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Exodus 20 – A Free Nation
July 4th is when God gave the 10 Commandments to Israel at Mt. Sinai to announce their freedom from the tyrant King of Egypt.
No? Am I getting my history confused?
This curious confusion points to similarities between our Declaration and Constitution, and Israel’s 10 Commandments.
Read the Preamble in Exodus 20:2, and notice the emphasis on their Liberator freeing them from slavery. How must a free people respond to freedom to stay free?
For brevity, let’s focus on the commands summed up by loving our neighbors as ourselves:
Free people must value the home (5th).
Free people must value life (6th).
Free people must value marriage (7th).
Free people must value other’s property (8th).
Free people must value truth (9th).
Free people must value a pure heart (10th).
How is our nation performing these needed values? Without prioritizing these, a nation will fall like Israel.
They were exiled because they didn’t live as free people.
Don’t be a tryant. Love your neighbor as yourself. Whether as a spiritually free church, or a nation that is physically free:
“For you were called to be free, brothers and sisters; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love” (Galatians 5:13).
Being free is valuing what our pledged allegiance means towards one another, one “nation” under God.
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