Hi All,
Just hoping to hear your thoughts on if you believe it is still sin to break God's 10 Commandments?
Let's make it clear from the beginning however, NONE are saved by the works of the law (keeping God's 10 Commandments). We are only saved by grace through faith and not of ourselves it is a gift of God and not of works lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8).
The purpose of God's LAW is to only give us a KNOWLEDGE of GOOD AND EVIL; SIN and RIGHTOUESNESS (Romans 3:20; Romans 7:7; Psalms 119:172) to lead us to the foot of the cross so we can see ourselves as sinners in need of a Saviour (Galatians 3:22-25). Our righteousness is be faith in God's WORD not in anything that we can do (Romans 3:25; Philippians 3:9). We need to be Born again to LOVE and LOVE is the fulfilling of God's LAW in that heart of those who BELIEVE and FOLLOW the WORDS of GOD (1 John 3:3-9; Romans 13:8-10; Hebrews 8:10-12)
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Here is my thoughts. I believe if we disregard any of God's WORD then it is SIN to us because it is written, to him who knows to do good and does not do it to him it is sin (James 4:17). So, if the 10 Commandments are God's WORD. Then I believe it is sin to break them.
Here are some scriptures I have found in the OLD and NEW TESTAMENT saying that breaking ANY of God's 10 Commandments is SIN.
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SIN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT BREAKING THE 10 COMMANDMENTS (Summarized)
God said in
Genesis 4:7 to Cain when he was angry because he did not worship God in his appointed way that by
doing this it was sin. Jesus say the same in
Matthew 15:3-9 that if we follow and teachings of men that break the commandments of God we are not following God. Mankind was destroyed by a flood
because of sin (
Genesis 6:5-7).
Sodom and Gomorrah was
destroyed because of sin (
Genesis 18:20). Jacob knew about sin when he complained to Laben when he left with his daughters (
Genesis 31:36).
When Potiphar’s wife came to Joseph with the aim of committing adultery, Joseph knew it was sin and protested saying how then can I do this great wickedness,
and sin against God? (
Genesis 39:9).
God said that if Israel was not to make a covenant with the other nations and
serve their god's it would be sin (
Exodus 23:33). When Moses was delayed on the Mount with God the children of ISRAEL made an Idol and worshipped it breaking God's 1st and 2nd commandment (
Exodus 20:3-5). Moses said to them after he returned, you have sinned a
great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; perhaps I shall make an atonement
for your sin (
Exodus 32:30;
Deuteronomy 9:16-18). Moses said to Aaron that by making an idol for the people to worship that it was a
great sin (
Exodus 32:21; 30). God would punish the children of Israel for their
sin of Idol worship (
Exodus 32:34).
God said to Moses in reference to breaking the 10 Commandments; Whosoever has
sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book (
Exodus 32:33).
God said that if Israel was not to make a covenant with the other nations and
serve their god's it would be sin (
Exodus 23:33). Joshua says stealing is sin (
Joshua 7:11). Achan knew when he was caught stealing that
he sinned (
Joshua 7:20).
When God's people forsake God to worship other God's, they also confess that
they had sinned in breaking God's commandments (
Judges 10:10;15). Samuel made atonement for God's people when they wanted to return to God confessing that they had
sinned after they worshipped other Gods breaking God's 1st and 2nd commandments (
1 Samuel 7:5; 12:10;
Exodus 20:2-5).
King Saul wanted to kill David, but Jonathon spoke good of David saying to him
no to sin against David by killing him (
1 Samuel 19:4). David cut the skirt of King Saul in the cave and said to him that he could have killed him if he wanted to but
did not sin against him by sparing his life (
1 Samuel 24:11). King Saul replied that in wanting to kill David he
had sinned (
1 Samuel 26:21).
When David became king he desired Bathsheba who was another man’s wife and organized for her husband Uriah the Hitite to be sent to the front line of battle to be killed. God sent Nathan to David and David confessed in doing this that
