The document discusses God's promises and commandments given to the people of Israel, including their journey from Egypt to Mount Sinai. It emphasizes God's holiness, the importance of obedience to His laws, and the relationship between faith and the fulfillment of these commandments. The document explores themes such as the significance of the Sabbath, honoring parents, and the moral implications of various commands, culminating in the idea that only through spiritual regeneration can one fulfill God's law.

1. KNOWING
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The Commandments

2. - Has God fulfilled His promises?
- Where did the children of Israel arrive after leaving Egypt?

3. Exodus 19:1-4
In the third month after the children of Israel had gone
out of the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to
the Wilderness of Sinai. For they had departed from
Rephidim, had come to the Wilderness of Sinai, and
camped in the wilderness. So Israel camped there before
the mountain. And Moses went up to God, and the LORD
called to him from the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall
say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I
bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.

4. - Who brought Israel into God’s presence?
- What had God promised Moses?

5. Exodus 3:12
So He said, “I will certainly be with you. And this
shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When
you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall
serve God on this mountain.”

6. - Was the sign given to Moses fulfilled?
- Did God bring Israel to Mount Sinai or unto Himself?
- What does it mean to be brought on eagles’ wings?

7. Deuteronomy 32:11-12
As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young,
spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying
them on its wings, so the LORD alone led him, and
there was no foreign god with him.

8. - Does it speak of Gods’ tenderness for His children?
- What had God in mind for Israel?
- Was it to let Himself known unto them?

9. Exodus 19:5-6
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and
keep My covenant, then you shall be a special
treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is
Mine. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests
and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you
shall speak to the children of Israel.”

10. - What did God ask from Israel?
- What happens when we hear God’s voice?
- Is faith necessary to obey God?

11. - What happens if they obey?
- Is there any advantage in being a holy nation?
- How many understand the high calling of a priest?

12. Exodus 19:7-8
So Moses came and called for the elders of the people,
and laid before them all these words which the LORD
commanded him. Then all the people answered together
and said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do.”
So Moses brought back the words of the people to the
LORD.

13. - What did Israel answer?
Did they accept?
- Did Israel complain
along the way?
- Were they aware
of where they
were going to?
- Do we need to trust God in order
to avoid complaining?

14. Exodus 19:9-13
And the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you
in the thick cloud, that the people may hear when I
speak with you, and believe you forever.” So Moses
told the words of the people to the LORD. Then the
LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and
consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them
wash their clothes. And let them be ready for the third
day. For on the third day the LORD will come down
upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

15. Exodus 19:9-13
You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying,
‘Take heed to yourselves that you do not go up to the
mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the
mountain shall surely be put to death. Not a hand
shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot
with an arrow; whether man or beast, he shall not
live.’ When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come
near the mountain.”

16. - What instructions did God give Moses?
- Was Israel prepared to meet God?
- What did they need to do?

17. - How were they to consecrate themselves?
- Was the washing of their clothes and cleanliness required?
- What happens when God descends?

18. Exodus 19:16-20
Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning,
that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a
thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the
trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who
were in the camp trembled. And Moses brought the
people out of the camp to meet with God, and they
stood at the foot of the mountain.

19. Exodus 19:16-20
Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because
the LORD descended upon it in fire. Its smoke
ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole
mountain quaked greatly. And when the blast of the
trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder,
Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice. Then
the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of
the mountain. And the LORD called Moses to the top
of the mountain, and Moses went up.

20. - What is God communicating with those visual aids?
- How is God?
Is God Holy?
Is He Powerful?
- How did the people feel in this encounter?

21. Hebrews 12:18-21
For you have not come to the mountain that may be
touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and
darkness and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet and
the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged
that the word should not be spoken to them anymore.
For they could not endure what was commanded: “And
if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be
stoned or shot with an arrow.”
And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said,
“I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.”

22. - Is the Holiness of God a serious matter?
- How is it that Moses is exceedingly afraid and trembling?

23. - How do we get to know God?
- Is it at once or is it a process?

24. Exodus 20:1-3
And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the
LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage. “You shall have
no other gods before Me.

25. - Is God saying to Israel He is the only and true God?
- Why do people have other Gods?
- Why did Adam hide after he sinned?
- Why did he cover himself behind fig leaves?
- Is it the nature of sin to place substitutes before God?

26. Ezekiel 20:1-3
Therefore I made them go out of the land of Egypt
and brought them into the wilderness. And I gave
them My statutes and showed them My judgments,
‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them’.

27. - What were Israel suppose to do?
- Act on the word of God in order to live?
- What happens if they didn’t obey his commands?
- Do we have other Gods?
- What takes the most of our being?

28. Exodus 20:4-5
You shall not make for yourself a carved image—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; you shall not bow down to them nor serve
them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
to the third and fourth generations of those who
hate Me

29. - How does God look?
- Can we give form to a spirit?
- How many images people adore?

30. - What do we need to be holy? Obey?
- Against which of Gods’ attributes is this sin?
His Holiness?
- Can we pass our sin to our grandchildren?

31. Exodus 20:7
You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in
vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who
takes His name in vain.

32. - Is the name of God holy?
- Is not ‘YHVH’ unpronounceable?
- How can we take His name in vain?

33. 1 Corinthians 13:3
Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking
by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one
can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.

34. - How can we call on the Lord?
- Is it only by the Holy Spirit?

