Ten Commandments

The Eighth Commandment

Ten Commandments

This series of lectures on the law of the LORD GOD, is an introduction to the beauty of holiness. Holiness is more than God’s sinlessness. His holiness is the pure beauty of his loving being. The essence of God’s law is revealed to us in his holy law. As we will see in our studies, the Lord Jesus summed up the entire law with “love.” This gateway into the understanding of God’s law may enable us to see why that the law of God is “holy, and the commandment holy, and just and good” (Romans 7:12). We experience the law of God with unease, because in our fallen condition it confronts us with our sinfulness and guilt. Paul wrote, in Romans 3:29, that “by the law is the knowledge of sin.” Yet, the law didn’t originally have such a stinging effect on Adam and Eve in Paradise. They experienced God’s law as their delight, as it was written in their hearts and as they understood it as the brilliant reflection of their Maker’s glory. Their joy was unbounded as they walked in the obedience to God’s law, reflecting God’s nature in love to him, to each other, and to his creation. These lectures are an attempt to recapture this original intention of God’s law by expounding each of the Ten Commandments through the eyes of the Lawgiver and his reflection of devotional love. May God bless these lectures to open our minds and hearts by his blessed and indispensable Spirit, for the glories of his Law, and even more, the glory of the Lawgiver.

The Eighth Commandment

The love of money is the root of all evil. Though Scripture supports this truth with so many examples, yet mankind doesn’t learn. Greed causes us to lay hands on that which isn’t given to us. It is very unsettling to find your home robbed and precious possessions taken away. Therefore, it is God’s goodness to legislate the eighth commandment. But the extent of not stealing is much broader than literal theft. God also calls us to be good stewards of what he allows us to possess on earth.

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Course Lessons

1. Introduction
2. The God of the Law
3. Paradise and the Law
4. Jesus and the Law
5. The Law and the Sinner
6. The Law and the Saint
7. The Law at Mt. Sinai
8. The First Commandment
9. The Second Commandment
10. The Third Commandment
11. The Fourth Commandment
12. The Fifth Commandment
13. The Sixth Commandment
14. The Seventh Commandment
15. The Eighth Commandment
16. The Ninth Commandment
17. The Tenth Commandment
18. The Law in Eternity