Matthew 5:21-26
“You have heard that the ancients were told,
‘YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT MURDER’ and
‘Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court.’
But I say to you
that everyone who is angry with his brother
shall be guilty before the court;
and whoever says to his brother,
‘You good-for-nothing,’
shall be guilty before the supreme court;
and whoever says,
‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.
Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar,
and there remember that your brother has something against you,
leave your offering there before the altar and go;
first be reconciled to your brother,
and then come and present your offering.
Make friends quickly with your opponent at law
while you are with him on the way,
so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge,
the judge to the officer,
and you be thrown into prison.
Truly I say to you, you will not come out of there
until you have paid up the last cent.”
“YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT MURDER”
Murder =
The act of unlawfully killing a human being with
premeditated malice, by a person of sound mind.
To constitute murder in law;
the person killing another must be of sound mind
or in possession of his reason,
and the act must be done with malice prepense
(deliberate, intention) aforethought or premeditated;
but malice may be implied, as well as express.
Murder would be a purposeful action taken
But Jesus takes us from a purposeful action
To emotions, feelings, words, slandering and name calling.
“whoever says, ‘You fool,’
shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.”
Jesus said
“If you love Me you will keep My commandments.”
Have you or are you holding something against someone?
i find it interesting what Jesus says next.
“if you are presenting your offering at the altar,
and there remember that your brother has something against you,
leave your offering there before the altar and go;
first be reconciled to your brother,
and then come and present your offering.
Make friends quickly with your opponent at law
while you are with him on the way,
so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge,
and the judge to the officer,
and you be thrown into prison.
Truly I say to you,
you will not come out of there until you have paid up the last cent.”
A couple thing here:
Make sure through life you make things right with others,
If you want to make sure you have things right with GOD.
If you have done wrong to someone and they are taking you to court,
make things right with them before you get to that point.
Just as with us and Christ Jesus,
If you have things in your life that are not right,
Make tings right before His return,
And you stand before Him and Father God on judgment day.
Luke 12:57-59
“Why do you not even on your own initiative judge what is right?
For while you are going with your opponent to appear before the magistrate,
on your way there make an effort to settle with him,
so that he may not drag you before the judge,
and the judge turn you over to the officer,
and the officer throw you into prison.
I say to you, you will not get out of there until you have paid the very last cent.”
If you could pay the debt for your sins,
then why did Jesus hang on the cross?
If you cant pay your debt,
then how would you ever bet out of prison?
Out of hell?
Think about it.
Be at peace with one another in the LORD.
Love one another in the LORD.
Repent of your sins, confess them to the LORD
And be forgiven.
How dark is the light within you?
Dark enough you cant forgive?
Dark enough your pride wont allow you to ask to be forgiven?
Lamentations 2:40
"Let us examine and probe our ways.
And let us return to the LORD."
My prayer for you'
That you will test yourself to see if you are in the faith:
examine yourself!
That you would recognize this about yourselves,
that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed you fail the test?
Now i pray to God that you do no wrong;
not that i my self may appear approver,
but that you may do what is right.
Daily we each need to examine ourselves to make sure
we are obeying the commandments of our LORD,
and when we find ourselves straying from His
commandments need to return to Him and repent,
asking for forgiveness and turning from our sins.
Amen and Amen