Exodus 20:15 - You shall not steal

You shall not steal.

Thou shalt not steal.

You shall not steal.

Exodus 20:15

Commentary

When someone steals something, in essence they are being their own provider. They are thinking, "God has not taken good enough care of me, so I will have to supply this for myself..." We are not keeping God first in our life when we steal. Stealing betrays the fact that we think we can provide for ourselves in ways that are better and richer than God! We put our provision for self above his-in essence making our self into a god over our lives. Also, when we want something that God has not yet chosen to provide in our life, and we want it bad enough to steal for it, we have made that thing into an idol. "I must have it!" We have effectively placed that "god", and our own desires, before God and his perfect will and provision in our life. So we see that stealing something is not just a matter of it being wrong to take something that is not ours, but it's an offense to our good and generous God.

Today's Commentary by:
Caesar Kalinowski, Pastor, Soma Communities

Exodus 20:14 - You shall not commit adultery

You shall not commit adultery.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

You shall not commit adultery.

Exodus 20:14

Commentary

This is another one of the 10 Commandments that Jesus taught on. No longer could we keep this command by simply abstaining from sleeping with another person's spouse. Jesus revealed that our hearts commit adultery if we even lust after someone sexually (Matthew 5:28). God instituted marriage as a display of his glory. When a man and a woman submit themselves humbly before God in marriage, the world gets a picture of how God really is. Again, if we live in obedience to the first commandment of keeping God alone as God, we would want to have the same heart toward others as he does. We break both commandments when we see someone merely as an object to be used for our own pleasure. That is playing God and not relating to others in the way that he intended. Taking someone (another persons spouse) physically, sexually or in our hearts is actually stealing from God. He gives marriage to couples as a gift and display of his glory. Keeping God first in our life protects us from adultery.

Today's Commentary by:
Caesar Kalinowski, Pastor, Soma Communities