 Keep the rules Keep the rules We hear those words so often Three little words, but they mean so much There are rules for driving an automobile There are rules when you go to camp rules in school rules at home Why it seems as though everybody has rules Do you know that even God has rules? Yes, he has God has ten rules We call God's rules the ten commandments God made up his rules his ten commandments and gave them to a very holy man named Moses God wrote those commandments on stone so that we would not forget them and it's pretty hard to keep those commandments Isn't it? We have a terrible time trying to keep the commandments, don't we? The commandments cause us so much trouble and so much worry Every time we break a commandment we commit a sin Maybe you wonder why God made ten commandments One commandment is hard enough to keep but my goodness we have ten commandments And that makes it ten times harder for us to be good Well, I'm going to tell you why God made the commandments and also why God made ten of them Did you ever see anybody buy a watch? Well, if you went downtown and bought a watch the man in the store would give you a list of directions or rules These directions or rules would tell you how to take care of your watch and how to use it so it would not break If you don't follow the directions if you fail to take care of your watch It will become full of dust or dirt and will soon stop if you wind your watch too tightly It will break You must follow the directions or rules which the watchmaker gives you The watchmaker made your watch. He knows how you should use it. He knows the rules for using a watch The same way if you were rich enough to buy a nice automobile The man in the automobile store would give you a big book of rules This book of rules would tell you how to make your automobile go The book of rules would tell you how to take care of your automobile so it would not break down If you would break the rules, then you would also break your automobile Now boys and girls, you know, we are machines just like the watch and the automobile Only we are very very special machines We are the best machines in the world because we are made by God himself God thought us all up by himself. He made us God invented us God knows how we are put together just as the watchmaker knows best how a watch should run So also God knows best how we should run God knows the rules we should follow to be happy. God knows the rules we should follow to keep from breaking down Just as the man who sells us the watch or automobile gives us a list of directions or a book of rules So also when God makes us and sends us into the world, he gives us a set of rules These rules tell us how we should live if we want to be happy You and I call these rules the ten commandments You know, God was afraid that we might lose these important rules. So what did he do? God put our rules in a place where we could never lose them. He put them inside of us God wrote the ten commandments away inside our hearts That's why we feel bad away inside ourselves every time we break the commandments Now you see boys and girls why God made the ten commandments He made them to show us how to live and be happy If you break the rules for running an automobile the automobile breaks down if you break the commandments you break down too If you follow the rules for the automobile it always goes swell You keep your rules the ten commandments and you will go swell The ten commandments are all right after all aren't they?