The original Ten Commandments are written in Exodus.
Exo 20:2-4 “I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.”
You should read it and meditate on these commandments that Jesus summarised as: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love your neighbour as yourself.
These commandments were given to God’s people who had just been led out of slavery, and yet while God was giving the Ten Commandments to Moses, they were worshiping a golden calf. We are also metaphorically born in slavery to the sinful nature. God has written His laws in our hearts. We know right from wrong instinctively. I love the way Paul describes God in Romans 1:18-20. From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made— they can clearly see His invisible qualities: His eternal power and divine nature.
Many people stop at the Shoe on their way to the Kruger Park. I always steer the conversation towards God, and sometimes I am surprised to hear that they don’t believe in a God. Yet they are on their way to the park to look at God’s creation. They can’t get enough of nature and are mesmerised by the animals, the earth, and the sky. I always tell them, if you love nature, you love God because they are, in fact, worshiping God by being quiet. They are only trying not to be indoctrinated by religion. They may ask me why I openly serve God because they can see it is my passion. I use the opportunity to explain the conscience and the importance of having a clear conscience so God can bless you. This naturally leads to the cross, and as you know,w very few people understand the cross, I just give them enough knowledge so they can have something to chew on while resting on holiday. Most of these people will use the internet to find out if this is true, and I must say, Google knows the Bible.
God is my passion. Because of Him, I have air in my lungs and a heart that pumps blood, I have always had food to eat and always been provided for. When I get up in the morning, I quote the first two commandments, and I tell God I love Him before I go to bed. John G. Lake taught me to greet the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit daily. They live inside of us with all their invisible, creative qualities, creating continuously. These creative qualities function in us and through us if we are at peace. Jesus is the Prince of Peace. Jesus said to the woman with the issue of blood in Mark 5:34, “Daughter, your faith has saved you, go in peace and be healed of your affliction.”
This word peace is the Strong’s number G1515 and is translated as ‘prosperity’ and also ‘quiet’. This woman was not a Jew, yet she had greater faith than all of the Jews because she saw that God’s will is healing and prosperity because of the things Jesus did. She instinctively knew Jesus was God in action. Jesus said that he only did what he saw his Father do.
Many people get miraculous healing, but then lose it after a while because they don’t live in the love and peace of God. So Jesus gave her a way to keep her healing. “KEEP YOUR PEACE !” We can all learn a lesson from this. When the conscience is clear, we are at peace.
Prov 4:23 Guard your heart above all else, for out of it flows the issues of life. Prov.23:7 As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
Peace in the heart causes room for God to live in, and then he can bring prosperity and healing, which is his nature.
She took her healing by faith. Jesus did not know who touched him for healing and asked, “Who touched me? He congratulated her on her faith and was amazed by her faith because the Jews of that time did not live by faith at all. This was because the law was taken out of context by the priests, Pharisees, and Sadducees, and they held the people in bondage as they had to obey so many laws that they did not understand the love of God at all, because they were always burdened with guilt. No one could fulfill the law!
Look at the interesting thing in Romans 4:31—we only fulfil the law if we live by faith. Faith in what? The very fact that God is a good God and he wants us to be well in the same way we want our children to be well. The only thing that trips us up is if we do not deal with the past that keeps repeating in our minds and the things we should have dealt with at the cross, so that we can have confidence towards God in a clear conscience.