Chapter 20. Verse 13.
You shall not murder one simple verse tonight.
Let's pray together, father, you deserve reverence through your
word even if it's one word and we stand in reverence of your
worth tonight and Lord help us realize that these are not just
commands given for argued. But these are the reflections of
your character. They speak of who you are.
And what we just pray that as we sit under your word, maybe be
attentive as we just sang about. Midway, may we worship you with
our minds and our hearts and our whole, being able to give you
our attention. And as an act of worship the
Lord, we pray also that we would live it and we would live these
things that we hear of, that is what true worship is Father.
You know, who here loves you and knows, you and has put their
faith and trust in Jesus, you know, those that need to when we
pray that for the save and the other state who could all leave
your transformed father, we trust in you because your
promises are true. And you're not a man that should
lie. And so what we come in
dependency as we pray, we say, we need you tonight more duties.
Z Nation needs you going, you don't have a plan B, you know,
planning, that's your church. And so we just pray that your
church in this place would be edified equipped whatever need
that we have or that it would be met so that we can serve you
through greater degree. Lord, I'm weak.
I need you tonight. What we need you tonight, close
us with your presence leaders by your Holy Spirit, Lord, that
every word be given with Precision of speech and Clarity
either be no confusion, or may your work hard for me to bind up
the wounds, or we need you each year, we can say that for
another half an hour, we need to support guide us tonight.
We pray the precious name of Jesus Christ.
Amen. You may be seated in the
presence of the Lord. Commandment number 6.
We've dedicated a week for each commandment.
And here we are. You shall not murder seems
straightforward. We can probably touch on that
her 15 minutes and walk out of your butt.
Remember these commands are not just instructions for our
well-being or how we should navigate through life.
They speak concerning who God is his nature, his character, his
attributes. And if we want our minds to be
renewed, we must understand God's.
If we want our thoughts to be transformed, if we want our
worldview to be aligned with God's, we have to understand who
he is. We have to understand how he
thinks. We have to understand how he
sees the world. We have to understand how he
values human life. And so tonight, as we explore
this commandment may, we understand who God Is, You shall
not murder. I'm just going to open up her
question right now. What does that even mean when
you hear murder What does that command and fly?
Physical act of taking someone's life.
Sure. Unjustified killing.
That's important. Well thank God that the Bible
interprets, the Bible and all it takes is a little effort to see
that the point. Two different references in
order to have Greater Life, turn your Bibles to numbers 35 number
35, I'm going to give you a heads up.
This Bible studies going to be scripture heavy because of
Point, Bible studies less preaching and more.
Hey, look at these verses. Is see what these scriptures
have to say for themselves. And that you would be equipped
with the truths through these scriptures numbers. 35,
beginning of verse 16, This is the law.
Concerning the Cities of Refuge that would be established in the
nation of Israel concerning actually those that would commit
murder and how they work to respond to that.
And this is just a portion but it helps us understand what God
has in mind when he means murdered.
Verse 16. But he struck him down with an
iron object so that he died. He is a murderer, the murderer
shall be put to death, and if you struck him down with a stone
tool, that could cause death and he died, he is a murderer, the
murderer shall be put to death or if he struck him down with a
wooden tool that could cause that any die.
He is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to
death. Now, scroll down to verse 20 and
if he pushed them out of hatred or hurled something at him lying
in, Away. So that he died or an entity
struck him down with his hand so that he died and he was struck,
the blow shall be put to death. He is a murder the Avenger of
blood shall be shall put the murder to death when he meets
him. Okay.
So based on those verses We understand that murder in.
God's mind is a premeditated intentional act of violence
intended to Take someone's life, take some 1 by mu.
This is an important part in an unauthorized manner,
unauthorized manner. Now, murder is not subject only
to a meet immediate act of violence.
It can manifest through what carelessness negligence.
Murder can manifest in someone hiring.
Somebody else to do the ACT, you think of somebody the Bible who
did that, David did not kill your eye with a sort of killing
with a pen. This one reference letter, put
him in the front lines. That's murder when Nathan came,
he accused them of murder. now I say in an unauthorized manner,
why Because there is chilling in the scriptures.
That is Justified. Can you think of ways that
killing especially Old Testament, even in the New
Testament is Justified? Turn to a couple of chapters of
Exodus, 22 verse 2. Miss U's and hearts first, one
or sheep, and kills it ourselves, it he shall prepare
50 auction for, not stand for sheep, four sheep.
If the thief is found breaking in and struck so that he dies,
there shall be no blood feel for him, but at the sun has risen on
him. There shall be blood good for
him. So we see murder or killing
rather is Justified in what? Self defense.
How is it Justified? In just Wars first Samuel, 15
Jesus, all destroy the amalekites, destroy the
completely man woman. Child animals, all of it
destroy. That was not in a bad mood that
day. Was God's just feeling like, you
know, I think I want to just I just want to have a genocide day
today. We're going to learn something
about God and home considering how he does these things.
What other ways is killing justified in the scriptures?
Sorry punishment punishment. Can we say specifically capital
punishment? Yes, and that's all the way back
from Genesis. We're going to talk about that
as well. And so we understand that there
is a authorized way of taking somebody's life.
But what God has in mind with this command, is that there is
an unauthorized way. That there is an unjust way that
there's an Unholy way of doing it, and this is what he's
speaking of. Why does God hate murder?
I'm needing him not to do it. Why does God hate it?
What comes to mind when you think of the Lord concerning his
attributes that he would say Do not.
Commit murder doesn't say here but it does say else word.
This is a beautiful reason. Why God it's murder.
Go back to Genesis. Go back to chapter 9 verse 6
After the flood scene. God hates murder.
God, hates the act of one man, taking the life of another.
Why? When somebody goes to her six
and you just read it really loud for us to hear Genesis 9:6.
Whoever sheds man's blood by man in the image of God.
So, there's that capital punishment verse right there.
