Anchormen Ep29, The Ten Commandments Pt 2

So what do the 10 commandments mean to me in 2026?

We discussed in part one how the 10 commandments were not written to us so does that mean we don't have to follow or live by them?

Well hold on there bucko, not so fast. Just because they were not written TO US, there's way more significance in what they mean to us now then aver trying to live "By The LAW" then we have now to Live By The Spirit. 

Listen to part two as we unwrap the real case of the 10 commandments.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:09

In our walk with God, we often experience moments when our faith is tested. It's in these times that we truly discover what it means to be anchored in faith. Our faith is like a sturdy ship anchored in the harbor. It keeps us grounded when the waves of life toss us around. When we lean on God and His Word, we find the strength to persevere and trust in His plan. The Anchormen remind us weakly that Jesus is our anchor, providing stability and insurance in the midst of uncertainty. Together, let's dive deeper into the powerful words that encourage us to hold fast in the faith of Jesus alone and not rely on our good words to gain righteousness. Picking up right here where we left off last week, and we're going to start part two of the Ten Commandments with Bob and John and Todd the Anchorman Anchored by Grace.

SPEAKER_01 1:12

We're not there to judge each other. And if Jesus isn't judging, why should we? And that's a big one for me. I get challenged by my kids sometimes because I'll disapprove of someone's lifestyle or clothing or the way they carry themselves or something they say. And I'll be judgmental. I'll be critical of that. And they'll be like, Dad, if you're a believer, I thought, shouldn't you love those people, even though they have those things? And they're right. But it to me, when I was transforming to a new Christian believer as we are now, I would I would say that it's caused me to want to see myself cleaner than I see a brother, as opposed to not a comparison.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

Why we should never do that.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

And that's our lifestyle, and I don't know what happened to them during their lives to cause them to act a certain way or act out a certain way or be raised a certain way, or have different thoughts than I do. And doesn't mean that they can't love God and Jesus and Jesus can't forgive them just as equal.

SPEAKER_02 2:14

Right.

SPEAKER_01 2:14

Even though they might believe in homosexuality or this or that or whatever it might be. An alcoholic, a drug addict, whatever these things are. So who am I to judge them? Because it's not up to me to know what's gone on in their lives when they might change and what hurt they have that's carrying some of those actions. But I can look and say, well, at least I'm not that person. At least I'm not doing what they should do. And I don't think they should do that.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

Don't we do that all the time? It's the world works. We do.

SPEAKER_01 2:42

It's a worldly thing, it's a comparison thing. And Jesus never says in the New Testament, compare yourself to someone else. That's not biblical. But that's that's custom and practice in our lives is to compare. Well, it's like what you got better than this, and I have better that. And she says this, but at least I don't say that. There's a lot of that goes on, and that's not scriptural or uh biblical.

SPEAKER_03 3:04

And what do we hear from one of the pastors that we listen to? He says it's not our job to change people, it's our job to love them.

SPEAKER_01 3:12

Yeah. So we should love them unconditionally like Christ loves us, yes, and let them live their life. And if it changes over time, it may. And if it doesn't change, it's not something that we should judge and say, well, they're gonna be a bad person, they're gonna have this. Look at some of the look at Paul. Paul did all these kind of things to you know, to believers and this and that, and then he was told a lot of the disciples, right? A lot of them were a lot of the disciples had troubles because they were human, yeah, and they lived in a human world. And Jesus never said, I'm not gonna pick you because I picked you because you're the cleanest. Uh James, you know, he picked all these people strategically because they lived real lives. Fishermen, this, that, the other. And when they did things that they knew were wrong, he wasn't surprised. You know, when we when we watch something on TV about the life of Jesus, or we read in the gospel or in the Bible, we hear about mistakes they made. You know, Matthew was a tax collector, he's tax collecting his own Jewish people, every one of them. So they're no different than us, and we could see if Christ loved them despite their faults, who are we to judge and compare faults? And look look at all the lives in the Old Testament as well.

