Monday, February 28, 2011

Ten Commandments - First Commandment



God's first commandment of the Ten Commandments is "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

Our Father God which art in heaven wants our respect! He is our creator. Do your want the love and respect of your own children? Do you want your own child worshipping and clinging to every word of their best friends father? Would you want your son to say, Tommy's dad is better than you. So I am only going to listen to him.

Any loving father or mother would not want their child to disregard them and love, respect and worship another parent more than them. This is exactly how our Heavenly Father feels. He wants us to worship him only. We must give him our best love, respect and worship.

God gave the Israelites and Egyptians eleven events to prove there are no other gods or person greater than him. God performed eleven amazing events to get the Pharaoh of Egypt to set the Israelites free from slavery. The events recorded in the book of Exodus 7 through 12 are:

1) Turned a rod into a serpent. (Exodus 7: 9-12)
2) Turned the river into blood. (Exodus 7: 17-25)
3) Filled the land of Egypt with frogs. (Exodus 8: 2-8)
4) Turned the dust of the land of Egypt into lice. (Exodus 8: 16-19)
5) Swarm of flies into the houses of the Egyptians. (Exodus 8: 21-24)
6) Sent an infectious disease to the animals that only the Egyptians owned. (Exodus 9: 3-6)
7) Turned ashes of the furnace into boil spreading through the land of Egypt. (Exodus 9: 8-11)
8) Sent hail and fire through out the land of Egypt. (Exodus 9: 22-26)
9) Sent a swarm of locust into the land of Egypt. (Exodus 10: 4-15)
10) Three Days of Darkness over the land of Egypt. (Exodus 10: 21-23)
11) Sent a plague upon Egypt, called the LORD's Passover. (Exodus 11 - 12)

Through out these events the children of Israel were not touched. God set them apart from these events. These eleven events proved to both Egyptians and Israelites that God is "I Am" there is only one god and that is the God which art in heaven, the creator of heaven and earth.

As if these eleven events were not enough. God performed one more amazing event after the Israelites left Egypt so the Egyptians would know that God is the LORD. God harden the heart of Pharaoh so he would follow the Israelites out of Egypt to bring them back into slavery. Pharaoh and his army of over 600 men went after the children of Israel and caught up with them by the Red Sea.

The Israelites were so afraid, that they cried out to the LORD. Moses answered with the instructions from God. Told the children of Israel to not fear, stand still and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will show you today. You will see the Egyptians no more after today. The Lord will fight for you and you will have peace. (Exodus 14: 13-14)

God divided the Red Sea for the children to cross on dry land. God blinded the vision of the Egyptians with a cloud so they could not see the Israelites moving and crossing the sea at night. Once they started to cross God lifted the cloud so the Egyptians could gather themselves and follow them and cross at the sea. As the Egyptians were in the midst of the sea, God gave the command to Moses to stretch out his hand over the Red Sea to close it back up. The Red Sea returned to its strength natural flow and killed every Egyptian of Pharaoh's army that pursued. (Exodus 14: 19 - 30)

What an awesome event. God completed what he said he would do. He brought honor to his name and proved to the Egyptians that he is the LORD. There is nothing Greater than GOD. Even the children of Israel after this event feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses. (Exodus 14: 31)

God said the following words three months after he set the children of Israel free from slavery. "I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me." (Exodus 20: 2-3) Read the first commandment of the Ten Commandments in the book of Exodus chapter twenty verse three.

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