That is a man sheds. The blood of another man, then
his blood shall be shed. This is is a new law that God
instituted After the flood which says something about what the
pre-flood these are like. When he saw the wickedness and
he was grieved, that he made, man, this law concerning the
violence, this large shed by the fact that there must have been
bloodshed. That reach the heavens.
So God says, okay Fresh Start the flood and all those things.
And the recruitment of Adam, it's like a creation of the
World Part to the world started with a flood so to speak.
It was covered by the waters and chaos and here it is again.
The flood covers the waters again and so we're starting over
again yet. Adam in the beginning.
Now he has no unfortunately no I fell into the same type of sin,
Adam did. He was naked and he said with a
fruit, Which shows that even a flood combat cleanser, um, only
the blood can only the blood of Jesus in the heart of man can
cleanse him. But he says something I'm going
to do something in this world again and I'm going to say this,
if you shed the blood of another, it's going to cost you
your life. Why what's my reason?
Because man is created in God's image?
That's why. And theologians are still
debating today. What is that?
Really mean? Man?
Is created in God's image, but for the sake of discussion,
let's open it up. When you think of is support,
listen, the doctrine of the image of God concerning man is
vitally important vitally important because if we do, not
understand that we will not understand the value of
humanity, and if we don't understand the value of
humanity, we can make statements, like many people who
today that you are no more valuable than your dog.
And I remember listening to an interview with those who hold to
an atheistic worldview, and they were challenged with the
question. If your dog and your neighbor
were drowning in a river. Who would you save?
And then he said my dog. We're just all product of
evolution. We're just we're just different
species. So, this doctor is important.
What is the image of God? What does it mean to be created
in the image of God? Yes.
And like the attributes that concern to be able to hold
yourself. Okay.
So we have moral reasoning, right?
Yes brother. You got something.
Your hand up. Same characteristics of God.
Yes sir Russian Russian, Al rational reason.
Anything else? Compassion and love and
compassion. Yes.
What else? So self-aware.
There's an ultimate purpose that we carry.
One of the things come to mind when you think of it, you've got
I'm creating that image of God. What does that mean?
The reflections of like, the heart of God.
No, it wasn't that those aspects of, it's not the full picture,
but you're getting a, you know, some.
So, when I look at man, I see something of God.
Yes, we see that through our attributes.
We see that to our capacity of loving and showing compassion.
We see that in the fact that we carry a purpose, I think one
important aspect of it is that we are relational beings that
God himself is relationship. He was not in need Humanity,
when he created him, he was alone in heaven.
He was community in perfect, love with the Trinity.
And so when he created us in His image, what that did to us is we
now have this innate desire for relationship.
We want to deal with other people, we want to be with a
mate, not only that, but we have the capacity to relate to God
and to have communion with God and to enjoy God.
I believe Free Will as a part of it.
I believe again reason has apart, I believe the fact that
we are intelligent beings. That we have a capacity to
reflect yes his moral attributes.
All those things essentially we can just generalize it is this
that we have we are even mirrors of God.
Here's the thing. When the fall happened.
Did it destroy the fact that man is created in God's image?
No. What did it do that?
It deformed, it, it distorted it, damaged it.
How do we know that? Well, Genesis 9 is after the
fall and God says, he gives the same reason the reason why I
don't want you to murders. His man is still no, it's
deformable. There's mud on the mirror.
He still created in my image. There's still something that
carries. It's very, very different from
any other form of creation. And so we can go to say this
when we come in Christ, we begin a process of being restored to
the phones of the image of God. That's the beauty.
That's the beauty of the Gospel that we enter into now a process
in which God were finds us and changes us and restores with the
intended from the beginning. so, in light of that, when the act
of murders committed against another, what does it say?
I believe it is an assault to the Pinnacle expression of God's
creation, which is humanity. It is a vicious statement.
A vicious violation against what God intended to be precious.
And if you beautifully distinct from all the rest of his
creation, God, put so much value in US.
He elevated us above all creation and when man, violates
that if Islands were God, considers to be precious and
holy and separate from everything else, There's
something or that you hold or someone that, you know, that
it's more precious than anything.
Somebody coming in violating that there is a nerve that is
struck concerning that object that you've placed so much value
in and that's what happens with the Lord.
But I would say this is to that murder is an assault or an
attack upon God himself. Upon God himself.
Not just what he Treasures on us, but for yes, why.
Because we are created in His image meaning we represent God.
And so whether one knows it or not, when he comes to attack or
destroy a man in a sense, he's making a declaration of
attempting to destroy God saying, why what do you mean?
I mean that the same way a person from a different country,
maybe he hates our present or hated presence in the past and
they know that they can't access him, but make a statement, will
take a picture of him and they'll burn it for the figure
frame of him and stop mind spit on it.
Knowing that they can't access. And it's a statement of I wish
you would. I wish you would come to the
ground. I wish you would be buried
alive. That's why I see them loves
murder. He loves murder.
Because he knows he himself as powerful as he is, cannot touch
The Fringe of His Garment. Can I you come into His
presence, right? Not breathing on him killing
him. They'll do the next closest
thing. Destroy His image.
Destroy anything that represents him.
That's why you loves gang violence.
That's why you loves unjust Wars.
That's why he loves suicide. Or you thought murder was just
attacking somebody else. No murder is taking your own
life because God gave it to you as a gift.
It doesn't belong to you. That's why he loves.
Abortion. because he has a perfect hatred towards God, and
even the image of God, Entices him to satisfy the itch, on
wanting to destroy and Dethrone God.
And so I want to destroy His Image wherever I can find it.
So murder number one. Is totally wrong eyes about
because we're creating this image.
And number two, murder is wrong to the next one because it
advances the agenda of Satan We know the famous verse in John
8:44. Rang, what is Johnny?
