Follow the Commandments - Or Else
Uploaded by Adrieweth on Nov 14, 1999
There are public institutions that want the Ten Commandments displayed. If that is done the penalty for breaking a commandment should also be displayed. The New Testament teaches that the Old Testament should be obeyed. This includes both the Commandments and the results of not following the Commandments.
Jesus said in John 10:35
"Scripture cannot be broken."
This statement was made after he had said in John 5:46-47
"For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?"
First Commandment, Exodus 20:3
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
The punishment - Deuteronomy 17:3-5
"And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die."
More punishment - Exodus 22:20
"He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed."
New Testament punishment - Mark 16:16
"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned."
Second Commandment, Exodus 20:4-5
"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God."
Third Commandment, Exodus 20:7
"Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain."
The punishment - Leviticus 24:16
"And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death."
New Testament punishment - Matthew 12:32
"And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the...