Love is Sacred.

Exodus 20:1   "Thou shalt not commit adultery."

Morality today has sunk to a low level. We have seen a breakdown of morals that has turned our nations into a bunch of pagans. Our cities and our towns have become lawless and our homes are broken into will. It is dangerous to walk the streets at night and in many places it is dangerous in the daytime. The police seem helpless to handle the situation.

Gross immorality prevails. We are overwhelmed by sex. 

It is taught in our schools, in our literature, and it is seen on just about every movie screen and most TV programs, continually. Marriage is discounted, ignored, or ridiculed.

The basic values of life and home are forsaken. In their place we have crime, dishonesty, lying, abnormal sex, child molestation, drugs, divorce, and homosexuality. 

The spotlight is on strange and weird conduct and characters. And in this day anyone who says anything against adultery is called prudish and puritanical.

But this is merely one of the many symptoms that indicates our contemporary society is morally sick. 

There was a day when a high moral standard was the unwritten law of the land. Every man and woman had to be married to live together. They established a republic which was stable and produced a law-abiding society where people were free to walk the streets at night.

After World War I there was a loosening of this moral code. After World War II it was broken, violated and rejected. Pandora’s box has been opened, and here are some of the contents: murder, stealing, abortion, drugs, alcohol, deterioration of public education, pornography, homosexuality, human trafficking, child molestation,  poverty, failure of money institutions, communism, psycho-religion, eroding religious freedom, war, terrorism, and political corruption.

Shakespeare has Macbeth say of human life down here,

"… A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing!"

One waggish cafe society commentator has made this statement about divorce. He says,

"Judging by the divorce rate, a lot of people who say, ‘I do,’ don’t."

We are living in that kind of an hour when contemporary music is the funeral dirge of a fading, wonderful civilization that we have enjoyed.

Even many so called Christian people today look charitably upon the breaking of the seventh commandment. 

We need to keep in mind that the seventh commandment encompasses all forms of sexual sin.

And God spells them out for us in 

Exodus 22, Leviticus 18 and 20, and Deuteronomy 22.

All too many folk are guilty of these.

Is God going along with the public opinion of the hour? 

Is God floating down the stream with the majority?

Is God altering His program? Has He changed and trimmed His sails and watered down His standards?

May I say to you, dear reader, there still stands in the chiseled stone of the centuries the inflexible seventh commandment: 

"Thou shalt not commit adultery."

There has been no new edition of it gotten out from heaven, and God has put out no new version concerning it. It still stands: That is still heaven’s attitude toward this awful sin of the hour in which we live.

Dr. J. Vernon Mc Gee has gotten together for us  4 different approaches to this subject: 

The Home - the foundation of the seventh commandment; 

Humanity here and now  -  the application of the seventh commandment; 

Hell - the violation of the seventh commandment; 

Heaven - the culmination of the seventh commandment.

1) The Home - The Foundation of the Seventh Commandment.

Firstly, consider the home, which is the foundation of the seventh commandment. 

It is the foundation of society. 

And the backbone of the home is marriage, and marriage is the oldest institution in this world.

But marriage today is certainly being questioned and in some circles repudiated. Therefore, at this time it would be well to go back and look at God’s original arrangement in this matter that concerns the seventh commandment.

We find in the Book of Genesis:

"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh" (Genesis 2:24).

Marriage is not only the oldest institution, it is a divine institution. 

And the fact of the matter is, it is the only institution that man brought with him out of the Garden of Eden. It’s the only token we have of the life that was lived back then in the Garden of Eden in the original creation. We are told in this passage that marriage is the highest human relationship. It takes precedence over that which we consider to be the highest, the relationship of parent and child. 

God says here that a man shall leave his father and his mother.

He is brought up in a home under certain circumstances and environments and drawn to father and mother. But there comes a day when he establishes another relationship. The one which had been so firm in those early years is now broken, and the new relationship of marriage is established. It is the highest human relationship known to man.

