The commandments are one of the subjects that is perhaps one of the best know in the Bible.And to our sorry is doubtless less understood.Yes there is a great margin of difference betwwen the Ten Commandments and the Commandments of Love:And their meanings,So in that context we look at them both.

First permit me to look at the Ten Commandment(teaching from the Old Testament.)

EXODUS:
20/1
And God spake all these words, saying,

20/2
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

20/3
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

20/4
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

20/5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

20/6
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

20/7
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

20/8
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

20/9
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

20/10
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

20/11
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

20/12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

20/13
Thou shalt not kill.

20/14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.

20/15
Thou shalt not steal.

20/16
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

20/17
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

20/18
And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

20/19
And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

20/20
And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

20/21
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

20/22
And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

20/23
Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.

As I suppose most all christians know,That God sent the Ten Commandments to the children of Israel and to the people of all generations by and through Moses, even to us today.The following is the instructions that gave Moses.

EXODUS:
19/3
And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;

19/4
Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.

19/5
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

19/6
And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

Yes God sent the Ten Commandments to all generations by Moses, and it perhaps the most widely and popular documents in the world even until today.

However there is some things that in studying we must remember.

1.These commandments were given to Moses,and did in fact become the very center of the covenant of the law.

2.That these commandments is really laws,rules,demands as well as commands.

3.The Ten Commandments are a very important part of the covenant of the law.

4.There is no salvation to be had through the Ten Commandments alone.

LUKE
18/18
And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

18/19
And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.

18/20
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.

18/21
And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.

18/22
Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

18/23
And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.

18/24
And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

Yes we find under the covenant of the law we must keep the law and be justified by work,(righteous living being excepted as faith.)However under the new covenant, salvation of--By Grace through Faith.

HEBREWS
8/6
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

8/7
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

8/8
For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

8/9
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

8/10
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

8/11
And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

8/12
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

8/13
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

THE COMMANDMENTS OF LOVE:

MATTHEW
22/36
Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

22/37
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

22/38
This is the first and great commandment.

22/39
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

22/40
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

JOHN
13/34
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

13/35
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

MATTHEW:
5/43
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

5/44
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

1 JOHN:
3/11
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

It has been said by someone and I know not who;But I agree completely and totally:

As great as the above quote might be,it is the most under rated statement that we very well may ever hear.

Suppose we look just a short time on the love that Jesus extends to us:

HEBREWS:
9/11
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

9/12
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

9/13
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

9/14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

9/15
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

9/16
For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

9/17
For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

9/18
Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

9/19
For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

9/20
Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.

9/21
Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

9/22
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

9/23
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

9/24
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

9/25
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;

9/26
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

9/27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

9/28
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

HEBREWS:
8/6
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

8/7
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

HEBREWS
8/13
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

HEBREWS:
10/1
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

10/2
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

10/3
But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

10/4
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

10/5
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

10/6
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

10/7
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

10/8
Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

10/9
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

10/10
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

HEBREWS:
10/16
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

10/17
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

11 CORINTHIANS
5/17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

5/18
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

HEHREWS:
13/20
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

13/21
Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

At this point we have been studying the new covenant and its meaning,But have not considered its original plans,Now the plan was not just planed and immediately carried out.It was planned long before.So suppose we look at the following prophecies cocerning the new covenant.

ISAIAH
11/1
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

11/2
And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;

11/3
And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

11/4
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

11/5
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

ISAIAH
42/1
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

42/2
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.

42/3
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

42/4
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

42/5
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

The following proves tha t God did in fact fulfill the two above prophecies.

JOHN:
3/16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

3/17
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

As we look back and see all the victories that Jesus bought with His precious blood,We find that great a love is beyond human understanding.

Jesus also had other missions,One of them being the mission of invitation:

JOHN:
14/6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

MATTHEW:
11/28
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

11/29
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

11/30
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

There is still one more mission that Jesus will complete in God own due time

JOB:
19/25
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

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