Emphasis Preaching Journal

By the time Moses came down from the top of Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments, they had already been broken. They had been broken by the people of Israel, whose impatience and wavering faith led them to make a new god, a golden calf, in direct defiance of God's will. The commandments were also broken by Moses, because when he saw what was going on in the camp of the Israelites he threw down the stone tablets, on which God had written, and shattered them. We are always a lot more successful at breaking the commandments than at keeping them.