Title: Ten Commandments Part 9 He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and most important command. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.” Matthew 22:37-40 God is the creator of man and is the only one that has the right to terminate human life The enemy will feed you lies so that you think other things are desirable God set boundaries to establish limitations and to maximize this thing called life Do not steal Exodus 20:15 Have you ever been one to steal? Have you ever robbed God? “Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me!” “How do we rob you?” you ask. “By not making the payments of the tenth and the contributions. Malachi 3:8 Bring the full tenth into the storehouse so that there may be food in my house. Test me in this way, says the Lord of Armies. See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out a blessing for you without measure. Malachi 3:10 Bible-believers, however, know that what human law says I own—my money, goods, legal rights, and tithes—I actually hold as God’s trustee J.I. Packer It is not in God’s will for you and I to have anything we cannot obtain by honorable means Whoever kidnaps a person must be put to death, whether he sells him or the person is found in his possession. Exodus 21:16 Come on, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh, and his brothers agreed. When Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took Joseph to Egypt. Genesis 37:27-28 God wanted them to understand what it was to be a free people, so they were not to enslave each other again Kevin DeYoung You may not understand the avenue that God provides to free you. Still, I’d choose freedom in God versus a slave to the world If you lend silver to my people, to the poor person among you, you must not be like a creditor to him; you must not charge him interest. Exodus 22:25 If you are one that has enough you can share with others so they can get on their feet When you steal in any form or fashion you are saying that you do not trust God to provide for you When The Passion of the Christ was released in 2004 it was the most pirated movie Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you furious? And why do you look despondent? If you do what is right, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.” Genesis 4:6-7 Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. Genesis 4:8 Then war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. The dragon and his angels also fought, but he could not prevail, and there was no place for them in heaven any longer. Revelation 12:7-8 So the great dragon was thrown out—the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him. Revelation 12:9 Pride will give you interstate speed on your way to stealing Fallen man always wants more than he has at present and more than others have J.I. Packer For there was not a needy person among them because all those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the proceeds of what was sold, and laid them at the apostles’ feet. This was then distributed to each person as any had need. Acts 4:34-35 Let the thief no longer steal. Instead, he is to do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need. Ephesians 4:28 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal. Matthew 6:20 Jesus is against the fool who thinks that earthly treasure really satisfies or lasts