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Robert Jeffress - The Sixth Commandment - Preserve Life (Part 1)

June 10, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - The Sixth Commandment - Preserve Life (Part 1)
Pathway to Victory offers a practical application of God’s Word to everyday life through the clear, biblical teaching of Pastor Jeffress.
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Sixth Commandment - Preserve Life (Part 1) | June 10, 2026
  • (upbeat music)
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  • From the pulpit
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  • Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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  • This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress.
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • It seems like every day, the headlines are filled
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  • With reports about violent crimes.
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  • We see fights erupting on city streets,
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  • Smash and grab crimes are all too common,
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  • And we hear about the senseless murders as well.
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  • The bible teaches that preventing these tragedies
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  • Begins with implementing god's sixth commandment.
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  • My message is titled preserve life,
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • As our nation marks 250 years,
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  • America stands at a crossroads.
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  • Will we return to the god who blessed us
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  • Or continue down a path that leads to ruin?
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  • A key indicator of whether a society is healthy or not
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  • Is whether that society is just.
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  • And a key indicator of whether a society is just
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  • Is how it values human life.
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  • I'm reminded of the pulitzer prize-winning novel
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  • By cormac mccarthy entitled "the road."
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  • It's the story of a father and son
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  • Trying to survive in a post apocalyptic world.
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  • As a result of a nuclear holocaust,
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  • All the animals, birds, fish had been destroyed.
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  • The little boy has never seen a blue sky
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  • Or green grass before.
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  • Human beings roam around
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  • Like packs of dogs in search of food,
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  • Which means because the animals are gone,
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  • Other human beings, they resort to cannibalism.
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  • And in a particularly bleak moment,
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  • The father says to his son,
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  • "you must carry the fire."
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  • What did he mean by that?
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  • He meant you're to do more than just survive.
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  • To carry the fire means to value human life,
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  • Not to fall into the trap of thinking it's worthless,
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  • Like those around you.
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  • You must carry the fire.
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  • That reminds me of another story.
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  • This one happens to be true.
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  • It's found in the bible, in genesis 6.
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  • The world was filled with violence, the bible says.
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  • Every thought of man was only evil continually, god said.
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  • And because of that,
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  • Because of the disregard for human life,
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  • God said he was sorry he ever created man
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  • And he would blot him off the face of the earth,
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  • Save one man and his family.
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  • You know his name, noah.
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  • And after noah and his family spent over a year on that ark,
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  • They finally emerged into the world that god had saved.
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  • And the very first command
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  • That god gave to noah and his family
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  • In this post-flood world was this one,
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  • Carry the fire.
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  • But he didn't exactly say it that way,
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  • But that's what he meant.
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  • In genesis 9:6, the very first command
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  • To noah and his family was this:
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  • "whoever sheds man's blood,
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  • By man, his blood shall be shed.
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  • For in the image of god,
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  • God made man."
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  • Human life is so valuable, god said,
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  • That anybody who takes it presumptuously
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  • Shall have his life taken.
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  • Many years afterwards, that same principle
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  • Was enshrined in what we call the 10 commandments.
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  • In exodus 20:13,
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  • God said, "you shall not kill."
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  • "you shall not kill."
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  • And that's where we are in our study of the 10,
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  • How to live and love in a world that has lost its way.
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  • We've come to the sixth commandment, you shall not kill.
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  • It's interesting that commandment six, seven, and eight
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  • Are all three in the same form, two short words.
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  • Commandment number six, no killing.
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  • Commandment number seven, no adultery.
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  • Commandment number eight, no theft.
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  • In other words, all three deal with the value of human life.
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  • Human life is so important that you're to value life,
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  • You're to value a person's marriage,
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  • And you're to value a person's possessions.
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  • This is all about the dignity, the value of human life.
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  • Today we're going to look
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  • At the first of that triplet of commands,
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  • Thou shall not kill.
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  • And today we're going to answer three important questions
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  • To help us apply this commandment.