The marriage of a Christian man and a Christian woman is a love relationship, and it is compared to the relationship of Christ and the church: 

"For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church; and he is the savior of the body" (Ephesians 5:23).

The analogy of the body is in regard to Christ and the church. Christian marriage down here, if it is made unto the Lord, made by Spirit-filled Christians - for that is to whom apostle Paul is speaking here - is a miniature of the relationship of Christ and the church, and there is no relationship that can be any sweeter than that.

The physical act of marriage is sacred, it is a religious ritual, it is a sacrament. 

It is not a sacrament made by a church nor is it a man-made ceremony, but it is a sacrament that is made by God Himself, one which He sanctifies.

And He says that this relationship is to reveal to us the love of Christ for our souls. 

Therefore, a man and a woman are to find in each other persons of high moral character to whom they can give themselves wholly and completely, finding perfect fulfillment and satisfaction. 

It is not the sex appeal that makes marriage 

It is the character of the individuals. 

It is when a man and a woman find in each other that which is worthwhile. 

That is what makes a marriage.

True love is not ever made in the bedroom. It is made in the kitchen. Does she do his laundry? And does he bring home his salary Cheque?

The important thing to see in the institution of marriage that God gave us is that He is love and love is His attribute. His love for us provided a Savior for us. 

Truth is very important, and we cannot place love above truth.

Christ is Truth and truth comes before love because when we place love before truth we sacrifice truth. 

Marriage is a love relationship. A relationship in Christ which means that it must be a truthful relationship.

There can be no lies - hidden secrets. 

The two are made one in Christ.

We are told that at the creation of the first husband and wife the two were to be made one. 

God never said they would be the Adamses - He said they would be Adam (see Genesis 5:2).

The two would be one, made one by God’s act of marriage. 

And God has not changed His plan concerning marriage. 

Therefore God gave the seventh commandment as a shield to protect the home. It was to be a wall of fire separating them from the filth that was on the outside. It was to be a wedding ring of purity surrounding the 2 that were in it. It was to be a protection surrounding the love of a man for a woman and the love of a woman for a man. As God gave the sixth commandment to protect life - 

"Thou shalt do no murder" - 

He likewise gave the seventh commandment to protect the love of man and woman. Therefore, back in the home which God established, He first of all erected the commandment,

"The shalt not commit adultery,"  

as a hedge to be put around the home in a world that would be hostile toward it, that would oppose it.

2) Humanity Here and Now - The Application of the Seventh Commandment.

Not only of this commandment, but we can say it of all the commandments, that they are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. God never gave the commandments to set up some sort of high hurdle to hinder man in his life and his expression down here. 

These commandments were given for the protection and the good of mankind.

Even the apostle John, in his first epistle, his letter of love, has written,

"His commandments are not burdensome."

They were not given to hurt or harm. Therefore, breaking the 7th commandment 

is one of the most brazen atrocious and outrageous crimes in all of 

God’s universe. 

Actually, there is nothing that will quite compare to it. 

It is a sin against the individual and it is so stated in God’s Word. 

In the Book of Job, we read language like this,

"For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction …" (Job 31:11-12).

That is God estimate of it. 

And we find, in Proverbs 6:32,

"But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul."

The breaking of this commandment exacts its penalty upon the complex nature of mankind, both physical and psychological. Today any medical doctor can tell us the effect that adultery has on those involved in it.

To commit adultery is not only a sin against one’s own self, it is also a sin against the family. It breaks up families. Think of the many children who are denied the love and the care and the companionship of both of their parents because of the breaking of  the 7th commandment! And think of the many children who have been sexually abused in their families and who are suffering terribly because they are physically and emotionally scarred for life. Then just think of what it is doing to the moral structure of our entire society today.

Adultery is Against Society.

Adultery is a sin against society. It is like a mine field which has already destroyed many who have entered it. 

