The Ten Commandments - Part One

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The Ten Commandments – Part One
A. W. Pink

1. Introduction
2. The First Commandment
3. The Second Commandment
4. The Third Commandment
5. The Fourth Commandment
6. The Fifth Commandment
7. A Word to Parents

1. Introduction
During the past nineteen years we have written quite a number of articles on the Moral Law, nevertheless we feel constrained to devote the cover-page pieces throughout 1941 (if the Lord permits) to a consideration of the Divine Decalogue. Some of our reasons for so doing are as follows: because of the great importance which God Himself attaches to the same; because we are fully persuaded that there cannot possibly be any solidly grounded hope of a genuine revival of godliness among believers and of morality among unbelievers until the Ten Commandments are again given their proper place in our affections, thoughts, and lives; because some of our friends have requested us to do so; and because quite a number of our readers have been erroneously taught thereon—some by “Dispensationalists,” others by “Antinomians.”

There are two things which are indispensable to the Christian’s life: a clear knowledge of duty, and a conscientious practice of the same corresponding to his knowledge. As we can have no well – grounded hope of eternal salvation without obedience, so we can have no sure rule of obedience without knowledge. Although there may be knowledge without practice, yet there cannot possibly be practice of God’s will without knowledge. And therefore that we might be informed what we ought to do and what to avoid, it has pleased the Ruler and Judge of all the earth to prescribe us laws for the regulating of our actions. When we had miserably defaced the …