See Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve themĤ. The spiritual importance of this command extends further.Īll kinds of superstition are here forbidden and the use of mere human inventions in the worship of God. Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them See Thou shall not make unto thee any graven imageģ. We should not create an image of God in our minds and the big question is how do you imagine of a person called ‘ I am whom I am’, a spirit? If you create any image of God in your imagination (mind), you have broken the second command. In addition, images are created in imagination. It is forbidden to make any image or picture of the Deity in any form or for any purpose or to worship any creature, image or picture. Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image See Thou shall have no other gods before meĢ. Whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God. The worship of creatures is here forbidden and it is idolatry. Thou shall have no other gods before meĪny hobby, relationship, person or anything that comes before or between you and Jesus Christ in your life or part of your life is a god.Īnything that occupies you more than God is a god. If you are one of those people who boast, proud of how sinful you’re not by keeping the law and judging those not under the law, look at the below explanation of the Ten Commandments. Jesus had to break through their pride and stubbornness to show them that none of them keeps the law and they needed pardoning. In can the law save you, the early Jews, Pharisee and Scribes were taking the law literary, only been concerned with its literal face meaning not its deep reality truth and spirit. Explanation of the Ten Commandments gives detailed meaning and breaks pride in Christians.