Jon Collins

Yeah, how you carry the name does.

Yeah, but they are primarily oriented in the human relationship to God.

And that's going to shift.

Command five, the next one, is honor your father and mother.

And it is about humans relating to humans, but there's some deep connection between how children relate to their parents.

and then how humans relate to God.

And so Command 5 is like a hinge, but we'll talk more about that.

But there you go.

We just worked through Commands 1 through 4.

Good work, John.

Let's take a rest.

How I relate to somebody who generated and sustained my existence, that's a unique relationship and that needs to be treated in a special way.

And that special way is called honor.

God's commands will always point God's people towards even more life than you're currently experiencing and avoiding the diminishment of your life.

In its simple form, it reads, You will not make for yourself an idol or any likeness of what is in the skies above or on the land beneath or in the waters underneath the land.

The moment you image Yahweh by something in your mind first and then give a physical expression to that by something you make, you are reducing the incomprehensible transcendent reality.

The Lord has taken you all, the Israelites, and brought you all out of the iron furnace.

So Egypt is described as a furnace for melting down metal.

And this is a very subtle reference to Israel is to imagine themselves as the molten image of God.

If humans are God's image that don't make images, be the image of God to each other.