{"id":255,"date":"2015-01-04T12:56:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T17:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=255"},"modified":"2015-01-05T16:22:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T21:22:55","slug":"should-we-observe-the-ten-commandments-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Should we observe the Ten Commandments today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God is the same yesterday, today and forever.\u00a0 He is an unchanging God, and His standards do not change.\u00a0 If this is the case, should we observe the Ten Commandments today?\u00a0 Do they still apply?\u00a0 Are they relevant?\u00a0 If God is\u00a0an unchanging God,\u00a0then the Ten Commandments are just as applicable today as they were when God took the time to inscribe them in stone for Moses on Mount Sinai.\u00a0 Yet fewer than three out of five Americans can name just five of the Ten Commandments.\u00a0 It&#8217;s no wonder that these commandments get broken every day.\u00a0 In case you need to brush up on them, here they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You shall not have other gods before Me.<\/li>\n<li>You shall not make, worship or serve an idol.<\/li>\n<li>You shall not use God&#8217;s name in vain.<\/li>\n<li>Remember and keep the Sabbath day holy.<\/li>\n<li>Honor your father and mother.<\/li>\n<li>You shall not murder.<\/li>\n<li>You shall not commit adultery.<\/li>\n<li>You shall not steal.<\/li>\n<li>You shall not lie against another.<\/li>\n<li>You shall not covet that which belongs to another.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jesus did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it.\u00a0 In fact, He says not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the law until all is accomplished.\u00a0 Moreover, He says that whoever keeps and teaches the law shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.\u00a0 In fact, Jesus says that if we so much as break a commandment in our mind, then we have broken the commandment in our heart.\u00a0 It seems like Jesus was clear that we should follow the Ten Commandments.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t you agree?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God is the same yesterday, today and forever.\u00a0 He is an unchanging God, and His standards do not change.\u00a0 If this is the case, should we observe the Ten Commandments today?\u00a0 Do they still apply?\u00a0 Are they relevant?\u00a0 If God is\u00a0an unchanging God,\u00a0then the Ten Commandments are just as applicable today as they were when&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=255\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,7,19,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}