Do Not Bury the Ten Commandments Under the Glitz and Glamour of the World

The Ten Commandments won't budge. Written in stone by the finger of God and traced by that very same finger on the hearts of all men, these commands are not meant to be looked at as strict rules, rather they are to help us answer the question: What can I do to love God and my neighbor. Jesus point blank told us in Joh 14:15 "If you love Me, keep My commandments. With this in mind, you can see why the devil works overtime to keep the commands out of our schools and the public square! He wants people to forget how to love God. He wants them to love him instead, and the result is with every act of disorder and violence in this world that is contrary to the Ten Commandments, the devil IS worshiped and loved. Are the Knights of Columbus and Judge Moore the only ones who seem to understand this tactic of the devil? You've got to appreciate their efforts to keep the Ten Commandments that won't budge, on public display! It is understandable to see why the enemy of our soul and the enemy of God seeks to have them removed from public view, but beware when he starts to succeed in removing them or burying them in the church! Remember Josiah and his uncovering of the Law when he cleaned the temple. (2 Kings 22) The Ten Commandments had been tossed aside and exchanged for the trappings of the world. Let us not fall into the same trap in the church today! We ought to be asking ourselves, “ Have we gone for glitz, glamour, trends, and messages that simply paint love of God and neighbor in broad generalizations?” When love is spoken of in general terms rather than the specifics of the Ten Commandments, confusion, and an acceptance of sin is apt to follow! We sing “I love you Lord,” but have no clue what it means....it's just kind of a feeling isn't it? And the Law of God is shrouded under a blitz of ear-tickling sermons and feel good songs. Where are you Josiah! We need you! We need to be reawakened! Pray that the immovable Law of God will be found again, read again, and cut us to the heart again as we see how far short we fall of loving God and our neighbor. Help us to rend our garments and cry out to Jesus for our salvation for He is our only hope! He is love! He loved God and men perfectly! He kept the Ten Commandments perfectly and then paid the price for us, who can't. Do you want to know how to love God and your neighbor? Here it is: Thou shalt have no other gods before Me Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy Honor thy father and thy mother. Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not bear false witness Thou shalt not covet. Only a liar could say that he kept these commands perfectly, and we all know the place reserved for liars on that day! We are desperately bad, covered with the foulest guilt and we have no hope in our own merit! It is the nature of sin (as we said at the beginning) to ruin, kill, and destroy! How deep our fall How black our record! How desperate our plight! How imminent our doom as being foreshadowed by current events! Common honesty puts the words of Paul on our lips: Of sinners I am chief. The good that I would I do not; the evil that I would not, that I do; O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Can worse misery, can blacker doom be imagined! No wonder Josiah wept and tore his garments! Without God, and without hope, cast into outer darkness, where there is only weeping and gnashing of teeth! Thank God that we need not stop on this note of black despair. Thank God Paul did not stop there, but followed his words of frank and honest confession , of unreserved self-humbling, with a triumphant word of hope: “I thank my God through Jesus Christ my Lord!” Just because sin is so black and damnable and we are so hopelessly caught in its toils and so helpless against it, divine grace in the person of God's own Son came to the rescue of our helplessness and sought and saved the very lost. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let us not despise that gracious gift, but today receive it anew! Believe it anew, and then let this new found love of God break forth in your life as you seek to treasure His commands!