Sermon - Lent Midweek 4, 2025 - 7th & 8th Commandments
Seventh Commandment: You Shall not Rob or Steal , Lucas Cranach, 1528 What is The Seventh Commandment? You shall not steal. What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not take our neighbor’s money or possessions, or get them in any dishonest way, but help him to improve and protect his possessions and income. “ The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in due season. You open Your hand; You satisfy the desire of every living thing. ” All good things come down from our Heavenly Father to us His beloved children. While we may presumptuously behave as if all that we have is a result of our hard labors, this is simply false. All things belong to the Lord, and He has given them to us freely as a gift. Regardless of how much you may think you deserve what you have, it’s a gift, not a reward. So the Lord sends rain upon the just and the unjust alike. Thus, since all that we have is a gift from the Lord and rightly belongs to Him, as James teaches us: “...