It is the catastrophic and cataclysmic destruction of morality and none of us seems to grasp the great damage it has done to the individual, the home, the family, the city, the state laws, and to our nation.

We are turning out a generation of savages, wimps, and oddballs. Our prisons cannot contain all the criminals. We have totally rejected Bible morality. 

All of a sudden the fabric of our society has changed. Things that were black are now white, and things that were white are now black. And we have great confusion today. We need to keep in mind the word adultery encompasses all forms of sexual sins, and God spells it out for us in Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy. 

A society is doomed when it redefines what God calls "sin" as an alternate lifestyle. 

A breakup of the family due to sex outside of marriage is a sin against society.

In the Ten Commandments given by God to His people is this: 

"Thou shalt not commit adultery."

Any type of sex, including child molestation, and all perversion, outside of marriage is adultery. 

The person who indulges in this sin is guilty before God.

Another vicious attack being made against our sanctity of love and marriage is homosexuality. The important thing for us to see is that the Word of God  is very clear on this matter. There can be no misunderstanding. Chapter 19 of the Book of Genesis tells about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and God destroyed these two cities because they had reached the very lowest level of moral degradation. 

God destroyed these cities and He makes no apology for it.

In the New Testament, it says that although God had been gracious with the Gentiles and kind to them, when they reached a certain level of gross immorality, He gave them up. Three times in a single chapter we are told that God gave them up. That means they had reached the place of no return.

Romans 1:24–27   "Wherefore, God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections; for even their women did exchange the natural use for that which is against nature; and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly (shameful), and receiving in themselves that recompense (penalty) of their error which was fitting (due)."

That is what God says.

That is His viewpoint.

Yet today society is accepting homosexuality as an alternate lifestyle!

And worse than that, of all things, some churches are condoning it, which causes young folk to get involved in it. 

I heard an inspiring letter written to a Radio program from a young man who told how he was led into homosexuality because he thought it was all right. When he found out that it was a definite sin in God’s sight and that he needed to be forgiven, he turned to Christ and has been delivered from it. And he attempts now as he feels it is his calling, to work with others who have been trapped, deceived by Satan.

Homosexuality and all that adultery encompasses is a sin against the nation. 

In saying these things I recognize that I’m going against the current. I’m not exactly alone, but I sure feel lonely in this position because the whole stream is moving in that direction. It is an evidence that we are now reaching the lowest level of moral degradation. I don’t know how much farther we are going to go down, but I do know that the day will come when God will give us up, and we will as a nation be destroyed just as those great nations of the past, were.

As this moral decline continues, God is either going to have to judge us or else He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah for what He did to those two cities because of this very thing. This is a lot more serious than some folk seem to think that it is.

Drunkenness and gross immorality are what took Babylon down; they took Greece and Egypt down; they took Rome down. 

We can read their stories. 

And our nations are following blindly in their footsteps.

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The historian, Gibbon, in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, lists five reasons why the great nation of Rome went down, and he includes the break-up of the home as being one of the reasons.

Read The Iliad. It tells of the ruin of an adulterer, Paris, and his nation because he took Helen of Troy, who was another man’s wife, and ran away with her. When Paris did that, Agamemnon with all of the hosts of the Greeks, set upon his life, and that army stayed there till they wrought vengeance.

And in more recent times there have been men in England, even those who were statesmen, who have said that adultery is treason and that the adulterer should be tried as a traitor to his nation.

Adultery is Against the Race.

Adultery is not only a sin against the nation, it is a sin against the race of mankind, because each of us has a part in either developing or destroying the race of which we are a part. But thank God and all Praise to Him alone there is a moral remnant in the human family today, and in spite of the onslaught against it, it is moving forward, and we can hear it marching to the steps of this commandment: 

"Thou shalt not commit adultery." 

Love is in our new hearts if we are indeed a believer. 

But if there are sensual sins in our lives, we will never know what real love is. There are many young people today who know much about sex, but they know nothing about love. 