SPEAKER_02 4:25

We're all sinners. We're all fallen people.

SPEAKER_01 4:27

Yeah, everything.

SPEAKER_03 4:28

I want to uh I want to read it.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

David is this amazing king, and then he has Bathsheba and he has these other issues, and he kills someone that he shouldn't, and he's called the man after God's own heart.

SPEAKER_03 4:39

God's own heart.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

He's you know, he's he's held up high, right? Even though he made mistakes. And so, you know, I I find myself making a quick judgment based on how somebody might look or act or what their experiences might be. And I gotta realize they're if they're I wouldn't appreciate them looking at me that way because it's not appropriate. And secondly, who am I to judge? Yeah, judging and love them, like we say.

SPEAKER_02 5:05

Let them know what you walk through and you don't know what they're walking through. And you're never gonna know. Right. And you're gonna say Todd, you have some.

SPEAKER_03 5:10

Yeah, I want to I wanted to read some scripture here because by reading the scripture, so this is directly from the Bible, you can see how the New Testament is letting us know about the law versus The Old Testament. Grace. Yeah. Yeah. And so here's um Romans three twenty-eight. For when we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. Galatians three twenty-four. So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. Romans six fourteen. For sin shall no longer be your master because you are not under the law, but under grace. Galatians five eighteen. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Romans seven four. So my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God. Romans 7.6. But now by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and that in the old way of the written code. Romans 3 20. I'll do two more. Therefore, no one will be declared righteous in God's sight by the works of the law, rather through the law we became conscious of our sin. And then here's John, John 1 17. For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. And not only that, but the law that was given through Moses, who was it given to? And who was it given for? Right.

SPEAKER_02 7:06

Yeah, and all of the commands that Paul tells us, the two that he tells us, you know, to believe and love others.

SPEAKER_03 7:17

And I only got halfway through my little list here. You know, the other thing. My whole point was is that it scripture clearly in the New Testament is telling you that it is all about Jesus. It's not about us, it's not about the law.

SPEAKER_01 7:31

You know, and we we we understand from reading the Bible that Christ is the only person who was part human, part God that never sinned. Yes. And so when when people tried to challenge him or approach him and tried to catch him in something, he always had the right answer. And when he heard one of the apostles frustrated with something, he had the right answer. Because he understood the spiritual largeness of what spirituality is and what a life in spirit is versus a life under law. And he was spirit, he was spirit, yeah. And so when you live under the spirit, you have this encouragement to do the right thing, and to and that comes through understanding how the spirit works in our lives, but giving the spirit room to work in our lives before you have that thought of critical. The spirit might catch you and say, No, but we're not doing that. Right. Then we're not gonna make that comment. You know, and so the spirit catches us and encourages us to love. Don't don't accuse love, don't hate.

SPEAKER_00 8:37

It's for whatever reason, it's an etched. Maybe it's the upbringing of your parents, yeah. You know, it's like so quick to judge you to judge.

SPEAKER_01 8:45

And there was judge not lest ye be judged, was always the saying. Yeah, and that was an old old saying and judge not lest you be judged. In other words, if you're gonna judge other people, you're gonna get judged. But if you don't judge other people, you know.

SPEAKER_03 8:58

You know, the the other thing too that I wanted to comment about with the Ten Commandments is like if the Ten Commandments are, you know, because they're posted on school walls and then churches and everything, and they're so important. Yet they're so important yet people do not realize, again, because they don't dive in, that the one of the Ten Commandments that says keep the Sabbath day. Everybody thinks it's Sunday because that's the day church. Churches that are Roman Catholic churches, but it actually was Friday night into Saturday, I believe. And so everybody breaks it. Everybody that follows it of every religion breaks the Sabbath every single week. And so then when you bring that up to people, and then the Sabbath also had, I think, 40 other laws in addition to that that were underneath it. Food laws and soap cleanliness. So in reality, every single one of us breaks it every single week, and then when you bring that up to somebody and you tell them that, and that's like, oh well, then that one don't apply. So now it becomes the nine commandments instead of the ten. Yeah. And it's just kind of funny how we just have had it ingrained in our head growing up. Ten Commandments, Ten Commandments, Ten Commandments, Ten Commandments. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:15

Yeah, no, it's interesting. I mean, it just I you know, you sit in a group like this, you don't think about some of the topics that you guys are bringing up. Yeah. No, that's why we understand. You're kind of like, yeah, I get that, you know, I get that.