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  • Now i know what you're probably thinking.
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  • It's what i thought when i began studying this message.
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  • (sighs) at least this is one commandment i haven't broken.
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  • Well, two, okay?
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  • We figured that one out.
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  • But, you know, i felt like i was in pretty good shape
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  • Until i started studying
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  • The implications this has for all of us.
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  • There's more than one way to take a person's life,
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  • As we'll see in just a moment.
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  • So we're going to answer three questions
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  • About this commandment.
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  • First of all, what does the commandment say?
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  • What does it say?
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  • Now the king james version
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  • Translates the word kill, raca, as kill.
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  • Thou shall not kill.
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  • We learned that as children, didn't we?
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  • 1 of the 10 commandments, thou shall not kill.
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  • But any student of the bible knows
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  • There is no absolute prohibition against killing.
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  • There is some killing that is actually sanctioned by god.
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  • For example, god gives the state, government,
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  • The power to take a life.
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  • In genesis 9:6, again, the first command
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  • Was for capital punishment.
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  • People will say, "well, that's just the old testament law."
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  • This came hundreds of years before the law.
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  • "whoever sheds man's blood,
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  • By man, his blood shall be shed."
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  • In the new testament, that's repeated in romans 13.
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  • Paul said, "for government does not bear the sword
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  • For nothing.
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  • It is an avenger bringing wrath against those who do evil."
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  • God has given government the right to take a life.
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  • There's another form of sanctioned killing,
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  • And that is a just war.
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  • Sometimes war is not only allowed, it's commanded by god.
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  • Do you remember a few years ago
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  • When north korean dictator kim jong un
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  • Was threatening the world with a nuclear holocaust?
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  • And i made the comment to the washington post
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  • That i thought the president at that time had the power,
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  • The moral authority, to take out, assassinate kim jong un.
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  • People want ballistic over that.
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  • In fact, i pulled up last night,
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  • When i said that, the comedian stephen colbert,
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  • On his program "the late show,"
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  • Did a whole skit about me receiving a message from god
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  • To kill kim jong un.
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  • They thought that was just, you know, unbelievable.
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  • People went ballistic.
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  • I didn't get that message directly from god.
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  • I got it from god's word.
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  • The bible says there's a time
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  • That you need to get rid of evil doers.
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  • Deuteronomy 20:10-18
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  • Says there is such a thing as a just war.
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  • Here's one other occurrence
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  • Where killing is allowed in the bible.
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  • Exodus 22:2 says that if somebody
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  • Breaks into your house at night and threatens your life,
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  • You have a right to take their life.
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  • When we talk about the sanctity of human life,
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  • It's not just life in the womb.
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  • All life is sacred.
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  • And if somebody is threatening your life
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  • Or the life of a loved one,
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  • You have the right to take their life as well.
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  • That's why kill is not the best translation of this verse.
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  • The better translation is you shall not murder.
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  • What god is talking about is premeditated murder
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  • That comes out of anger.
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  • And that leads to a second question to answer.
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  • What does the sixth commandment cover?
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  • What's encompassed in thou shall not murder?
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  • Three things.
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  • First of all, overt acts of murder.
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  • That's the most obvious acts of murder.
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  • There are several kinds of murder.
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  • First of all, there's homicide,
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  • That is, taking another person's life out of anger.
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  • We'll talk about that in a moment,
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  • In the first commandment,
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  • Or in the first murder in genesis 4,
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  • When cain killed his brother abel.
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  • But since that time, people have been killing one another.
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  • The book of hosea contains this lament from the lord himself
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  • To the people of israel.
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  • He said in hosea 4, beginning with verse one,
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  • The lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land
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  • Because there is no faithfulness, or kindness,
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  • Or knowledge of god in the land.
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  • Notice the reason for the killing and the violence.
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  • There is no knowledge of god.
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  • Why, thank god for a texas legislature
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  • That is willing to say,
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  • "we're going to start posting the 10 commandments
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  • In classrooms."
