Exodus 20:1-11; Matthew 22:34-40 Today we have received what some call the first table of the laws that govern our relationship with God. It may sound odd to describe the Ten Commandments as “laws that govern our relationship with God,” but that is essentially what they are. As with many things, our culture prefers to individualize and relativize and moralize, and the Ten Commandments are no exception. In fact, we often use them as a baseline for individual moral behavior. I don’t mean to suggest that it is a bad thing, but I do mean to say that there is so much more to them than a personal ethic – even a personal ethic that we might agree upon. It is true that these ten ordinances were influential in the formation of our legal system as a nation, but given the necessary separation of church and state in our constitution that really only applies to the second table of the laws that govern our relationship with God. It is the first set that we’ve been given to think about tod...
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