Deuteronomy 5 - The Ten Commandments Repeated | Bible Podcast, David Alley, Peace Christian Church
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Show Notes
In this video listen to Deuteronomy 5 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.
In Deuteronomy 5 Moses recounts the ten commandments. The differences between this and the original version in Exodus 20 is in Moses’ voice retelling. Here we have Moses’ own words, where earlier we had Moses’ recording of God’s words, but the meaning is the same. In the earlier decalogue, it was said here that you would live long if you honoured your parents, but here it is now live long and go well with you.
This is firstly practical, because parents love their children, and honouring them opens the door to their lifelong help and support, but also spiritual because there is a greater reality here than just practical outcomes. Going well with you is also something beyond this lifetime. These ten commandments, also called the decalogue, seem simple to keep at surface value, but in practice are nearly impossible for anyone to keep.
The last about coveting now goes deeper than just what one does, to what one desires, and there we have the heart exposed. Jesus in his sermon on the mount took this point much further when he said if anyone hates his brother he has already committed murder. This is such a difficult point for people to get their heads around, but the reality is that what we love or hate is who we are. Sin is in the heart, more than outwardly.
The temporary consequences of our actions affect us now, but there are eternal consequences for our desires. Verse 33 says “You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.”
Here the command to walk with the Lord is linked to having prolonged days, but it is spoken in a sense of not just one’s lifetimes, but of generations. When we walk with the Lord it has a future effect, as King David did on his generations.