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The Story in Review- Chapter Five
The main plot in Chapter 5 of The Story is God’s call upon the living of His people. We all have a picture in our mind of the 10 commandments
In the Hebrew recording of the Ten Commandments the word Commandment is never used. Instead the 10 things given the people are the Ten Words! As a matter of fact there are not even imperatives in Hebrew, that is commands; rather than are indicatives, states of being not states of doing.
Hence the first paragraph you’ll find in The Story and any translation of Scripture of Exodus 19 is God’s declaration, “I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt.” God begins with grace. Because of Who He IS and what He HAS DONE without merit, worth or action on our behalf we naturally belong to Him and will therefore surely: Have no other gods; nor misuse His name; nor disregard the Sabbath; nor disregard one another with murder, adultery, theft, gossip. . . Yet, practical experience proves that we have done just that over and over again. Hence Paul’s words in the 7th chapter of Romans confirms our experience, as “who we are, is not clearly seen in what we do.” (KKV) Kevin Kritzer version
The God Who begins with grace applies the Law as we realize we are not the people He calls us to be in the 10 words (hence we call them commandments). Convicted of our guilt by the very words He spoke about who we are to be, we comes again in grace to restore us. That is where the end of this chapter of The Story takes us, to the place God comes to forgive us – worship i.e. the Tabernacle. Having been restored God speaks to us once more telling us Whose we are by telling us Who He is, “I am the Lord your God who brought you. . .” Having heard Who He is we hear in the rest of the “words” who we are. And having heard who we are we are first convicted and the cycle continues over and over again.