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Psa 78:25-39

Prov 16:16-17:16

Luke 5:1-11

Gal 4:1-20

Deu.5:1, “Moses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, O Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them.”

Dear brothers and sisters,

Loving greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Today let us see about the importance of learning and following the commandments of God. We can divide the Ten Commandments into two groups four of them are related to God. How we can honor God in our lives. The remaining six are related to man how we can honor the life given by God to us. These are very important for us and for our children so we must follow them in our lives to get the blessings of God for our entire family as in Deu 6:6 & 7; “These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Vs.7, “Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”

In the first group we see four and they are: [they are related to God
1. Do not worship any other gods – [Exo 20:3, "You shall have no other gods before me. Deu 5:7, “You shall have no other gods before me.]
2. Do not make any Idols. – [Lev 19:4, “'Do not turn to idols or make gods of cast metal for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.]
3. Do not misuse the name of the lord. – [Exo 20:7, "You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.]
4. Keep the Sabbath Day holy – [Exo 20:8 to 10; "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Vs.9, Six days you shall labor and do all your work, vs.10, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.

In the second group [they are related to our life]
1. Honor your father and mother – [Exo 20:12, “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. Also in Mark 7:10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.']
2. Do not murder – [Exo 20:13, “You shall not murder.]
3. Do not commit adultery – [Deu 5:18, “You shall not commit adultery.]
4. Do not steal – [Deu 5:19, “You shall not steal.]
5. Do not lie – [Deu 5:20, “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.]
6. Do not covert – [Deu 5:21, “You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor's house or land, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."]

Our lord Jesus Christ summarized the ten in the New Testament in two commandments as in Mat 22:37 to 40; “Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' Vs.38, This is the first and greatest commandment. Vs.39, And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' Vs.40, All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

May the Lord help each one of us to learn and follow his commandment in this month in our own lives. Amen.

Your Web-Site Pastor,
Rev. Dr. T. Marcus Devasahayam

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Prov 17:13 If a man pays back evil for good, evil will never leave his house.

Psa 78:39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

1. Exo 18:11, “Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for he did this to those who had treated Israel arrogantly." Exo 23:13 "Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips. Deu 6:14 Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you;
2. Exo 34:17, "Do not make cast idols. Lev 26:1 "'Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God.
3. Deu 5:11, "You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
4. Exo 16:26, Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any." Exo 16:29 Bear in mind that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where he is on the seventh day; no one is to go out." Exo 16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
5. Exo 20:12 "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. Eph 6:1 to 3; ‘Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Vs.2, "Honor your father and mother"--which is the first commandment with a promise vs.3, "that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth."
6. Exo 20:13 "You shall not murder.
7. Exo 20:14 "You shall not commit adultery.
8. Exo 20:15 "You shall not steal.
9. Exo 20:16 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
10. Exo 20:17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."

Belgium

1 The slow, but steady growth of the small evangelical witness
2 Flemish areas have long had far fewer Evangelicals than the French-speaking south, but in the last 10 years have had the greater growth
3 A growing mutual respect between historical Protestants and evangelical networks
Challenges for Prayer
1 Belgium is a deeply divided nation
2 The Protestant Church is only now recovering from the destruction of its 600 congregations by the Spanish Inquisition
3 The population is culturally Catholic but rapidly secularizing
4 The nation was shocked in the 1990s by the exposure of murderous paedophile rings, some with Satanist practices
5 Protestantism has hardly grown over the past 30 years
a) The division between the EPUB and evangelical networks was heightened by the former’s efforts to claim to speak at government level for all Protestants
b) The strengthening of fellowship and ministry links between denominations
6 The lack of Belgian, and especially Flemish, Christian workers and pastors is crippling
7 Vision for growth
a) Of Flanders’ 308 administrative districts, 116 had no evangelical witness
b) Of Wallonia’s 281 administrative districts, 168 had no evangelical witness
8 Goals for achievement by the year 2015
a) Increase Francophone churches
b) Increase Flemish churches
c) In 2000, the Flemish Pentecostal churches (VVP) launched the vision of planting 120 churches
d) BEM’s ongoing vision for distributing gospel packets with a personal explanation
9 Specific outreach challenges:
a) Belgium, as a nation, is spiritually one of the neediest countries in Europe
b) The provinces with the greatest need — Flemish Brabant and East Flanders, also the Francophone Liège, Namur and Luxembourg
c) Brussels is a strategic city
d) Antwerp has only 40 or so evangelical congregations
e) North Africans (predominantly Moroccan) have increased through legal and illegal immigration
f) Turks and Kurds have proved hard to reach
g) The German-speaking cantons on the eastern border were neglected by Evangelicals until recently
h) The student population of 135,000 in 17 universities and colleges
10 Christian media ministries
a) Christian literature
b) Christian bookstores
c) Christian radio and TV