Keeping the Ten Commandments E-Book

J. I. Packer

• Herausgeber: Crossway
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2008

Beschreibung

They're often mistakenly considered God's "rules"-his outdated list of do's and don'ts that add up to a guilt-ridden, legalistic way of life. But as beloved author and Bible scholar J. I. Packer probes the purpose and true meaning of the Ten Commandments, you'll discover that these precepts can aptly be called God's blueprint for the best life possible. They contain the wisdom and priorities everyone needs for relational, spiritual, and societal blessing-and it's all coming from a loving heavenly Father who wants the best for his children. Not only does Packer deliver these truths in brief, readable segments, but he includes discussion questions and ideas for further study at the end of each chapter. This book will challenge you to view the commandments with new eyes and help you to understand-perhaps for the first time-the health, hope, and heritage you're offered there.

Leseprobe

Keeping the Ten Commandments

Copyright © 2007 by J. I. Packer

This book was formerly part of Growing in Christ, copyright © 1994 by J. I. Packer, originally published under the title I Want to Be a Christian.

Published by Crossway Booksa publishing ministry of Good News Publishers1300 Crescent StreetWheaton, Illinois 60187

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided for by USA copyright law.

Cover design: Jessie McGrath

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First printing, 2007

Printed in the United States of America

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible: English Standard Version,® Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations indicated as from JB are taken from The Jerusalem Bible, copyright © 1966, 1967, 1968 by Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations indicated as from NEB are taken from The New English Bible, copyright © 1961, 1970 by The Delegates of the Oxford University Press and The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations indicated as from Phillips are taken from The New Testament in Modern English, copyright © by J. B. Phillips. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations indicated as from RSV are taken from The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version, copyright © 1946, 1952 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataPacker, J. I. (James Innell)[I want to be a Christian]Keeping the Ten commandments / J. I. Packer.p.  cm.“This book was formerly part of Growing in Christ, 1994 byJ. I. Packer, originally published under the title I want to be aChristian”—T. p. verso.

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Contents

PREFACE

1 THE WAY TO LIFE

2 BLUEPRINT FOR BEHAVIOR

3 I AND YOU

4 LAW AND LOVE

5 THE LORD YOUR GOD

6 WHO COMES FIRST?

7 IMAGINATION

8 ARE YOU SERIOUS?

9 TAKE MY TIME

10 GOD AND THE FAMILY

11 LIFE IS SACRED

12 SEX IS SACRED

13 STOP, THIEF!

14 TRUTH IS SACRED

15 BE CONTENT

16 LEARNING FROM THE LAW

17 THE CEMENT OF SOCIETY

TheTen Commandments

And God spoke all these words, saying,

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of 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 in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 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 upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands 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 him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall 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, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

“You shall not murder.

“You shall not commit adultery.

“You shall not steal.

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.