Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Exodus 20:1-17
by: Kristin Camenga.
Why should we obey God? God grounded His laws in His relationship with the Israelites. God reminded them of how He had rescued them: they had been slaves in Egypt and God brought them out. He also based the Sabbath command in His creation of the world. Additionally, God affirmed His continuing relationship with the Israelites—for generations and generations, God would continue to either love or punish, according to how the Israelites obeyed. Does your obedience to God grow out of your relationship with God—both the experience of the past and the promises for the future? Or have God’s commands become to you simply an impersonalized to-do list?