6th Commandment

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Introduction

Have you ever heard of the town Cabot cove from murder she wrote? This show lasted 12 season at its peak had 25 million viewers a week!
According to the Telegraph
The show usually starts with a preview of the episode's events, with Jessica stating: "Tonight on Murder, She Wrote..." Jessica invariably proves more perceptive than the official investigators of a case, who are almost always willing to arrest the most likely suspect. By carefully piecing the clues together and asking astute questions, she leads the authorities to arrest the real murderer. Murder occurred with such regularity in her vicinity that the term "Cabot Cove syndrome" was coined to describe the constant appearance of dead bodies in remote locations. Indeed, if Cabot Cove existed in real life, it would top the FBI's national crime statistics in numerous categories, with some analysis suggesting that the homicide rate in Cabot Cove exceeds even that of the real-life murder capital of the world.[13]
They had to literally move the show location to NYC due to the amount of murders that had happens in Cabot Cove up to the 8th season. I had a family friend ask just how many people lived in this town!
Murder is something that is so shocking, so paralyzing that it attracts peoples attention.
I believe this is so because it is an attack on the very image of God.
They tried killing Jesus and he rose from the dead. Murder is the closest you can get to attacking God. This is why murder is taken so seriously by Christians. It is an assault on the image of God who all people bear
Deuteronomy 5:6–21 ESV
6 “ ‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 7 “ ‘You shall have no other gods before me. 8 “ ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 9 You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 10 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. 11 “ ‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. 12 “ ‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. 13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. 16 “ ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 17 “ ‘You shall not murder. 18 “ ‘And you shall not commit adultery. 19 “ ‘And you shall not steal. 20 “ ‘And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 21 “ ‘And you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.’
The Doctrine of the Christian Life Chapter 35: The Sixth Commandment: Respecting Life

The language of the commandment itself leads us to such broad applications. The Hebrew verb ratsakh found in this commandment is translated “murder” or “kill.” We are familiar with “Thou shalt not kill” from the KJV. The ESV, which I have been using regularly in this book, translates “You shall not murder.” Most often, ratsakh refers to killing that is unlawful p 687 or forbidden. It is not used for the killing of animals or for killing in war. That would suggest that the best translation here is “murder,” not the more general “kill.” However, the term differs from our English word murder in that it applies to manslaughter and negligent homicide.2

Deuteronomy 19:5 describes a case “when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies.” The implication is that the killing here is accidental, so the killing is not what we normally call murder. Nevertheless, the word that describes the person responsible is a form of the verb used in the sixth commandment. The ESV translates it “manslayer” (v. 4), which is somewhat archaic, but may be the best choice. So ratsakh in the sixth commandment is narrower than “kill,” but somewhat broader than “murder.”

Application

Abortion/Your Actions

Individual actions have communal effects your actions impact everybody. When Adam ate the fruit he impacted us all, his wife who was taken from his rib, and you and I his descendants. Murder impacts everybody. It’s the intro Al destruction of the image of God that reality has a supernatural spiritual impact. You can’t kill God, but your actions say you would like to. You aren’t your own free agent your are connected to us all.
Abortion is still legal, and god will hold us all accountable until it is abolished. Their is a mistaken worldview that has crept in to the west and into the church in some places. That we are individuals, that we only represent ourselves and not a people, a family, and so on. This simply is not true. Adam represented all of mankind when he sinned and spread sin to us all, all men and women died in him when he disobeyed. Jesus when he obey represents us before God when we believe in him. This is called federal headship, we are represented in death of Adam or in the life of Christ. We today are represented by the governing head of our land, God sees America it is a real thing. When he sees America he sees the blood of 60 million dead babies. You may say I never got one, why am I guilty? Deuteronomy 21:1-9
Deuteronomy 21:1–9 ESV
1 “If in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess someone is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him, 2 then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities. 3 And the elders of the city that is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer that has never been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke. 4 And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley. 5 Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister to him and to bless in the name of the Lord, and by their word every dispute and every assault shall be settled. 6 And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley, 7 and they shall testify, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it shed. 8 Accept atonement, O Lord, for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.’ 9 So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.
Let’s say a murdered body is found in a field somewhere, and it’s not known who killed him, or maybe her. Human life is so sacred that the territory around a murdered body, at least in the Old Testament times, was considered polluted until proper atonement could be made for the murdered person.
Deuteronomy (Mentor Expository Commentary | MEC) Atonement for an Unknown Murder (21:1–9)

In the Old Testament times, the elders of the nearest village would measure where the body was found, and find out where was the closest city or village was. Then they would notify the elders of the nearest village or city to begin taking action. They were to take an unworked heifer into an unworked valley, and break its neck, cut its head off, as a form of atonement for murder. Here we have the basic principle by which we are saved: it is the principle of substitution—someone dying in another’s place. That is the only way any sinner can ever, under any condition, be offered forgiveness and pardon, the principle of substitution.