he had sinned in breaking God's 6th and 7th Commandment (
Exodus 20:13:14). David confessed that
he had sinned to breaking God's LAW (
1 Samuel 12:13).
Now we can also go through all the evil Kings of Israel that
sinned against God by following and
worshipping other Gods which is also defined as sin in God's WORD but there would be too many scriptures (
2 Kings 17:7). God testified that they served other Gods and idols sending them prophets to warn them of
their sins (
2 Kings 17:12-13; 16-17). We are also told that King Manasseh also broke God's 6th commandment and killed more innocent people then most others testifying that by doing this
he had sinned (
2 Kings 16:17). God continued to send prophets to warn his people of the
consequences of sin (
Nehemiah 9:30). God's people
continued in their sins forsaking God's LAW (10 commandments) and in doing so God left them and Israel were overthrown and led into captivity to the other nations because they departed from God serving other God's and idols. Nehemiah knew this and prayed to God confessing
their sins (
Nehemiah 1:6-9). God's people
continued to sin against God by worshipping other Gods despite the warning of Jeremiah (
Jeremiah 44:18-23). In despite of God's Word teaching that God's people had forsaken the 10 commandments and
sinned against God, going into captivity, God promised he would bring them back when they returned to him and heal them
from their sins of breaking his commandments (
Ezekiel 37:22-23).
Hosea testified by the Word of the Lord that God's people by making idols and worshipping other god's, lying, stealing, killing, committing adultery would receive the judgments of God because
they had sinned by departing from the 10 Commandments (
Hosea 4:1-19).
The word of the Lord came to Zephaniah saying that all those who continue in sin by worshipping other God's and breaking his commandments will be destroyed off the land because they
have sinned against God (
Zephaniah 1:2-17).
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Yep pretty clear that in the OLD TESTAMENT if God's people broke any of the 10 Commandments it was SIN.
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Now it is interesting all the 10 Commandments are repeated in the NEW TESTAMENT. Is it still sin in the NEW TESTAMENT to break and of God's 10 Commandments?
NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES
JAMES 2:8-12
[8], If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: [9],
But if ye have respect to persons, YOU COMMIT SIN, AND ARE CONVINCED OF THE LAW AS TRANSGRESSORS.
[10], For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
[11] For he that said, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, said also, DO NOT KILL. Now if thou commit NO ADULTERY, yet if thou KILL, YOU ARE BECOME A TRANSGRESSOR OF GOD'S LAW
Yep, James is pretty clear if we brake ANY of God's Law (10 commandments) then we are a TRANSGRESSOR of God's LAW and commit SIN. James quotes two of the 10 Commandments saying that if we break them we commit sin v9 that are summed up in the 2nd great commandments of LOVE to God and LOVE to our neighbour in v11. Maybe you missed that one?
ROMANS 7:7 [7], What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I HAD NOT KNOWN SIN, BUT BY THE LAW: for I had not known lust, EXCEPT THE LAW HAD SAID YOU SHALL NOT COVET.
Well here we have Paul in agreement with James and John also telling us that he did not know what sin was without God's 10 Commandments. SIN is breaking God's commandments and Paul uses the 10th commandment as an example of breaking any of God's LAW (10 commandments) = SIN (
Exodus 20:17)
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1 JOHN 3:4 [4] Whosoever commits SIN transgresses also the law: for SIN is the transgression of the law.
John is saying the same thing as James and Paul and states that if we TRANSGRESS God's LAW then we commit SIN because SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF GOD'S LAW. So it is very clear that SIN is breaking ANY of God's LAW (10 commandments). We will look at the chapter context John uses v15 of MURDER as an example of sin which is God's 6th Command of the 10.
God's WORD in both the OLD and NEW TESTAMENT says very clearly that if we break ANY of the 10 Commandments it is indeed SIN and we become guilty before God if we are CONTINUING in KNOWN UNREPETANT SIN.
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Ok my friends. What are your thoughts?
Is it SIN to break any of the 10 COMMANDMENTS that were written and spoken by GOD?
May God bless you all as you seek him through his WORD