March 2010 - Posts

• Ten Commandments Wk10

  Eighth Command                                        Exodus 20:15  •        Steal (ganaf)-Hebr. Meaning To Carry Something Away Secretly •        To Take Something That Does Not Belong To You   •        What Are the Kinds of Stealing? •        Burglary -Breaking Into a Home or Building to Commit Theft •        Robbery -Taking Property Directly From Another Using Violence or Intimidation •        Larceny -Taking Something Without Permission and Not Returning It •        Hijacking -Using Force to Take Goods in Transit or Seizing Control of a Vehicle •        Shoplifting -Taking Items From a Store During Business Hours Without Paying for Them •        Pick-pocketing and Purse-snatching •        Embezzlement-The Fraudulent Taking of Money or Goods Entrusted to One’s Care •        Extortion -Getting money From Someone by means of Threats or Misuses of Authority •        Racketeering -Obtaining Money by Any Illegal Means •       Pilfering Public Property •        Citizens Steal From the Government •        Government Steals From the Citizens •        Theft At Work •        Employers Steal From Their Workers •        Large Corporations Steal From the Public •        Many Common Marketing & Sales Practices •        Theft Involving Credit Markets   •        Stealing Is Against God’s Provision •        Stealing is a Leaven-Type Sin Against God •        The 8th Command Assumes a Right of Ownership or Private Property •        Every Theft is a Failure to Trust in His Provision •        Every Theft is Also an Assault on God’s Providence for Others   •        What About the Positive Side •        We are Stewards of All That God Has Given Us •        Biblical Ownership is Not Possession to Use for Our Own Purposes •        It is Receiving Things From God to Use for His Glory •        A Steward is Someone Who Cares for Someone Else’s Property (Gen 2:15) •        Stewardship Means Not Being Wasteful Which is a Type of Stealing •        Good Stewardship Means Working Hard •        Laziness Leads to Poverty & Poverty to the Temptation to Steal (Prov 6:10-11 & Eph 4:28) •        Good Stewardship Means Giving •        Three Attitudes Toward Possessions: •        What’s Yours is Mine: I’ll Take It •        What’s Mine is Mine; I’ll Keep It •        What’s Mine is God’s; I’ll Share It   •        We Can Steal From God •        Ignore Proportional Giving (1 Cor 16:2 & Mal 3:8-10) •        Fail to Give Him the Best of Our Time & Talents (Col 3:23) •        Deny Him Our Obedience   •        The Great Transaction •        Christ Was Crucified Between Two Thieves (Matt 27:38; Is 53:12 & Lk 23:42-43)     Posted Mar 28 2010, 02:32 PM by jbarch with no comments

• Ten Commandments Wk9

  Seventh Command                                                 Exodus 20:14  ·       Biblical View ·       Our Sexuality is A Gift From God (Gen 1:28 & 2:24) ·       Sexuality is Only One Part of the Total Marriage Covenant ·       Sex Only Has God’s Blessing Within the Security of a Total Life Commitment ·       Isolating the Pleasures of Sex Always Ends Up Harming Yourself & Others. ·       What Does it Mean to commit adultery? ·       Sexual Intercourse That Breaks the Bonds of a Marriage Covenant (Lev 20:10) ·       Adultery is Treason Against the Family ·       Having Sex is Not the Only Way to Commit Adultery ·       Most Adulterous Relationships Start With Inappropriate Intimacy ·       What Else is Ruled Out? ·       Prostitution, Homosexuality, Rape, Pedophilia, Incest, or Any Form of Sexual Abuse ·       Rule of Categories-Every Sin of the Same Kind ·       Why Does God Forbid Adultery? ·       Because Sexuality & Spirituality are Connected ·       The Marriage Union is An Example of the Exclusive Relationship Between God and His People ( Jer. 3:1–10; 5:7–11; Hos. 2; Mal. 2:10–16) ·       The NT Defines Marriage in Terms of Our Relationship to Jesus Christ (Eph 5:31-32) ·       What Are the Implications for Our Sexuality? ·       Every Act of Sexual Immorality is a Spiritual Offense ·       It is an Offense Against the Son of God (1 Cor 6:15-17) ·       It is an Offense Against the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 6:18-20) ·       Sexual Immorality is Common in Our Culture ·       Sexual Immorality is Nearly as Common in the Christian Church ·       The Problem is Not Our Culture, it is Our Own Sinful Hearts (Matt 5:27–28) ·       To Lust is to Imagine the Sexual Possibilities ·    &nbsp%3 Posted Mar 21 2010, 02:59 AM by jbarch with no comments

• Ten Commandments Wk8

  Sixth Command                                   Exodus 20:13  •        Define Lawful & Unlawful Killing •        Two Words in Hebrew: lo ratzach, or Don’t Kill •        Some Translate: Don’t Murder •        Forbids the Unjust Taking of a Legally Innocent Human Life •        Perhaps the Best Translation is, “You Shall Not Kill Unlawfully” •        When is Taking a Life Lawful? •        When the Goal is Not the Destruction of Life, But its Preservation •        Defense •        Self-Protection, Including the Family, from Violent Attack (Ex22:2) •        Nation-Just Wars to Keep Citizens Safe •        Execution of a Death Sentence by Government (Ex 21:12-14 & Rom 13:4) •        The Biblical Logic Behind Capital Punishment (Gen 9:6) •        First, Killing Unlawfully Eliminates God’s Precious Creation •        God Alone is Sovereign Over Life & Death •        Second, Killing Robs God of His Glory •        God Has Given Us Life So That We Might Declare His Praise (Ps 118:17)  •        What Ever Happened to the Sanctity of Life? •        We Live in Angry, Violent Times, and Murder in All its Forms is  Common •        These Errors Have Convinced Many That Some Lives Are Less Worth Living Than Others •        Violations of the 6th: Abortion, Infanticide, Euthanasia, and Assisted Suicide •        An Unborn Child is A Person Made in the Very Likeness of God (Ps 139:13–16) •        What is True of the Unborn is True of All God’s Human Creation •        Christians Have a Duty to Oppose Euthanasia •        Christians Have a Duty to Oppose Suicide  •        Murder of the Heart •        Jesus Included Attitudes with Actions (Matt 5:21–22) •        The Command Extends to Those Attitudes that Lead to Murder •        Envy-The Desire to Have What Someone Else Has & To Take it Away Causing Harm (1 John 3:15) •        Anger-Misdirected Sudden & Violent Passion •        We Also Break the 6th With Our Words (Matt 12:34 & Prov 12:18)  •        The Positive Side •        Guard Life Carefully •        Resolve Conflict Without Violence •        Pray for Peace in Troubled Areas Like Jerusalem (Ps 122:6) •        Support the Unborn, Disabled, & Elderly •        Support Adoption & Orphan Care •        Work to Make Laws That Bring Justice & Promote Life •        Send Relief to Those Who Are Oppressed •        Care for the Sick and the Dying •        All These Preserve Lives That Are Endangered   Posted Mar 14 2010, 02:46 PM by jbarch with no comments