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📣 Why does God see you as a murderer? 🤔
God sees human life as sacred. So sacred that both physical and non-physical acts of violence are seen as attacks on the life He gives to every living soul. This has personal and institutional implications for how we treat human life, many such scenarios Pastor Paul deals with in this sermon. Ultimately, in Jesus’ summary of the Mosaic Law, He stresses this truth in the positive, that His disciples must love their neighbours as themselves. And so we are called to everything we can to preserve the sanctity of human life.
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📍 Sermon Outline 00:00 Trailer 01:21 Introduction 03:49 I. WHAT IS FORBIDDEN IN THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT? 25:08 II. WHAT IS REQUIRED IN THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT? 41:21 Closing Prayer 44:17 Reflection Question
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Highlights
I think all of us are familiar with the story of the Good Samaritan. Remember there was a man who was robbed by thieves, and he was left to die on the streets. If nothing was done, the man would die. But the thieves were not the only ones who violated the sixth commandment on that day. There were two respected religious leaders who also broke the sixth commandment not by killing but by leaving the man to die. The priest and the Levite saw that the man had desperate need, and yet they pretended not to notice. They looked the other way. Maybe they were late for worship, or maybe they did not want to inconvenience themselves. But whatever be the reasons, they made a deliberate decision to avoid a man, and then they walked on the other side of the road.
Martin Luther said, ‘What this story shows is that sometimes all it takes to break the sixth commandment is to do nothing at all.’ So, the sixth commandment is violated not only when a person actually does evil but also when he fails to do good to his neighbour.
Keeping the sixth commandment means more than just not murdering someone. It means loving our neighbour. It means showing kindness to strangers and mercy to our enemies. Perhaps the question we need to ask ourselves is not how many people have we murdered. Obviously, we have not killed anyone. But what about those people who are in need, whether emotionally, spiritually, or physically, or financially?
MAYBE INCLUDE
this commandment would include abortion, infanticide, euthanasia,
What about people on life support machines?
What about committing suicide?
What about capital punishment?
what about killing animals?
1 John 3:15 says, “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.” Are you not a murderer? Have you ever said anything hurtful to anyone? Have you ever hated someone so much that you wish the person would disappear?
John Calvin said this is the murder of the hea rt. We are all murderers in the eyes of God.
You rob God of the sovereignty…
Bears the image of God: You are attacking the one…
Abortion and infanticide.
Professors wrote: “Children less than one months old do not have… rights… or human consciousness”
- as parents, when our child was born, they try to recognise their surroundings… If that is not human consciousness, then what is it?
She can choose to ignore the Risk, and she can choose not to face the consequences????
- imagine if you choose to drink and drive. And u kill someone. But u say I didn’t intend to. ???
People that call themselves pro choice, in reality they are pro death. They are choosing not life but death. The baby is the most helpless of all human beings. It cannot defend itself. It should be protected not killed.
Only God alone has the right to determine the length of our days on this earth.
What about people on life support machines? Today we have the means to provide support even after all.
- There is a difference between terminating life and terminating treatment. Sometimes terminating treatment is a way of turning to God and trusting that life to God’s hands. But we have ot be very careful and prayerful.
What about committing suicide? Sometime it seems that it would be a lot easier if we could just end everything… but remember, man is not the lord and master of his own life. God is the one who determines the moment of death. Man must accept it ONLY when it comes…
What about committing suicide?
What about capital punishment? Soldiers fighting in battlefields,
What about killing animals?
The word for “kill” used here is never used for military or hunting purposes…
The purpose of war is not to kill people but for a country’s safety. It is also for the preservation of life.
Martin Luther said: what this story shows is that sometimes all it takes to break the 6th commandment is to do nothing at all.
Keeping the 6th commandment is not about… it is about…
The question we have to ask ourselves is not how many people have we murdered?
But what about those people who are in need? Emotionally, physically, financially?
What about strangers who stroll into our lives who need our help and we pretend…
Let us consider the words of Jesus in Matthew 5… We break it with our words and often with our thoughts.
A boy asked the father how do wars start? The father said take WWI for example… “KEEP QUIET YOU FOOL!”
- At the end the boy said “daddy u do not need to tell me any more. I know how wars start…”
When u are envious you ..
You have desire to get back at someone.
… It is really a way of wishing they were dead.
Are you not a murderer? Have u ever said anything…
Have u ever hated a person so much that you wish that person would disappear?
This is the murder of the heart… we are all murderers in the eyes of God… We are all guilty…
Jesus forgave the murderers!
If u think u have never broken the 6th commandment, THINK AGAIN.
If you think u are always breaking… you always have murderous thoughts in your mind… if you have killed someone in your words or thoughts.
- and you think “I am finished…”.. there is HOPE for you. Because Jesus came to forgive u. Repent.