Exodus 20:17 (ESV) “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.” In this message Pastor Riley Smith considers the final of the Ten Commandments, ‘you shall not covet’. This message…
In this sermon, we come to the 7th commandment, “You shall not commit adultery”. As we look to this commandment, the context of the exclusive covenant relationship that God invited his people into comes into view. Over the course of the series we’ve seen how God was forming for himself a people in the nation of…
“You shall not steal” Exodus 20:15 – the eight commandment in God’s top ten that he gave to his people after bringing them up out of slavery in Egypt. At the giving of the law, Yahweh was forming for himself a people through whom all nations would be blessed & come to know the one…
You shall not give false testimony against your neighbour. When it came to settling disputes for the people of God, when it came to settling lawsuits and when it came to justice being done, the people of Israel were called to be set apart from the nations, to be marked out by their truth, to…
If ever there were to be a commandment that we could skip over…if ever there was one in the list that we’d be tempted to think didn’t speak into our lives in Victor Harbor in the 21st C…it would be this week’s commandment. Exodus 20:13 “You will not murder.” Most people would have known that this…
Sabbath day rest I still have memories of travelling with my family in our two-toned grey and pink FC Holden sedan with its Stromberg double venturi downdraft carburetor between Devonport and Launceston and seeing a farmer in his tractor ploughing up the field, much to my father’s disdain. It was the Lord’s Day, or Sunday.…
How is it that you arrived at the name of your child/ren? Did you use a book with alphabetical lists? How about Biblical ones (Methuselah, Noah)? Or those passed down through the family?
William Shakespeare’s asked in Romeo and Juliet:
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
Christian discipleship, true mission, flows out of loving God and loving others.As disciples, our relationships are grounded in the commandments of God. As God set Israel free from slavery, He wanted to frame their public and private lives by introducing how relationship with Him and with others was to look – you will only have…
Honoring Mothers: While central to all the Ten Commandments is our responsibility toward God, the first four are dealing with our vertical relationship – toward God; and the last six are toward people – horizontal. The order is important – loving God takes primary position in this detox program for Israel (and for those who…
The mission of God as seen in the Ten Commandments: As God set Israel free from slavery, He wanted to frame their public and private lives by introducing how relationship with Him and with others was to look like – you will only have one God, you will not have idols, you will not take His name in vain…. You will not murder, steal, commit adultery, want what is someone elses…
And as Israel would obey these commands in their (to use the words of Newbigin) public and private lives, they would be a light for the nations.
And so the Ten Commandments reflect the missional heart of God in the OT – the mission of God.