The Fifth Commandment Honor your father and your mother We are called to observe, respect, and honor the God-ordained order of the cosmos, beginning with honoring our parents, and extend to all properly-constituted authorities and powers, others, and the creation itself. Exodus 20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may ...

The Fourth Commandment Year of Jubilee Leviticus 25:8-22 “You shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall give you forty-nine years. Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of ...

The Fourth Commandment 4.4 Observe Sabbath years By Sabbath and Jubilee years, God reminded the people of His sovereign ownership and provision, of their need to trust in him, and of their duty to the creation and one another. Leviticus 25:1-7 The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, “Speak to the ...

The Fourth Commandment Exodus 34:22-24 “You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end. Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel. For I will cast out nations before ...

The Fourth Commandment Leviticus 23:4-6 “These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the LORD’s Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the ...

The Fourth Commandment Exodus 23:12 “Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.” Exodus 35:2, 3 “ Six days work shall be done, but ...

The Fourth Commandment 4.1 Observe the Sabbath perpetually The Sabbath is a sign of our being made holy to the Lord. Keeping it is of the highest priority for all the generations of God’s people. Exodus 31:12-17 And the LORD said to Moses, “You are to speak to the people of Israel ...

The Fourth Commandment Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy God commands solemn rest for His people, times when they are to withdraw from their normal practices of work to be with Him in worship, meditation, giving, and remembering. We are carefully to guard and observe these times of rest, so ...

The Third Commandment 3.2 Fulfill your vows Since the vows we take in some ways mirror the covenant oath of the Lord, we must be careful to fulfill all our vows; we may only be released from vows by proper authorities. Numbers 30:1, 2 Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes ...

The Third Commandment Do not take the LORD’s name in vain God invites us to take His Name upon us, to be reconciled to Him and united with Him for the purpose of His glory and their blessedness. We must not take His Name in any way other than what will ...