Emphasis Preaching Journal
Their Sunday in Lent
Commentary
Until I sat at the feet of Dr. Carl A. Anderson, my professor of Old Testament nearly forty years ago, I thought of the Ten Commandments exclusively in terms of demand and response. A rather fierce and stern God made the demand; a weak and stumbling believer was trying to do his best to respond. Anderson suggested that there was a better way to look at the Decalogue. He proposed that the text of Exodus 20 be understood, not as an imperative command, but as an indicative.
