Do Not Steal

Exodus 20:1-2, 15

September 20, 2020

Rev. Bruce Brown

I.     What Standard Lies Behind the Commandment? (verse 15; Matthew 25; Luke 16)

II.   How Do we Steal from God and Others? (verse 15; Deut. 25; Romans 13; II Samuel 15) 

III.  God’s Solution for a World of Thieves  (verse 15; II Corinthians 8:9; Luke 19:8)

“Now be honest. We have been stirring up thoughts about ways of stealing. Has it struck you that you yourself have been stealing in some of these ways?  If so, God calls you now to repent (which means, change) and make restitution to those you have defrauded. Zacchaeus, the artist in extortion, expressed his repentance by promising to restore fourfold all the money he had taken unjustly (Luke 19:8) … That showed spiritual reality. How much reality of this kind is there about us?” ~ J.I. Packer