RECAP. Laws that define sin.
The Ten Commandments are ten valuable laws given by our
Creator God to reveal His way of life—His way of love. The Bible tells us that
God Himself wrote them with His own finger on tablets of stone (Exodus 20:1;
31:18).
RESUME.
4. Remember
to keep holy the Sabbath day.
The
Sabbath day was made for man and not man for the Sabbath (Mark 2:27). It is about Sanctification and
Relationship.
Note. God starts off the fourth Commandment with the word “Remember”. He
knew we would forget it. God asks that we keep it set apart for Holy
purposes so we can draw nearer to Him.
v The Jewish
celebration of Sabbath (Shabbat) begins at sundown on Friday evening and lasts
until sundown on Saturday. Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christians go to
church on Sunday, treating it as the Lord’s Day instead of Saturday to honor
the day Christ rose from the dead.
v Jesus Christ
allowed works of necessity, charity and piety to be done on Sabbath day.
v The Sabbath day
should be a day of rest from worldly labor. All works of luxury, vanity or
self-indulgence in any form are forbidden.
v Trading, paying
wages, settling accounts, writing letters of business, worldly studies,
traveling, visits, journeys or light conversation are not in the spirit of
keeping the Sabbath day holy.
5. Honor Thy
Father and Mother
Respect for Parental authority. Families are the building blocks of
societies that build strong nations. This commandment shows us from whom and
how the fundamentals of respect and honor are most effectively learned. It
guides us to know how to yield to others, how to properly submit to authority
and how to accept the influence of mentors. Further, this commandment obliges
the faithful to show respect for their parents — as children and adults.
Children must obey their parents, and adults must respect and see
to the care of their parents, when they become old and infirm.
6. Thou
shalt not kill
Respect
for Human life. The
better translation from the Hebrew would be “Thou shalt not murder” — a
subtle distinction but an important one to the Church. Killing an innocent
person is considered murder. Killing an unjust aggressor to preserve your own
life is still killing, but it isn’t considered murder or immoral.
v God asks us to
demonstrate love and not hate towards others by not murdering.
v We must learn to
control our tempers. Taking another person's life is not our right to decide.
v God is the giver
of life and He alone has the authority to take it or to grant permission to
take it.
v John wrote, “Whosoever
hateth his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal
life abiding in him” 1 John 3:15.
….to be cont’d on Monday, August 1st
In
Christ,
Playwright Janet Irene Thomas
Founder/CEO
Bible Stories Theatre of
Fine & Performing Arts
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