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Topic: Commandments
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2024-02-09 		Jesus' Commandments (Law of Christ): What are the commandments of Jesus referred to in John 14-15? [John 13:34-35, Romans 13:10, Matthew 5:41, Matthew 5:23-24, Mattew 5-7, Matthew 28:20, Mark 12:30-31, Matthew 22:37].

2023-06-05 		"The Law" (Torah): Could you talk about "The Law" and the Christian (Law of Christ)? [Romans 13:9, 1 Corinthians 9:21, James 2:8, James 13:34, Matthew 22:37-39].

2023-05-12 		The Command to Love: Why would we be commanded to love, if there is no law against love? [Galatians 5:22-24]

2023-04-28 		Commands of Jesus: Do you know of any resources or study that would teach how we should view and understand the commands of Christ? [1 Corinthians 11:1, Romans 2:15, Ephesians 5:1., Matthew 28:20].

2023-04-14 		The 10 Commandments & Murder: Who does the commandment "Thou shall not commit murder" since there are instructions to kill people in the Old Testament? [Exodus 20:13].

2023-04-07 		Ten Commandments: Do the Ten Commandments teach us how to live the Christian life?
Walking Out on a Pastor: I once wallked out on a pastor who didn't think that Jesus was God. Was I wrong?
Ten Commandments: So the Ten Commandments doen't really teach us how to live the Christian life, but point us to Christ, right?

2023-01-27 		Obeying the Commandments: Is serving God in the Spirit, rather than the letter, referring to same commandments as The Law? Is it applicable to us? [Romans 7:6. Matthew 7:12, Matthew 22:35-40, Mark 12:31].
Law or Punishments Removed: Where the commandments taken away, or just the punishments? [Luke 12:13].

2023-01-04 		Keeping the Commandments: A pastor said that God won't give us any commandments we can't keep, but didn't Paul teach us that we can't keep the commandments without Jesus? [Romans 8:4, Galatians 5:16].

2022-10-25 		Christians & the Mosaic Law: Are we supposed to be obeying the Mosaic Law and what are the laws referred to in Revelation 14? [Revelation 14:12, Hebrews 8:13].

2022-09-06 		Seven Commands of Jesus: Have you heard of the "Seven Commands of Jesus" and the necessity of obedience?
The Gospel: Would the "Seven Commands of Jesus" be the gospel?
Steve Gregg Teaching Certain Doctrines: Caller comments that he appreciates the way Steve doesn't teach specific doctrines . Steve corrects and clarifies his position about denominational doctrines, etc. [TItus 2:1, I Timothy 1:9].

2022-08-11 		Following Jesus: What are we to do now ... and to follow Jesus? [Matthew 19, Mark 10, Luke 18].
Losing One's Salvation: Does one lose their salvation if they break the commandments?

2022-07-22 		Sabbath-keeping: Is not the verse about the Sabbath being made for man a good proof text for Sabbath-keeping? [Mark 2:27, Exodus 31:16-17].

2022-02-24 		Gene & Melissa Scott: What do you think of Melissa Scott (Gene Scott's wife)?
Greek & Hebrew Scholars: Who would you recommend that teaches from the Greek and Hebrew translations?
The New Covenant's Teachings: Where would you find what needs to be kept in the New Covenant? Recommendation; verse-by-verse lectures.

2022-02-15 		Obedience to God's Commands: What are God's commands we are to obey now? [Romans 3:31, I John 3:4, Matthew 19, Hebrews 1:1, Hebrews 8:13].

2022-02-14 		Keeping the Sabbath: Caller disagrees that Christians are no longer required to keep the Sabbath? [Exodus 31:13-16, Matthew 12:5, Hebrews 8:13, John 8:31, Genesis 9:3, Deuteronomy 14:6-16].

2022-02-11 		Tresgressing the Law: I don't think you would say Christians need to obey the ten commandments, so what is the law that we must obey that is being referred to in Romans 4? [Romans 4:13, Romans 13:8-13, Galatians 5:14, I Corinthians 9:19-21, Hebrews 8:13, Galatians 6:2, James 2:8].

2022-02-09 		Consistent Directives Throughout the Bible: I tend to think that something that is commanded once in the Bible would be consistent throughout, but you do not. Can you explain? [Genesis 1:29, Genesis 9:3, Leviticus 11:3, I Timothy 4:4-5, Genesis 17:14, Galatians 5:2-4].

2021-11-29 		The Kingdom of Heaven: When exactly is "The Kingdom of Heaven" to come? [Matthew 5:19, Mark 1:15, Hebrews 8:13].

2021-10-20 		Keeping the Law Still Required: Caller accuses Steve of taking Matthew 5:18 out of context, how do you justify that? [Matthew 5:17-20, Jeremiah 7:22, Hebrews 9:8-9, Proverbs 15:8, Proverbs 21:27, Leviticus 13-14].

