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    Keeping the Ten Commandments
    Keeping the Ten Commandments
    Keeping the Ten Commandments
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    Keeping the Ten Commandments

    By J.I. Packer

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    They're often mistakenly considered God's "rules"-his outdated list of do's and don'ts that add up to a guilt-ridden, legalistic way of life. But as beloved author and Bible scholar J. I. Packer probes the purpose and true meaning of the Ten Commandments, you'll discover that these precepts can aptly be called God's blueprint for the best life possible. They contain the wisdom and priorities everyone needs for relational, spiritual, and societal blessing-and it's all coming from a loving heavenly Father who wants the best for his children.
    Not only does Packer deliver these truths in brief, readable segments, but he includes discussion questions and ideas for further study at the end of each chapter. This book will challenge you to view the commandments with new eyes and help you to understand-perhaps for the first time-the health, hope, and heritage you're offered there.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossway Books
    Release dateJan 7, 2008
    ISBN9781433517747
    Keeping the Ten Commandments
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    J.I. Packer

    J. I. Packer (1926–2020) served as the Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology at Regent College. He authored numerous books, including the classic bestseller Knowing God. Packer also served as general editor for the English Standard Version Bible and as theological editor for the ESV Study Bible.

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      Keeping the Ten Commandments - J.I. Packer

      CHAPTER l

      The Way to Life

      You know the commandments," said Jesus (Mark 10:19). He was talking to a young man (Matthew 19:20) who was wealthy (v. 22) and a ruler (Luke 18:18), evidently a young hopeful among Jewish politicians who had quickly, as we say, got ahead. He was glib, impulsive, pushy, and superficial, with, it seems, a habit of dramatizing himself in public. We might easily dismiss him as a bumptious show-off. Yet according to his lights he was serious and sincere, at least in intention, and Jesus, heart-reader extraordinaire, felt real affection for him (Mark 10:21).

      This young man had run up to Jesus, probably elbowing his way through a crowd, dropped to his knees before him, addressed him formally and honorifically as Good Teacher (Mark 10:17) and asked him, What good deed must I do to have eternal life? (Matthew 19:16). The form of the question showed that he saw himself as a special person, different from the rank and file and entitled therefore to a special personal agenda. Jesus, evidently thinking that his interrogator’s youthful mouth was outrunning his youthful mind, countered at once with two questions of his own, both designed to make the speaker think about what he had just said. Why do you call me good? Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good—God (Matthew 19:17; Mark 10:18). As if to say, "Surely you don’t think I’m God—or do you? (You should, for I am.) And surely you don’t think you can ever do anything that is good without qualification—or do you? (You shouldn’t, for you can’t—no one can—that’s why you can only live by being constantly forgiven)." Having fired these two piercing verbal arrows, he turned to the young man’s inquiry.

      You know the commandments, Jesus began (Mark 10:19), as one stating a fact, and as if to say, here is where everything

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