This message is from Exodus 20:2. The text is the prologue to the Ten Commandments, and God wants to remind his people that he is their Redeemer, the one who delivered them from their bondage in Egypt. And it is this deliverance from Egypt that frees Israel to obey God’s Law. While they were slaves in Egypt, they served Pharaoh. Pharaoh saw himself as the Son of God, worshiped as deity. But now God has delivered his people, and they are freed to serve him.

And it is no different for us today. Before we can truly obey God and walk in his law, we must be freed from our bondage to sin. And our freedom has been purchased by the death and resurrection of Christ. May we live as free men and women.