From the hours this morning we are reminded of the commandments, they are also a part of the confession are they not? When we examine ourselves do we not examine ourselves against the word of God? Examine yourself against the laws of God, be honest and ask forgiveness; be sincere from the heart and you will be forgiven. Confess, repent, worship. Remember the Eucharist and do not take it lightly.
1 And the Lord spoke all these words: 2 I
am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage. 3 You shall not have strange gods before me. 4 You
shall not make to yourself a graven thing, nor the likeness of anything that is
in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the
waters under the earth. 5 You shall not adore them, nor serve them:
I am the Lord your God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: 6 and
showing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments. 7 You
shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain: for the Lord will not
hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain. 8 Remember
that you keep holy the Sabbath day. 9 Six days shall you labour,
and shall do all your works. 10 But on the seventh day is the Sabbath
of the Lord your God: you shall do no work on it, you nor your son, nor your
daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your beast, nor the
stranger that is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord
made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested
on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified
it. 12 Honour your father and your mother, that you may be
longlived upon the land which the Lord your God will give you. 13 You
shall not kill. 14 You shall not commit adultery. 15 You
shall not steal. 16 You shall not bear false witness against your
neighbour. 17 You shall not covet your neighbor’s house: neither shall
you desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his
ass, nor any thing that is his.
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Many Blessings!
In Christ,
+William
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