Ten Commandments

Last Sunday we continued our series on Genesis to Revelation by looking at the Ten Commandments from Deuteronomy 5:6-21. For details on the message, you can go to www.meafordbaptist.ca (for the next few weeks) and www.stephenjbedard.com. The basic idea was that the Ten Commandments must be interpreted in their original context. The Ten Commandments appear in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. The Deuteronomy version was given to a generation that had not experienced (at least in maturity) the exodus from Egypt. Each of the Ten Commandments are based in the importance of remembering God's saving activity and responding accordingly. As Christians, we are not saved by obedience to the Ten Commandments (which we can not fully do anyway). Rather, the Ten Commandments are very helpful in shaping us into the Christ-like image that God wants us to be.