44, Audrey be here. You received the Pharisees Jesus
are of your father, the devil. And your will is to do your
father's desires. He was a murderer from the
beginning. Now, this is in light of Johnny
37. When you said you want to kill
you, I know what you're thinking, you want to kill me,
and then he calls them out and he says, you're just like your
father and probably thinking on Abraham right now, the devil
because you want to murder and he's been murdering for the
beginning. You know, the first murder is is
that Kane? It's Satan.
How did he murder from the beginning?
How did Satan murder? He sent it to the beginning.
So we could go back to the beginning to see what he did,
Adam and Eve. The day that you eat of the tree
of the knowledge of Good and Evil the day you do it, you
shall surely die. Here's some sound wisdom and
some sound advice. I hope that will help you
against your fight of saying. I don't care what this thing is
whenever you're faced with the immediate pleasure or the
immediate somewhat result, that would produce some kind of join
your life, stop Halt and think of a consequence that might come
after that. Is it safe and voice did?
His voice is so loud and so deceiving the only way that you
can counter-attack. His voice is by filling yourself
with God's voice. So when he says it's gonna feel
good, you'll know through the promises and the consequences in
the warnings of scripture. Oh my feel good about that
pleasure is fleeting but in his presence is the fullness of joy.
No, thank you. Say that I'm going to sleep with
God's presence. But unless you get your heart in
your mind and mine with this word is voice with all the more
get louder side note. And we come back here, Satan was
a murderer from the beginning of his safe and murdered the entire
human race. Though, Adam was held
responsible Satan was the one that tempted him and Usher him
towards that direction. So although Adam, yes sir, we do
receive, the imputed and inherited, Sid from Alan in some
sense. He did cursed, the serpent as
well, he's a murderer. he's a murderer from the beginning
saying you're like your father And this is important for us to
understand. Because murder and whatever form
is manifested in. If it's unjust this Unholy, that
unrighteous is satanic in nature.
The shooting in Chicago. This isn't about Anything other
than the fact that it's satanic? It's satanic.
It's demonic. He loves it.
He serves it up. And I'm going to stick on a
little Point here. I'm going to talk about abortion
for a little bit. I remember watching a
documentary of this ministry that dedicated himself to
preacher friend, abortion sending the Florida region in
Orlando and in doing so compassionately.
And they've seen fruit from it, where people have turned their
backs on that abortion. Abortion Mill and they gave
birth to their beautiful babies and gave God the glory.
Yes. But created those ministers for
saving them. But I remember this why?
I was trying to find it. I could not find it.
This is a few years guy we're in Orlando.
There was one specific abortion clinic that had free abortion
day. So, you want to have a free
abortion, you could come and apparently, in that day, there
was 100 abortions and I want location alone.
Now, think about this, this is what these ministers testified
on that as they were there preaching.
And pleading, with women to turn their backs on this Sim on this
act of murder. They said by a certain time in
the late afternoon, a woman. Came out of that clinic and she
was not a woman that came in for abortion.
She was a woman that performed abortion, she was one of the
nurses. She had walked out frankly she
walked out looking distraught. She had walked out saying, I'm
going home. And one of these ministers
stopped and said, why are you leaving what's going on at?
This is what she said. Not a Believer.
This is not a Believer. This is what she said herself.
We reach number 87 with these babies, over these pieces,
whatever you want to call. And I can tell you that in that
room, I felt Satan. Staying there himself There is
such an evil presence in that room that I had to ask to leave
because it was so overwhelming. I fit that into theology how you
will but this is not coming from somebody who is not a believer.
What is God saying? His word Proverbs 16 says,
there's seven things that I hate you can turn with you on going
to be the first three, there are six things that the Lord hates.
Six things of the Lord hates seven.
That are Abomination, M 7 things that are two things that God
hates whether things that he's absolutely disgusted by.
There are things that are so beyond him and he said that in
Jeremiah moment of surgery. Look what he says here.
The first three haughty eyes, Notice the first thing is pride
haughty eyes a person that elevates self and looks at
others with a degree and look and I'm more Superior than you.
It's in the eyes and manifests in the eyes a lying tongue.
In fact, if you read through these seven you'll notice that
lying or false witness comes up more than once and hands that
shed innocent blood. And the same book, The Book of
Proverbs chapter 31 verse eight. It tells us open your mouth for
the mute. Open your mouth for the mute for
the rights of all. Who are destitute.
We, as Believers have a command, we have been given instruction
to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves to speak
for the rights of those who cannot defend their own rights.
Open your mouth with a new and that's what we're going to do in
the next few moments. There is a staggering verse
found in Jeremiah 19:5. God's commentary on a people
that were living in a consistent lifestyle of false worship that
involved. Human child sacrifice.
This is what he says in Jeremiah 19:5.
And that built the high places of Baal to burn their sons and
daughters in the fire as burnt offerings to Bill.
Look what he says here, which I did not command or decree nor
did it come to my mind. Like it didn't even, it didn't
even occur to me. You vile tons of iron would come
up with such an act. That you would take these babes,
the babes that I took the time. Two beautifully form and put
together in the mother's womb. Inside, Vice didn't come.
It's so, you know, in Revelation, it talks about
concerning one of the churches that they have tapped into the
deep things of Satan. there are some things that are satanic and
there are some things that the BBC coverage He says he's
sneezing. I can't even register.
I can't even really process what you're doing right now.
He hates the hands. Who have shed, innocent blood?
I encourage you to do just a simple research on reasons why
women have abortions and you're going to find something
staggering What you will find without a nationwide level or
state level. Is that a majority of the
reasons why abortions are performed?
You're the reasons ready? I just don't feel like I'm ready
to be a mom. I feel like this child will
interfere with my school or work.
I'm afraid to raise this child alone.
I'm free this child, coming into the world will affect my
relationship with it with with that partner with others.
And here are the less frequent reasons.
I mean, very minimal talking about statistics.