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  • Why shouldn't our students see the words
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  • Thou shalt not kill?
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  • (congregants applauding)
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  • There's no knowledge of god.
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  • Hosea goes on to say, by the way, he said,
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  • "because you have forgotten the law of your god,
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  • I shall forget your children."
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  • You can't separate these mass killings in schools
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  • That are so horrific from the lack of a knowledge of god.
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  • The two are tied together.
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  • Notice verse two.
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  • "there is swearing, deception, murder,
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  • Stealing, and adultery.
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  • They employ violence so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.
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  • Therefore the land mourns,
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  • And everyone who lives in it languishes."
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  • Isn't that a great description of america right now?
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  • Bloodshed follows bloodshed and the land mourns.
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  • People take life without even thinking about it now.
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  • Have you been keeping up in the news what's happened,
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  • These horrific shootings?
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  • A group of cheerleaders outside of austin
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  • Stop at an heb grocery store.
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  • Coming out of the grocery store,
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  • One starts to get into the wrong car.
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  • She apologizes, goes, and gets in her car
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  • With the other girls,
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  • And the passenger inside that car gets out
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  • And opens fire on those cheerleaders.
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  • A little six-year-old girl and her father shot
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  • Because her soccer ball went into the wrong yard.
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  • We read even on our roads here in texas road rage,
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  • People taking the life of another person
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  • Because they got cut off.
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  • That's the land in which we live.
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  • And, you know, the fact is you say,
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  • "well, why is this increasing?"
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  • Well, there are 330 million guns,
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  • And there's nothing you're going to do about those guns.
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  • They're in circulation.
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  • You can try to.
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  • God bless you if you can do something about it.
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  • But the fact is it's a heart problem.
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  • We have an all time high
  • 00:11:55.538 --> 00:11:57.740
  • In mental illness in our country right now.
  • 00:11:57.740 --> 00:12:01.677
  • You look at the stats,
  • 00:12:01.677 --> 00:12:03.045
  • Whether it is anxiety, anger, loneliness,
  • 00:12:03.045 --> 00:12:07.850
  • All of these things are at an all time high.
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  • When people feel desperate, they do desperate things.
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  • The bible says we have to change hearts
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  • Before we can change behavior.
  • 00:12:18.761 --> 00:12:22.598
  • The fact is homicide is rampant in our land right now.
  • 00:12:22.598 --> 00:12:26.535
  • But that's not the only way to kill a person.
  • 00:12:26.535 --> 00:12:29.071
  • Secondly, i think this law includes suicide.
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  • Not just the taking of another life,
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  • But even the taking of our own life.
  • 00:12:35.578 --> 00:12:39.315
  • You know, one of the saddest experiences
  • 00:12:39.315 --> 00:12:41.150
  • I ever have as a pastor is talking to families
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  • Who have lost a loved one through suicide.
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  • And when i do so,
  • 00:12:48.157 --> 00:12:49.792
  • I remember an experience i had many years ago in this church
  • 00:12:49.792 --> 00:12:53.395
  • When i was the youth minister here back in the dark ages.
  • 00:12:53.395 --> 00:12:57.233
  • I remember being over in the old sanctuary
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  • And going to a funeral that dr. criswell conducted.
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  • It was of one of our deacons who had taken his own life.
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  • And i'll never forget what dr. criswell said to that family.
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  • He said, "when people become ill physically,
  • 00:13:10.880 --> 00:13:15.150
  • We don't **** them because they are physically ill.
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  • We show compassion toward them.
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  • But just as people get sick in their bodies,
  • 00:13:22.391 --> 00:13:25.060
  • They get sick in their minds.
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  • We don't **** a person for that.
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  • We deal compassionately with them."
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  • And he said, "i disagree with those who say suicide
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  • Is the unpardonable sin.
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  • Any sin can be forgiven."
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  • Those who succumb to suicide had become a victim of satan.
