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The Commandments (Part 8)

May 22nd 2013 13:37
Exodus 20:8 You shall not steal.

Stealing is pretty basic. Taking anything that does not belong to you is to steal it. Whether done by force or by trickery or by fraud, stealing is stealing and we should be careful not only to not steal from others but to prevent ourselves from being robbed, as well.



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The Commandments (Part 7)

May 19th 2013 13:26
Exodus 20:7 You shall not commit adultery.

What is adultery? Leviticus 20:10 If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.

As we see in John 8:1-11, a woman is "caught in the act" of adultery. But where is the man she was caught with? Oddly, he is never mentioned. When she was brought before Jesus by the angry mob, what happened? Jesus told them,
"If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone." He forgave her when her accusers departed. What did Jesus write in the dirt that stopped the accusers? Did He know their sins and write them down? This was a wonderful lesson in both judgement and forgiveness.
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The Commandments (Part 6)

May 15th 2013 13:17
Exodus 20:6 You shall not murder.

This commandment is often misunderstood. Sometimes it is translated as "thou shall not kill", but that is not correct. Killing is not necessarily murder. Our military kills in time of war, but that is not wrong in God's eyes.

Psalms 144 Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

3 Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

The act of murder, lying in wait, taking the life of an innocent, shedding innocent blood, these are against the laws of God. Accidents, self-defense and defense of others are not against God's Commandments.
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The Commandments (Part 5)

May 12th 2013 13:13
Exodus 20:5 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

This is the first promise that God made! Treating parents with respect and honor is important enough to God that He not only commanded us to do so, He promised us a reward if we obey


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The Commandments (Part 4)

May 8th 2013 12:54
Exodus 20:4 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 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 manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 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.

What is the Sabbath? In the Hebrew culture it is Saturday. In the Christian church (many of them, anyway) the Sabbath is Sunday. Jesus rose from the dead on a Sunday so the day is special for that reason


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The Commandments (Part 3)

May 5th 2013 12:49
Exodus 20:3 You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

How does one take God's name in vain? Swearing "by God" for frivolous things, cursing, and using the God's name in any form that is insulting, demeaning or crude. His Name is sacred, we must keep it so


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The Commandments (Part 2)

May 1st 2013 12:40
Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make thee any graven images, or 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 Thou shalt not bow thyself down to them nor serve them.

Remember the golden calf? Exodus 32 tells the story. This commandment goes along with the first, telling us that there is only one God and that He and only He should be first in our lives. Today, people seem to worship celebrities and all the trappings of wealth. Idolatry isn't confined to golden calves.
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The Commandments (Part 1)

April 28th 2013 12:31
It seems that some people consider the 10 Commandments to be merely 10 suggestions. Would God have written mere suggestions in stone? Of course not. Every commandment has a purpose and for the next 10 weeks we will go through the Commandments and consider their great value. Exodus 20:1-17

1. I am the Lord they God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, thou shalt have no other gods before Me


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Who Says We Should Tithe?

April 24th 2013 23:42
Tithing, or giving 10% to God, is as old as the Bible. In Genesis 14:20 we see that Abraham gave a tithe to Melchizedek. He gave ten percent of the spoils of his victory. In Leviticus 27:30-32 the Law is given to Moses about tithing. In Amos 4:4, God is angry and insists that tithing be resumed, after His people left His ways and fell into sin.

In the New Testament, Jesus rebukes the Pharisee in Matthew 23:23 and in Luke 18:12 because tithing had become more important to some people than following the spirit of the Law. Giving 10% of "increase" had become a bragging occasion for many and those who had little to give were frowned upon by some of those in power


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How Is Your Appetite?

April 17th 2013 22:37
Food, or feeding, are common themes throughout the Bible. John 21:15 "So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs." Jesus repeats this more than once, His sheep (His people, His children) were His lambs and his sheep. Did He mean that they should be provided with cooked meals? Or was He talking about feeding the word of God to his people?

In Acts 10:11 "And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth


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