You're not talking about just saying, I found my stats like
numbers. The least the number one, these
rhaegar incest. Isn't that funny because that's
one of the main arguments for abortion.
Fetal issues, or the mother being sick of some sort of.
Effectively, those are the least reasons why our fortunes are
performed. So the number one reasons why
abortions are performed is because of inconvenience.
Inconvenience. And we look at a verse like
Jeremiah 19. If you look at that context, we
go back to insane. That's insane.
That parents would take their children.
And sacrifice them to an item called bail.
Let me tell you something. It's no different today.
That people are still giving up their children, but to a
different type of idol. It's called themselves.
It's about my convenience, it's about my life.
If this child will interfere with what I want to do, I'm
willing to kill it. What's a fetus?
Call it. What you want?
Is it different when it comes out of the womb?
Yes, so the whole matter of it being a human is a matter of
location then. Oh no.
You want to go further and to see how vile this is.
I encourage you. I encourage you.
If you have the stomach to hold it, look up.
How a first trimester abortion is performed. if you really want
to be able to, Quote, Jeremiah 19:5 for yourself.
Look up a second. Trimester abortion.
Let me just give you a few descriptions.
His you're probably hearing something else on your campus.
You're probably hearing different arguments, but I
believe one of the strongest arguments is just to know how
the ACT is performed itself. You will be convinced.
Otherwise I'm sure unless you've gone to a place like these
Israelites have We'll talk about the consequence of the nation,
who sheds innocent blood. It is not pretty first trimester
Babies. Small enough for a woman to take
a certain type of pill. That will essentially there's a
generalize it. Allow that baby on her next or
not next but one of her bathroom trips for that baby.
Be flushed down the toilet. And if that is not successful,
they'll find a way to put a vacuum suction machine to suck
out that baby. And if you really stare close
enough, you'll still be able to see that baby's fingers and
toes. But perhaps we're delaying on
your decision to have such a abortion at an early stage so
you wait until the second trimester so what do they do?
That babies now too big For that little vacuum to suck it up. and
so, what they do is they suck out the amniotic fluid, And then
the going with a client and they can't do this visibly, they
can't do this with with the knowledge of sight so they do it
blindly they begin to just chop away at the baby.
And they begin to pull up different body parts.
But see the head is too big even for that to be pulled out.
So what they'll do is they'll crush the baby skull in the
mother's room. And it take out pieces at a
time. In order to ensure that every
piece of it taken out, whether doctor will do is resembled that
be to make sure that there's no body parts missing.
And then they'll go in and clean out the rest.
Of the mess. As Christians, we have to
understand that the Lord, the Lord sees the womb, it family
has Jeremiah 1:5. God says, before I formed you in
the womb, I knew you, Jeremiah even as mr.
Jeremiah no. Before I formed you.
So who forms? God, warns, we're in the womb
before that even though I knew you.
And before you were born, I consecrated you for what I
appointed you a prophet to the nation's.
See when one commits an abortion, the reason why Satan
loves this act of murder is because not only does he kill a
person who kills a destiny. Isn't kill a little body.
Also, kills a calming. Ephesians 2:10 tells us that
we've been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which he
prepared beforehand and when one comes in Christ, not only does
he give you salvation, he gives you service, he gives you a
purpose in this world. And so, Satan says, in light of
Jeremiah 1:5 because I know that he forms you.
And because I know that in the womb, he consecrates, you, I'm
going to kill you in the womb before you even have a chance of
a breath of fresh air. Because murder.
Especially at that level of life.
And the enemy's mind. Is hindering any opportunity or
possibility of God's program on the earth advance.
Think about that too masculine. So they were or not necessarily
abortions. Think of the two masterminds
concerning babies in the scriptures.
Moses Jesus. To delivers.
And Jesus being ultimately one, right?
And I wonder what the enemy has in mind with the fact that we
are. I think reaching 60 million
since 1973 babies in America alone, what is he thinking?
It's not what's going on within sight.
Does he have Who's going to be the next revivalist?
I don't know, but I'm not willing to take the chance to
find out. Who's going to be the next
Jonathan Edwards? I don't know, but I'm going to
kill that chance even from the womb.
Who knows what's going on is mine?
I want to say this boldly. And I pray that you would stick
by the end of this Bible study to kill the full thing.
If you have committed an abortion, if you have convince
somebody to commit abortion, if you've paid for an abortion, you
are in Murder. There's innocent blood stains.
but, of course, Of course, people don't take heed to the
warning, sound in scripture, of course, people.
Don't want to hear what God has to say.
So, there are consequences when blood is shed.
Back in numbers, 35 and you can turn there.
Numbers, 35, verse 33. This is at the end of the
chapter concerning God's laws and commands regarding murder.
Look what he says about murder. You shall not pollute the land
in which you live. For blood pollutes, the land.
And no atonement can be made for the land for the blood.
That is shed in except by the blood of the one who said it.
I can somebody read the next verse.
You shall not defile. The land in, which you live in
the midst of which, I dwell for, I the lord.
Well in mid to the people of Israel, in which I used well and
not just where you dwell. Blessed is the nation whose God
is the Lord. Psalm 33:12 powerful verses in
it blessed is the nation. Not just Israel.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.
There's blessing of all when a nation acknowledges God is,
they're gone. But in light of this verse,
there is a danger because just like a single individual that
professes Jesus to be Lord, my lips, contrary to it, we can
write on our money. In God, we trust, we can have
all the right speeches and our politics.
We can have all of those things, but if her confession does not
match our practice, we're in trouble, whether on an
individual level or national level.
And what blood does is it pollutes, the Lang and God says,
I will unless you want me to call you man, you want my
protection, you want my presence.
You want my blessing. Don't pollute the land because I
can't stand blood shed. I can't reside in a place that
celebrates this. I can't stay here because I am
Holy and you be holy as I am. Holy if you don't want to be
holy and here's a first consequence, I withdraw my
presents from your nation. I withdraw my protection from
your schools. I withdraw my protection from
your government and from everything that you can think of
I'm moving out because the land is polluted.