SPEAKER_03 10:27

Well, and think about it from this perspective, right? You're at church, you've got the priest up there telling you that, well, if we don't get into this, you never know whether or not what he's telling you is the truth or not.

SPEAKER_00 10:40

Yeah, it's like the cart before the horse almost. Like you've got to go do this before you can really absorb and put it in perspective as to what's being.

SPEAKER_03 10:48

You know what I did too is I opened up and I've got it saved on my phone, the the uh the what are they called, the canon, the caden. Yeah. That is unbelievable the amount of rules and laws in that thing. And if every Catholic knew what was in there, you'd just be like, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:08

So I think one more thing that I wanted to make note of that I mentioned earlier is that there's I I call it the line. That line is when Christ died. Yeah. And so Jesus grew up a Jew. And so, Brian, if if you were Jewish and we were back in the day, the best way that I can relate to you is what we know as Jews. And so we we will call custom and Jesus was teaching to all of the Jewish people what they knew and what their customs were and what their laws were and everything else before he died on the cross. He was sort of also letting them know and trying to lead them into, hey, there's something bigger and greater coming. So when you look in like Matthew, the Gospel of Matthew, everything before Matthew 28 is pre-crossed. So if he says something that contradicts stuff that's like in the in the New Testament, it's really not a contradiction. It's because that's what the customs were back in that day and who he was talking to, and back then they were under the law.

SPEAKER_00 12:26

Right.

SPEAKER_03 12:27

Because it was between it was a bilateral contract between the Jewish people. They said, Yes, we will follow your laws, and God. It was a two-way contract.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

Right.

SPEAKER_03 12:38

And so they broke it, and and it was for shadowing and showing them that they would never be able to do it and that they needed something else. And that's what the law was someone else. And that's what Jesus came for. Right.

SPEAKER_01 12:54

He came to fulfill. Yeah, all that red letter in Matthew. I used to read that and try to think, oh, how can I keep up with it? Fuck your eye out. What am I supposed to do? Yeah, and then you realize it wasn't written to new believers, it wasn't written to Gentiles, it was written to Jews. Yes. And he said, if you're gonna keep the law, keep the whole law. Yep. And you gotta do that. You break one, you break them all. You gotta do all this. And they're like, wow. You know, but I I remember reading that when I first started Bible reading. I used to read, especially Matthew, and I'd be like, Alright, he's serious. Look at all these in the red letters, there's just thing after thing that you gotta make. You know, if somebody takes one thing, give them two, and you know, all these different things. I'm thinking, we're supposed to do all that. Then I realized that he was talking to a different audience. Yeah, and that's what it makes it so much clearer. Yeah, because you're wondering why did he switch? Why did it change so quickly? But it didn't change, it was just a group he was speaking to. The the the the law was different.

SPEAKER_03 13:49

So, like, do you want to be on team self-improvement or team Jesus?

SPEAKER_00 13:53

Yeah, well, it puts it in context for you, right? For sure.

unknown 13:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:57

Now you know that. Now you know the timing of it and the audience are so important when you're reading anything. But if you think the audience and the timing is now in me, I'm thinking, man, that's a load, but I'll try. So the so when I first read the Bible as a 40-something-year-old, I used to think, I'm gonna try to do all that, I'm gonna try to do all that. Then it was explained to us, I think, in our in our anchorman group a little bit more about that, and I realized, wow, that's all pre-cross. And so he was talking to the Jews, not to me. And so those things have no application to me because I wasn't a Jew pre-cross, I'm a I'm a Gentile post-cross. And so it's love God, love others. So all that other stuff he was saying, if you're gonna do this, go the whole way. If you're gonna do that, do that all of it.