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  • In john 8, jesus said satan is a murderer.
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  • He is a deceiver, he is a liar,
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  • He is the father of all lies.
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  • The person who takes his own life
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  • Has succumbed to the lies of satan,
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  • Who says your life is worthless.
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  • You become a burden to other people.
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  • Your struggle will never end.
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  • You're better off dead than you are alive.
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  • No, suicide is not the unpardonable sin.
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  • But we have to be clear.
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  • It is a sin.
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  • It is wrong for you to take any life, including your own,
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  • That you didn't create.
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  • The bible says we are the sheep of his pastors.
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  • It's he who has made us, not we ourselves.
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  • And that's why we need to say that suicide is wrong.
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  • Julie gossack is a christian writer
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  • Who suffered through the suicides
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  • Of five of her family members.
  • 00:14:45.441 --> 00:14:48.210
  • She wrote, "suicide is not a genetic trait,
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  • Nor is it a family curse.
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  • Suicide is a sinful choice made by an individual.
  • 00:14:54.450 --> 00:14:59.254
  • This statement is neither unloving nor disrespectful.
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  • It is the truth.
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  • I dearly loved my family members that committed suicide,
  • 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:09.365
  • But their choices were sinful and not righteous."
  • 00:15:09.365 --> 00:15:14.770
  • You know that word sin,
  • 00:15:15.270 --> 00:15:17.706
  • The most common word is hamartia in greek.
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  • It means to miss the mark.
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  • When somebody takes their own life,
  • 00:15:23.345 --> 00:15:25.381
  • They have fallen short of god's standard.
  • 00:15:25.381 --> 00:15:27.883
  • They have missed the mark.
  • 00:15:27.883 --> 00:15:30.052
  • And we need to be compassionate,
  • 00:15:30.686 --> 00:15:32.855
  • But we need to be very clear that no one
  • 00:15:32.855 --> 00:15:35.624
  • Has the right to take a life, including his own life.
  • 00:15:35.624 --> 00:15:39.995
  • A third overt act of murder would be euthanasia,
  • 00:15:39.995 --> 00:15:44.333
  • Sometimes referred to as assisted suicide.
  • 00:15:45.234 --> 00:15:48.971
  • Did you know that nine states right now,
  • 00:15:48.971 --> 00:15:50.839
  • Along with the district of columbia,
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  • Have laws permitting assisted suicide?
  • 00:15:53.242 --> 00:15:57.146
  • Let's be clear, we're not talking about
  • 00:15:57.146 --> 00:15:59.648
  • Just the cessation of treatment.
  • 00:15:59.648 --> 00:16:01.650
  • That's a prayerful choice that an individual
  • 00:16:01.650 --> 00:16:04.286
  • And family have to make to cease certain treatments,
  • 00:16:04.286 --> 00:16:08.123
  • But this is proactively working to take another life.
  • 00:16:08.123 --> 00:16:12.327
  • The problem with that
  • 00:16:12.327 --> 00:16:13.462
  • Is those who are affected by these laws,
  • 00:16:13.462 --> 00:16:17.466
  • That sphere tends to grow, as it has in the netherlands,
  • 00:16:17.466 --> 00:16:21.270
  • To include people who are elderly,
  • 00:16:21.270 --> 00:16:24.173
  • People who are hopelessly infirmed,
  • 00:16:24.173 --> 00:16:27.409
  • Those who have become a burden to insurance companies
  • 00:16:28.477 --> 00:16:31.313
  • Or to the state itself.
  • 00:16:31.313 --> 00:16:34.116
  • We have no right to take another life
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  • No matter what name we put on it.
  • 00:16:36.752 --> 00:16:39.188
  • Another application of overt murders of course is abortion.
  • 00:16:39.188 --> 00:16:44.493
  • You know, people ask me all the time,
  • 00:16:45.260 --> 00:16:46.562
  • "well, where does the bible address abortion?"