It pollutes the land. It makes it filthy, there's a
stench to it and God is Holy and he will not stay very long in a
place that the files is character Psalms 106.
Psalms 106 verse, 37 to 38, you don't have to turn that, I'll
just read it. This is a commentary on the
people of Israel, and look what it says.
They sacrifice their sons and their daughters to the demons.
Demons. Not wooden statues or bronze,
sculptures demons. they poured out innocent blood, the blood of
their sons and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of
Canaan and the land was polluted With blood.
So, we talked about initially in numbers, 35, that when I land is
polluted with blood, God warns and Hey, listen, I want to dwell
here, I want to be in the midst. I want my protective presence
for you, but if you're going to defile the land, I'm moving out.
My hand is with John. And Chaos will reign. and
Satan's domain and activity will enhance as a natural result of
the absence of God's protection and presence whether in a home,
whether in your life, whether a Nation Weather wherever, but the
second thing happens according to Psalms 106 verse 37 and 38,
we have to go to 42, find out. Then the anger of the Lord was
kindled against his people and he aboard his Heritage.
Look what happens in verse 41, the nation that has eluded their
language blood. He gave them into the hand of
the Nations so that those who hated them ruled over them, CS
Lord withdraws. His presence.
But somebody else comes in. They open themselves up to
judgment. And if you really study the
Bible carefully, what you will realize Is that many ways?
God, judges a nation is through another Nation.
Many ways. God judges a nation is by using
another Nation as an instrument of that judgment.
Can you think of instances in the scripture where that's
happened? Israel.
And listen, it's not like after one murder after one case, after
one act of worship to bail. It was hundreds of years before
Babylon came in and took over Judah, hundreds of years.
Remember Genesis 15. When God made that Covenant with
Abraham and he gave him an inside.
Hey, listen, your people are going to be enslaved.
For 400 years until something happens, what happens?
Given the amalekites and are completed, the sins of another,
a very close of the amorites is not yet complete.
So we think about Israelites, invading Canaan and we go.
That's kind of weird. I mean, that's kind of unjust.
There's a people group already there.
Lord. Why would you have the
Israelites move in and just kick him out?
Not only kick him out but killing.
That's But in light of this verse, that's not what God did
in light of this word. Is a two-fold purpose.
Yes, Israel needed a land but God could have created a land.
The, the second purpose was to bring judgment upon the
Canaanites. And he says, Israel You're not
moving in just yet. Why?
Because the iniquity of the amorites has not reached its
limit yet, wouldn't you? And I want to know what that
limit is. He doesn't give us a limit, you
know why? Because humanity is so wicked.
We will find that limit and we will go just to the place before
we cross it and we might be track.
In fact, we're so Wiki we might just cross that.
Anyway, So he doesn't give us a limit that we don't know.
It's not like 400 years of it and then I'm going to come or
200 years of it. And then I'm going to come.
He did it with Canaan. He did it with the nation of
Israel. He did it with Babylon.
In one moment, Daniel Comes Rizza writing on the wall and he
goes, bad news, man. The medes and the Persians are
coming in and they're taking over.
And so here we are 2018 and you know, how will you?
And I might think or you know how this nation might think.
If you have any spiritual Insight at all, I won't happen
to us. Look at it.
Look how young this nation is. Look how powerful we are.
Look at all the world where the World Police.
Everybody looks for our word. Everybody looks for instruction.
Everybody wants her involvement. You know who talk like that?
Nebuchadnezzar. Look what I've done.
Look what I've created. Look at the nation's we've
invaded. Look at all the gods that we've
taken over. Look at Rome, you know what Rome
is right now? A museum.
Roam. This Unthinkable to even imagine
in their day that it would be what it is today.
Pay 20 bucks for a little tour. You know what?
That can happen to America. This command murder is not.
A light thing. It's very prophetic.
Murder has prophetic implications.
God is clear. If you did it with Israel, if he
did it. With Babylon, if you did it with
the Canaanites. disagree with me, if you like, You can do with
America. Why?
Because the voices of the spilled blood of individuals can
only cry out for so long. The first murderer was Satan,
who is the first human murderer? Cain, Genesis 4.
And there's this one verse that should terrify us and verse 10.
Genesis, for the Lord said. What have you done the voice of
your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.
Blood has a voice Spilled blood has a voice. and he's saying, A
cane. Your brother is talking to me,
in fact, he's crying out to me. And that's not just true of
Abel. Wouldn't you like to know what
it sounded like? Or whether it does sound like
for spilled blood to be crying out to God we don't have to
guess there's a host of people that cry out to God and I will
crowd the got in Revelation 6, 10.
Look what they say. These are the martyrs They cried
out with a loud voice o Sovereign Lord!
Holy and true how long before you will judge and avenge our
blood on those who dwell on the Earth.
That's what it sounds like. Your holy you're just my blood
has been spilled in an unjust manner.
God, how long will you withhold your judgment upon those who
dwell on the earth who have performed this vicious act
against the image of God? And I want you for a moment to
just imagine in America alone, never mind, the murders that
happened, through shootings, and homicides and all these
different things. I want you to just Zone in, on
the 58. I believe million babies.
And what it sounds like in the ears of God as they all cry out,
holy and just one, when will you avenge our blood against
America? I'm sure that God can only bear
it for so long. And the only reason why he
hasn't done something already is because of his Mercy.
Is because he desires all to reach repentance, even in the
midst of the Bloodshed and the pools of blood that are reaching
the heavens. Because there's an important
verse concerning blood to Hebrews 12 24, that Jesus blood
ho, this is powerful Jesus's, blood speaks a better word than
able, sort of says, the blood of Jesus speaks a better word than
Abel. Meaning what?