2021-09-07 		Sabbath Keeping: Caller comments on the Sabbath and that believers are all Israel, therefore one should now keep Sabbath. [Matthew 12].

2021-08-20 		The Word of God (Scriptures) in Jesus' Time: What was considered "the Bible" (the scriptures) before the New Testament was written, during Jesus' ministry & the apostles thereafter? [2 Timothy 3:16, John 8:31, John 13:20].

2021-05-26 		Old Covenant vs New Covenant: If I see the "Law of God" not as the Old Covenant, but as more of a model of for what should reflect our behavior toward God? [Genesis 9].

2021-03-01 		Breaking the Least of the Commandments: Could you help me understand what is the "least of these" in regard to breaking the commandments? [Matthew 5:17-20, Matthew 12:28, John 5:46].
Jesus' Law: Is it possible that Jesus meant that we are to fulfill His laws, rather than the law of the prophets? [Matthew 5:17-20].

2021-02-17 		Ten Commandments Missing From New Testament: Why does the New Testament leave out part of the ten commandments? [Romans 13:9, Galatians 5:14].

2021-01-19 		Christians Bound by the Law: Are today's Christians bound by the Old Testament Laws, if so, why? [Hebrews 8:13, Luke 16:16, Matthew 5:20].

2020-12-04 		The Ten Commandments: Are The Ten Commandments included in the new covenant? Should they be in our legal buildings? [Jeremiah 31:31, Exodus 31:16].

2020-10-23 		Keeping the Old Law for Salvation: What scripture makes that case that we do not have to keep the Old Testament Law in order to make it to heaven?(Lectures recommendation; Hebrew Roots & Torah Observance) [Matthew 19:17-18, Hebrews 8:13].

2020-09-17 		Obedience, Legalism, & Grace: How can we judge and assess the differences between obedience, legalism and grace? [2 John 9, 2 Corinthians 3:17, John 1:14-16, 2 Peters 1:4, Titus 2:11-12, Matthew 7:24-27, I John 2:4, 2 Corinthians 10:5, Acts 5:32, I John 2:4, Hebrews 5:9].

2020-09-01 		Paul's Teaching's Commandments or Not: Caller comments on Paul's teaching as if they are a commandments, but says they are a vision, instead. [I Corinthians 14:14-36].

2020-08-27 		Defining Love: Can you help me understand the full definition of love? [John 14:15, John 15:13]

2020-08-20 		The Law of the New Testament: Is the Law of the New Testament the same as "The Ten Commandments"? [Matthew 28:20].
The Law of Christ: Where can I get a list of the laws we are under in the New Testament (The Law of Christ)?


2020-08-13 		Commandments of Jesus: What are all the commandments that we are supposed to obey from Jesus? [Matthew 28, Acts 2:42, Galatians 5:14].

2020-07-07 		The Ten Commandments Not for Christians Today: Did I misunderstand what you said about Christians today not having to obey the Ten Commandment? [I Corinthians 9:21].
Sabbath Day: Do we not have to set aside a Sabbath day for worship?

2020-07-06 		Nine Commandments for Christians: Are the other nine commandments important for Christian to keep? [Hebrews 8:13, I Corinthians 9:21, Revelation 14:12, Revelation 19:12].

2020-07-01 		Ten Commandments: Have you thought about the fact that the Ten Commandments were established before the Law of Moses? [Exodus 20, John 1, Hebrews 4].

2020-06-16 		Ten Commndments & Bible Contradictions: An atheist brought up contradictory lists of the Ten Commendments in Exodus. How would you respond? [Exodus 34].

2020-06-12 		Commands About Living the Christian Life and Salvation: Are these scriptures commands in the Greek; "work out your own salvation", and "fight the good fight"? [Philippians 2:12, I Timothy 6:12].

2020-04-09 		New Commandments: Did anyone else, besides Jesus, give new commandments? [John 13:34, Proverbs 2:1, Matthew 28:19-20].

2020-04-09 		Law of Liberty & The Ten Commandments: Is the "law of liberty" in James the same as The Ten Commandments? [James 2:11-12, I John 4:8, Galatians 5, Matthew 5].

2020-04-08 		Stones of the Ten Commandments: What was written on each of the two stone tablets of the ten commandments? 5 & 5 or 4 & 6?

2019-05-21 		Holy Kiss: Should we be greeting one another with a holy kiss? How does on determine what is a cultural and local admonition, rather than a command to obey? [I Corinthians 11:14-16, 2 Corinthians 13:12].

2019-05-17 		Ten Commandments: Does Exodus 34 indicate another whole set of commandments? [Exodus 34::27f, Exodus 21-23].

