Anyone help me with the Commandments?

Question

What does it mean to:

Give false testimony against your neighbor(thou shalt not)....does that mean slander them?

Covet....does that mean don't want what others have?

How do you keep the Sabbath Day Holy?

Answer 1

1----to tell lies
2----to have in your heart a wrong desire that you want something that belongs to your neighbor (like his wife) not meaning you desire to have a red truck like his but meaning you want (his) red truck and want him not to have it.
3-----By putting your own desires and agenda on hold and seeking to concentrate on the heart. To feed the soul that day. Bringing corporate worship to God, gathering with His people and spending time with Him.

Answer 2

To give false testimony means to slander or lie about them. To covet means to jealously desire something others have. To desire it to the point of taking it.
I don't keep the sabbath. Every day is holy before God.
The ten commandments were only given to keep man in a redeemable state until the Christ came. Jesus Christ fulfilled all the law so we don't have to. All we need to do is confess with our mouth that Jesus is lord, and believe in our heart that God raised him from the dead and we are saved and our sins forgiven.
Then we are counted as having fulfilled all the law and all the benefits associated with fulfilling the law are ours.

Answer 3

What does it really mean when God commands us to keep the Sabbath day holy?

In understanding our answer, and the true intent of God's word, it doesn't matter whether we celebrate the Sabbath on the last day of the week or the first day of the week.

We also need to remember that there were no calendars when God created the heavens and the earth.

Perhaps He may have begun on a Wednesday and ended the following Monday.

It is only from our tradition that we assume that God started His creation process on Sunday and ended on Friday.

Don't let the "day" become more important than the "intent".

If we look at the portion of the Ten Commandments which refers to this, Exodus 20:8-11, it seems to be very specific.

8. "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9. "Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

10. but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.

11. "For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

The Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

For our part, we are commanded to keep it holy.

But what does that really mean?

Well, basically, it seems to mean that we are not to do any work ourselves, or cause others to work for our benefit.

But does that in itself keep the day holy?

When we read verses 8 through the first part of verse 11, we come to understand that work is basically referring to that which we do to earn a living, or in working around the house, or any labor we participate in daily.

So, if we cease doing these things, does it keep the day holy?

No, it doesn't.

For if it does, then every lazy person, who does nothing during the week and continues doing nothing into the Sabbath day, would be keeping the day holy, too.

And this absolutely is not being holy.

In various places in the Bible we are told of our need to work, for in our work we honor God.

Note what we are told in Proverbs 6:6-11:

6. Go to the ant, O sluggard,
Observe her ways and be wise,

7. Which, having no chief,

Officer or ruler,

8. Prepares her food in the summer,

And gathers her provision in the harvest.

It is obvious that one who is diligent, even an ant, honors God.

To compare a lazy person to a little ant, and to have such a person ranked lower than an ant and ordered to learn from the ant, is a clear indication that laziness dishonors God. This is amplified in the next verses.

9. How long will you lie down, O sluggard?

When will you arise from your sleep?

10. "A little sleep, a little slumber,

A little folding of the hands to rest"--

11. And your poverty will come in like a vagabond,

And your need like an armed man.

So, to what extent does it mean to cease work, that we will keep the day holy?

All regular work: all work that is done to earn a living or for our personal benefit.

Some people carry this to such an extent that they won't even turn on an electric switch, or cook.

But then the housewife will serve previously prepared food to her family.

Wasn’t part of her daily work doing just that?

Don’t rabbis or priests or pastors continue in their daily work on the Sabbath day?

Of course they do; and in their true service, they both honor God and keep the Sabbath day holy.

So, the auto mechanic, the bus driver, the secretary, the bank president, all honor God through their diligent work during the week; and yet if they continue doing such work on the Sabbath, they dishonor God.

But, as we consider the intent, don't forget about people who work in a hospital where care giving is required seven days a week, or those who rescue animals that need the same kinds of care.

Now if the minister of God does not dishonor God by doing the same, what is the difference?

The difference is the intent.

The first example is meant to earn a living or provide for our personal needs, alone; the latter two examples meant to serve the Lord and others in their needs.

And this is exactly why Jesus performed so many of His healings on the Sabbath day.

He did it to show the people the difference.



thou shalt not Give false testimony against your neighbor

The wagging tongue is telling lies about his neighbor. God wants us to always speak the truth to one another.

the 10th commandment
We must not want what others have. The 10 reminds us that a person must not always be thinking of "ME", but must learn to think of the welfare of others.

Answer 4

Give false testimony means saying ANYTHING that is not true about ANYONE.

Covet means exactly what you said.

Keep the Sabbath day holy means do whatever is spiritually sound, whatever is spiritually fulfilling and whatever is spiritually good. Go to church, take a hike somewhere, spend time with family, go on a camping trip, the such.

Answer 5

if you lie thats false testimony.and if you talk about them or slander them its a lie.
and covet is wanting what they have instead of being blessed with it.
you keep the sabbath holy by not doing anything in it except praying and going to church on that day. god made the earth in six days and rested on the 7th day.that how you keep it holy.

Answer 6

To lie or blame others falsely. To allow others to take the blame for you or someone else and not say anything in their defense. Slander could fit that because to slander is to lie about someone's character.

To covet is to be mad that someone has something you want or to be really jealous of them for their belongings. To want something so badly that if you could get away with stealing it, you would steal it in a second!

By participating in Mass(or if not Catholic, attending worship services of some sort) and by not doing any unnecessary servile work(work done by physical labor).

Answer 7

+ You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor (Ex 20:16; cf. Deut 5:20)

This commandment forbids misrepresenting the truth in our relations with others.

This moral prescription flows from the vocation of the holy people (us) to bear witness to their God who is the truth and wills the truth.

Offenses against the truth express by word or deed a refusal to commit oneself to moral uprightness: they are fundamental infidelities to God.

http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt2art8.htm.

+ You shall not covet anything that is your neighbor's (Ex 20:17; Deut 5:21)

This commandments prohibits us to covet unjustly what is not ours and belongs to another. It prohibits greed and the desire to amass earthly goods without limit.

http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt2art10.htm.

+ Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. (Ex 20:8; cf. Deut 5:12)

For Christians, the Lord's Day, is Sunday. The day of the week that Jesus rose from the dead.

We keep it holy by resting from work and participating in worship and thanksgiving (going to church).

http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt1art3.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 8

To give false testimony is to lie about someone.

"You must not tell lies about your neighbor." (Exodus 20:16 NCV)

To covet is to want something you do not have so much that you wish to take it.

"You must not want to take your neighbor's house. You must not want his wife or his male or female slaves, or his ox or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor." (Exodus 20:17 NCV)

The Bible tells us how to keep the Sabbath holy.

""You must obey God's law about the Sabbath and not do what pleases yourselves on that holy day. and honor it as the Lord's holy day. You should honor it by not doing whatever you please nor saying whatever you please on that day." (Isaiah 58:13 NCV)

Answer 9

Jesus (and George Carlin) reduced the 10 commandments down to 2.

Try reading the New Testament. Tear out and offer the Old Testament as a burnt offering to God.

Answer 10

Pretty much. You keep holy the Sabbath by going to Temple or Church.