I. You cannot keep the Ten Commandments perfectly. • Superficial grasp of the requirements. We have broken everyone of them, either in thought, word, or deed. A superficial reflection of God's law tricks us into thinking we have obeyed and can obey it perfectly. • We need to look at the commandments more intensively. One of the several principles we learn from Scripture in applying God's law is that it demands much more than we expected and that it is intensively searching. If it forbids one thing that it demands the opposite. II. Keeping the Ten Commandments cannot save you. It does not save. It can only condemn. "The law…cannot take care of our sin and fear. It can highlight them, but it cannot cure them." (Currid, 2:50) People try and try but it cannot save; it is merely a standard. III. The Preface to the Ten Commandments shows us the gospel. NOTE: because they were redeemed, because He saved them, because He is who He is, because He is their God— they are bound to obey Him. We are debtors to His grace. What is most important is to know if God is your God. That He delivered you! Though you are obligated to obey all these, you cannot please Him at all. God must be your God first and that comes through repentance and faith. You must submit to His Lordship and then you will be enabled to obey Him from the heart. Christians feel compelled to obey; in a sense, burdened to do the right thing, propelled to acknowledge God—debtors to His mercy. He says with the Psalmist, "How can I repay the LORD for all his goodness to me?" That is his cry because he has believed in the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin and felt the powers of the age to come into his life.
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Dr. Mark Herzer has been the pastor of Christ Covenant Presbyterian Church (P.C.A.) in Warminster, PA since 1997. Before this, he was ordained to labor as an Assistant Pastor of Korean United Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia (1992-1995). He received his M.A.R. and Ph. D....