Obedience and disobedience to Gods commandments plays a vital roll in the history of the world. In fact, take away all disobedience of Gods Commandments from the world history as we know it, and what do we have?

…Righteous rulers. If Alexander was meek instead of great, if Jingis Khan was compassionate in stead of ruthless, if the Caesars were inquisitive instead of conquering, if the conquistadores were missionaries instead of mercenaries, if the popes were pious instead of powerful, if kings were faithful husbands instead of virile rapists, if soldiers were true to their mothers teachings instead of being loyal to their rulers’ propaganda, then our history books would be very thin, indeed.

The world without sin… Or perhaps they would be really thick, filled with the successes of mankind. Just imagine what the world would be like with no decease caused by sexual-, and other sin, when doctors could spend time curing cancer instead of healing gun-shot wounds, when engineers could design ways to feed the world instead of making weapons.

Just imagine if everyone on earth could live up to their full potential, instead of only a fraction, as it is today, just because people are disobedient to the commandments of God.

Obedience does not forgive sin. Such adherence to the commandments would serve several purposes, but there is one purpose that it would not serve; strict obedience to Gods commandments cannot save anyone from sins committed in the past, and it cannot open the gates to the Heavenly Home. Only faith in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ has power to rid us from sins committed.

Obedience saves by preventing unhappiness of sin. Obedience to Gods commandments will save us from sins that we have not yet committed!

There are some Christians who will claim that the laws (Gods commandments) by all definitions are dead, and that any effort to obey them will kill the spirit of salvation of that individual. But Jesus said:

14 If ye love me, keep my commandments. (John 14:15)

He also said:

13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. (Luke 16:13)

Now that is simple math, then, to see that no matter what their tongue confesses, s/he who doesn’t try to keep Gods commandments has chosen another master that s/he loves, and that master whispers in his servants ears.

“If ye love me, keep my commandments”. Which commandment did Jesus refer to? Well, Jesus IS the God of the Old Testament, even Jehovah. This means that it was he who gave the Ten Commandments unto Moses. But the Ten Commandments are by no means the only commandments that the Lord has given us, or will give us, for that matter. But every living soul who submits themselves cheerfully to these commandments will have no problem obeying any additional word of God from the past or in the future.

These are Gods ten Commandments:

3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

13 Thou shalt not kill.

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

15 Thou shalt not steal.

16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. (Exodus 20:3-17)

Gods Commandments were given to us out of love. Gods Commandments were not given to restrict our freedoms, but to make sure that no one uses his freedoms to injure another or himself, either in time, nor for the eternities.