Exodus 20:13 CSB – Do not murder.
What is the Heart of the Sixth Commandment?
The heart of the Sixth Commandment: Human Life is Sacred. Honor human life because we are made in God’s image!
Matthew 10:39 CSB – Anyone who finds his life will lose it, and anyone who loses his life because of me will find it.
Genesis 1:27-28 CSB – So God created man
in his own image;
he created him in the image of God;
he created them male and female.
28 God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”
The Sixth Commandment Prohibits Homicide
John 8:44. Jesus says Murder is Satanic
You are of your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
What about eating Meat?
Doesn’t the Bible say, “Thou shalt not Kill”?
What about Capital Punishment?
What about Killing in War?
Should Christians serve in situations where they might take life?
The Sixth Commandment Applied Through the Centuries
- The Sixth Commandment & the Value of Children
Matthew 19:14 CSB – Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
- The Sixth Commandment & the Colosseum
- The Sixth Commandment & the Value of Women
- The Sixth Commandment & Slavery
Philemon 1:10-12, 15b-16 CSB – I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, who became my son while I was in chains. 11 Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.
12 I am sending him—who is my very heart—back to you.
…that you might have him back forever— 16 no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a fellow man and as a brother in the Lord.
Proverbs 8:36 CSB – all who hate me love death.
John 10:10 CSB – Jesus said, [Satan] comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.
Practical Applications Today
1. You Carry God’s Sacred Image—Respect Your Life as Sacred
Psalm 139:13-14 CSB – For it was you who created my inward parts;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise you
because I have been remarkably and wondrously made
Psalm 139:1-6 CSB –
Lord, you have searched me and known me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I stand up;
you understand my thoughts from far away.
3 You observe my travels and my rest;
you are aware of all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue,
you know all about it, Lord.
5 You have encircled me;
you have placed your hand on me.
6 This wondrous knowledge is beyond me.
It is lofty; I am unable to reach it.
1 John 3:1 CSB – See what great love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children—and we are!
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2. Unborn Life Carry’s God’s Sacred Image—Protect Unborn Life
Jeremiah 1:5 CSB – I chose you before I formed you in the womb; I set you apart before you were born. I appointed you a prophet to the nations.
Luke 1:31 CSB – Now listen: You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.
Matthew 1:20 CSB – don’t be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
“Human embryos are not some other type of animal organism like a dog or a cat. Neither are they part of an organism like a heart, a kidney, or a skin cell. Nor again are they a disorganized aggregate, a mere clump of cells awaiting some magical transformation. Rather, a human embryo is a whole living member of the species, Homo sapiens, in the early stage of his or her natural development. Unless severely damaged, or denied, or deprived of a suitable environment, a human being in the embryonic stage will, by directing its own integral, organic functioning, develop himself or herself to the next more mature development stage, i.e., the fetal stage.
The embryonic, fetal child in adolescent stages are stages in the development of a determinate and enduring entity, a human being, who comes into existence as a single-celled organism, called a zygote, and develops, if all goes well, into adulthood many years later.
But does this mean that the human embryo is a human person of full, moral respect? Must the early embryo never be used as a mere means for the benefit of others simply because it is a human being?” – Robert P. George, Princeton/Harvard professor, former member of US Commission on Civil Rights
3. Honor Everyone As Made In God’s Image—Repent of Anger & Hatred
Matthew 5:21-22 CSB – “You have heard that it was said to our ancestors, Do not murder, and whoever murders will be subject to judgment. 22 But I tell you, everyone who is angry with his brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Whoever insults his brother or sister, will be subject to the court. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be subject to hellfire.
