Examine Yourself – The Seventh Commandment

Examine Yourself

Exodus 20:14

“You shall not commit adultery.”

If we do nothing to roll back the floodtide of sexual adventurism and repair the hedge of the seventh commandment, we will never be able to realize the full beauty of this great gift as God intended it.

Ask the Lord to convict you of any ways you have violated or are compromising this part of His Law. Seek grace for renewal in heart, mind, and conscience, and commit yourself to doing whatever you can to rebuild this hedge.

All the world is crazy for sex. It has become for so many people just a game, a “harmless diversion,” even a right. But God warns us that misuse of the gift of sex is a deadly corrosive to self-image, relationships, and social order. Let every believer resolve not to contribute to this destructive tendency. Instead, let us pray that God will use us wherever possible to restore the sanctity and beauty of the gift of sex.

Search your soul before the Lord. Are you harboring sexual sin of any kind?

Daily meditation in the Law of God helps us along the path of holiness, righteousness, and goodness (Rom. 7:12). Order your copy of The Law of God, a compilation of the Mosaic Law for contemporary believers, by going to www.MyParuchia.com, point your browser to “Publications,” then click on the drop-down option, “Waxed Tablet Publications.”

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T.M. Moore.

T.M. Moore is editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001, 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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