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Get Your Hand Out of the Cookie Jar - Exodus 20:14-15 - Pastor Steve Wilson - April 10, 2011 am
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1. You shall not commit adultry
a. Physical Adultry
1. Means before marriage as well as during marriage
2. Means marriage and the Home are sacred
b. Mental Adultry But I tell you that anyone who looks at a women lustfully has already committed adultry with her in his heart.
- Matthew 5:28
1. Thoughts of lust can be sin.
2. Thoughts of lust that take up residence are sins.
c. Spiritual Adultry
You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. - James 4:4
I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband , to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. - 2 Corinthians 11:2
2. You shall not steal
a. Stealing from man (Exodus 20:15; Ephesians 4:28)
1. Receiving
Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer; but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need. - Ephesians 4:28
a. By Gift - an act of grace, the receiver may or may not deserve the gift
b. By Work - a way of getting by earning
c. By Theft - stealing and taking something that is not yours.
2.Relationships
3. Recklessness
b. Stealing from God (Malachi 3:8-14) 1. Responsibilities (8-10a)
"Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me." But you ask, "How are we robbing you?" "In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse - your whole nation - because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. - Malachi 3:8-10a
2. Rewards (10-12)
"Test me in this," says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe," says the Lord Almight. "Then all the nations will call you blessed, for your will be a delightful land, "says the Lord Almighty. - Malachi 3:10-12
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