So after they had made atonement by slaying this heifer, the elders who represented all the people of this now polluted territory, were to wash their hands in a bowl of water and plead their innocence before the Lord.

Deuteronomy (Mentor Expository Commentary | MEC) Atonement for an Unknown Murder (21:1–9)

But on the contrary, Deuteronomy presents the idea of a holy community, which is something that we don’t think much about. Serious sin affects the whole lot so that when something, particularly willful murder, occurs, the whole community needs cleansing to remove the pollution and the wrath of God upon it. That goes exactly contrary to what modern people think, even church people.

Deuteronomy (Mentor Expository Commentary | MEC) (Atonement for an Unknown Murder (21:1–9))
Let me read you from what the apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12:26–27
1 Corinthians 12:26–27 (ESV)
26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. 27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
. He’s certainly not dealing with murder, but dealing with the principle of corporate connection, community connection, that God sees us together and that one does affects the others in the eyes of God: ‘And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular’.
Without exploring the issue, I do think, as far as I know, that the most horrendous sin in our country today is the ever-increasing mountain of guilt that is piling up because of legalized abortion every day. We do nothing to stop this the killing of the unborn. There can’t be sufficient atonement for this until the sin is repented of. What would it look like to repent? Let’s be specific. It means stop doing it; stop allowing it; and then over it you will have deep, broken-heartedness that it ever happened. What then is our responsibility? Look at
Proverbs 31:8–9: ‘Open thy mouth for all the dumb [the unborn can’t talk] in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy’.
The most dangerous place to be in the United States of America is in a mother’s womb, and God has said we are to plead their cause, because they can’t speak for themselves; so for us to speak out is required.
We all are accountable, we must strive to destroy this evil, so much blood is on our hands.

Your Speech and Attitude

Look into your heart do your words lead to life or death.
Let me share with you something we teach our children that is applicable to us all today.
You need to have a joyful heart.
The Sixth Commandment is directly connected to our emotions. Jesus makes this connection
Matthew 5:21–22 ESV
21 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ 22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.
Your attitude and speech need to be that of Christ. We read a lot of books to our children and the favorite is Winnie the Pooh, well one of his friends is Eeyore. Eeyore is grey and glum, his attitude is grey and glum, he is a constant stick in the mud, in some of the A.A. Milne and Disney books he get’s upset if he is not included and makes a point of telling you. He was a an illustration of what not to be as a child. If this is you let me tell you what our father says about that
Proverbs 17:22 ESV
22 A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
The Doctrine of the Christian Life Chapter 35: The Sixth Commandment: Respecting Life

As modern medicine is discovering anew, cheerfulness has physical consequences. It promotes life. So the sixth commandment calls us, among many other things, to be cheerful.

You may have gotten some bad news, but you have an obligation to those around you to be joyful.
Men this is true of you more then anyone else. Your attitude and disposition truly impacts your home. Your called to lead here. Take charge, smile, and get to work.
Ladies the Bible is clear about you to
Proverbs 21:9 ESV
9 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
Truly your actions when they’re like this cause your husband to be distant and to run, your family to run.
You must choose today to obey God and be joyful. God is in control over the bad news. Christ has reconciled us to himself and their by one another seek to forgive.
Matthew 5:23–25 ESV
23 So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. 25 Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.
Talk it out, make it clear, do it today.

Your attitude and your children.

