The Sixth Word

Deuteronomy 5:17
The Sixth Word - Guarding Life"
The Sixth Word, Part One
Sermon Notes for November 7, 2010 by Pastor Dennis Tuuri

Deuteronomy 5:17 (ESV) You shall not murder.

I. The Sixth Word - Where We Are Going

        Dt. 19:1-22:8; Lev. 19:17,18; Daniel 6; (See also Ex. 21:12-36)

II. The Sixth Word - Its Significance as a Header for the Second Tablet

        Celebrating Life, Honoring Life, Guarding Life

III. The Sixth Word - Murder, Manslaughter and More

        Dt. 17:2-7; 19:12; 20,21; Numbers 35; 1 John 3:15; Mt. 5:21-26

IV. The Sixth Word - Capital Punishment and Theism and Failed Humanism

        Num. 35:31; Ps. 51:4; Ecc. 10:8

V. The Sixth Word - Its Positive Obligations

        Lev. 19:18; John Calvin, WLC 135, 136 (Attached)

VI. The Sixth Commandment and the Genesis Account

        Father-Son/Brother-Spirit

        Honor-Murder-Adultery; Steal-Perjure-Covet

        Adam-Cain-Sethites (Lamech); Abraham-Jacob-Joseph

VII. The First Murder - Gen. 4:3-8; Prov. 24:7

        The Vilest Murder - Matt. 27:18