35. Exodus 20:8-11
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days
you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh
day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you
shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your
daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female
servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is
within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the
heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in
them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the
LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

36. - What is the purpose of the day of rest?
- Is it for God?
- Is it to praise and worship Him?
- What happens if we break it?

37. Mark 2:27-28
And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for
man, and not man for the Sabbath. Therefore the
Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.”

38. - For whom is the Sabbath? Is it for man?
- What would happen if we neglect rest to our bodies?
- Who is the Lord of the Sabbath?

39. - Is important the day of the week?
- Do pastors and rabbis’ break the law
by working on the Sabbath?

40. - Are we able to rest by ourselves?
- Do we need God to find rest for our souls?
- What rest are the scriptures referring to?
- Do we need faith to enter His rest?

41. Hebrews 4:10
For he who has entered His rest has himself also
ceased from his works as God did from His.

42. Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, that your days
may be long upon the land which the LORD your
God is giving you.

43. - What promise comes with this commandment?
(Long Life)
- Can we judge our parents without consequence?

44. Mark 7:10
For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your
mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother,
let him be put to death.

45. - What happens if we curse our parents?
- Who is the offense against?
Is it God?
- Is there any conditions?
- Depends on the type of parents?

46. Exodus 20:13
You shall not murder.

47. - Who gives and takes away life?
Is it only God?
- Does He delegate His authority on men?
- Is there a difference between judgment and murder?
- What is the driving spirit?

48. Matthew 5:21-22
“You have heard that it was said to those of old,
‘You shall not murder, and whoever murders will
be in danger of the judgment.’ But I say to you that
whoever is angry with his brother without a cause
shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever
says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the
council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in
danger of hell fire.

49. - Who is talking?
- Where is Jesus taking the commandment?
- Is it not from the physical to the heart of the soul?

50. Exodus 20:14
You shall not commit adultery.

51. - What is adultery?
(Sexual relations outside the bond of marriage)
- What if I am not married?
(then it is Fornication)

52. Matthew 5:27-28
“You have heard that it was said to those of old,
‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you
that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has
already committed adultery with her in his heart.

53. - Are we bound by our lust?
- How can we approach a Holy God?
- Has God changed? Where is He taking us?
- Are the thoughts of our heart important?

54. Proverbs 4:23
Keep your heart with all diligence,
for out of it spring the issues of life.

55. Exodus 20:15
You shall not steal.

56. - Who gives us what we own?
- What happens if we steal?
- Who are we robbing?
- Are we exempt if we return the stolen goods?

57. - Does the intellectual author of a robbery is at fault?
- Aren’t we all going to be accountable before God?
- Can we justify stealing when you are hungry?

58. Proverbs 6:30-31
People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy
himself when he is starving.
Yet when he is found, he must restore sevenfold;
He may have to give up all the substance of his house.

59. Exodus 20:16
You shall not bear false witness
against your neighbor.

60. - How do we define a lie?
- Is it in God’s character to be truthful?
- Who is the father of lies?

61. John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and the desires of
your father you want to do. He was a murderer
from the beginning, and does not stand in the
truth, because there is no truth in him. When he
speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for
he is a liar and the father of it.

62. - Can a lie stand for long?
- Who are we children of?
- What spirit do we listen to?

63. Exodus 20:17
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house;
you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife,
nor his male servant,
nor his female servant,
nor his ox,
nor his donkey,
nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

64. - Is there a difference between desires and covet?
- What was Lucifer’s sin?
- What should be our attitude in our condition?

65. Hebrews 13:5
Let your conduct be without covetousness;
be content with such things as you have.
For He Himself has said,
“I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

66. - Was God just by giving us the commandments?
- Are they protecting us from the consequences of sin?
- Do we need to obey them in order to be protected?
- What effect does the law causes on us?

67. Romans 3:19
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says
to those who are under the law, that every mouth
may be stopped, and all the world may become
guilty before God.

68. - In what condition is the world before God?
- Are we all under Judgment?
- Can anyone fulfill the law in its entirety?

69. James 2:10
For whoever shall keep the whole law, and
yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.

70. - Is there grace or tolerance with the law?
- What is God for us if we want to live by the law?
- Do you want to relate to Him as the Judge?
- How do we please Him?

71. - Is God showing us who He is
by the standard of the law?
- Can we be righteous by the law before God?
- Why did God give us the law?

72. Romans 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh
will be justified in His sight, for by the law is
the knowledge of sin.

73. - Was the law given for us to discover our nature?
- What is the purpose of a mirror?
- Can a mirror change our appearance?
- Do we have to follow the law of God today?

74. Matthew 5:17
“Do not think that I came to destroy the Law
or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy
but to fulfill.

75. - Can we justify ourselves before God by keeping the law?
- Are we able to keep a holy law in our fallen condition?
- Who has already justified us?
- Do we need faith to enter His rest?
- How can we fulfill the law? Is it only by the spirit?

76. Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I
am carnal, sold under sin.

77. - What do I need to fulfill the law of God?
- Is it essential to be regenerated by the Spirit of God?

78. WHAT DID WE LEARN TODAY?
- God desires to let Himself known unto men
through a nation of Kings and Priests.
- God’s Holiness is a serious matter
and it requires all our attention.
- The Law is the Revealed Character of Holy God.
- By nature we are enemies of the Law.
- Only by a new heart, regenerated by the power of the
Holy Spirit, we can fulfill the Spiritual Law.
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