  • 00:16:46.562 --> 00:16:48.330
  • Well, the obvious place we talk about often
  • 00:16:48.330 --> 00:16:50.833
  • Is psalm 139:13-16
  • 00:16:50.833 --> 00:16:54.970
  • In which the psalmist talks about how intricately
  • 00:16:54.970 --> 00:16:58.707
  • We have been woven together in our mother's womb,
  • 00:16:58.707 --> 00:17:01.543
  • How our days were written in god's book
  • 00:17:01.543 --> 00:17:04.046
  • Before there was one of them that we lived.
  • 00:17:04.046 --> 00:17:07.516
  • But there's another passage
  • 00:17:07.516 --> 00:17:09.218
  • That is equally strong about this,
  • 00:17:09.218 --> 00:17:12.221
  • And that is in exodus 21:22-23.
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  • Listen to this law.
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  • "if men struggle with each other,
  • 00:17:17.626 --> 00:17:20.195
  • And strike a woman with child,
  • 00:17:20.195 --> 00:17:22.631
  • And there is injury to the child,
  • 00:17:22.631 --> 00:17:25.000
  • Then you shall appoint, as a penalty, life for life."
  • 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:30.339
  • God's word says that fetus, that unborn baby, is a life.
  • 00:17:31.473 --> 00:17:36.545
  • In fact, it's such a valuable life that if it's lost,
  • 00:17:37.613 --> 00:17:40.115
  • The penalty is another life be exchanged for that life.
  • 00:17:40.115 --> 00:17:44.353
  • Have you heard, you're hearing it right now,
  • 00:17:44.353 --> 00:17:46.855
  • That this concept of life begins at conception?
  • 00:17:46.855 --> 00:17:49.625
  • That's a new idea that religious people
  • 00:17:49.625 --> 00:17:52.561
  • Haven't believed that all the time.
  • 00:17:52.561 --> 00:17:54.329
  • Christians haven't believed that.
  • 00:17:54.329 --> 00:17:56.064
  • That is just something new by the right wing
  • 00:17:56.064 --> 00:17:58.667
  • To take control of the government and so forth.
  • 00:17:58.667 --> 00:18:01.570
  • Not at all.
  • 00:18:01.570 --> 00:18:03.205
  • For hundreds of years, christians have believed
  • 00:18:04.139 --> 00:18:06.909
  • That life begins at conception,
  • 00:18:06.909 --> 00:18:09.478
  • That that fetus is an actual life.
  • 00:18:09.478 --> 00:18:12.981
  • Listen to the words of john calvin.
  • 00:18:12.981 --> 00:18:15.751
  • Listen to what he wrote.
  • 00:18:15.751 --> 00:18:17.252
  • "the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother,
  • 00:18:17.252 --> 00:18:21.089
  • Is already a human being.
  • 00:18:21.089 --> 00:18:23.425
  • And it's almost as monstrous a crime to rob it of the life
  • 00:18:23.425 --> 00:18:27.729
  • Which it has not yet begun to enjoy."
  • 00:18:27.729 --> 00:18:31.934
  • Life begins at conception.
  • 00:18:31.934 --> 00:18:34.303
  • We have no right to take the life
  • 00:18:34.303 --> 00:18:36.638
  • Of the most helpless in our society, the unborn child.
  • 00:18:36.638 --> 00:18:41.210
  • I think this command
  • 00:18:41.210 --> 00:18:42.477
  • Certainly includes acts of murder itself,
  • 00:18:42.477 --> 00:18:45.214
  • But it also includes attitudes that lead to murder.
  • 00:18:45.214 --> 00:18:49.318
  • We talked about that at length
  • 00:18:49.318 --> 00:18:51.353
  • In our series 18 minutes with jesus.
  • 00:18:51.353 --> 00:18:53.822
  • In matthew 5, jesus talks about certain attitudes
  • 00:18:53.822 --> 00:18:57.659
  • That lead to murder that we need to be on guard against.
