Thou Shalt Not Kill - Part 1 — Joshua Daniel

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God's Commandment Against Killing

That God has for you. Now, dear friends, I want to talk to you of something so cardinal, so deeply necessary today, and what can it be other than God's commandment. Now, apart from the commandment of God, it was not a suggestion.

Thou shalt not kill. In other words, you shall not kill. Now, what do we see all around us? We see the killing fields. You know, they used to talk of the killing fields of Cambodia, or loves, where people were butchered by communist men who had no regard for human life.

Okay? But what is it today? There seems to be a whole transformation in this interim period, and this transformation is making whole governments look like sleepy old watch people. They're simply not able to handle this new situation.

The Abundant Life Jesus Offers

You know, it's a case of locking the stable after the horses have bolted, and to what purpose is that? So, thou shalt not kill. You know, the Lord Jesus said, I am come that they should have life, and life more abundant.

Just think of that. It's not just a question of a little lingering type of feeble type of living, but the abundant style of life, full-fledged, wholehearted, full of power, full of vim and vitality to do that which is right, and to have the courage to point a finger at something which is wrong, morally wrong, ethically wrong, wrong family-wise, and having the potential of bringing down your whole nation.

Violence and Moral Decay in the Modern World

We see people, whole peoples disappearing today. We see population coming down, and in some other areas of the world, so much butchery that many villages are lying desolate, the inhabitants having been either killed, kidnapped, or driven into slavery, or when did this all happen?

You might think, oh, way back in the dark ages. Yes, yes, dark ages, and that's now, today. So, we have rendered the 21st century into a dark, if not the darkest age, when on the one hand, moral responsibility has ceased, and people will bite somebody intending to infect the person with AIDS.

Have you not heard of this? Yes, and it is no longer love, but lust, and lust parades around as love today, with the result that our courts, divorce courts, are full, and the kind of accusations that people throw at each other in a court is something appalling, and who are the witnesses of these things?

The immediate family circle, which means children and infants. Oh, my. Thou shalt not kill. You may say, where is it to be found? Exodus chapter 20 and verse 13. This is one of the Ten Commandments, which was given to Moses.

The Social Consequences of Rejecting God's Law

Now, if somebody decides to ignore this commandment, then society as we know it, and have known it, cannot exist. There is terror everywhere. There are tears everywhere. There is blood flowing in the street, as well as in the bedroom.

Now, is that the kind of atmosphere in which any healthy person can grow or thrive? Impossible. Now, my dear friends, when you go counter to the word of God, you make things impossible. You know, a bootlegger came to one of my meetings, and after talking to him, I asked him, what is your trade, or what is your profession?

He said to me, I live by illicit distillation. Bootlegging. Very well. And I said to him, but where is your wife and family? Oh, he said, my wife has run away, and in fact, divorced me in court. She actually told the judge, I simply cannot live with this man.

He will kill me. My dear friends, and the judge, of course, gave her what she wanted.