2019-03-26 		Ten Commandments: Since Jesus indicated that there were only two comprehensive commandments, how then do we know which laws were abolished with the New Covenant? How do we know which are ceremonial and which are ritual laws?



2019-03-11 		Incest: Didn't Adam & Eve's children have incestuous relationships?
Polygamy: Where does the Bible indicate that we should not practice polygamy? [Ephesians 5:22-32, Matthew 19].

2019-03-07 		Honor Your Parents: What does it mean to honor your parents? Is it the same for a child, as it is for an adult? [Ephesians 6, Matthew 15:3, Mark 7, I Timothy 3:5]. What about if your parents don't want your help?

2019-01-11 		Commandments of God: What are the specific commandments he is talking about here in these passages? [Revelation 14:12 & 12:18].



2018-11-26 		Disagrees about the Trinity: I disagree about the Trinitarian doctrine (she was very articulate, organized in her thoughts). [Mark 12:28-34]

2018-11-13 		Jesus' actual Commandments: What are Jesus' actual commands?

2018-01-01 		Laws/Commands from Jesus: What laws has Jesus given us in the New Testament? Are the old laws done away with?



2017-08-25 		Law Written in our Hearts & the Sabbath: I've been studying w/ the Seventh Day Adventists, & they say Sabbath keeping & the 10 commandments are for now, law written in our hearts, but the commandments were changed from the Old to the New, so the ultimate question is, WHICH commandments are still binding?

2017-08-15 		Thou Shalt Not Kill: How does this apply to military, police officers, not killing?

2017-08-02 		Dishonoring My Father: Father thinks I exposed him by calling a Christian show & saying he's divorced & moved in w/ girlfriend, & he didn't like it too much, afraid that he may lose his church position.

2017-04-06 		10 Commandments & the Ceremonial Law: Trying to distinguishing between the moral law (10 commandments) the ceremonial law, can/should we?

2017-03-07 		Jesus Coming up with a New Commandment: Why did Jesus come up w/ this "new" commandment about loving your neighbour as yourself? [Matthew 22:39, John 13:34, Romans 12:10, Philippians 2:1]

2017-03-01 		Uniformity in Doctrines: Is uniformity of thought critical in certain doctrines regardless of scripture, as in Romans 14? [Romans 14, Matthew 28:20]

2017-02-07 		God's Love: Is God's love unconditional? [John 3:16]

2016-08-29 		Colossians 2: Doug Batchelor says this is NOT talking about the 7th day Sabbath? Is this true? [Colossians 2:16]
10 Commandments Written on Stone, not Parchment: Batchelor says that the 10 commandments were written on stone so they are distinguised from the laws written on the parchment.
9 of the 10 Commandments: So do we have 10 commandments or only 9?

2016-06-22 		Things that are Viable in the Christian Life: How are we supposed to know what is "viable" anymore in the Bible, what we obey or not?
Tattoos: What about getting tattoos? [Leviticus 19:28]

2016-06-01 		God's Law & Commandments: Caller who has called many times in previous shows, & has already called once in this show, wants to talk more about God's commandments & law, that we need to keep them. [Matthew 5:17-19] (Caller asked to not call back anymore.)



2016-06-01 		God's Law: Caller is interested in talking about keeping God's commandments, His law, because he thinks most denominations don't care about the law. [Romans 7:1-4]

2016-04-14 		10 Commandments as an Evangelistic Tool: Nicaean council, ray comfort, said we need to use the law/10 commandments to evangelize
My Yoke is Easy & Burden Light: What made the Law of Moses so hard when Jesus said to come to Him because His yoke was easy & His burden light?


2016-03-07 		Baptism Mandatory: Is getting baptized required?



2016-01-15 		Lists in the Bible: Are the things listed in the Bible more important by the order they are listed?
1000 Commandments in New Testament: How many Commandments are in the New Testament?

2015-06-02 		"Sliding Away Backwards": Where can I find that phrase in Isaiah, "Sliding Away Backwards"? Turn away backwards! [Isaiah 1:4]
"It Is Written": Does Steve have a count of how often the phrase, "It is Written" is used in the Bible?

2015-03-05 		Sabbath: Since the Sabbath is mentioned in the 10 commandments, doesn't that make it above the ceremonial sabbaths? [Exodus 20:8-11]

2015-02-25 		Humanism & Christian Love: The Christian standard of "Love one another" is a much higher standard than just Humanism.



2015-02-18 		Sabbath under the New Covenant: Is the Sabbath obsolete under the New Covenant?

2015-02-09 		Righteousness exceeding Pharisees: Whoever breaks the LEAST of the commandments will be the LEAST in the Kingdom of God, but still in the Kingdom, & but it still has to exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees or you are not going to get in at all. [Matthew 5:19-20]
Overcoming Drunkenness: Caller has been struggling wtih intoxication/drunkenness, & wonders what he should do to overcome it.

