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The other day, I heard a fellow on the radio discussing
God's laws in relation to our U.S. constitution. |
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You shall have no
other gods before me. |
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You shall not make
for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of
anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the
earth beneath, or that is in the water under the
earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve
them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children
to the third and fourth generations of those who
hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those
who love Me and keep My commandments. |
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You shall not take
the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord
will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in
vain. |
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Remember the Sabbath
day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and
do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath
of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work:
you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your
manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle,
nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in
six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth,
the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the
seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath
day and hallowed it. |
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Honor your father and
your mother, that your days may be long upon the
land which the Lord your God is giving you. |
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You shall not murder. |
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You shall not commit
adultery. |
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You shall not steal. |
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You shall not bear
false witness against your neighbor. |
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You shall not covet
your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your
neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his
maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor
anything that is your neighbor’s. |
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And the ONE
RULE?
It is the Golden Rule from Jesus Christ.
This rule truly encompasses everything in the Ten Commandments
when you think on it. |
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"Therefore, whatever you want
men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the
Prophets." |
| Mathew
7:12 |
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| As you probably know, our constitution and our government was designed after
God's Biblical laws. |
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Our founding fathers wanted America to be and to remain a
Christian nation where everyone could freely worship God to their own conscience
without fear or subjugation. This concept is embedded in our
laws, courts, architecture, national monuments, our money [In God We
Trust] and many other places and ways. |
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This allegiance to God is why He has
given our country it's power to lead the world and in some
instances, save the world.
As we have begun to move away from God's law and put ourselves under our own laws, we weaken. |
| Now here's an interesting point to ponder. |
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If we would choose to live under God's law in the Old Testament,
we have only TEN laws to live by. |
If we choose to live under God's law in the New Testament,
Jesus Christ gives us ONE law for living. |
| Now consider that, as our country has rejected God more and more,
particularly since the 1960's - the need (or
greed!)
for more laws has grown exponentially.
So now, here in the USA,
we are living under (plus or minus a few) 32 MILLION laws! |
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Last updated March
16, 2008 |
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