  • 00:18:57.659 --> 00:19:00.963
  • Certainly, anger is one.
  • 00:19:00.963 --> 00:19:04.132
  • Ralph waldo emerson said that anger, like fire,
  • 00:19:04.132 --> 00:19:07.836
  • Eventually dies out after leaving a path of destruction.
  • 00:19:07.836 --> 00:19:13.108
  • Somebody has compared anger to an acid
  • 00:19:13.942 --> 00:19:15.978
  • That is stored in a container.
  • 00:19:15.978 --> 00:19:18.814
  • It's an acid that destroys not only the container
  • 00:19:18.814 --> 00:19:21.583
  • In which it's stored,
  • 00:19:21.583 --> 00:19:23.619
  • It destroys the object on which it is poured.
  • 00:19:23.619 --> 00:19:26.788
  • You know, i saw that vividly illustrated one time.
  • 00:19:27.823 --> 00:19:31.393
  • You know how there are just some things
  • 00:19:31.393 --> 00:19:32.594
  • That happen to you you never forget?
  • 00:19:32.594 --> 00:19:35.364
  • And this was the most bizarre thing.
  • 00:19:35.364 --> 00:19:37.933
  • One time, my brother, sister, and i inherited rent houses.
  • 00:19:39.101 --> 00:19:45.140
  • One of our relatives died
  • 00:19:45.707 --> 00:19:46.942
  • And left each one of us a rent house.
  • 00:19:46.942 --> 00:19:49.244
  • I quickly learned why my grandfather once said,
  • 00:19:49.244 --> 00:19:52.180
  • "if you really hate somebody and want to get even with them,
  • 00:19:52.180 --> 00:19:55.350
  • Give them a rent house."
  • 00:19:55.350 --> 00:19:56.685
  • (congregants laughing)
  • 00:19:56.685 --> 00:19:58.387
  • 'cause you're always worried about keeping it filled,
  • 00:19:58.387 --> 00:20:00.756
  • You know, and keeping it maintained.
  • 00:20:00.756 --> 00:20:02.658
  • And, you know, i had this rent house
  • 00:20:02.658 --> 00:20:03.625
  • That had a couple living in it.
  • 00:20:03.625 --> 00:20:05.994
  • And i was trying to unload it on,
  • 00:20:05.994 --> 00:20:09.564
  • I mean, sell it to them at a reasonable price.
  • 00:20:09.564 --> 00:20:13.068
  • Thought we had it all worked out,
  • 00:20:13.068 --> 00:20:14.469
  • Had the contract signed.
  • 00:20:14.469 --> 00:20:15.971
  • On a monday morning, the realtor called me and said,
  • 00:20:15.971 --> 00:20:18.874
  • "robert, that contract fell through."
  • 00:20:18.874 --> 00:20:21.076
  • I said, "oh, no, not again."
  • 00:20:21.076 --> 00:20:23.245
  • She said, "in all my years in the real estate business,
  • 00:20:23.245 --> 00:20:26.048
  • I've never had this happen."
  • 00:20:26.048 --> 00:20:27.416
  • I said, "well, what happened?"
  • 00:20:27.416 --> 00:20:29.418
  • She said, "well, that couple signed that contract
  • 00:20:29.418 --> 00:20:32.354
  • On saturday afternoon.
  • 00:20:32.354 --> 00:20:34.756
  • Saturday night, the husband bludgeoned his wife to death
  • 00:20:34.756 --> 00:20:40.095
  • And left her unrecognizable remains in the back bedroom."
  • 00:20:41.263 --> 00:20:44.966
  • Now if that were not creepy enough,
  • 00:20:44.966 --> 00:20:48.036
  • A few days later i received in the mail
  • 00:20:48.036 --> 00:20:50.972
  • That signed contract from that husband and wife.
