You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother. Mark 10:19
You know those commandments, or do you? Adultery, murder, steal, false witness, defraud...wait, do not defraud? Where is that in the big ten? Yes, the reasoning of the flesh would have us argue with the Master. I'm sure that in those call centers, you know the ones, there are those who would say that what they are doing is not stealing since the 'customer' gave the money to them. Jesus shows us by this that combinations of the commandments can trip us up as well. Bearing false witness - your PC is infected with the doomsday virus! - and then accepting money for fixing their machine so that it can be, oh, unfixed again to get more money, will not slip through a net of the ten commandments when the judgment comes. But, so easily do we see the carnal excuses in others while what, forgetting that beam in our own eye?
Rejoice in the Lord, and let Him split those beams for us,
Bucky
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