The blood of Abel. Says vengeance, but the blood of
Jesus screams Mercy. The blood of Abel shouts for
Rath, the blood of Jesus, please for salvation, the blood of Abel
says judge. The blood of Jesus says save,
it's a better word than able. And the only way that the voices
that are coming from the pools of blood that has been shed and
America is if America cries out for the blood of Jesus to speak.
Speak on their behalf. The only way these voices that
are crying out for judgment. To be muted in a sense and for
God to turn his ear away from that is if the blood of Jesus
covers this nation from coast to coast and a mighty sweeping Holy
Spirit. Revival the only way that
Bloodshed, whether an individual level, Whether somebody has
performed this act of abortion themselves or have contributed
to anyway, guess what that act is not outside of the blood of
Jesus to cleanse. In the only way that you and I
can have Bloodshed and the stain of that blood removed from us is
if we applied the blood of the Lamb, there's no other way.
The blood of Jesus speaks a better word than Abel's.
The blood of Jesus is America's only hope.
The blood of Jesus must be preached.
In light of the fact that sin is filthy and vile.
Because if people don't understand the filthiness of
sin, why would they want the blood to wash them?
I don't need the blood. I'm clean.
No, you're not. You have guilt on your hands.
Seek his blood. Only, it can wash. but in the
New Covenant, Jesus categorises murder in a different way not
that he removes murder the violent Act.
From the understanding of what it is, but he adds to it and I'm
sure our minds are going somewhere.
Does anybody know where he speaks of this?
Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5 21 to 23.
What did he say? You have heard that it was said
to those of old. That's what we just covered to.
Those of old, you shall not murder and whoever murders will
be liable to judgment. but I say to you, We're in Grace, right?
We're in the Covenant of Grace, right?
Grace is two miles ahead of law. What does he say?
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother
will be liable to judgment. Whoever insults his brother will
be liable to the council and whoever says you fool raka, will
be liable to the hell of Fire. So Jesus, identifies anger.
Insults. And later in the book of First
John hatred as a manifestation of murder.
This anger is not a reactionary anger to something that has been
done unjustly Jesus. Manifested that anger in the
temple. We got to see everything in
light of the whole counsel of God.
Nor is it a righteous? Indignation, that is sense.
When something like what? We just spoke of abortion is
performed on a daily basis like those who have dinner it's an
anger that is Created from an unjust cause and it's an anger
that swirls in our hearts, that produces these thoughts that
would defame or seeking the unfortune of another It's an
unrighteous anger, it's an anger that lingers long enough and if
you just feed it, long enough will turn into hatred.
Why is he saying this? Because God, even in the old
Covenant. He's making it very clear in the
New Covenant. The Lord is concerned with our
Inner Man, the Lord is concerned about our heart, he's concerned
about our thought life. See, you will know somebody who
really fears God. A person who doesn't fear God is
not concerned about their inner man or not, they can be eaten up
by lust and envy and pride and all they're concerned about is
how people see them? Oh praise God, hallelujah.
Oh yeah, and they quote the verses but inside their vile and
filthy and I know we fight Temptation not talking about
sinless perfection here but a person who does fear God as a
person that in their prayer. Doesn't just say, Lord make me
look wholly outside. I pray that you clean me on the
inside because though nobody else can see what's in the
inside. You can see my thought life.
And God, I want Jesus to be the theme of my thought, life God,
don't nobody else sees my motive.
When I preach, when I sing, when I served you see my motive Lord
cleanse me. So Jesus saying, listen in this
cup and I really want to understand, this is about
relationship and though, nobody else can see what's an inside I
can. And when you're angry unjustly
and when you have hatred, it's murder in my sight.
You think I'm exaggerating first?
John 3:15, makes it very clear. You can highlight that you can
put it right beside Matthew. 5:21 everyone who hates his
brother is a murderer. I love all the Bible's so
Direct. He's a murderer.
This is the same epistle. The top tells us God Is Love by
the way. Everyone who hates his brother
is a murderer and you know that no murderer has eternal life
abiding in him. So again he's talking about
hatred being on the same level of somebody killing somebody.
You know what? The sermon of the mount is
producing NS, Jesus, I Need You. That's what it's producing in
us. I need Grace, I need the
indwelling of the Holy Spirit. I wonder how many murders we
have here today? I never killed anybody.
Do you hate the person that you're sitting beside or the
person that's on the other side of the room?
Do you meditate on thoughts of Misfortune and somebody being
destroyed or somebody something happening in somebody else's
life, that would even kill them? Is that that how you ease the
pain that you have in your heart?
The Bible tells us You're a murderer.
Hatred insults. Anger and Jesus eyes are
manifestations of murder. Can you think of another one in
the New Covenant? It's in the old to, but it's
really clear in the New Covenant that this is the same level as
murder. You might be shocked.
Who is familiar with John 10:10? The thief comes to what steal
kill and destroy. Who's the thief Satan who says
Satan. Any other thoughts?
In the context, it's not Satan. Turn to John chapter 10.
Though, those qualities can be attributed to Satan, Jesus
speaking in a different context here.
And he says something about the thief.
And before we go to that verse, we have to go to verse 1 of John
chapter 10. Truly truly, I say to you, he
who does not enter the Sheepfold by the door.
But climbs in, by another way, that man is a thief and a
robber, stop there. So Jesus talked about how he is
the door. He's talking about how he's the
Good Shepherd. He's talking about how salvation
is only through him. And what he's saying here is if
anybody comes in by another door, climbs in another way,
that man is a thief. Okay, go to verse 8.
What does verse 8 tell us? All who came before me are
thieves and robbers, but the Sheep did not listen to him.
So, based on these two verses that thief in John 10:10 is not
speaking about safe. And speaking about false
teachers, And that Thief kills. Four steals kills, then
destroys. So anybody, according to verse
1, that tells you that salvation is outside of Jesus Christ.
Is that Thief, anybody that mixes the gospel with good
works, Grace and good works. Not just Grace is a thief.
