Continuing the Moral Law of God's Ten Commandments: [4] “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work”, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work.” God is to be served and honored daily, but one day in seven is to be particularly dedicated to his honor and spent in his service. The Sabbath was made for man, so it is a day of rest and a holy day set apart to the honor of the holy God; solemnly blessing Him. Remember it. [5] “Honor your father and your mother” - an inward esteem of them outwardly expressed upon all occasions in our conduct towards them. Give them reverence and support from a principle of love. [6] “You shall not murder’. You shalt not do anything hurtful or injurious to the health, ease, and life, of your own body, or any other person’s unjustly.” This is one of the laws of nature and forbids all malice, hatred and persecution to the person of any. [7] “You shall not commit adultery” - for our chastity should be as dear to us as our lives. This commandment forbids all acts of uncleanness, with all those fleshly lusts which defiles the mind, body and soul. The Lord Jesus said in Matthew 5:28, “I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
[8] “You shall not steal”. This command forbids us to rob ourselves of what we have by sinful spending, rob others by invading our neighbor’s rights, taking his goods from his person, or house, or field, withholding just debts, rents, or wages, and (which is worst of all) to rob the public. [9] “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. This forbids, 1. Speaking falsely in any matter, lying, equivocating, and any way devising and designing to deceive our neighbor. 2. Speaking unjustly against our neighbor, to the prejudice of his reputation; and (which involves the guilty of both), 3. Bearing false witness against him, laying to his charge things that he knows not, either judicially, upon oath (by which the third commandment, and the sixth of eighth, as well as this, are broken), or extrajudicially. [10] “You shall not covet, anything that is your neighbor’s.” this forbids envy; all inordinate desire of having that which will be a gratification to ourselves. Those irregular appetites and desires which are the first-born of the corrupt nature, the first risings of the sin that dwelleth in us, and the beginnings of all the sin that is committed by us. How do we measure up to God’s Moral Law?
Romans 3:23 gives the verdict that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”. We need a Savior and by the grace of God, He sent Jesus Christ to redeem repentant, born-again Believers. In Romans 12:1-3 the Apostle Paul directs us, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.”
When I consider my true sinful state before my just and holy heavenly Father, I cannot help but not to think of himself more highly than he ought to. I come to Him with empty hands and by His grace alone am I saved through faith in the Savior of the world. God has the throne of my life. Praise be to God!
In Christ, Brian
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