Love is a fruit of the Spirit, and God gives this love to a husband for his wife and to a wife for her husband. 

I personally do not think anyone can love like two Christians can love. I know that our Lord gave me my husband because he was especially designed for me and without his help I could never be what I am today. He has been to me as Christ is to me and I can submit to him because I know that he submits to His Master Christ Jesus who is our Lord and we serve Him together, as one in Christ, out of pure love for Christ and with great joy and gladness for He is our life. Christ has made us one in Him and He is the truth so there can be no secrets, we are totally transparent before Him in love, before Him who is our Saviour, and being in Him is the only way of real joy in marriage for when we trust our Saviour Christ Jesus to fill us with His Spirit in our marriage we are set free to love each other in truth with His love.

Love like that is the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

Shame, fear and self protection bind us. 

Hosea 2:19-20   "And I will betroth thee unto Me … in righteousness, and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know the Lord."

This is very, very wonderful here. 

God is speaking to the nation Israel.

The word betroth means literally to woo a virgin; it means to court a girl.

To woo a virgin is a wonderful experience.

That is what God said He would do to Israel. 

What a beautiful, lovely picture this is. 

God says,

"I intend to win you for Myself."

Sadly mankind has spoiled what God ordained as the most wonderful experience in life.

Adultery is Against God.

Then finally adultery is a sin against very God. 

There was a man, one of the great men of Scripture, of whom God said he was 

"a man after God’s own heart" (Acts 13:22). 

Yet this man committed the sin of adultery!

David stayed home from the war in which his nation was engaged. He should have been out with his men on the battlefield. I think it was the first time David had ever stayed home during wartime. He looked upon another mans wife and his look led to the act of sin. Now because he was king, he could have his way. He thought that, since he was the king and known as a man of God, he might get by with it. But, dear reader, nobody gets by with adultery. 

David attempted to cover it up but 

God says He will uncover ever secret 

so there came a day when God sent the prophet Nathan to him with a story of injustice in his kingdom. 

David, that redheaded king, could rise in anger when the wrong was somewhere else. And he said,

"As the Lord liveth, the man who hath done this thing shall surely die" (2 Sam. 12:5).

 I submit the prophet Nathan as the bravest man  we will ever find.

Nathan pointed the finger at David the king and said, 

Thou art the man!"

Then David went into the Presence of God.

Listen to his confession,

Psalm 51:1–5   "Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy loving-kindness; according unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Thy sight, that Thou mightest be justified when Thou speakest, and be clear when Thou judgest. Behold, I was shaped in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me."

We see the psychological effect of that sin upon David, when we read his true confession in 

Psalm 32:3-4   "When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah."

If we want to know whether sin hurts or not, just read the sad story of David who lost his joy, the joy of his salvation and with it everything worthwhile:

Psalm 51:12-13   "Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. Then will I teach transgressors Thy ways, and sinners shall be converted unto Thee."

David knew that he was dirty and he cried out to God for cleansing and that is not all. He said something else that is very significant: "Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Thy sight …" (Psalm 51:4).

Adultery is a sin against Almighty God.

What Does God Mean by Adultery?

Let us look at the sixth commandment where God says literally,

"Thou shalt do no murder" (Exodus 20:13).

And then a bit later God put down degrees - 

first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter, accidental killing, and many others but in the seventh commandment, there are no degrees of adultery at all. 

Adultery is adultery, and it never changes, it is always adultery.

God thinks of adultery today in the same way as He did at the beginning He has never ever changed His mind.  

Note this statement of our Lord Jesus Christ in

Matthew 5:32   "But I say unto you that whosoever shall put away (divorce) his wife, except for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery; and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery."

Now notice that right there our Lord combined what men today are trying to separate by saying that there are degrees in adultery. There is no such thing as degrees in adultery at all. 

