Ten Commandments

doctrine · 12 episodes

220Give Unto Caesar... 7 Jul 2025 37:42¶ 114 “The Heidelberg Catechism comes close to being guilty of this. I won’t charge it with error, but it asks how are the commandments divided.…” 38:12¶ 115 “We look at the first four and say, “That emphasizes our duty to God, and the last six emphasize our duty to man,” and…” 36:41¶ 112 “He keeps saying it. Why is that? Because it’s the same commandment, because you cannot love God if you don’t love your neighbor. To…”

186The Worldview that Shaped Western Civilization 25 Mar 2024 0:10¶ 1 “Welcome to Halting Toward Zion, the podcast where we limp like Jacob to the Promised Land and talk about life, the universe, and everything…” 14:11¶ 48 “And so with each of the commandments. The world does not agree. There is no common law of nations. Deuteronomy tells us that every…” 14:34¶ 49 “In the second table of the law, as it’s sometimes called, the last five commandments or so, depending on how you want to slice…”

185The Law on Mount Sinai 18 Mar 2024 17:41¶ 59 “It was a logical development out of their religion, but their gods didn’t tell them to do any of these things. They just figured…” 18:47¶ 62 “Well, you know all kinds of things, just practical things like the ten commandments. Yeah, the ten commandments. Why are there ten of them?…” 19:03¶ 63 “I began to appreciate the question at the time. I know much better now what the answers are. I had some of the answers…”

152A New Law (Part 1) 9 Jan 2023 11:36¶ 56 “Yeah, what is this law thing we speak of? There are a number of ways of getting at it. The simplest one, I suppose…” 12:03¶ 57 “There’s only one God, so why would we want to worship anyone else?” 12:08¶ 58 “God has revealed himself in Christ, who is his very image. Why would we want to make physical images?”

148Through Fiery Trials 12 Dec 2022 18:53¶ 61 “These men knew the law of God very well. It’s not so much that they knew it really well, it’s that we know it…” 19:21¶ 62 “Then there are those who, also not knowing the law, who will object to the idea of law. “We serve because of the promptings…” 19:52¶ 69 “You keep talking about law and how bad law is. Do you even know what these laws command?”

51Prophecy and the Ten Commandments 20 Dec 2020 38:37¶ 128 “One thing that we’ve tried to do in this series is to show how each of the commandments is rooted in the triune nature,…” 38:55¶ 129 “No, these are things that grew out of who God is, and God can’t rewrite them or stuff them in a corner someplace, or…” 40:04¶ 135 “I think part of the problem honestly is there’s such an ignorance of what the Ten Commandments actually say. If you turn to someone,…”

50Bonus - Panel Discussion on Christian Education 13 Dec 2020 35:22¶ 116 “Just this week I was teaching the Ten Commandments to my students in their Bible class. We’re going through the history of the Old…” 35:44¶ 117 “I had them raise their hands and I asked them, “How many of your churches read the Ten Commandments on a regular basis?” and…” 36:02¶ 118 “This is the transcript of God’s character and it’s not there for us to be saying we have to do all these things and…”

49Social Vision and the Ten Commandments (Part 2) 6 Dec 2020 8:10¶ 26 “Yeah, Rutherford (Lex Rex) and represented without an explicit appeal to God – God’s in the picture, but he doesn’t do much – so…” 9:01¶ 28 “Yeah, God, we kinda did it your way.” No, that’s not it. We do it God’s way or we don’t. “There is another king,…” 16:06¶ 53 “The second commandment says “No graven images,” and generally conservatives are okay with that, if only because they don’t want to talk too closely…”

48Social Vision and the Ten Commandments (Part 1) 29 Nov 2020 3:04¶ 9 “We’ve looked at the commandments individually, and it’s time now to look at them as a whole and kind of walk back through the…” 2:02¶ 7 “My wife is just finishing up talking about the Ten Commandments in her Bible class at school. This is a Christian school, and these…” 8:05¶ 28 “With that as a background, we want to talk about the Ten Commandments this week and next week, and probably for a couple more…”

41The Metaphysics of Fatherhood 11 Oct 2020 23:28¶ 77 “As you said, Emily, the Ten Commandments are an outflowing of who he is. God didn’t look around the universe and say, “I’ve got…” 24:03¶ 78 “Most people don’t even give it that much thought. They just say, “These are the commandments.” No. Most people don’t know what the commandments…” 25:16¶ 81 “The average Christian doesn’t, so we’re not much better than the liberals and the nominal Christians – Christmas/Easter Christians – who are willing to…”

40Sociology of the Sabbath 4 Oct 2020 0:10¶ 1 “Welcome to Halting Toward Zion, the podcast where we limp like Jacob to the Promised Land and talk about life, the universe, and everything…” 0:33¶ 2 “We have come to the fourth commandment in the Reformed reckoning, as opposed to the Catholic or Lutheran reckoning, which is the commandment regarding…”

34The Right to Imperfect Justice 23 Aug 2020 37:31¶ 146 “But most citizens can’t quote those. Most Christians can’t quote the ten commandments, as a matter of fact.” 37:47¶ 148 “I occasionally screw up 7 and 8, but you know what they are and you probably can say them in order. As part of…” 38:29¶ 152 “I asked you if you meant according to the Protestant or the Lutheran/Catholic number.”