Many people insist today that Christians do not live under law. But this is true insofar as salvation is concerned. We no longer try to gain or merit our salvation by heeding laws. It does not work.   Thus Christians do not look for salvation by keeping the Ten...

Exodus 20:17. You shall not covet your neighbour’s house: you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour’s.   What is the answer to covetousness? How do we live in...

Exodus 20:17. You shall not covet your neighbour’s house: you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour’s.   Who actually commits this sin?   In the first place we...

Exodus 20:17. You shall not covet your neighbour’s house: you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour’s.   This command is aimed at our secret motives and...

Exodus 20:16. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.   This commandment is also a protection for our marriages. Why? Well, when one spouse begins to insult the other the words used are usually slander and falsehood. This kind of verbal battering...

Exodus 20:16. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.   There is more than one way to tell a lie. For instance we must not lie with our lives. In other words, we must not pretend to be what we are not. That is hypocrisy. The story of Ananias and...

Exodus 20:16. You should not bear false witness against your neighbour.   I once read of a preacher who held a congregation spellbound by his fiery preaching on a cardinal sin. He ended his tirade by asking whether the congregation would like to see that part of...

Exodus 20:15 You shall not steal.   We can also commit the crime of theft against God. Firstly we can steal time from God. Sometimes people who say they are Christians spend more time on their hobbies and pleasures than they do in the matter of discipleship and...

Exodus 20 v 15 You shall not steal.   I wonder if it has ever occurred to you that we can commit the sin of theft against ourselves and our own families?   Some people rob their families because of a terribly stingy mentality. Many a wife is kept without...

Exodus 20 v 15 You shall not steal.   There are only four ways in which we come to possess anything in life. The first is by inheritance. Thank God for those parents who have been industrious and who are able to bequeath something to their family. The second is...

Exodus 20 v 15 You shall not steal.   You will notice that the first four commandments deal with our relationship with God, the next three with our relationship with our family and the last three with property and our neighbour. God wants to impress on us that...

Exodus 20 v 15 You shall not steal.   Honesty is a great challenge in these days, as it has always been. To resist the love of money and the lure of materialism is not easy. In our high-tech days it is hard to be honest in all our financial dealings. The ideal is...

Exodus 20 v 17. You shall not commit adultery.   Picking up from yesterday, here is the sixth destructive fact about sexual immorality.   6. It is Dishonouring to God God has laid down his will for his people. But the adulterer sets his own will above that...

Exodus 20 v 17. Do not commit adultery.   In Matthew 5 v 27-30 Our Lord says:   “You have heard that it was said to those of old, “You shall not commit adultery”. But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery...

Exodus 20 v 17. Do not commit adultery.   Apart from a command that protects and sustains healthy family life, this commandment also has a more profound purpose. It is given to us to act as a signpost pointing to a relationship with God. J I Packer says in his...

Exodus 20 v 17. Do not commit adultery.   One of the most common lies perpetrated by the secular media is the notion that Christians are either hypocrites in the matter of sexual adultery, or that they are out of date, old-fashioned and uptight about it. No doubt...

Exodus 20 v 17. You shall not commit adultery.   Other people’s marriages are also safeguarded by this commandment. The implication of these words is that no one has the right to jeopardise anyone else’s marriage by enticing or corrupting someone else’s partner....

Exodus 20 v 17. You shall not commit adultery.   Why did God give us this command? The following are some reasons for this word from God.   1. To safeguard marriage. It is no secret that in our times the institution of marriage is under serious attack from...

Exodus 20 v 14 You shall not commit adultery   God’s purpose in giving us these instructions lies far deeper than merely forbidding sex outside of marriage. Indeed God has built the desire for and the ability to engage in sex into our DNA. It is part of what...

Exodus 20:13. You shall not murder.   Matthew 18:6. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believes in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.   Here our Lord...

Proverbs 10:18. He who conceals hatred has lying lips. And he who spreads slander is a fool.   We may not physically kill another human being but did you know that you could kill their reputation? It is possible to destroy somebody else’s good name and, in so...

Proverbs 17:1. Better is a dry morsel and quietness with it, than a house full of boasting and strife.   One of the sinister powers of anger and selfishness is to break down a marriage or a home. The famous evangelist of the 19th century, D L Moody said:  ...

Exodus 20:13. You shall not murder   Let me talk to you about Anger – the silent killer. All that has been said so far is pretty obvious even if it is controversial. However, most of us are not involved in the gross violence of the criminal or mentally...

Psalm 139:13. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.   Under the title of violence I want to point out that this 6th Commandment forbids abortion. We need to be very aware of this application. We have no right to take any human...

Matthew 5:22. But I say to you that anyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgement.   Having looked at what the 6th Commandment does not forbid, let’s see what it does forbid.   In this commandment God includes all...

Exodus 20:13. You shall not murder   Furthermore, this commandment does not forbid war. The pros and cons of a particular war are not to be considered here. I am simply saying that legitimate warfare may be God’s way of dealing out judgement to offending nations....

Exodus 21:12. He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.   There are a number of things this commandment was not intended to forbid. The first is capital punishment. Capital punishment is based on the premise that it is God who gives life...

Exodus 20:13. You shall not murder   There are three sins which the Bible describes as crying out for vengeance. The first is the sin of the oppression by the powerful over the poor, the weak and the needy. Psalm 12:5 talks about the groaning or the crying out of...

Exodus 20:13. You shall not murder.   I once attended an exhibition of photographs put together by news journalists. There was a sequence of enlarged prints depicting a man astride another man with a knife held high above his head. The photographs depicted the...

Ephesians 5:32. However, each of you must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.   If men abdicate their position as heads of the home that family is likely to be affected spiritually. Many women are hanging on by their...