I want to add to this point

4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, ubut bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Reformed Ethics, Volume Two: The Duties of the Christian Life §45. Concern for Our Neighbor’s Life (Sixth Commandment)

We are murderers also when we kill our neighbor’s soul.176 Satan was such a murderer from the beginning (John 8:44). We kill a soul whenever we seduce someone, causing them to fall into sin through our word or our example. This happens when we flatter our neighbors’ pride, incite their evil lusts and desires, feed their anger, encourage their lust for revenge, weaken their tender consciences, shock their faith by our doubt, crush their faith by our ridicule, or offend them in anything whatsoever. We can do this even to our children if we ignore the bad books they read or any irreverent talk about God, his Word, church, or sermons, or if we stroke their pride, appeal to their ambition, and the like. And all of us are murderers—it was our sins that caused Jesus’s death.177

By implication how you speak of Christ, his church, the people of the church, our leaders also hinder the gospel of Christ and lead to death. So pray for unity in Christ, pray for our church leaders here and for Christian leaders around the world, pray for unity in the message, and promote it yourself. Your dispositions may lead to death spiritually.
Little ears need to hear the building up of Christ, his church, his ministers, his deacons, and your brothers and sisters.
Ephesians 5:8–20 ESV
8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), 10 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. 13 But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, 14 for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” 15 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, 20 giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Live (v8) Find (v10) have nothing to do with (v11) Expose (v11) Shameful to mention (v12) Wake up (v14) Be careful on how you live (v15) Making most (v16) Understand (v17) be filled (v18) Speaking to one another (v19) Give thanks (v20)
Last week Pastor Kevin taught to live righteously. Your righteous living points to life, the life of Christ. Decisive living leads to death, and even the death of your family

My Job requires violence

For our former solders, police officers, agents of justice, those who have sent out orders to end lives or maintain peace I want to calm any fear in you about your actions.
I watched a video of a police officer stop a man who was attempting to begin a mass shooting. He had his AR platform and used it to put down a bad guy. He had to possibly kill a villain to save men, women , and Children.

Nevertheless, Scripture recognizes that warfare is sometimes necessary in a fallen world. As we have seen, God has given the sword to the civil magistrate (Acts 25:11; Rom. 13:4). The sword is an instrument of bloodshed and death. God is the one who enables the devout warrior to prevail (Ps. 144:1).

Scripture respects the military vocation. John the Baptist told soldiers not to rob others, but did not tell them to leave the army (Luke 3:14). Roman centurions tend to be positive models in the New Testament (Matt. 27:54; Luke 7:9; Acts 10:2, 22, 35).

In the Old Testament, Abraham rescued his nephew Lot by raising a military force (Gen. 14:13–16). Later, God commanded Israel to make war.

In a real sense to my Christian soldiers and policmen. You are, when you act righteously a sword in our Lord’s hand administering justice. Was is ugly, and it is good that it is lest man grow to fond of it, but if you’ve been part of things that your barely speak of in conflict, sleep well.
You may notice that Jesus never sasys to the Centurions he meets that they need to stop? That is because they are agents in God’s hand The saviour was literally looking at his tools of Justice. So if you are in a place that you still can bring justice do it, don’t be afraid to stand up for Christ!

How to resist breaking the sixth commandment

The Doctrine of the Christian Life Chapter 35: The Sixth Commandment: Respecting Life

What are the duties required in the sixth commandment?

A. The duties required in the sixth commandment are, all careful studies, and lawful endeavors, to preserve the life of ourselves and others, by resisting all thoughts and purposes, subduing all passions, and avoiding all occasions, temptations, and practices, which tend to the unjust taking away the life of any; by just defense thereof against violence, patient bearing of the hand of God, quietness of mind, cheerfulness of spirit; a sober use of meat, drink, physic, sleep, labor, and recreations; by charitable thoughts, love, compassion, meekness, gentleness, kindness; peaceable, mild, and courteous speeches and behavior; forbearance, readiness to be reconciled, patient bearing and forgiving of injuries, and requiting good for evil; comforting and succoring the distressed, and protecting and defending the innocent.

Are you a person that burns up, submit to Christ ask the Holy Spirit to govern your emotions. Anger is permissible, but can lead you, just like any other emotion, out of control. It angers me when I hear about evil going on. So I must use my energies to combat it.
One thing that I was reminded by pastor Kevin last week is that their is so much hate going on. Truly I have to remember that their is invisible evil trying to get us to harm each other. Their are people who are taken in by the deceits of the enemy who make themselves my enemy, but don’t realize that he wants them dead also. The same Satan who is pushing for great evil in our time and using agents to do so is also actively killing his agents. I can hate evil, but I must love the person.
Are you easily taken in, as the holy Spirit to reveal truth and seek the truth of God’s word.
Do you see the color red when pressure is on? Remove yourself from the situation. the bible is clear cut it out, rip it off, pluck it out. It is better to go to heaven without then to hell with.
Choose words that bless over curse, and if you can’t do that. Remove yourself from the situation

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