All right, I want you to turn in your Bibles, even though we're talking about the 10 Commandments,

I'm just going to give you one passage to turn to Luke Chapter 7.

And we are in a series on relationship through God's top 10. So we're talking about that God gave us the

10 commandments but I believe there's a principle behind every commandment and

it's a principle of relationship.

And so this week I want to talk to you about the principle of love.

And we are now on the sixth commandment

and the sixth commandment in Exodus chapter 20 verse 13 you shall not murder.

I want to explain something about this by the way that this is different from you shall not kill.

The Bible doesn't say

thou shalt not kill. The old King James translated it that way, but there's a

difference between murder and killing. And murder means that you take a life

when you don't have the authority to take that life.

But there are times when law enforcement, military, engaged in a war,

the judicial system takes a life.

And that is different than murder.

Even the Bible implemented capital punishment.

So please understand that we are free today in America because men and women

fought for our freedom and they were not violating the Sixth Commandment

when they were fighting for our freedom because they weren't murdering okay

So I'm calling this the principle of love I and the reason I'm calling it the principle of love

is because love is the opposite of murder because the Bible links murder to hate.

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