Thoughts On Exodus Chapter 20.
This chapter contains the Ten Commandments of God to His people.
1. You shall have no other God before me.
2. You shall make no idols.
3.You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
4.Keep the Sabbath day holy.
5.Honour your father and your mother.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8.You shall not steal.
9.You shall not bear falls witness against your neighbour.
10. You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife nor goods.
When the children of Israel saw the thunderings and the lightnings, the noise of the trumpets and the mountain smoking, they were afraid and moved and stood afar off.
Moses told them not to fear, that God wants to prove them and that His fear may be upon their faces so that they may not sin. God also reassured them that He talked with them from heaven to let them know that He is real and that they should not make any other God’s for themselves.
God instructed them to make an altar of earth for Him. If they will make Him an altar of stone, they should not build it with hewn stone because if they lift up their tools upon it the altar will be polluted.
In Verse 26( the last verse ) God warned them, “Neither shall thou go up by steps unto mine altar that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.”
Lessons
1. God Is Very Particular About his altar. god’s altar must be approached with caution !
2. People’s nakedness must not be exposed on the altar !
Prayer
FATHER, help us to obey Your commandments and do your will all the days of our lives in Jesus Christ’s Mighty Name! Amen! 🙏
