September 15, 2025 Morning Devotional
Morning Devotion: Read Exodus - The Ten Commandments
Exodus 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 13 Thou shalt not kill. 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15 Thou shalt not steal. 16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. 18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. 19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. 20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. 21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
Moses was called to the top of Mount Sinai where he received from God the ten commandments. These ten commandments are so profound, so important, and so strong that not one person alive or dead has ever been able to keep all ten. The only person who ever kept all ten commandments was our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Jesus one hundred percent man and one hundred percent God was the only one ever to keep all ten commandments.
In fact, Jesus was the only one who ever kept every word of God, every precept, every principle, and the perfect will of God.
Hebrews 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
If no one can keep all the ten commandments, why did God give them.
There is one very important reason why God gave us the ten commandments. He gave them to us to show us that we are incapable of keeping the ten commandments. In other words, you cannot save yourself by being good, by doing good. It is impossible.
The ten commandments are there to reveal your inadequacies and imperfections and sins causing you to look for something else, beside yourself, outside of yourself, to save your soul. The bible tells us the ten commandments is our schoolmaster teaching us we cannot save ourselves.
Galatians 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
There are many people who believe they are good enough to go to heaven and they cannot even keep the ten commandments.
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
Instead of trying keep the law or religious edicts and liturgical processes which cannot save you, turn to Jesus and He will save your soul. There is no other way. You are not the way to salvation. Your church is not the way to salvation.
You cannot keep the law of God; you cannot present yourself to God in righteousness by being good for there is none good, no not one.
Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Romans 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
The choice is still yours,
Pastor Cook
