God is more than we give Him credit for being! The second commandment is to remind us and command us to give God the credit He deserves. He has no equal. There is no image to which you can compare Him adequately. There is nothing wrong with having something around your neck to remind you of your love and devotion to Jesus, but it is not a replacement for that personal relationship.…
Man was created to bear the likeness of his maker: “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness” (Genesis 1:26). The two phrases (“in Our image” and “according to Our likeness”) are parallel expressions. The second merely repeats the first in different but synonymous terms. Don’t imagine that there is a vital …
When I was in third grade, I memorized the Ten Commandments in Sunday School. At the time, the Second Commandment seemed like a no brainer. You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to t…
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth” (Exodus 20:4). In Exo……
The Ten Commandments 1. NO FALSE GODS: Exodus 20:2-3 [2] I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. [3] You shall have no other gods before me. ……
By Elizabeth Prata The unsaved man says, I am a good person, it’s just that the world doesn’t give me a chance to show how good I am. The saved man says, I am no good. I was of the world and the wo……
A number of years ago I was asked to prepare a teaching on the Tabernacle of Moses—the Mishkan . I had read the endless narratives in the Torah many times where each part of the Tabernacle, meticulously detailed by the Lord, commanded the Israelites to only build a copy of the heavenly image. I h…
A number of years ago I was asked to prepare a teaching on the Tabernacle of Moses—the Mishkan . I had read the endless narratives in the Torah many times where each part of the Tabernacle, meticulously detailed by the Lord, commanded the Israelites to only build a copy of the heavenly image. I h…