he ten commandments constitute god’s highest expression of His will for man- so they would have us believe. If their claim is true, that the Ten Commandments are in fact the highest, the peak, the supreme premier of Jehovah’s will for man, then we would concede the point and spill no more ink on the subject. We shall, however, use the remainder of this space to show to our readers that such a statement flies in the face of Scripture.

      Christ is the highest expression of God’s will to mankind, not the Decalogue. Paul wrote, “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation” (Col. 1:15). Yes, Jesus is the replica of the invisible God. Only through Jesus can we truly comprehend God. Later Paul penned, “For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily” (Col. 2:9). Is there such language in the Bible that speaks so powerfully of the Decalogue? It is rather spoken of as being the “ministry of death” and of “condemnation” (cf. 2 Cor. 3:7, 9).

      We can only approach God through Jesus. Jesus said to His disciples, “I am the way, the truth, the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (Jn. 14:6). Access to the Father doesn’t come through the Ten Commandments, but only through submission to Christ. Jesus is God’s final Word, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. . .And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. . .For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (Jn. 1:1, 2, 14, 17). The Holy Spirit testified of this in Hebrews 1:1-3, “God who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things. . .being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person. . .” Jesus is shown to be the Word, the Light, possessor of living water, Bread of life, the Door, the Good Shepherd, the Way, Truth, and Life (Jn. 1:1, 6-9; 4:10-14; 6:32-35; 10:9, 14; 14:6). However, those who insist on clinging to an obsolete covenant that was made with a different people in bygone generations slip and slide away from the fullness of the Godhead. All that was given by Moses, including the Decalogue, was veiled and a mere shadow of great things to come. Yet our Lord’s last Will and Testament remains today; Sabbath keeping of Israel’s day has nothing to do with it. How can it, seeing it has passed away?

“But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones [10 Commandment Covenant, sjw] was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit [New Testament, sjw] not be more in glory. . .For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious. . .unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away. But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ” (2 Cor. 3:7-14; cf. Col. 2:14; Heb. 8:13; 10:9; etc.).