majesty. They tell us what matters to God. We can’t disdain the law without disrespecting the Lawgiver. The God of the Ten Commandments is revealed not just as the Lord, but as the “LORD your God” (Ex. 20:2). We are his treasured possession (Ex. 19:5; 1 Pet. 2:9). This God of absolute power is not a capricious tyrant, not some cranky deity who wields raw and unbridled authority without any regard for his creatures. He is a personal God, and in Christ he always is for us
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