Teach Them – While You Can – The Seventh Commandment

Teach Them – While You Can

Exodus 20:14

“You shall not commit adultery.”

I’m all for sex ed.

As long, of course, as the curriculum is grounded in the seventh commandment.  In the divine economy it is expected that parents will teach their children about sex, using this commandment, as well as the related civil laws, to help them understand where the path of righteousness can be found for this area of life.  If we don’t teach our young people the loving use of the gift of sex, they’ll learn from the surrounding culture attitudes and practices that dishonor God and disrespect our neighbors.

Churches and parents shy away from frank and firm discussion of human sexuality at their peril.  Better to teach our children the truth while we can, before the culture so corrupts their minds that we appear to them to be unrealistic in our demands and out of touch with life.

How do you in your family combat the onslaught of sexual innuendo and imagery coming from the surrounding culture?  How does your church help you?

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.

Editor’s note: The use of a translation other than the Authorised Version in an article does not constitute an endorsement in whole or in part by The Christian Observer.