If sex is committed by a person who is single, it is sin against the marriage of the future. If the person is married, adultery is a sin against the marriage that is.

In Matthew 5 we see our Lord Jesus Christ take the sixth commandment and lift it to the nth degree. 

He did likewise with the seventh commandment? 

I think that He probably did it with all ten of the commandments, which puts them in the realm where any person in our day must cry out to God for mercy. 

But notice as our Lord lifts this seventh commandment 

Matthew 5:27- 28   "Ye have heard that it was said by them of old, Thou shalt not commit adultery; but I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart."

He says here that the desire itself is sinful. It is the "look" that leads to the act. We fall into sin by entertaining the thought that leads to it. 

It was Augustine, speaking of this sin, who said,

"An evil thought passes thy door first as a stranger, then it enters as a guest, then it installs itself as a master." 

That is how sin gets into our lives.

It was Martin Luther who said that you can’t keep the birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.

And that’s exactly, I think, what our Lord meant about this sin of adultery.

Sex is one of the drives of mankind. And it is said that sex and hunger are the strongest appetites of man. That is my reason for saying there is too much information and instruction about sex being given to young people in our schools and sadly in the church as well. It is a subject that draws people but we are to exalt Christ in every meeting or get together or whatever folk like to call it these days and not man and his methods. God says "Thou shalt not commit adultery." 

It should not be dwelt upon as much as it is today. 

And with teenagers and young children there is entirely too much emphasis put on the boy/girl relationship. 

But sexuality outside of marriage is something that our Lord reached out and put His finger on, lifting the commandment, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," 

to the nth degree so that every man must wilt before it.

Hell - The Violation of the Seventh Commandment.

The Mosaic Law exacted the death penalty for breaking this law. 

The next few passages deal with it in the Mosaic system, 

Leviticus 20:10   "And the man who committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he who committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death." 

That law was enforced in Israel, and the person who was guilty of breaking it was stoned to death. 

That changes the complexion of what Paul said in Romans 7:2 which we often hear quoted.

"For the woman who hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband."

In God’s sight when either husband or wife breaks the seventh commandment, that one is dead to the innocent spouse.

God exacted the death penalty for those who broke this commandment, and there was no mercy. 

God has not changed, He will judge those who are guilty of breaking His command. 

We will see this clearly when we study the Epistle to the Hebrews,

Hebrews 13:4   "Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge."

And when we turn to the last two chapters of the Bible where God gives us the  picture of heaven, we will find that the Spirit of God felt it necessary to say that on the outside are the sexually immoral and they shall not enter that heavenly city.

Revelation 21:27   "And there shall in no way enter into it anything that defileth, neither he that worketh abomination, or maketh a lie, but they who are written in the Lamb’s book of life."

Revelation 22:15 NKJV   "But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie."

That is God’s law, and that is God’s Word. 

Someone says to me, 

"That is indeed a severe penalty!" 

I wholeheartedly agree.

Heaven - The Culmination of the Seventh Commandment.

Finally, look with me at heaven, the culmination of the seventh commandment. Thinking back to the two tablets of stone of Exodus 32:15-16 there is a relationship between the second commandment and the seventh commandment. 

The second commandment is "Thou shalt not make unto thee any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath.…" 

The seventh commandment, which seems to be its parallel, is 

"Thou shalt not commit adultery."

Idolatry in Israel was called spiritual adultery. 

It is the sin that God depicts as the most loathsome in the world. 

The worst chapter in the Bible, as far as I can tell, is Revelation 17. It’s the most frightful scene. 

There we see the church - false church, the apostate church - that has turned from

God

it is depicted as a harlot, riding the Beast. 

Dear reader, God judged His nation Israel for the sin of spiritual adultery.

He spoke through Jeremiah the prophet, before His people were taken into captivity, 

"Backsliding Israel has committed adultery!"

They committed spiritual adultery in that they turned from the living and true God. 

They had gone after the idols of the heathen. 

