PRESENTED BY: REV. DR. OSCAR P. GRANT
- TRANSLATING THE COMMANDMENTS
- EACH COMMANDMENT HAS AT ITS BASIS THE ABILITY TO ENLIGHTEN SPIRITUAL VALUES
- EACH COMMANDMENT CAN BE ADAPTED FOR EVERY BASIC HUMAN EXPERIENCE
- EACH COMMANDMENT IS AN EMBODIMENT OF TRUTH; THE FORM CAN BE CHANGED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ALL PEOPLE, AT ALL TIMES, UNDER ALL CONDITIONS.
The First Commandment
You shall have no other Gods before me. – Exodus 20:3
Translates to
You shall look to no other source but God for your supply
The Second Commandment
You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. – Exodus 20:4-6
Translates to
You shall make no mental images of lack.
The Third Commandment
You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name. – Exodus 20:7
Translates to
You shall not speak the word of lack or limitation.
The Fourth Commandment
“Remember the Sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day, is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; You shall not do any work – you, your son, or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and consecrated it.” – Exodus 20:8-11
Translates to
You shall let go and let God do it.
The Fifth Commandment
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. – Exodus 20:12
Translates to
You shall deal honorably with God and with all human instruments through whom God’s good is manifested for you.
The Sixth Commandment
You shall not kill. – Exodus 20:13
Translates to
You shall not take your wealth out of circulation.
The Seventh Commandment
You shall not commit adultery – Exodus 20:14
Translates to
You shall not abase your wealth by idle or evil uses.
The Eighth Commandment
You shall not steal – Exodus – 20:15
Translates to
You shall not seek something for nothing.
The Ninth Commandment
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. – Exodus 20:19
Translates to
You shall not bear false witness against the source of your wealth.
The Tenth Commandment
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave or donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Translates to
You shall not limit yourself by coveting that which is another’s; you shall claim your own.