2014-10-17 		Obeying & Breaking the Commandments: You typically won't go to jail if you don't break the law, & same goes w/ keeping the commandments, we need to keep them for our longevity, for one thing!
Marriage: What constitutes a real marriage in God's eyes?

2014-07-29 		Saturday verses Sabbath: God named the 4th commandment Sabbath, not Saturday, so it doesn't matter what day the Pagans named the days of the week!

2014-07-23 		Sabbath: If Jesus had broken the law, His mission as Saviour would've failed so He only broke man's added laws to it, according to this listener. [Matthew 12:1-8, John 5:18]

2014-07-14 		Spiritual Gifts & love followup: So the gifts will just be perfected in love then, & so it's not the gifts that will disappear, but the immaturity of not having love in them? [1 Corinthians 12-14]
Jesus Broke the Sabbath: So you think Jesus actually broke the Sabbath? [John 5:17, Matthew 5:17-19, Colossians 2:14-18]

2014-07-09 		Taking the Lord's name in Vain in the NT: Where does it say not to take the Lord's name in Vain in the New Testament?
Sabbath Commandment in the NT: So you just admitted that the taking the Lord's name in vain commandment is not found in the NT, but that we still have to obey it, but then say the Sabbath commandment isn't found in the NT, but we still have to keep it, just like not taking the Lord's name in vain isn't, but still obey that. [Matthew 24:20]

2014-03-10 		Least of these Commandments: Are the "Least of the Commandments" talking about the Law & the Prophets, the law of Moses, or is it talking about Jesus' instructions in the Sermon on the Mount? [Matthew 5:17-20]

2014-01-14 		Keeping His Commandments: If you don't LOVE doing Jesus' commandments, you might not really love Him, but are in fact a legalist. [1 John 5:3]

2013-10-23 		Adultery: Is Adultery only a sin because it's a craving for someone else's possession, it's stealing, rather than it just being sex?

2013-09-24 		Baptism Necessary for Salvation: What does the Bible say about Baptism for Salvation?

2013-09-10 		9 of the 10 of Commandments: Why do we only keep 9 of the 10 commandments, excluding the Sabbath commandment?

2013-09-03 		42 laws of Ma'at: Did Moses get some of his commandments from ancient Egypt from something called, the Ma'at?
No Evidence of the Exodus: People say there's no evidence of the Great Exodus out of Egypt & the crossing of the Red Sea. Is there any truth to that?

2013-08-12 		God's Love: Can you explain God's Love & how to love others?

2013-07-19 		Doing the Will of God: What is the will of God besides accepting Jesus as our Lord & Saviour? [Matthew 7:21-23]
Being Saved: What exactly does "being saved" mean?

2013-05-29 		Ten Commandments Application: Do you think that the whole Old Testament is not really for us as believers? [2 Timothy 3:16].
Sabbath Worship is Sunday: Isn't it appropriate to consider that for us today the Sabbath Day refers simply to Sunday, or whatever day you gather to worship with others?


2013-05-27 		Old Covenant vs New Covenant: Do the Old Testament laws no longer apply to us?
Christ in the Roman Culture: Why would Christ come during the Roman era which was such a barbaric culture? [Galatians 4:4].

2013-04-17 		Christians Subject to the Law: What do you think about Christians having to be subject to the law (of Moses)? Do we still have to obey the commandments? [Romans 8:6-7, Romans 7:12, Romans 8:4, Galatians 5:16, Matthew 22:37-40, Matthew 28:20, John 8:31, I Corinthians 9:20-22, Hebrews 8:13, Hebrews 8:6].

2013-02-21 		To Whom Was the "Great Commission" Given?: Could the directives of the "Great Commission" really have been specifically given to the apostles, rather than to all of us? [Matthew 28, Mark 16, Acts 1:8, I Corinthians 12:16].

2013-02-19 		The Conscience: Do you think that the commandments are stepping stones to a mature conscience? [Galatians 5:23].
God as Vulnerable Man: Isn't it particularly touching that God would become vulnerable as a man and suffer temptation?
Jesus' Deity: How did Jesus describe His own deity, and did He use "Son of God"? [John 10:36].

2013-02-08 		Obeying the 10 Commandments, Pride & Reading OT: What do we take from the Old Testament to the New Testament? The 10 Commandments? [Romans 6]

2013-02-08 		Delighting in God's Commandments: Caller has never considered the idea of "delighting" in God's Commandments until now. [Psalms 112]

2013-01-25 		The Perpetual Sabbath: Don't these verses seem to support the necessity of keeping the Sabbath? Isn't it a perpetual covenant? Doesn't the first verse prove that Jesus still expected them to be keeping the Sabbath? [Matthew 24:20, Matthew 5:18-20, Exodus 24:4, Exodus 31:16]
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