They had turned from Him.

Likewise today the relationship between Christ and the believer is spoken of as that between bridegroom and bride. When someday the church is presented to Him without spot and without blemish, it will be a relationship that is the very highest.

When Jesus’ mother and His brethren came to Him, you will recall that He sent back a word which sounded almost cruel, "Who is My mother, and who are My brothers?" 

And then He said,

"Anyone who will do the will of My Father which is in heaven is My mother and My brother and My sister"

In other words, in Matthew 12:46–50 He established a new relationship which is higher than that between a person and their unsaved children. This is the relationship between God and a lost sinner who is found.

Apostle Paul wrote this,

1 Corinthians 6:9-10   "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind… shall inherit the kingdom of God."

Now I’m sure that there is someone thinking,

"Well, if that’s true, there’s not much hope for me. In fact, there is no hope for me at all." 

Dear reader, there is an incident in Scripture which reveals that there is hope for any person.

We find it in John 8:1–11. 

"Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came unto Him; and He sat down, and taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto Him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto Him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest Thou?  This they said, tempting Him, that they might have to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking Him, He lifted up Himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again He stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up Himself, and saw none but the woman, He said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?  She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more."

(Although some Bibles omit this, I believe it belongs in the Word of God.) It is the episode of a woman said to be guilty of adultery and taken in the very act - how harsh and how crude those men were who brought her into the temple area, right into the presence of the Lord Jesus, and into the middle of the group as He was teaching! And every man who came had a rock in his hand, was ready to stone her, and they said to Him, "Our law says she is to be stoned. What do You say?" Without even looking up, Jesus began writing on the sand there in the temple area. Then He said, "The one who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone." Well, there were not any stones thrown that day. And we’re told that beginning with the oldest down to the youngest they put down their rocks and slipped out as quietly as they could. Finally, that woman was left with the only Man who could have stoned her, and He said to her, 

"Neither do I condemn thee. Go, and sin no more."

This frightful thing of sexual sins, this awful thing which is a sin against humanity and a sin against God, can be forgiven, for there is a Savior who died on the cross for those who are guilty and will trust Him.

"But God commendeth His love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).

2 Corinthians 5:21    "For He hath made Him (Jesus Christ), who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him."

Alas, and did my Saviour bleed?
And did my Sov'reign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I?

Refrain:
At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light,
And the burden of my heart rolled away,
It was there by faith I received my sight,
And now I am happy all the day!

Was it for crimes that I have done,
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!

Well might the sun in darkness hide,
And shut His glories in,
When Christ, the mighty Maker, died
For man, the creature's sin.

But drops of grief can ne'er repay
The debt of love I owe;
Here, Lord, I give myself away—
'Tis all that I can do!

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Amen!

"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9).

IN HIM  redeeming grace;  

IN HIM my daily manna,  IN HIM  my hiding place.

IN HIM there is atonement,  IN HIM eternal life;

IN HIM a full salvation,  IN HIM an end of strife 

IN HIM  I now am resting;  The half I cannot tell

Of all the priceless blessings which make my heart to swell

With thankful adoration,  As day by day I find

HIS peace and grace sufficient to keep both heart and mind.

But when I see Thee, JESUS, When face to face we meet  -  

Then in Thine own dear image  It will be far more sweet,

Oh then I'll sing my praises  For all I found in Thee;

And give to HIM the glory  Who has redeemed me.

Sankey's Sacred  Songs Solos  858.

Amen!

Dear reader see the heart of God as He restated these Ten Commandments to a new generation. The generation that had originally heard the Law at Mount Sinai were dead. Their bones were bleaching out there in the desert. This new generation, the Israelites that were going into the Promised Land - and us believers  -  will hear it from Moses after 40 years of experience with it in the wilderness.

Listen to God’s heart-cry for His people:

Deuteronomy 5:29   "Oh, that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear Me, and keep all My commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever."

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