And Jesus says, anybody who came before me wasn't talking about
the prophets, I spoke on his behalf, he was talking about the
false Messiahs. Those who came before me.
They are thieves, why? Because they steal salvation
from you, which is eternal life. They rob you and when they rob
you of that that leads to not just death but destruction.
So all those verses that Paul speaks about like an axe 20 26
and 27, what does he tell the elders?
Because there for I testify to you this day that I'm innocent
of what the blood of all I'm innocent of the blood of all,
why for I did not shrink from declaring to you, the whole
counsel of God In other words, I'm not guilty of your blood.
Why? Because I did not hold back from
telling you. That there is only one way I did
not hold back from telling you the whole counsel of God, I did
not hold back from the things that are controversial, on the
things that make you feel uncomfortable, or the things
that are confrontational, know why?
Because I don't want to be labeled as a murderer.
I wonder how many murders are behind pulpits.
Because they do shrink from declaring the whole counsel of
God. Remember Ezekiel Ezekiel if you
do not want a sinner about his sin, his blood and he dies, his
blood shall be on your hands the same language.
But if you do warn him and he dies in a sin, you are free from
his blood. So week by week, right?
We by a person whoever it is that comes here.
It's a matter of life and death. It's a matter of life and death.
So, false teaching isn't a matter of at their doctrines a
little bit off. It's a matter of, he's a
murderer. I'm not talking about secondary
issues, I'm not talking about things that are non-essentials.
I'm talking about clear distinct, foundational truths,
that are opposed and preached against Because a thief steals
for his own gain. I don't want blood on my hands.
You may not like me. That's fine.
There's a judge waiting. I have to talk to him at the
end. False teaching.
Oh, there's so much to say about this.
Commandment, I'll end on OneNote Deuteronomy 13.
Remember how there is authorized murder.
There is authorized murder. In the Old Testament.
Look What the Lord says in Deuteronomy 13.
Verse 1. If a prophet or a dreamer of
Dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder and
the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass.
That's scary. If somebody comes and performs a
miracle, And if it comes to pass and if he says no, this is
important part. Let us go after other gods,
which you have not known and let us serve them.
You shall not listen to the words of that Prophet or that
dreamer of Dreams. That's a really good principal
in life that even if somebody is a miracle worker.
Even if somebody is impressive in their spiritual gifting,
whatever it may be but their message does not line up with
this message. What are you going to do?
Not moment because so many people are so drawn to the
supernatural these days. So much so that they're willing
to compromise the message for the manifestation, you know
what, God says, that kind of thinking.
For the Lord your God is testing.
You to know whether you love the Lord, your God with all your
heart and with all your soul, Even if it's impressive, even if
it's powerful, even if it's something that moves you do, the
message is not the same. Are you willing to reject it?
I'm in the end times there's going to be a false teacher.
He's going to woo. A lot of people.
But he is a different message. You shall walk after the Lord,
your God verse 24 and fear Him, and keep his Commandments and
obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fashion, but
it doesn't stop there. Look at verse 6, not just a
false prophet. If your brother, the son of your
mother, or your son, or your daughter or the wife, you
Embrace, or your friend. Who is as your soul entices you
secretly let us go and serve other gods which neither you or
your father's have known, some of the Gods of the peoples who
are around you whether Or near you or far off from you from the
one end of the Earth to the other, you shall not yield him
or listen to him. Nor shall you?
I pity him. Nor shall you spare him?
Nor shall you conceal him but you shall kill him.
So there was ways in the Old Testament on the no old
Covenant. But I want to spiritualize this
for a moment because the spiritual implication is true.
The types of relationships you have in this life.
Do you have people in your life that are obviously enticing?
You Away from Devotion to God. Away from his Commandments away
from his word. Those enticements, whether you
believe it or not are intended to kill you.
Not talking about physical death.
I'm talking about your walk with the Lord, and I want to
spiritualize this kill that relationship before it kills
you. Kill that relationship.
Yes, God is against murder, but there is authorized killing.
And here's one of them, I believe, That if there are
people in your life that are surrounding you and that you are
surrounded with that are enticing, you away from this
word and a holy Life Style, you have every right to kill that
relationship and to frame it rightly.
So they don't entice you because the Lord is testing you.
To see whether you love him more.
And we need wisdom. We need insight to know how to
relate with people that have different viewpoints.
I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about those that you
know, you feel the pull to go into a certain lifestyle, you
feel the pull of people taking you away from a wholehearted
Devotion to the Lord those people.
So many things, worse it tonight, concerning this
commandment. I want us to be cat.
Listen, God, hates murder in the physical sense because it
defames, it destroys his image, its representation has been
second, the advances the kingdom in advance of the agenda of the
enemy. That is not isolated to those
who are outside of the room. That is very much real.
For those that are in the womb, there are consequences on the
individual level and they're also consequences on a national
level. And on that note of a national
level listen, it is gone beyond reason when you really look into
it, when you really study this understanding of abortion it
goes beyond reason. I mean it just it's now we've
entered into a place professing to be wise, they became fools.
How can you tell me that in some states?
It is considered double homicide, if a woman is murdered
with a baby in her womb, yet at the same time.
If that same woman gets it to her car goes to an abortion
clinic and murders that be? Maybe it's called rights.
But there is a blood that cleanses us even from murder,
the blood of Jesus Christ. His blood cleanses us from all
blood guilt, doesn't matter what it is.
It doesn't matter the amount you've done it in.
One drop one drop of the blood of Jesus.
This Is the Scandal of Grace can cover the blood of 58 million
babies. That's how powerful his Delight
is. You saying, I don't like the
sound. That sounds in, just welcome to
the realm of Grace. The cross is an offense in that
sense, but that's the power of the blood of Jesus if we don't
have that hope. And that is not how powerful is
blood as we are hopeless, because do me did not shed
blood. We did so in our hearts, We've
hated we become angry in an unjust manner.
