The Second Commandment Deuteronomy 18:9-13 “When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who ...

The Second Commandment 2.4 Reject pagan practices God’s people must not adopt, for any reason, the harmful, disgusting practices of the pagan practices they are called to displace. Leviticus 18:21 “You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I ...

The Second Commandment 2.3 Make no idols God commands us to find Him and Him alone all-sufficient for our needs, and thus to focus all our worship and devotion on Him, and to give none to idols. Exodus 20:23 “You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you ...

The Second Commandment Deuteronomy 13:12-18 “If you hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you to dwell there, that certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which ...

The Second Commandment 2.2 Guard against being drawn away We must beware of those who would lead us away from the Lord, and we must prove our love for Him by resisting their allurements and clinging in love and fear to the Lord alone. Deuteronomy 13:1-5 “If a prophet or a dreamer of ...

The Second Commandment 2.1 Worship God’s way The worship of God is not to be conducted with pagan ways or practices. All elements of pagan worship are to be excluded from the worship of God, Who is holy and pure, and Who shows us how to worship Him as we ought. Exodus ...

The Second Commandment Exodus 20:4-6 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I ...

The First Commandment Leviticus 27:14, 15 “When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the LORD, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth ...

The First Commandment Leviticus 27:28, 29 “But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the LORD, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD. No one devoted, who is to be ...

The First Commandment Deuteronomy 14:22, 23 “You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year. And before the LORD your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of ...