AntiChrist RZ 12/02 - Tomorrow's World

The Ten Commandments
share in that rule. So God said, “let them have dominion.…” Human
beings need experience in order to develop the character God purposes
for us. Experience requires time. And a human life consists of
just so much time. God gave that life for the supreme purpose of
preparing another son to be in His kingdom and family forever. The
giving of life and breath and ability includes all mankind. It is the
most wonderful gift of which physical mankind has knowledge. The
taking of life ends all. It cruelly and unexpectedly crushes all the
hopes and dreams and plans of a being made in the very image of
the Creator Himself. It is a wicked usurpation of a prerogative
belonging to God alone who gives life in the first place—and who
alone has the authority to take it away (Job 1:21). That is why any
form of murder is one of the ten great sins; it is destroying the highest
creation of Almighty God! In effect, it is an attempt to thwart the
very purpose of the great sovereign Ruler of the universe! The Giver
of all life is God. And puny, mortal human beings have no business
whatsoever interfering with God’s greatest gift!
Personal Application of the Commandment
Jesus Christ came into this world to “exalt” God’s law and
“make it honorable” (Isaiah 42:21). Jesus cast a spotlight, as it
were, on the Ten Commandments, and showed their real spiritual
intent and meaning in the full Christian life. Jesus said: “You have
heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and
whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’ But I say to
you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be
in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother ‘Raca!’
shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says ‘You fool!’ shall
be in danger of hell fire” (Matthew 5:21–22). Here murder is traced
to its source—hate and anger. Christ declared that if personal anger
fills the heart of one of His subjects, such a person is in danger of
judgment. If that anger leads a man to have utter derision and contempt
for a fellow human being, that man shall be “in danger of
the council”—of God’s punishment. If in bitterness and scorn one
shall say of his fellow, “You fool,” such a one shall be “in danger of
hell fire.” This is Jesus Christ’s application of the sixth command-
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