The Sinai Covenant and The Ten Commandments

Music Info

Pray As You Grow Theme Music (Guitar version)

Pray As You Grow Theme Music (Guitar version) | Noah Lawson (create for Pray As You Go)

Script

0:24

Become aware of your position.

Make yourself comfortable, and let yourself settle into an expectant stillness.

Focus your attention on your breathing, and become aware of God, who is filling you with life, right now.

Listen to this life-giving God, as you enter imaginatively into this Bible scene.

Here, God is teaching Moses. As you enter the scene, listen to God’s words and notice the effects of His voice.

1:34

Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, “Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt and how I lifted you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine, and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”

So Moses came and summoned the elders of Israel. He set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him, and all the people answered together, “All that the Lord has commanded we will do!” So Moses brought the words of the people back to the Lord.

3:16

God spoke all these words:

“I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

“You shall have no other gods before me.

“You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me, and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold guiltless anyone who takes his name in vain.

“Remember the Sabbath day to set it apart as holy. For six days you may labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

“You shall not murder.

“You shall not commit adultery.

“You shall not steal.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking—and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.

7:00

‘God’s treasured possession’ – how do you hear these words spoken to the people of God?

How does Moses respond to God’s teaching?

Which do you hear as the most important commandment?

8:08

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.