Acts of Grace 8
2010 Through the Prophetic Eye: TEN COMMANDMENTS - Part 3
By Pastor Henry

In the Ten Commandments, the first three commandments speak about our relationship with God while the other seven speak about our relationship with our fellow men. Let us look at the remaining commandments.

Thou shall not kill. The proper translation should be ‘Thou shall not murder’ because there is a problem with the word ‘kill’. For example, does it mean you cannot kill the tomato, potato, durian or chicken? The bible is not speaking about that, it’s speaking about murder and human relationships. You cannot murder your neighbour. In anger, man can kill. Today, there is more killing being done in the name of religion than anything else. And a ‘god’ that kills is not the God we serve. The devil comes to kill, steal and destroy in the name of God.

Thou shall not murder. Jesus says hatred is murder. Hatred is the most subtle form of violence. When you hate somebody, you can smile but inside, it’s another matter. Let us examine ourselves, for God delivers us from the spirit of hatred and murder. You cannot hate your brothers. How many of us hate our brothers and sisters but are preaching the gospel? We have no right to preach because the gospel is about love.

Thou shall not commit adultery. This also has to do with our neighbour - taking somebody else’ wife or husband. You cannot commit adultery. Today, they make it a part of religion as well where one can have more than one wife. That is sanctified adultery.

Thou shall not steal. Who do you steal from? People you know. According to Scotland Yard, 85% of theft is by people you know. You see, 80% of divorces take place when the best friend runs away with the spouse. So, who steals your life partner? Your best friend, so be careful. Wives, laptops and cameras are all stolen by very close friends. This is the truth.

Thou shall not bear false witness against your neighbour. Again, God is concerned about our relationship with our neighbour.

Thou shall not covet. Covetousness, wanting to get something by not working for it. Thou shall not covet thy neighbour’s house. Thou shall not covet thy neighbour’s wife, husband, manservant, maidservant, driver; cook, ox, ass, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.

Are we doing it? You look at your neighbour, “Ah, I wish this house was mine.” Meanwhile, he is looking at your house and wishing your house was his! Then there’s a fellow driving a fancy car and he looks at the other car – that car is better. The covetous eye, or as the Asians say, the green eye, the eye that is green in envy. Who can withstand an envious eye, says the scripture. When the eye is full of envy, it is destructive. It destroys a person. So, when you look and you want something for yourself out of envy, that’s covetousness, and not jealousy.

Ten Commandments - three directed toward God and the other seven directed toward self and man. God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with Holy Ghost power and he went about doing good. This is what we need to do for our neighbours. Love your neighbour. Jesus was bread to the hungry. He saw what the 5000 men wanted, he saw what the 7000 men wanted. The twenty, thirty thousand men, women and children would have fainted on the way back because they were living in the desert. But Jesus fed them. There is no evidence that any other religious leader besides Moses, Elijah and Jesus ever fed the multitudes. None.

God sees it fit to impart wisdom and heavenly understanding through the Ten Commandments so that you can become a problem solver. Someone who picks up the fallen and those that are bound. Someone who feeds those who are hungry and visits the homeless, fatherless and those in prison, and who comfort the poor widows and all who are afflicted and suffering because of wrong belief. Why do they suffer? Because of a wrong belief, but Jesus came to open their understanding, and open their eyes so that they can be free.

God came not to judge you or condemn you. He came to set you free because God loves you. Now he says you can be a blessing wherever you go. God empowers you. God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost power, it is not any power, it is Holy Ghost power and he went about healing those that were oppressed by the devil and casting out sickness and diseases. Likewise, God has powered you, beloved, so that you can empower others and do it completely – set others free completely, from the crown of the head to the tip of the toes; spirit, soul and body.

I urge you to make a decision today to strengthen your relationship with your Maker, your Saviour, your Heavenly Father and than strengthen your relationship with your neighbours, your family, your loved ones. As Jesus said to the law expert in
Luke 10: 28, “Do this and you will live.” Amen!