I would like to mention the Ten Commandments in this post.
God said this to Moses at Mount Sinai. Exodus 19: 6b "These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites."
Commandment 1
Exodus 20:1-3 "And God spoke all these words: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me."
Commandment 2
Exodus 20:4-6 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of their fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments."
Commandment 3
Exodus 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."
Commandment 4
Exodus 20:8-11 "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping 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, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For the six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy."
Commandment 5
Exodus 20:12 "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you."
Commandment 6
Exodus 20:13 "You shall not murder."
Commandment 7
Exodus 20:14 "You shall not commit adultery."
Commandment 8
Exodus 20:15 "You shall not steal."
Commandment 9
Exodus 20:16 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor."
Commandment 10
Exodus 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.
--Jesus says in the New Testament that all of these commandments can be summed up into the 1st and 2nd commandment.--
Now, I am going to list how I have broken all of these commandments.
1. I prefer to be satisfied in music than with God.
2. I worship my accomplishments instead of God.
3. Before I was a christian, I always said the words "oh my God!" (It's quite a popular phrase) or Jesus Christ, you are dumb!
4. I always work on the Sabbath day.
5. I still get upset and mad at my parents even though I love them very much.
6. Matthew 5:21 "You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not muder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgement.' But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgement." I always seem to find myself angry with the people around me.
7. Matthew 5:27 "You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Although Jesus was talking to men here, it can be applied to woman. This is very wrong indeed, but I find myself "checking out" men a lot.
8. If I don't know an answer to a test, I always look to the person beside me. I steal their answers.
9. I lie about my accomplishments to make myself sound better.
10. This one is hard to understand. But it means, do not desire something that clearly belongs to someone else. So, I wish that I was the best horn player at Eastman.
Looking at my confession of sins, I have realized that I am not even close to being perfect. None of us are. In fact, reading these things, I look like a selfish person. This is why we need our Savior, Jesus Christ. Romans 6:17 "But Thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. You have been set free from sin and have became slaves of righteousness." ....Romans 6:22 "But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
God also says this: "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood- to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished- he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus." Romans 3:23-26
As long as we trust in Jesus as our Savior, our sins before and afterward will not be accounted for. Now that's incredible.
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