What are the Two Positive Commandments? (TMF:1644)

Thursday, July 01, 2021
Peace to Live By: What are the Two Positive Commandments? (TMF:1644) - Daniel Litton
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       “What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead” (Romans 7:7-8 (ESV). I think this section here is part self-explanatory. It’s easy to understand. God had commanded certain things to Israel. We are all familiar with the Ten Commandments found in Exodus chapter 20. In that list of ten things, you remember the two positives commandants? Surely you know them. Numbers four and five. They are: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy” (Exodus 20:8, ESV) and “Honor your father and your mother” (Exodus 20:12, ESV). And the other eight were the things that the Israelites were not supposed to do. They were the bad things.