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January 2nd 2018 – Exodus 20:15

“You shall not steal. Exodus 20:15 The Scriptures recognise a man’s right to own private property, and are prepared to safeguard that right zealously. No man, says the commandment, has the right to appropriate unlawfully another’s property, whether that property

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January 1st 2018 – Exodus 20:14

“You shall not commit adultery. Exodus 20:14 The seventh commandment is designed to preserve and maintain the sanctity of marriage and family life. It is because in marriage a man and a woman are made ‘one flesh’ that adultery is

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December 31st 2017 – Exodus 20:13

“You shall not murder. Exodus 20:13 The sixth commandment is rendered in the RV ‘Thou shalt do no murder’. A useful distinction is thus indicated between killing and murder. The point that is being made is that of the sanctity

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December 30th 2017 – Exodus 20:12

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. Exodus 20:12 It is one of the problems in young Christians’ lives that they sometimes find so

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December 29th 2017 – Exodus 20:12

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. Exodus 20:12 We come now to the second table of the Law, and to man’s duty to

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December 28th 2017 – Exodus 20:8-11

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or

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December 27th 2017 – Exodus 20:8-11

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or

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December 26th 2017 – Exodus 20:7

“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. Exodus 20:7 The prohibition in the third commandment is against a wrongful use

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December 25th 2017 – Exodus 20:4-6

“You shall not make for yourself a 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

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December 24th 2017 – Exodus 20:4-6

“You shall not make for yourself a 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

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