  • 00:20:50.972 --> 00:20:55.277
  • And i thought, as i looked at that contract,
  • 00:20:56.178 --> 00:20:58.714
  • This couple were unified at least enough to agree
  • 00:20:58.714 --> 00:21:01.550
  • On a major purchase in the afternoon.
  • 00:21:01.550 --> 00:21:05.153
  • But by evening, anger had injured that relationship
  • 00:21:05.153 --> 00:21:08.790
  • And caused that husband to extinguish the life
  • 00:21:08.790 --> 00:21:11.226
  • Of his life partner.
  • 00:21:11.226 --> 00:21:13.061
  • That is the power of unresolved anger.
  • 00:21:13.061 --> 00:21:16.932
  • And that's why jesus said in matthew 5:22,
  • 00:21:16.932 --> 00:21:19.334
  • "but i say to you that everyone
  • 00:21:19.334 --> 00:21:21.436
  • Who is angry with his brother
  • 00:21:21.436 --> 00:21:23.004
  • Shall be guilty before the court."
  • 00:21:23.004 --> 00:21:26.808
  • Anger in and of itself is not a sin.
  • 00:21:26.808 --> 00:21:29.378
  • The bible says, "be angry, but do not sin."
  • 00:21:29.378 --> 00:21:32.881
  • You need to resolve anger before nighttime comes.
  • 00:21:32.881 --> 00:21:36.518
  • Don't let the sun go down on your anger.
  • 00:21:36.518 --> 00:21:39.821
  • Jesus said another attitude and action that leads to murder
  • 00:21:39.821 --> 00:21:44.359
  • Is an insult.
  • 00:21:44.359 --> 00:21:46.061
  • He goes on to say in matthew 5:22,
  • 00:21:46.061 --> 00:21:48.697
  • "whoever says to his brother, "you good for nothing,"
  • 00:21:48.697 --> 00:21:52.033
  • Shall be guilty before the supreme court.
  • 00:21:52.033 --> 00:21:54.770
  • That word translated, good for nothing,
  • 00:21:54.770 --> 00:21:56.938
  • It's an aramaic word.
  • 00:21:56.938 --> 00:21:58.440
  • It means somebody's mental aptitude.
  • 00:21:58.440 --> 00:22:01.076
  • Literally, it means empty-headed.
  • 00:22:01.076 --> 00:22:03.545
  • "you dimwit."
  • 00:22:03.545 --> 00:22:05.247
  • You know, when our girls were growing up,
  • 00:22:05.247 --> 00:22:06.748
  • We tried to keep them from using the s word, stupid.
  • 00:22:06.748 --> 00:22:10.719
  • Don't say stupid, stupid.
  • 00:22:10.719 --> 00:22:12.721
  • Of course i would undercut myself when i'd yell it out
  • 00:22:12.721 --> 00:22:15.123
  • When somebody tried to cut me off.
  • 00:22:15.123 --> 00:22:17.025
  • But i tried to, as much as possible,
  • 00:22:17.025 --> 00:22:19.528
  • Not have them use the word stupid
  • 00:22:19.528 --> 00:22:21.263
  • Because you're assaulting somebody's mental aptitude,
  • 00:22:21.263 --> 00:22:25.400
  • Somebody god made.
  • 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:27.035
  • And that leads to a third wrong attitude and action
  • 00:22:27.035 --> 00:22:30.105
  • That leads to murder, defamation.
  • 00:22:30.105 --> 00:22:32.607
  • Matthew 5:22 says, "and whoever says, 'you fool,'
  • 00:22:32.607 --> 00:22:36.745
  • Shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell."
  • 00:22:36.745 --> 00:22:39.781
  • That word fool is moros.
  • 00:22:39.781 --> 00:22:41.383
  • We get moron from it.
  • 00:22:41.383 --> 00:22:43.051
  • We think of mental aptitude,
  • 00:22:43.051 --> 00:22:44.886
  • But it really is a character assassination,
  • 00:22:44.886 --> 00:22:47.989
  • Somebody who's devoid of good character.
