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by Brian Watts on May 12, 2019
In an attempt to bring to a conclusion a 40-week study on the Ten Commandments, we find ourselves looking at some significant theological truths that help us view all we have learnt within a proper biblical perspective.
by Brian Watts on May 5, 2019
We have come to the end of our study on the Ten Commandments. Forty messages in which God by grace has given us His will. His revealed will for mankind laid down in Ten Words on tablets of stone. Grace upon grace, mercy upon mercy, as God withholds from us what we deserve and grants us in abundance what we do not deserve. How good and how kind our God has been!
by Brian Watts on April 28, 2019
Covetousness is at the heart of the violation of every single one of the commandments including the tenth one. Covetousness is the illicit desire of wanting things we may not have, especially when it belongs to others, and will often entice us into other sins simply to get what we are wanting.
by Brian Watts on April 14, 2019
Every add on every form of media (whether it be TV, radio, twitter, Facebook, the billboards, or the internet), is intended to entice you to break the Tenth Commandment. The appeal to your senses, the false sense of success it creates, the desire after what we cannot have or may not have, the false perception of glitz and glamour, all this is designed to lure you into the subtleness and pervasiveness of the sin of coveting.
by Brian Watts on April 7, 2019
How interesting is the contrast from the First Commandment to the last of the Commandments! Think of it – the commandments start with a call to be careful about the way we worship God, by not incorporating any forms of false worship, and it ends with an admonition not to admire the Red Ferrari in your neighbours’ driveway too much.
by Brian Watts on March 31, 2019
We continue our study of the Ninth Commandment. A command like all the others that has far-reaching consequences. A deep and pervasive call to check the tongue and to guard our mouths. A reminder that all evil of hell is contained in the ability of the tongue.
by Brian Watts on March 17, 2019
The Apostle Paul presents a helpful summary of the aspects that could be considered as bad talk in 2 Corinthians 12:20. I want to use that list as the basis from which we will attempt this exposition. Hear him state these clearly: “For I fear that perhaps when I come that perhaps there may be quarrelling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.”
by Brian Watts on March 10, 2019
In the fifth century Augustine of Hippo wisely commented that no physician can heal the wounds of the tongue. The tongue inflicts greater wounds than the sword. Cruel words can kill. The scorpion carries his poison in his tail, the slanderer carries his poison in his tongue.
by Brian Watts on March 3, 2019
As we come today for the fourth time to the Eighth Commandment, we continue looking at the matter of Stealing from God, a matter on which the Word of God speaks forthrightly and clear.
by Brian Watts on February 24, 2019
Now we’ve looked at various aspects and ways in which the Eighth Commandment can be violated. A man may not perhaps be guilty of violating the eighth commandment in terms of its presupposition regarding private property. Perhaps it may even be true that a man has not violated the Eighth Commandment in any obvious manner, yet such a man may be guilty of robbing God and in so doing of violation of the eighth commandment.