Ten Commandments (1972)_b.pdf - Herbert W. Armstrong

The Sixth Commandment 89
too many cases, these wrong emotions lead to the literal
MURDER of a fellow human being.
Mass Murder.in the Christian Home?
Concerning these wrong emotions of lust and hate and
covetousness, God warns us: "Love not the world, neither
the things that are in the world. If any man love the
world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is
in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes,
and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the
world" (I John 2:15-16).
Certainly there is no more dramatic example of the
drinking in and cultivation of LUST, and VIOLENCE than
that of a professing Christian sitting and absorbing ­
hour after hour - a literal DELUGE of fornications, adulteries,
beatings and murders from his television screen or
that of the nearby motion picture theater!
Jesus said: "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to
LUST after her hath committed adultery with her already
in his heart" (Matt. 5:28).
So it is with hate and violence and murder! If you'll
"look on" this sort of thing night after night and entertain
these thoughts in your mind and heart, you are bound to
be GUILTY, in spirit at least, of the very actions with which
you are saturating your heart and mind!
It is time to WAKE UP!
It is time that professing Christian people and nations
learned to quit saturating their minds and hearts with
filth, violence and murder!
The Breaking Down of Spiritual Principles
To a far greater extent than most of us realize, our
modern society is literally based on a system of competition,
greed and selfishness. In other words - in plain
language - it is based on the spirit of MURDER!
You have never thought of it that way before, have
you?
Well, it is a fact, and it is time you came out of this
modern "Babylon" (Rev. 18:4) before Almighty God
intervenes to PUNISH!