Justice and the Seventh Commandment – A Kingdom Catechism

Justice and the Seventh Commandment

A Kingdom Catechism

God’s people must take seriously their duty in this matter.

Q 106: How do the redeemed of the Lord enforce God’s justice against all adultery?

A 106: The redeemed of the Lord enforce God’s justice against adultery by practicing modesty and chastity, reserving sexual relations for marriage, disciplining all sexual offenses, and regulating divorce according to the teaching of God’s Word. (Lev. 18:6-18; Heb.13:4; 1 Cor. 5; Matt. 19:1-9; 1 Cor. 7:12-15)

We see the consequences in our own day of a lax attitude toward sexual sin: broken homes, abused spouses and children, the aborting of millions of unwanted children, a high divorce rate, a blight of pornography, sexually transmitted disease. Pop culture is not to blame for our nation’s addiction to sex. It has only loosed and abetted the hearts of people who long ago preferred to leave behind the moral teachings of the Law of God. There may be no putting these ills back into the Pandora’s box from which they emerged; nevertheless, the people of God, who know and love their Lord and their neighbors, must take seriously their duty to exercise discipline in this area of human life.

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