W. Robert Godfrey

And then chapter 6 looks at the warnings from the perspective of the family.

And chapter 7 looks at the warnings from the perspective of Israel's relationship to the world.

And then chapter 8 looks at the warnings from the perspective of Israel as a nation.

And so God, I think, is saying the law may always be the same, but that law comes with us in various relationships that we have as we live.

And the law doesn't become irrelevant in those relationships.

The law remains the great guide that we need and the great help that God in mercy has given us.

And so in chapter 5,

Moses very deliberately goes back to Mount Sinai and reiterates the commandments that God gave there, reiterates the summary of the commandments that God gave there.

So in Deuteronomy chapter 5, we have the second statement in the Old Testament of the Ten Commandments.

Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy chapter 5.

And you'll be glad to learn that the Ten Commandments are the same.

It's the same commandments in both places.

God has not changed His law.

But there is a significant change, not in the commandment, but in the reason for the commandment.

And that is to be found in the fourth commandment, the commandment to remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

Now, in the record of the Ten Commandments in Exodus, the reason we are to keep the Sabbath day holy is because of what God did at creation.

You shall remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

In six days God created the heavens and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day.

Wherefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

So it's a creation ordinance, as our Reformed forebears used to say.