Question 11: What does God require in the sixth, seventh, and eighth commandments?
In the sixth, let us not hurt, hat, or be hostile to our neighbour, but be patient and peaceful, even giving love to enemies; in the seventh, let us refrain from sexual fornication and live with purity and fidelity, whether married or single, avoiding all unclean acts, looks, words, thoughts or desires, as well as anything that can lead us to so many things. In the eighth, we did not take, without permission, what belongs to another person, nor stop giving any good to those of us who can benefit.
- In truth.
- Thou shalt not commit adultery.
- Thou shalt not kill.
- Thou shalt not steal.
- Thou shalt not bear false witness.
- Thou shalt not covet; And if there is another commandment.
- Everything in that word comes down to: Thou will love thy neighbor as thy own.
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MARTYN LLOYD JONES
Man cannot even keep the Ten Commandments. However, are you superficially talking about keeping the Sermon on the Mount and imitating Christ? If a man cannot keep the Ten Commandments as we understand them, what hope will he have of keeping them as interpreted by the Lord Jesus Christ? This was the problem of the Pharisees, who hated him so much that they ended up crucifying him. They thought they were keeping the Ten Commandments and the moral law. Our Lord convinced them and condemned them for the fact that they did not. They said they had never killed. Wait, says the Lord. If you say to your brother “Are you a fool?”, You are already guilty of murder. Killing is not just killing physically; Does killing also mean bitterness and hatred in the heart? He taught the same, remember, about adultery. They said it was not their fault. But wait, says our Lord, are you saying that you are not committing adultery? “But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust for her, has he already committed adultery in his heart? (Mt 5,28). He is guilty; coveted, desired. When our Lord comes to interpret the law, it is shown that a Evil desire is as overwhelming as the act, the thought and the imagination are as reprehensible in the eyes of God as the act committed.
STEPHEN ONE
Christians are obliged to obey the Ten Commandments because what we find in the Ten Commandments are the laws of God. What we find in Jesus’ interpretation of the sermon on the mountain is that the norms of the law are much higher than we assume. It’s not just about not committing adultery, killing and stealing. Jesus said, in interpreting the sixth commandment, that if we feed bitterness, if we are unable to forgive someone, if we call a person a race (that is, consider him a non-person), we will have already killed that person in our hearts. It also says that if we covet in our hearts, we will break the seventh commandment and commit adultery. You’re already greedy if you’re materialistic and not entirely generous. Thus, Jesus raises the measuring stick of the commandments to the highest level.
Martin Luther wrote that it is not possible to break the other commandments without first breaking the first. 14 That is, when we violate the commandments, we look at other things, and give them maximum courage, as if they were our god, rather than God. himself.
Luther also stated that whenever there is a negative prohibition in the Ten Commandments, positive participation is assumed. 15 So when we say that we should not kill, it also means that we must deeply love our neighbors, even our neighbors and enemies. By saying not committing adultery, we assume that we must be faithful to our spouse and recognize sexuality as a beautiful gift from God, so if you are in a marital relationship, you must recognize the alliance between a man and a woman. they are told not to fly, we understand that we must be extremely generous.
These are the responsibilities of Christians according to the Ten Commandments, but the problem is that we cannot obey them perfectly, how then can this conflict be resolved?
Jesus Christ is the second Adam, the true Israel, the divine individual, and the representative corporate leader who came to perfectly fulfill the obligations of the law itself. Your obedience and righteousness are now attributed to our lives, allowing us to fulfill our obligations and even when we do not obey perfection, we know that we will not be crushed by the law, and we trust when we seek to obey God’s law, because we know that Jesus Christ fulfilled these requirements perfectly for us. , we can live without fear of being rejected by God because of our disobedience or our lack of perfect obedience. We know that Jesus Christ did all these things, perfectly fulfilling the requirements of the law for us.
Faithful shepherd of our souls, you created us to live in love and brotherhood on earth, but in this we fail again and again, that your love reigns over each relationship, that we may walk in purity, away from lust, greed and greed by your name, amen.
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