LOVING GOD THROUGH THE 1ST FOUR (4) COMMANDMENTS

Loving God can be done in various ways. For a more focus discussion, we will use the Ten
Commandments as a concrete example on how to show our love to Him.

The first four commandments defined our relationship with God. Let’s look closer to these
commandments that manifested our love relationship to the One God.

THE FIRST COMMANDMENT

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:2-3).

There is only One God. He is the source of all that we are and have. The First
Commandment teaches us to know and love only One God (Monotheistic belief). To
gratefully accept His Lordship and worship Him above everything. We should allow nothing
to come before Him and prevent us from serving and obeying Him, either an object or a
human being. Nothing and nobody is more important than our creator.

"He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me;
and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me” (Mt. 10:37)

In the New Testament, when Jesus was asked about the greatest commandment, He
emphasized that this is the first and greatest commandment – to love the only One and
true God with all our beings.

Some Actions and Practices against the First Commandment

1. Polytheism – The recognition and worship of different gods and supernatural beings.
2. Idolatry – The worship of images, idols and other material things.
3. Adhering to superstitious beliefs and practices – The use of charms or spells,
believes in dreams or consulting spiritists (Deuteronomy 19:10-11)
4. The practice of divination: the seeking knowledge of the future or to supposed to
“unveil” the future by Supernatural means.
a) Fortune-telling or having one’s fortune told. God does not reveal to anyone,
anybody’s future. He is the author of life; He alone knows the future of a person.
b) Conjuring up the dead
c) Consulting Horoscope, Astrology and mediums.

*These actions and practices contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe
to God alone.