RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE (6 OF 10)
by Steve Jones
Scripture: Exodus 20:13
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RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE (6 of 10)
Series: TEN
Steve Jones
Exodus 20:13
Series Summary: This is a sermon series on the Ten Commandments and their relevance for today.
Sermon Summary: 1) What this commandment protects. 2) What this commandment prescribes. 3) What this commandment prohibits.
Introduction:
An anarchist shakes his fist in the policeman's face and calls him an ugly name. A husband is so full of anger toward his wife that he beats her to death. A man seethes with hatred toward a person of a different race who has just sat down beside him on a bus. A motorist yells a nasty insult at a slow walking pedestrian.
What do all these people have in common? They have all shown contempt for human life. They have all thus broken the 6th commandment, which specifically says, "You shall not murder" (Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17). They have all committed a kind of murder.
We hear and read about murder every day in the news: homicide bombers, drug killings, gang killings, drive by shootings, babies shaken to death.
The Bible is full of murderers. The third human being who ever lived killed his brother (Genesis 4:8). Cane was the first murderer, but not the last. His great great-great-grandson, Lamech, bragged about two murders he committed (Genesis 4:23). Various rulers of the northern Kingdom of Israel were murderers, E. G., Zimri, Jehu, Joash, and Jezebel. In New Testament times the Herods were killers. Herod Antipas had John the Baptist murdered (Matthew 14:1ff). Barabbas was a murderer (Mark 15:7). Jesus said the devil "was a murderer from the beginning" (John 8:44). Even "good" men were killers: Moses (Exodus 2:12), David (2 Samuel 11:14ff), Saul of Tarsus (Acts 8:1; 9:1).
Now, many will immediately say, "but that is not who I am. I don't need to hear about this 6th commandment. I have never committed murder- and never will!" (Before going further, I will ask these folks to read Jesus words in Matthew 5:21-22. I will say more about th ...
Series: TEN
Steve Jones
Exodus 20:13
Series Summary: This is a sermon series on the Ten Commandments and their relevance for today.
Sermon Summary: 1) What this commandment protects. 2) What this commandment prescribes. 3) What this commandment prohibits.
Introduction:
An anarchist shakes his fist in the policeman's face and calls him an ugly name. A husband is so full of anger toward his wife that he beats her to death. A man seethes with hatred toward a person of a different race who has just sat down beside him on a bus. A motorist yells a nasty insult at a slow walking pedestrian.
What do all these people have in common? They have all shown contempt for human life. They have all thus broken the 6th commandment, which specifically says, "You shall not murder" (Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17). They have all committed a kind of murder.
We hear and read about murder every day in the news: homicide bombers, drug killings, gang killings, drive by shootings, babies shaken to death.
The Bible is full of murderers. The third human being who ever lived killed his brother (Genesis 4:8). Cane was the first murderer, but not the last. His great great-great-grandson, Lamech, bragged about two murders he committed (Genesis 4:23). Various rulers of the northern Kingdom of Israel were murderers, E. G., Zimri, Jehu, Joash, and Jezebel. In New Testament times the Herods were killers. Herod Antipas had John the Baptist murdered (Matthew 14:1ff). Barabbas was a murderer (Mark 15:7). Jesus said the devil "was a murderer from the beginning" (John 8:44). Even "good" men were killers: Moses (Exodus 2:12), David (2 Samuel 11:14ff), Saul of Tarsus (Acts 8:1; 9:1).
Now, many will immediately say, "but that is not who I am. I don't need to hear about this 6th commandment. I have never committed murder- and never will!" (Before going further, I will ask these folks to read Jesus words in Matthew 5:21-22. I will say more about th ...
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