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"When God gave the Ten Commandments by Moses to the people of Israel, though they were the people to whom He then spoke, yet He
intended the obligation to keep these commandments to fall not only upon the Israelites, but also upon all other peoples who in
due time would be brought to a knowledge of Himself. The proper state of the question, then, is not whether Moses was a minister
to Christians as well as to Israel (for that is clearly incorrect), but whether, when God delivered the Ten Commandments by the
hand of Moses, He had in mind only the Israelites, or whether all other true worshippers of God were foreseen as included within
their authority. This latter alternative is the true one, and at the same time defines the sense in which the Law binds the
believer in its Mosaic form."
-- Ernest Kevan in The Moral Law and its Relation to Believers
"The Ten Commandments are more than a symbol. The same God who gave the gospel gave us His law. Those who know God and have been reconciled to Him through faith in Jesus Christ should seek to honor Him by believing the gospel and living according to His righteous requirements summarized in those Commandments."
-- Tom Ascol in The Ten Commandments More Than A Symbol
"The Moral Law, The Natural Law, and The Ten Commandments are different ways of
denoting the same words of God written on the heart of the believer and upon Sinai engraved by
the finger of God in stone. These are divine words that cannot change or be destroyed. Christ said
not the smallest mark of the pen that made the written record of these words would pass away
before the end of the world. Every dot of these ten words applies today even as they have from the
creation of man by God. The Ten Commandments have not been set aside, abrogated, fulfilled, or
any other term that would give even an idea they are not binding on not only Christians but the
whole world today."
-- Chuck Baynard in The Ten Commandments for Modern Man"
"The Decalogue presents the righteousness of Christ. When we say that Christ was the perfect lamb of God and the perfect
example for the Christian life, we are saying that he perfectly obeyed God's law. He never put any god before his Father.
He never worshipped idols or took God's name in vain. The Pharisees arguments to the contrary notwithstanding, he never
violated the Sabbath command. So, the Decalogue tells us what Jesus was like. It shows us his perfect
character."
-- John Frame in Preaching Christ from the Decalogue