The Book of Exodus is a story of liberation. God set his people free from slavery in Egypt so that they could worship God in the Promised Land. The Ten Commandments teach God’s free people how to live free. The first mark of a truly free people is that they have no other gods but the Lord.

Resources:

Exodus 20:1-3

Keeping the Ten Commandments by JI Packer
Exodus: Saved for God’s glory by Philip Graham Ryken
Ten Commandments: Ethics for the Twenty-First Century by Mark Rooker

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