1st

Commandment
of God
“You shall
not have
other Gods
before me”
 01 To know what is the 1st commandment of God.

02 To understand clearly what is the meaning of

the commandment.
OBJECTIVES
03 To discuss the moral duties and prohibitions of the
commandment.

04 To know the church teachings and the new testament of the

commandment.
Exodus 20:3-4
“I am the LORD your , who brought you out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall
have no God before Me “You shall not make for
yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven
above or on the earth beneath or in the water under
the Earth.”
The first commandment embraces faith,
hope and charity. When we say “God”
we confess a constant, unchangeaable
being, alwayss the same, faithful and
just, without any evil. It follows that we
must necessarily accept his words and
have complete faith in him and
a c k n o w l e d g e h i s a u t h o r i t y. H e i s
a l m i g h t y, m e r c i f u l , a n d i n f i n i t e l y
beneficent.
§ The first commandment is the
CENTER and FOUNDATION of the
other commandments.

§ It is found on the FIRST TABLET of

the Law.

§ It help us to keep the great

Commandment of the love of God
because it commands us to adore
God alone.

§ It is in knowing and loving God that

we can truly live in our life.
The first commandment is the most holy and most
important.

In order to love God, man has to

acknowledge Him as the Lord and
worship Him.

The commandment clearly states we must

only worship the Lord. And also we must
put church teachings ahead of our
personal beliefs or social trends.
This commandment is not
meant too restrict us, rather it is
meant to lead us to et er nal
happiness. Living the
commandment will, in fact,
bring us joy and unite us more
fully to God.
Faith is what God wanted us to have.
He wanted us to trust in Him that He
could properly guide us in our lives.

“If you have great faith, you will have great

blessing. If you have a little faith, you will
receive a little blessing. But if you have no
faith, God’s blessing will not be in your life.”
MORAL DUTIES
WORSHIP
It recognition of God’s Lordship
expressed in filial devotion and
service.

Oh come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel

before the Lord, our Maker!

Psalm 95:6
The first act of the virtue of
r e l i g i o n . To a d o r e G o d i s t o
acknowledge, in respect and
absolute submission,
the”nothingness of the creature”
who would not exist but for God.”
PRAYER Indispensable condition
for being able to obey
God’s commandments.

Rejoice always, pray continually,

give thanks in all
circumstances; for this is God’s
will for tyou in Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
To love and to serve God
in faith and hope is our is
our first duty and
privilege.
FAITH Believing without
doubting watever God
has revealed.

Whatever you ask in

prayer, you will receive,
if you have faith.
Matthew 21:22
HOPE

Trusting God that will

give us eternal life and
all the means necessary
to obtain it.
CHARITY
Loving God above all
things and our neighbors
as ourselves for God.

“Those who are gracious to

the poor lend to the Lord,
and the Lord will fully repay
them.” Proverbs 19:17
PROHIBITIONS
SUPERSTITION

- is the deviation of religious feeling

and of the practices

- it is a belief or way of behaving that is

based on fear of the unknown and faith in
magic or luck, especially in the likelihood
that good or bad luck will result from
performing.
EXAMPLES
IDOLATRY

§ Does not only refer to false pagan

worship.

• It consists of divinizing what is not God.

§ Substitution of someone or something

for God.

§ Invokes polytheism
“You must not make any Idols. Don’t make any statues
or pictures of anything up in the sky or of anything
on the earth or anything down in the water. Don’t
worship or serve idols of any kind, because I, the
LORD, am your LORD.”
Exodus 20:4-5
Divination/ Fortune Telling

It is the act of foretelling the future

or discovering hidden knowledge by
supernatural means.

“And I will cut off sorceries from your

hand, and you shall have no more tellers
of fortunes.”
EXAMPLES:
MAGIC AND SORCERY OR
WITCHCRAFT

These practices are even more to be

condemned when accompanied by the
intention of harming someone, or
wh e n t h e y h a ve r e c o u r s e t o t h e
i t e r ve n t i o n o f d e m o n s . We a r i n g
charms is also reprehensible.
EXAMPLES
ATHEISM
Atheism is not a disbelief in
Gods or a denial of Gods; It is
a lack of belief in Gods.

According to the Psalms 14 and 53

the man who says there is no God
is corrupt, is a liar, and never does
good.
APOSTASY

§ Abondonment of a previous loyalty

• It is the rejection of Christ by someone who has

been a Christian.
Ingratitude
It is defined as nappreciating or valuing
what you have, or have been given by God.

Failure to give thanks to God = Failure to

show appreciation and love to God.
 The New testament demonstrates the direcsion of
New Testaments thifirst command when jesus Himself is asked, “which
is the greatest commandment?” Jesus replies by
saying “You shall love the Lord your God with all your
heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
The first commandment is the This is the great and first commandment. In the new
foundation for our keeping of the testament , Jesus summarizes the Ten testaments
whole of the Ten Commandments. even further, as all fall under two general headings.
It is the most basic reorientation 1. Love God
from a life directed toward 2. Love your neighbor
ourselves to alife directed toward
God. Therefore we should view t
first commandment as a doorway
into the whole life of faith. It set our
feet on the right path and orieents
us in the right direction for all that
follows.
 Discrimination of the Disrespecting
church beliefs different religion
Moral
Issues
Having another
May worship other God
Religion