In fact, in the old King James Version, the Hebrew word is translated “kill” - “Thou shalt not kill” - that’s how I first learned this commandment, but for us in English, we usually think differently about the words “kill” and “murder.”Īnd I’m going to try to explain how we do this: Kill is a broader category, and murder is a narrower one.įor example, in James and the Giant Peach, his parents were killed by a rhinoceros that escaped from the London Zoo. Well, when it comes to the Hebrew word translated “murder” in verse 13 there’s actually not an exact correlation in English. But what does this word “murder” mean? That’s the first thing we need to establish. In the English there are four words: “You shall not murder.” But in the Hebrew it’s just two words, literally, “no murder.”Īnd we get the No. Okay, so when it comes to the plan for this sermon, I mainly just want us to look at the words here. And so I’d like to pray again toward that end.įather, we confess that we need you to teach us! In your mercy, we humble ourselves, and we ask that you would send the Helper and teach us. In this moment, more than ever before, we want to understand the will of God in the sixth commandment. But this morning I would like for us to slow down and think deeply about this. We might also think it’s the easiest commandment - it’s not one we tend to worry about. I think it’s the most popular commandment. He doesn’t know the Ten Commandments, but he does get at least one - can you guess which one that is?Įverybody knows don’t murder. The congressman had co-sponsored a bill to have the Ten Commandments posted in the Hall of the House of Representatives and in the Chamber of the Senate, and when Colbert asked him why he sponsored the bill, he went on to explain how important the Ten Commandments are to America, and he said he feared that if we forget the Ten Commandments, our nation could lose its way - and then Colbert says back to him: “Can you name the Ten Commandments?” Colbert is super witty, and the congressman is completely stumped. Some of y’all know Stephen Colbert, the comedian, used to have this satirical news show called “The Colbert Report.” I used to watch it back in college, and one season he did this segment called “Better Know a District” where he would go around the country and interview different congressmen, and in one interview he was talking with a congressman from the 8th district of Georgia who was a vocal advocate of having the Ten Commandments on display in Congress. The sixth commandment might even be the most popular of all the commandments. Now my guess is that nobody is surprised by this commandment. I want to make sure that everyone just heard the sixth commandment that Marshall read - could you do me a favor and raise your hand if you heard the commandment, “You shall not murder”? It is simply a heinous crime to tell anyone to kill someone else and because we have been conditioned to take it as a. There is nothing you can tell me to discount this fact. Is this not what our system does when a judge tells the police officer to execute so and so. By all means they were probably decent people at one time, and they simply told their soldiers to go and kill so and so civilian, or another countries army. If this were the case I can easily say that all the tyrants, and miscreants this world has come to know are innocent. I don't care how important someone is, I don't believe anyone has the right to tell someone else who is guilty, and who deserves to die. A human life is something to be cherished. There are even more however we just haven't taken the time to look into this matter so if there was a mistake we could simply hide it. In the past century their have been 23 people who were found to be mistakenly executed. Many who were clearly by all means, hands down not guilty, however thanks to this wonderful system which we have they were still put to death. Upon this their have also been many to lose their lives for no reason. In history of the United States an innumerable amount of people have lost their lives to the death penalty.
Well I believe that as a country under God it would be our rightful obligation to take a few ideas to heart so that we may truly show the world how a real country under God presents itself, and how it comes about its daily problems such as homicide, and the death penalty. Although you might ask in a society that no longer bases its rules and regulations on the bible, why does a simple quote like this bear any significance. To the normal person this might just sound like another quote your grandfather would say but to the more enlightened they will notice this to be out from the bible.
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