God’s Words on Stone (Continued) Exodus 20:12-18
5th, “Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
6th. “Thou shalt not kill.”
7th. “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
8th, “Thou shalt not steal.”
9th, “Thou shalt not bear false witness.”
10th. “Thou shalt not covet.”
The 5th commandment taught Israelite children to respect their parents, and they should have long life in Canaan. God gives Christian boys and girls much the same words:
“Obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right,” Ephesians 6:1, 2, 3.
You can each think of ways you can honor your parents. To speak crossly, roughly, or to disobey, is not to honor them. It will help you to remember, that to show respect your parents, honors and pleases the Lord,
The last five commandments are short, speaking of sins which all cause great sorrow to the ones who do them, and to the ones who are wronged, as you will find proven the older you grow; for such sins are still in every part of the world, as they were when the law of God was given.
Did any of the people of Israel ever keep all the laws perfectly? No, not one (Psalm 14:2, 3).
Years later, a young man of the nation of Israel told the Lord Jesus he had kept all the law. But, if you read about him in Matthew 19:16-23, you notice he cared more for his property, than for the Lord, and more for himself, than for his poor neighbor.
But there was one who kept God’s law, Who “knew no sin”, That One, the Lord Jesus, gave His life, a perfect sacrifice for sinners, (2 Cor. 5:21; Galatians 3: 13).
ML 05/16/1937