Value 10.6 The Value of Life
David Featherston
dfeatherston@tvcc.us
May 16, 2021
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“You shall not murder.” Exodus 20:13
You shall not murder. Exodus 20:13
I. WHAT IS THE REASON FOR THIS COMMAND?
A. We are
Genesis 1:26a: Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
B. We are created in God’s
Genesis 9:6: Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.
Genesis 1:26b: And let him have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
Genesis 2:15: The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
II. IS ALL KILLING MURDER?
A. What is not murder.
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Romans 13:4b: [Government] does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.
Genesis 9:6: Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.
B. What is murder.
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III. WHERE THERE IS GREAT SIN THERE IS GREAT GRACE