Is There Murder or Love in You 8-20-2023
August 20, 2023
Is There Murder or Love in You?
Pastor Samuel Burba
August 20, 2023
I. Why Does God Hate Murder?
A. Murder
(Genesis 2:7; 9:4-5)
B. Murder Defiles the
(Genesis 9:6; Psalms 139:14; Proverbs 14:31; 17:5)
C. Murder Usurps God’s
(Genesis 4:13-15; Job 1:21)
• The one that murders is in abject rebellion not just against man but
against God Himself. Thus, the murder is tightly connected to the first
commandment, “You shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus
20:3).
II. Are You a Murderer?
A.
• רצח – Means to kill, murder, strike down, slay. The verb […] denotes
illegal behavior against the community which is always directed against
an individual; the act may […] take place in connection with blood
vengeance.
B. Murder Through
(Ezekiel 33:7-9)
• “The rationale for the prohibition is a theological one - persons bear the
image of God himself. It implicitly condemns disrespect for humans at
any socio-economic level, for every person bears the Creator’s
image.”
• Consider the silence of the churches when Hitler took over Germany
murdering millions. Implications for abortion, assisted suicide, war time
atrocities, atrocities at our nation’s border …
• Are you willing to warn this generation? Are you willing to speak up for
the marginalized, vulnerable and oppressed of this culture? How has He
equipped you to be a watchman? Is God calling you to go on a
missions trip or to support the work of a missionary?
C. Murder Through
Matthew 5:21-23 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ 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!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.”
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• Uttering
makes one “guilty enough to go into the hell of fire”
III. What Now? How Can I Fulfill the Law?
(Jonah 4:4; Hebrews 12:24)
A.
• Abel’s blood rightly speaks
speaks
B. Be
(Matthew 5:23-24)
C. Love
(Matthew 7:12-14)
Romans 13:8-10 “Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,’ and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”
• What would Shiloh Community Church look like if we expressed this
kind of love for one another?
D. Love
Romans 8:3-5 “For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.”