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  Question 103. What is the first commandment? Answer: The first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before me.   People of the world worship gods in their own names. The reason people create gods is because of fear and securing food, the source of life. At the time of the Exodus, Egypt had their own gods for the ten plagues. The reason they harbor other gods in their hearts is because they seek out objects in the environment that affects their lives. Even today, superstitions are prevalent. When they go to the sea, they seek the god of the sea, when they go to the mountains, they seek the god of the mountain, when they go to thunder or lightning, they seek and rely on the god who can protect them from war, and the god who gives them abundance and blessings. The one and only God is the self-existent One, but in ancient Israel, the Jews called Him Adonai, Yahweh, and each country translated Him by different names, but depending on what kind of God He is, they ...

  Question 102. What is the sum of the first four commandments, which contain our duty toward God? Answer. The sum of the first four commandments, which contain our duty toward God, is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our strength, and with all our mind.   In the four commandments, God tells the people to recognize God ’ s identity accurately. Since they do not know who God is, they make images and idols. So when people call these idols God, they profane God ’ s name. God's words to the people emphasize that they were beings who had left me. They were beings who were in the kingdom of God, but they became people made of dust. However, the Bible says that God predestined Christ before the creation of the world to save people who were thrown into the world. God chose Abraham, the father of faith, and made a covenant with him, and continued the covenant with his son, Isaac, and his grandson, Jacob, and thus led the people ...

  Q. 101. What is the preface to the Ten Commandments? A. The preface to the Ten Commandments is contained in these words: I am the Lord your God, which have brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Here God manifests his sovereignty as the everlasting, immutable, and almighty God; and as the One who subsists in himself, and who gives being to all his words and works; and as the God who made a covenant with all his people, as he did with Israel of old; and as he brought Israel out of the bondage of Egypt, so he has delivered us from the bondage of spiritual slavery; and this God alone is our God, and we are to keep all his commandments. Exodus 20:2 "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery." The Book of Exodus is about Moses leading the Israelites to Mount Sinai and receiving the Ten Commandments from God. The content mentioned in Exodus 20:2 was the two stone tablets that God had initially made. However, w...

  Question 100. What special things are to be considered in the Ten Commandments? Answer. We are to consider the preface, the content of the Ten Commandments themselves, and some reasons attached to some of them to strengthen them. In the Ten Commandments, God tells us not to do something and to do something. The rules for not doing something are because the people act against God's will, so they are told not to do it, and because they do not do what they should do, God tells them to do it. The Ten Commandments are God's way of letting us realize the spiritual state of people through the affairs of this world and to let us know what spiritual things we need to restore. If you think that the Ten Commandments are God's commandments and that you must follow them, then you do not understand God's will. Therefore, believers must understand and realize what God wants from humans through the Ten Commandments. They must examine how God enables humans to awaken spiritual...

  Question 99. What rules must we observe in order to understand the Ten Commandments correctly? Answer. In order to understand the Ten Commandments correctly, the following rules must be observed: 1. The law is perfect, and requires that every one follow its righteousness fully and for ever, and that he should thoroughly and completely fulfill all his duties, and forbid any sin, even the least. 2. The law is spiritual, and covers not only words, actions, and manners, but also the understanding, will, affections, and all other parts of the soul. 3. The same things in various respects are commanded or forbidden in several commandments. 4. Where a duty is commanded, the opposite sin is also forbidden, and where a sin is forbidden, the opposite duty is commanded, and where a promise is added, the opposite threatening is included, and where a threatening is added, the opposite promise is included. 5. What God forbids is not always to be done, but what he commands is always ou...

  Question 98. Where is the moral law summarized and contained? Answer. The moral law is summarized and contained in the Ten Commandments, which were spoken by God's voice on Mount Sinai and written by Himself on two stone tablets, and are recorded in Exodus 20. The first four commandments contain our duty to God, and the remaining six contain our duty to man.   The two stone tablets on which the moral law was inscribed as commandments were carved in two stages. The first two stone tablets were made by God Himself and given to Moses, but the second two stone tablets had to be made by Moses. The first stone tablets showed what God ’ s people had to keep and do, but the second stone tablets were for the people to engrave in their hearts and think about and practice God ’ s will. The first and second stone tablets are like the first man Adam and the last man Adam. The first man Adam was given a body of sin, and the second man Adam was given a body of spirit. Therefore, ...

  Question 97. What special use is there of the moral law to the regenerate? Answer. Those who are regenerate and believe in Christ are free from the moral law as a covenant of works, and are thereby neither justified nor condemned. But besides the general use of the moral law, which is common to all men, it is of a special use, to show how closely they are connected with Christ, who himself fulfilled it, and was cursed for them, and thereby to make them more thankful, and to show this gratitude to follow it more carefully as the rule of their life.   The law is not necessary for those who are born again. This is because they are guided by the Holy Spirit. However, even if they are born again, they still have a body, and that body cannot help but be ruled by the world. However, even in this case, the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, helps the believer, but the question arises as to whether the believer should live while looking at the provisions of the law and examining wheth...