You explode with anger to situations that do not deserve
for you, to explode in Anger, you've committed murder.
This is what Jesus is saying. Do you hate your brother?
John says, You're a murderer. And you know, I don't murder has
no everlasting life. False teaching is murder.
There's No Escape, There's No Escape except one place the foot
of the cross. That's our Escape, that's our
hope. That's why we can sing.
That's what we need to preach it.
And that's why even for the next few moments, we have to pray for
America. We have to pray for this nation.
This, this conversation about abortion and this topic can
become so frequent that we become so numb to it.
And I have no idea whether this generation or the next.
God will do something drastic. But may we be like Daniel Daniel
chapter 9. Remember Dana had no recorded
fault in that book. There is nothing that you can
pin on Daniel as you read those verses.
But you know what, Daniel did in chapter 9?
Forgive us of our sin, Forgive Israel.
Forgive our fathers. Forgive us.
He included himself. He humbled himself.
What's amazing about Daniel was, he was recognized as the
Beloved, and I believe one of the reasons why because he took
it upon himself to pray for his Nation.
I believe that's one of the characteristics that Daniel was
so outside. He was so aware that he involved
himself in intercessory prayer and it got the attention of
Heaven. He got the attention of Heaven.
So, just even being transparent. Just even studying this one
command today. And last night, I was thinking
to myself. God, this means so much to you,
maybe it means so much to me. Don't let me take this lightly
Lord, please don't let this just be a study where I connect and
reconnect versus a oh, I never saw that verse that way.
That's not the point of Bible study.
The say, Lord, if this is so Grievous to your, if this is
something that that you even said, I can't even think of the
things that you're doing, Lord, I want that same righteous
indignation, not to condemn, not to judge, not to do these
things. But to be like, Daniel, Who
prayed for his nation that was undergoing judgment.
I wonder for undergoing judgment today.
I wonder if all this chaos politically in our schools, I
wonder if this is God. I wonder if this is just the
first step where he just withdrew himself.
Now, I want to be very careful with making statements here.
But I don't want to wait long enough to discover what more can
happen. But may we be a people really
really really, I'm not trying to be inspirational and really be a
people that can partner with the heart of God and say, Lord may
my prayers somehow reverse this judgment and may we see Revival
instead. They may people realize that
there's only hope in the blood of Jesus Christ.
To clean our record from all the Bloodshed that we see today.
Let's pray together. I want to make this call very
simple call as we've just gone through this Bible study.
If there's murder in your heart at any level.
I'm talking about abortion from abortion to hatred, whatever it
may be. I want you to know tonight that
there is grace and mercy and Jesus Christ.
I want you to know the night that Jesus knew that he
understands what happened, he saw it, he recorded it.
In fact, there's blood crying out but there is a voice that
can outcry the guilt in your life and that's the blood of
Jesus. So what does it look like?
It looks like you saying Jesus. I understand it only.
Your blood can make me clean my own righteousness.
My own efforts. It's cannot out.
Do what I've done. Concerning my record of sin, I'm
calling out to you and I'm asking wash me in your blood.
Wash me in your blood. Cleanse my record.
I bring it to you. I need Mercy.
I need Mercy. and if you find it in your heart, even now before
we worship this, a lord touch America, Touch our nation touch
our laws. Lord you saying proverbs 31 8
that I am called to open up my mouth for those that are mute.
And Lord if I can open up my mouth. in a place that can be
influenced to change their laws, I will open up my mouth and
intercession and I will intercede for those that cannot
intercede for themselves. And I said, Lord have mercy have
mercy. Have mercy.
Let's pray together. Father we come before you
tonight in light of this one command that carry so much
weight Lord. Perhaps we did not realize how
much we are guilty of it. Lord.
If there's anybody in here, that does not know you.
They stumbled into this place and they realize that they don't
have a relationship with Jesus Christ, and they are guilty of
this sin of murder. By the power of your Holy
Spirit. Would you reveal to them?
The hope the Salvation that is found in Union with Jesus Christ
and that if they call upon your name they shall be saved or may
they find it within themselves to realize that there is no
other door that they can enter into.
There's only one door. There's only one way.
There's only one. Good shepherd.
That can recruit and save and shelter, us.
But father together, we pray for America, we pray for this
nation. And Lord, we just ask somehow
some way, may we with our own eyes, see, a Revival met with
our own eyes. See a change in our laws, Lord
for the sake of these lives, God for the sake of these Destinies,
Lord, that could have come about the good.
That could have come the righteousness that could have
spread Who knows? Lorde?
Father, for those who may have committed that act of abortion,
whether they're here or we don't know who they are.
Lord, and they feel that guilt and that shame would you send
laborers their way to hear the gospel and to know, the hope
that is found in Christ and the Forgiveness that is available to
them. And Lord, we just read how this
means so much to you. Would it mean so much to us?
Would you take these Truth by the Holy Spirit and brand them
on our hearts? May they be something that bring
us to our knees. May you give people here at
prophetic voice that in wisdom. And in righteousness, defend the
cause of those who cannot do it themselves.
Birth Ministries out of this place that would rescue Souls.
That would rescue people from making these wrong decisions.
God, if there's anything in our hearts though, we've never shed
blood. if we have cursed, if we meditate on the misfortune or
the destruction, Of any other person, especially our brothers,
our Sisters in Christ. Lord, take that heart of murder
out of us and replace it with a Heart of Love, mercy and
compassion. Lord, we thank you for your
blood. And tonight we sing in light of
its power. and we ask God, that we would be reminded of the
power that it contains And Lord, maybe there's guilt from this
week alone. That we need cleansing from.
We bring are guilty before you in light of 1.
John 1:9. that if we confess our sin, That you are faithful and
just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all all.
Not some Not some except murder, but all unrighteousness.
And this is what we call upon you for tonight.
In the name of Jesus, we pray.