THE LIST OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

                                                                CHAPTER THREE

                  THE LIST OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS   

Since our God is a God of order, the list of the Ten Commandments as well as the statutes and judgments was well designed by God who took sufficient time in the mountain writing the list down in a systematic and organized manner.

God did not want the list to be interfered with and that is why he promised serious curses to anyone who would add or subtract even a ‘comma’ (Revelation 22:19). The following is the correct list of the Ten Commandments.

You will realize that there are many lists subscribed to by different people but we are hereby discussing the original biblical list as given to Moses. Kindly take your time and compare the list of your Church with this Biblical one. You will find that they are not the same. I am yet to come across any congregation which subscribes to the biblical fashion of the list of the Ten Commandments. The devil has succeeded in mutilating the lists just to mess up God’s wonderful plan for lost humanity.

God gave the list a certain architectural design which should be left intact since it serves a certain purpose. The devil knows this and has gone out to mess up with the list.  Let’s now do the comparison.

(1)   (Exodus 20:2)-“I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery”.

(2)   (Exodus 20:3-6)-“You shall have no other Gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my Commandments”.

(3)   (Exodus 20:7)-“You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guilt-less who misuses his name”.

(4)   (Exodus 20:8-11)-“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son nor daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy”.

(5)   (Exodus 20:12)- “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the lord your God is giving you”.

(6)   (Exodus 20:13)-“You shall not kill”.

(7)   (Exodus 20:14)- “You shall not commit adultery”.

(8)   (Exodus 20:15)-“You shall not steal”.

(9)   (Exodus 20:16)-“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor” and

(10)                       (Exodus 20:17)-“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor”.

You will realize that most of the churches do not recognize the most important Commandment which describes Jesus as the savior and this is the very first one. Commandment Number 1 has been totally annihilated and described as being just peripherical.

In order to make up for the number ten, most of us have subdivided other laws to fill the gap. That is the devil for you. Some Churches like the Catholics have mutilated the list further inn trying to accommodate their own selfish interests in the list.