How Do I Know if I Am Guilty of Breaking the Ten Commandments?
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The fifth commandment is the first commandment with a promise connected to it. To live in harmony for ages in the Promised Land, the Israelites would have to regard authority and construct solid families. In any case, what is the significance here to “honor” our parents? Mostly, it implies speaking well and pleasantly to them. But additionally, it implies acting in a way that shows them kindness and regard (however, we are not to comply with them if this implies noncompliance to God). Parents have an extraordinary spot in God’s sight. Indeed, even the individuals who think that it is hard to coexist with their folks are yet instructed to respect them.
When Jesus quoted the sixth commandment, He presented a deeper understanding for why God the Father made this Law. Jesus was teaching that even when we become angry in our hearts, this emotion can lead to murder. Therefore, becoming angry is as perilous as murder.
Becoming angry goes against the commandment to love. Anger can become uncontrollable, which leads to pain, a plethora of mental conditions, and can harm our spirit. If our Christian spirit is harmed, then we are not in a spirit for pleasing God.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. (Matthew 5:28)
8. Thou shalt not steal. (Leviticus 6:1-7; Matthew 15:19, 19:18)
By the Old Testament Law, it is a sin to have sex with someone that you are not married to. Jesus went on to tell us that even having the yearnings and desire for someone is adultery. This goes both ways: a man lusting after a woman, and a woman lusting after a man that is not their spouse. This tells us that not only is the act wrong, but the intent as well. Those who are married are not only to be faithful with their bodies but their minds also. When we act out a sinful desire, we are not eliminating the sin but giving the sin an excuse for being. Adultery dismantles a marriage, it defies God’s Word, and it hurts others.
The act of stealing incorporates more than just taking something from someone that does not belong to you. If we decline to give something back that we have borrowed from someone, that is stealing. If we obtain something in a deceitful manner, that is stealing. If the item does not belong to you, then leave it. Otherwise, return the item and pray for forgiveness, not only from God but from the person that you have offended.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. (Matthew 12:36)
10. Thou shalt not covet. (Luke 12:15)
Bearing a false witness implies providing a false statement in court. God realized that Israel could not endure except if its justice system were honest. We ought to be straightforward in our private dealings just as in our public articulations. Regardless, we “bear false witness” by avoiding something with regard to a story, telling a misleading statement, winding current realities, or creating a deception. God cautions us against double dealing. Despite the fact that double dealing is a lifestyle for some individuals, God’s people are not to surrender to it.
To covet is to wish to have the assets of others. It goes past essentially respecting another person's assets, or figuring “I might want to have one of those.” Coveting incorporates envy, detesting the way that others have something that we do not have. In any case, God realizes that belongings never satisfy anybody for long. Since no one but God can supply for our needs, genuine satisfaction is found just in Him.
When we start to let covetousness in, we should try to figure out whether a more essential need is behind our jealousy. For instance, we might desire somebody’s prosperity, not on the grounds that we need to remove it from him, but since we might want to feel as valued by others as he is. If so, we ought to implore that God will assist us with managing our hatred and meet our essential requirements.
Christians are to serve the Lord, and part of that is that we are to obey the Ten Commandments (Matthew 6:24). We are not to love the world nor are we to be conformed to this world, but if we live by the world’s standards, we show that we love the world more than God (1 John 2:15; Romans 12:2). By following the path of the world, we show that the world is more important to us than God (James 4:4).
Biblical history shows that Israel was unfaithful to God, they followed the world, hence they were called adulterers. So too is a Christian a spiritual adulterer if he or she is unfaithful to Christ (Joshua 24:15). Elijah had called into question the people’s loyalty (1 Kings 18:21).
What is your testimony to the world? Do you follow the Lord or do you follow the world? How long will it take you to decide to follow the Lord and obey the Commandments?
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