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Do you ever wish life came with an owner's manual? A guide to follow when you're facing difficult decisions or just trying to live with integrity

in the small, everyday moments?

Today on Gospel in Life, Tim Keller shows us how the Ten Commandments help us align our lives

with God's will, not by restricting us with outdated rules, but by laying the foundation

from which we can live a life of true freedom and flourishing.

Genesis chapter 9, verses 1 through 7. Then God blessed Noah and his son saying to them, Be fruitful and increase in number and

fill the earth.

The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds

of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the

sea, they are given into your hands.

Everything that lives and moves will be food for you.

Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

And for your lifeblood, I will surely demand an accounting.

I will demand an accounting from every animal.

And from each man too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man.

Whoever sheds the blood of man by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God has God made man. As for you, be fruitful and increase in number,

multiply on the earth, and increase upon it. This is the word of the Lord. We are doing a series

on the Ten Commandments. This week and next week, we're looking at the Sixth

Commandment. We've said all along that the Ten Commandments are not just merely a bunch of rules,

but they're like the framework, the infrastructure of a great skyscraper on which the skyscraper is built.

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