We need a closer look.
What is the moral decay of society? What is the physical decay of society from?
Separation from God has become our inheritance. From the time of Adam to the day of our birth, death, or salvation we are slaves. Or as Paul puts it: "For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin."
Our perfect and Holy God is not looking down from heaven trying to rule our lives. If that were the case He would have left out our sovereign will. But we have will to choose, that is how love is genuinely shown.
But the perfectness of God demands our perfection. Since we fell (look at the world around us) we have fell from God, sin has separated us.
The 10 commandments are really just part of God's perfection! Laws that govern His perfect ways. By either keeping them or not we are deemed holy or unholy. Righteous or unrighteous.
And since we have all sinned we are all in need of a savior.
It is now when we begin to see the cancer in society today, yesterday.... The world around us is sick.
Many of us want to do good, but sadly, none of us can. Even consistently "good" people fall short.
There is but one!
Thanks be to Jesus for washing us clean and making us appear righteous before God.
Literally ;)
Upon close examination we clearly see these 10 commands have been the life and death of society. They have been behind or lacking in every great and evil piece of history known to man!
And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Separation from God has become our inheritance. From the time of Adam to the day of our birth, death, or salvation we are slaves. Or as Paul puts it: "For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin."
Our perfect and Holy God is not looking down from heaven trying to rule our lives. If that were the case He would have left out our sovereign will. But we have will to choose, that is how love is genuinely shown.
But the perfectness of God demands our perfection. Since we fell (look at the world around us) we have fell from God, sin has separated us.
The 10 commandments are really just part of God's perfection! Laws that govern His perfect ways. By either keeping them or not we are deemed holy or unholy. Righteous or unrighteous.
And since we have all sinned we are all in need of a savior.
It is now when we begin to see the cancer in society today, yesterday.... The world around us is sick.
Many of us want to do good, but sadly, none of us can. Even consistently "good" people fall short.
There is but one!
Thanks be to Jesus for washing us clean and making us appear righteous before God.
Literally ;)
Upon close examination we clearly see these 10 commands have been the life and death of society. They have been behind or lacking in every great and evil piece of history known to man!
And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- You shall have no other gods before me.
- You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor 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 generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
- 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.
- Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
- Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
- You shall not murder.
- You shall not commit adultery.
- You shall not steal.
- You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”