What does the fourth commandment mean for the Christian? Like the Israelites, we are made in the image of a working, resting God. We still need to work, we still need to rest, and we can still receive the creation blessing of God’s holy day.
– Philip Graham Ryken in Written in Stone
– Charles Spurgeon
How many people in the church,
which bears the name of Christ,
violate the third commandment
by allowing their misconduct
to bring reproach upon the name of Christ?
– J.V. Fesko in The Rule of Love
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The positive thrust of the Third Commandment against the misuse of God’s name is a powerful admonition to make every effort to reverence His name.
– R. Kent Hughes in Disciplines of Grace
The problem with images is that they tend to do whatever we want them to, whether they should be doing it or not. And so, images are very different from the God we worship. God can’t be manipulated by human beings as if he were a puppet on a string.
– Anthony Tomasino in Written upon the Heart
– Thomas Watson
Imagination is a wonderful gift, but when we use it to conjure up our own image of God it leads us astray. It is quite common to hear people say, “I like to think of God as…” and then add whatever picture they have in mind. The problem is that our view of God is to be defined by His revelation of Himself in the Bible, and when we conceive of Him apart from that, it will be misleading at best. Anything we imagine will be inevitably less than God, and when that which is less than God is used to portray God, we are led quickly to blasphemy and idolatry.
– Alistair Begg in Pathway to Freedom
– Martin Luther
The Law [Ten Commandments] is not revealed to God’s people as the means by which they should earn their redemption. Rather, the Law is revealed to show them how they can be conformed to the image of their loving, covenant Lord…. Christ perfectly fulfilled the obligations of the Law. If we are to reflect the image of Christ, the Law will assist us by showing us what we are supposed to look like.
– J. V. Fesko in The Rule of Love
Brian J. Mikul 