Priest | Hebrews 7:26-8:5
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5fRKheenNLypPHRmgEFgp7?si=rzN_2dO8Q6qBgsR6bRvnKw The Ten Commandments are often divided into two tables, one pertaining to the love of God and the other describing how we are to love our neighbor. The most traditional division is between the Fourth and Fifth Commandments. The Fourth Commandment, after all, requires the remembering and keeping of the Sabbath day holy, while the Fifth Commandment demands honor to be given to …
Continue reading How the Sabbath Calls Us to Love God and Our Neighbor
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6mMNiP0Q0YUak1UUrfbG6l?si=o9oGeIMWS0Sfw2-5Jp9Ytw The two commandments before us are unique among the Ten. Only the Fourth and Fifth Commandments are not prohibitions. God prohibits idolatry, blaspheme, adultery, theft, and the others because He knows that we will commit such sins when given the opportunity. Likewise, He commands us to rest and to honor our father and mother …
Continue reading Question 10: What Does God Require in the Fourth and Fifth Commandments?
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, …
Continue reading After the Order of Melchizedek | Hebrews 7:1-25
Having confessed the Ten Commandments as the summary of God's law in Question 8, Questions 9-12 now aim to give us a concise synopsis of each commandment. Here the first three commandments are fittingly presented together, for these first commandments deal directly with how we are to worship and honor God as the only true …
Continue reading Question 9: What Does God Require in the First, Second, and Third Commandments?
Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things—things that belong to salvation. For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. And we desire each one …
Continue reading Hold Fast to the Hope Set Before Us | Hebrews 6:9-20
https://open.spotify.com/episode/40yeI6Wl0HpPQjie9KWQA1?si=Tdi7x6tYQQqrR5ma2y0mJw Sundays never fail to be tough. The plan is always to have the house clean and organized on Saturday, to do family devotionals, to set out and iron clothes for the morning, to go to bed early, and have a big happy breakfast together Sunday morning. Things never go according to plan. It never …
https://open.spotify.com/episode/63MyuQ969pL3ZKh0Xp9QTp?si=bFxwGX6sQyieK1qUr3ejmA To understand the significance of the Ten Commandments, we must understand something of their context. After leaving the land Egypt, the Israelites set up camp in the Sinai wilderness; there God called Moses to ascend the mountain and receive His words, saying, Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the …
Continue reading Question 8: What Is the Law of God Stated in the Ten Commandments?
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to …
Continue reading Crucifying Once Again the Son of God | Hebrews 6:4-8
B. C. Newton 