The Bible allows us to see the world from higher ground, like looking down from a mountaintop.

In God's Word, God gives us His divine assurance of good.

We find the 10 Commandments in Exodus 20:1-17.

The 1st 4 commandments have to do with our vertical relationship (up/down) with God.

The 5th commandment, the mother/father one, ties our horizontal relationships people to people, to our vertical relationship with God.

The last 5 commandments have to do with our horizontal relationships with people.

If someone hands you armor, it's a hint.

Go a little bit farther.
Run a little bit faster.
Push a little harder.
Push past where others stop.
Go the Extra Mile.

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.

If you honor your father and mother, "things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth."

1 And God spoke all these words, saying:
2 "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 "You shall have no other gods before Me. (1)
4 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image (2)— any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
7 "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, (3) for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. (4) 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
12 "Honor your father and your mother, (5) that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
13 "You shall not murder. (6)
14 "You shall not commit adultery. (7)
15 "You shall not steal. (8)
16 "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. (9)
17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's." (10)

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.