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 ======  1st Commandment ... ======
-Monday, Jan 29, 2018.
+Monday, Jan 29, 2018. What is the most important thing in life? What is your first thought when
+you think about your day? Usually, we are busy with some immediate needs. We think about our morning
+at work, or our morning with the kids. Or we think about our loneliness, our illness, our
+most pressing problem.
+The bible expresses an invitation, to think about this first place in our life. Let us look
+into the most prominent commandment, which takes up this most important question: what is our life
+build upon? What is holding it? What is giving it its spinal column?
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 ** The Lord, your God ...**
+When we look into the bible, the New Testament and the Old Testament, a core part is the ten commandments.
+They build the core of the "old" testament, this first contract which God make with the people of Israel.
+And they build the core of the New Testament, the background on which Jesus and his salvation operates.
+Let us read!
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-And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before1 me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands2 of those who love me and keep my commandments.
+And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before1 me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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+</color> (Ex. 20, 1-6)
+This is the first commandment with its explantory text. God is the Lord, our God. He is the creator. He
+is the initial force. He is the liberator. He is the guide. He is a loving father, justice himself,
+love himself, a burning fire!
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 ** My Life ...**
+In the first commandment God calls himself "your God"! He talks to people who have him as their God, as
+their liberator. This is told to the people if Israel in the first place. Already in the Old Testament
+is it opened to those who believe in him, who keep to the Jews, who honor and obey the commands which
+reflect the justice of the loving father, the loving creator. Then, with Jesus, this is plainly opened
+to each and everyone. Come! Believe! The Lord is your liberator as well.
+Is God YOUR God? Is he the one who liberates you personally? In Jesus we are offered full pardon for
+our sin, for our own injustice. In him we are opened full liberation for our life. We are offered to
+receive God as loving father, in full. Is he our God? When we come to him, when we accept the offer,
+when we start to believe in Jesus, he becomes "our" God. Before that, he is just "the" god, the
+creator, the original source of the universe. Before we come to him with faith, he is just the burning
+fire, which threatens us.
+But when we come to him through the door, which is Jesus, we come as children of the most high. We come
+to him and he becomes our father, our God, our Lord, our saviour, our liberator, our love. Without
+him we are slaves to injustice. With him, we are slaves to the original love, to full justice, to
+freedom in eternity. Lord, be OUR God, please! Yes, in Jesus you provide all the justice we need. In
+Jesus, his way to the cross, his death and resurrection, you make us your children. In him, the first
+commandment is complete, when we open our heart, our mind, our life to you, Lord. You are our God!
 (Roland Potthast)
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