The eighth Commandment states that we must not dishonestly take another person’s property without right or permission. There are many variations when it comes to stealing…from swindling, to embezzling, misappropriating, extorting, or defrauding. But stealing can also be as simple as using office supplies at work for personal use, or shoplifting an item in a store. One of the biggest reasons someone will take something that doesn’t belong to them is that they justify and rationalize that they deserve it, or that it won’t be missed, or that the company owes them. But making up excuses in our minds still won’t change the fact that we’re stealing.
Month: May 2013
Exodus 20: 14 ” You shall not commit adultery.”
The seventh Commandment deals with relationships…whose inside and outside of marriage. The Levitical Law was very detailed in the certain types of relationships God forbid…these included close family members and acquaintances. But Jesus took this one step farther from Old Covenant Laws, when He told His Disciples in Matthew 5:27, “You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” Lust is a very slippery slope that has taken many a person down a road they really didn’t want to travel. I guess the writer of Proverbs 6:32-33 knew something of this when he wrote, ” A man who commits adultery lacks judgment, whoever does so destroys himself, his shame will never be wiped away.”
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