  • 00:22:47.989 --> 00:22:51.359
  • You know, in proverbs 11:9, solomon said,
  • 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:54.129
  • "with his mouth, the godless man destroys his neighbor."
  • 00:22:54.129 --> 00:22:58.633
  • You can destroy a person by the words you strike them with.
  • 00:22:58.633 --> 00:23:03.405
  • You know, just as murder rob somebody a physical life,
  • 00:23:04.506 --> 00:23:09.478
  • Wrong attitudes, whether it's anger, insults, defamation,
  • 00:23:10.645 --> 00:23:14.082
  • They rob a person of their god-given dignity.
  • 00:23:14.082 --> 00:23:17.752
  • That's where the apostle john said in 1 john 3:15,
  • 00:23:17.752 --> 00:23:21.490
  • "everyone who hates his brother is a murderer."
  • 00:23:21.490 --> 00:23:25.794
  • And you know that no murderer has eternal life
  • 00:23:25.794 --> 00:23:28.997
  • Abiding in him.
  • 00:23:28.997 --> 00:23:31.266
  • When you insult somebody, defame them,
  • 00:23:31.266 --> 00:23:35.303
  • Spill out bitterness on them,
  • 00:23:35.937 --> 00:23:38.073
  • You are assaulting somebody christ made.
  • 00:23:38.073 --> 00:23:41.276
  • (majestic music)
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  • God hates every act of murder
  • 00:23:47.148 --> 00:23:49.851
  • Because all life is a precious gift from our creator.
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  • In just a moment.
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  • Most of us grew up seeing the 10 commandments
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  • Posted in our schools and courthouses.
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  • So why don't we seem
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  • To follow those 10 commandments anymore?
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  • In "the 10," dr. robert jeffress
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  • Shows us these ancient truths
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  • Were not given to us to take away our freedom.
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  • They were given to enhance our happiness
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  • And to invite us into a deeper love relationship with god.
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  • In a culture where moral confusion reigns,
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  • For what's right is wrong and what's wrong is right,
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  • We desperately need to get back to the basics of morality.
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  • And that's exactly what the 10 commandments help us do.
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  • "the 10" by dr. robert jeffress.
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  • A copy is yours today when you give a generous gift
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  • To "pathway to victory."
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  • And when your ministry gift is $125 or more,
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  • You'll receive not only the book,
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  • But a personal and group study guide,
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  • The 10 encouragement cards,
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  • A colorful children's book
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  • Called "the 10 commandments for kids,"
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  • And the complete series on dvd video and audio disc.
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  • You will never make it to heaven
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  • By keeping the 10 commandments,
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  • But you will have a much better life here on earth
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  • If you do.
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  • That is the promise that god is making.
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  • For 30 years, "pathway to victory"
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  • Has been sharing god's truth
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  • With a world that needs it now more than ever.
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  • And when you give today,
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  • Your gift will be doubled in impact
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  • Through the in god we trust matching challenge.
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  • Thank you for helping us pierce the darkness
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  • With the light of god's word.
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • Before it ever happens, murder begins in the heart.
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  • It starts with a sinful attitude like anger.
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  • Left unresolved, anger festers into hatred,
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  • And hatred leads to murder.
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  • Next time we're going to look
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  • At several more dangerous attitudes.
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  • We'll expose their unwanted outcomes.
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  • And then i'll show you some practical ways
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  • To suppress sinful desires
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  • So that relationships and even life itself
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  • Are fully preserved.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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  • In our series the 10.
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  • If you've got a root of bitterness in your life,
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  • Toward the way a family member has treated you,
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  • Maybe a friend has betrayed you,
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  • A parent has disappointed you,
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  • Root that bitterness out.
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  • We are never more like christ
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  • Than when we forgive a wrong committed against us.
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  • Set your dvr and join us next time for part two
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  • Of the message the sixth commandment: preserve life,
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  • Here on "pathway to victory."
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  • (majestic music)
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