SPEAKER_03 14:45

You know, if you're gonna and it made sense to them back then.

SPEAKER_01 14:48

Yeah, they understood what he was saying, and it was actually clarification of what the requirements were, or as you pointed out, all those extra Jewish laws wrapped into what he was saying in the red letter.

SPEAKER_02 15:00

So, yeah, I think it's it's two of the things that I take away from this whole conversation we've had is get in your book, get in the get in the Bible, read it. And it's not easy to understand, but I think coming along to complement a good Bible, one that's easy to understand for you, is a commentary. Read a commentary from a I guess you'd have to find a grace commentary. A grace commentary to help you understand it a little bit more, a little more in-depth. That's one takeaway I have from it. And then the second one is everything can be uh any sin, any relationship can all be healed with love. It's take, you know, it's like you said, love one another. That's all we need is love.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

What is the grace commentary you refer to? All Ellis. It just gives you further clarification of what or an interpretation through the kind of layman's terms. Through the grace later. Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 15:54

Because what happens is you'll hear it tonight. He uh Brad likes to call it the meatball. Well, the meatball is a mixture of grace and then church always likes to throw in works and the law then. Yeah. And so you're getting a mixture of both where you're really not understanding about grace then.

SPEAKER_00 16:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:13

And that's a majority of churches. And so by by seeing things through the grace lens, it just winds up freeing you. It's it's like somebody just took a huge backpack off of your back of rocks and just threw it on the ground. You're like, wow.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

We try so hard to do right, do the right thing. And we always fail. We always have. We always have.

SPEAKER_01 16:36

And the third thing I would add to what you said, John, is to read from an author like Paul Ellis or like uh or find pastors, they're services to watch, podcasts. And hear them talk about the timing of when things happen and who they were written to. Right. Because it doesn't tell you in the Bible who it was written to. No.

SPEAKER_02 16:58

And so obviously he's not. To the Galatians, to the epistle.

SPEAKER_01 17:04

But were they, you know, some some of who he's writing to, the Hebrews.

SPEAKER_02 17:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:08

But then he's writing to people in Galatia who might be new believers. And so, you know, to understand the audience, like any discussion, who is who's talking and who are they talking to, right? Gives you context. You know, is it somebody who's talking German to a German person? Right. And you're you only read English and you just don't understand it. Or was it meant for me and and it applies to me in this narrow sense, and the grace takes care of the rest of it, and that stuff doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_03 17:36

By understanding it that way, then you don't get contradiction in the Bible. Because in the Old Testament it'll say, Don't do this, and in the New Testament it says, do this, or it's okay, you're forgiven. Well, that seems like it's a contradiction. But when you understand it in context, it's all just leading up to Jesus and who he is and what he did for us.

SPEAKER_00 17:59

It's kind of like who's the audience? Who's your audience? Like you were saying, you're reading all the red lettering, who's the audience and who's the speaker?

SPEAKER_01 18:04

Correct. Right. Because a lot of the Old Testament is God divine teaching and speaking. And then when you hear Jesus actually speaking, and then you hear Paul and the different apostles after Christ died, you get a better sense of that's all relevant to was Christ alive? Was he dead? Was he even born yet? All those things. So much changed when Christ died, and when so much things died when changed when Christ was born, and then he lived, then he died. All three of those steps are huge to understanding the Bible. And Rose, and and and who the writers were. Were they writing Old Testament, pre-cross, post-cross?

SPEAKER_02 18:47

Yeah. Alright. Well, let's wrap it up, guys. And uh just want to thank Brian for joining us. Hey, thanks for having me. Good. And uh Bob's good to see you. Glad you're feeling better. Yep. Todd and looking good.

SPEAKER_01 19:00

Yeah, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 19:02

Hey, everybody, have a good evening. Thanks again for uh joining us. See you again next week.

SPEAKER_01 19:06

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SPEAKER_02 19:11

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