Misleading, Sad, Revealing: ‘Relevant Today' by Jeremy Brooks

To give Jeremy Brooks’ article its full title: ‘Are the Ten
Commandments Relevant Today? An Exposition of Exodus 20:1-
2’. 1 Why do I call it misleading, sad and revealing?
Since he was purporting to deal with the ten commandments
and their relevance today, surely Brooks should have given us
what the apostles have to say on the subject, should he not?
Exodus 20:1-2, yes, but the believer’s paramount authority for all
his belief and practice is the apostolic writings. Surely that must
be a given. 2 I hope nobody runs away with idea that this means I
have no time for the Old Testament. Far from it! 3 The question is,
however, how do we read the Old Testament? It must be through
the eyes of the New. And if the believer’s paramount authority –
note my word – is not the apostolic writings, what is? So, I say
again, any work on the relevance of the ten commandments
today, if it’s worth its salt, must be crammed full of apostolic
passages on the subject. Brooks, alas, gives us none. None! And
this is more than strange. For although you would never guess it
from Brooks’ article, Paul, in particular, did use the ten
commandments when pressing progressive sanctification on
believers.