Preserving Life

Rev. Bruce Brown

Exodus 20:1-2, 13

September 6, 2020

I.       What Does the Commandment Prohibit?  (verse 13; Exodus 21; Matt. 5:21-26)

II.   What Does the Commandment Promote?  (verse 13; Rom. 13; Duet. 22:8) 

III.  The Power of this Command in the Hands of Jesus. (verse 13; Matt. 5:43-48)

"As murder story writers assume, and as most of us learn in experience, we have in us capacities for fury, fear, envy, greed, conceit, callousness, and hate which, given the right provocation, could make killers out of us all... When the fathomless wells of rage and hatred in the normal human heart are tapped, the results are fearful.  "There but for the grace of God go I."  Only restraining and renewing grace enables anyone to keep the sixth commandment."  ~ J.I. Packer