RMC

The question was posed to me, what is the most important Commandment? Usually what is listed at the top of a list, is ones most important subject. Or in this case, when God delivered the Mosaic Covenant, God’s first Commandment was: ‘You shall have no other gods before me.”(Exodus 20: 3)

God had just delivered the Jews from Egyptian slavery. But it is written that God’s voice could be heard surrounding Sinai. (Exodus 19:9-25). God delivered his Covenant, or translated… (Promise, to the Jewish people), in anger.

Saying in Chapter 20, verse 5, “for I am a jealous God.” The God’s of the Egyptians were luxuriant. And the ways and traditions of the Egyptians, had clouded their minds.

God had to reveal himself to Moses. Then God had to reveal himself to the Jewish Nation he delivered from oppression. At the time of their deliverence, and at the time of their celebration, God became an angry God.

Wherein God delivers what is known as the Fifth Dispensation in Theology. The Law. In it, he describes the Commandments (Ex. 20:1-26), The Judgements (Ex. 21:1-24:11) and the Ordinaces (Ex. 24:12-31:18).

I’m no scholar, I’m not even a good Christian in some of my thoughts. But who isn’t? All have come short of the glory of God. In Romans, Paul writes to his Church in Rome, explaining that ALL have fallen short of the glory of God.

Romans, Chapter 3, verse 12,”Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.”

I myself have pondered what I consider the contortion of God’s Word, the Bible, in my own rights. I rely on the New American Standard Translation or the English Standard Version translations. For their translations are more aligned to the actual translation of the original text of the Bible. I have found.

I have a Bible, of which, I actually consider heresy. That is the TNIV version of the Bible. Though I find it a clear copy of the NIV, the gender Neutrality of its nature turned me from the entire NIV translation all together. In some ways I find the NASB very similar to the ESV.

In many ways the ESV offers a more understandable version of the NASB. I think the NASB can be a little vague and hard to understand. I think the ESV sought to correct this if I remember correctly.

Then again I am just human. To be human is to er as an English Poet once wrote. The journey to a truly English translation has been fraught over the years. Wars have been fought in the name of God.

Wars are still being fought in the name of God. In Romans, Paul addresses his Church with hope.

Chapter 8 of Romans verses 24-26 describe “Life In The Spirit” according to an ESV Bible I use to help me read a NASB Study Bible I have.

In the ESV translation, of which I don’t quote from, Paul delivers the Church in Rome hope.

Romans, Chapter 8:
24-“For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?” 25-“But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.” (NASB)

God delivers hope. For hope heals. Hope gives us dreams. Yet in life, the tongue is an asp. The Book Of Hebrews speaks of the Spirit of God as the indwelling Intercessor for hope. (Hebrews, 7: 25).” Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.” Referring to Christ Jesus, God and the Spirit. Also known as the Holy Trinity.

Hebrews is speaking of this in response to the Priests that were killed in delivering God’s Covenant, or promise, that was filled by the Son Of God, Jesus.

“The former priests” in Hebrews 7, verse 23, how they were prevented by death from continuing in the Spirit, were forgiven and given a path to Salvation through God’s manifestation of himself through Christ Jesus according to the New Testament.

This is why the Book of Hebrews, in the New Testament, is considered by some to be of unknown authorship. Though most consider Paul to be it’s author.

Continuing in verse 26, Hebrews:…’the Spirit Himself interecedes for us with groanings too deep for words; 27- and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He interecedes for the saints according to the will of God.’

Hebrews expresses the fact that Christ Jesus is the promise fulfilled by God in his Covenant with the Jewish People to whom he spoke at Mount Sinai. How it is now through faith and belief that God can have an impact on our lives.

It is through Jesus we have learned the Golden rule. For Jesus was asked, or tested really, about what the most important, or the greatest Commandment was. So, in Matthew, Jesus responds accordingly at the Sermon on the Mount.

Jesus was tested and scrutinized his entire life and in the end was crucified for his failure to consider Roman Law. Jesus was even tempted by the Devil himself. Every day, is a test.

When we consider God, we must consider our own personal experience with God. How God has impacted our lives, how God has either answered your questions or if He has given you hope. Either way it has always come down to faith.

Faith that there is indeed something greater than us. Something that keeps us obedient to the basic principles that of which we should live by. Because life is about the journey. We are all headed to the grave, it’s how we get there that determines our echo in eternity.