Thou Shalt Not Kill - Part 2

Wanted? Divorce? And what did I have to tell this man? You go to the Lord Jesus, let him give you a new heart, you repent, and the Lord Jesus Christ will take care of the rest. Mark you dear friends, when we see people who are not prepared to apply God's truth to their lives, what are they? They are cowards, they are escapists, they are people who are just trying to cover up, that's it. But what did this man do? He went, poured out his heart, confessed his sins to the living God, and then he went and asked his wife's pardon.

I told him, you need to ask your wife's pardon. You have been so abusive, so cruel, and the poor woman was in terror of losing her life, now you better ask her pardon. It's not enough to ask God's pardon.

This he did, but you know earlier he had told me, when I told him, you must go put things right with your wife, and you must bring her along. He said, impossible, she will not come. My dear friends, the outcome of this was, the next time I was around in those areas, here was this man together with his wife.

Isn't that a lovely sight? What would you say it is worth? Would you price it at a billion, whatever currency you may use, or ten billion? Let me tell you this. To me, it is one of the best gifts that I can ever have. One little family rebuilt, and one life or two lives restored.

Tears wiped away. Boy, that is wealth to me. Sometimes people ask, oh, but you never ask for money.

Do you want me to ask for money? I'm not a rich man, yet am I to see these priceless souls, people, transformed by the Lord Jesus, or am I going to shoot for their wallets? What a fool I would be, if I did the latter. Don't you think so? Oh, certainly you should think so. But listen, my dear friends, thou shalt not kill.

Now, when God said to Cain, this you find in the fourth chapter of Genesis, right at the heart, or rather, right at the outset as it is, and the Lord, ninth verse, and the Lord said unto Cain, where is Abel, your brother? And he said, I know not. Just imagine bluffing it off before God. You think you can deceive God? Well, you know, people have learned how to deceive the police.

People, criminals, have told me how the police could not get any confession out of them, in spite of third degree tortures. A terrorist engaged in running arms said to me, you know, I got wounded as a result of one of those skirmishes or whatever, but I was running arms for the Irish Revolutionary Army, Republican Army, who were bent upon bombing markets and killing civilians. You know, moving the battle from the battlefield to the street, to the marketplace.

Now, we ought to give them a special token, I suppose. Some of these people consider themselves to be such martyrs or murderers, rather, that they will drive a vehicle full of explosives into an innocent crowd. What do you call that? Religion? And you cry and say, my God is compassionate, therefore I'm doing this.

My dear friends, and this is exactly what is happening all around us. And what does God say when a young man killed his brother, Abel, in the field? And the Lord said to Cain, where is Abel, your brother? And he said, I know not. Am I my brother's keeper? And he said, what has thou done? The voice of your brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

In other words, we want a religion, and we feel we want a kind of God who will be hand in glove with us, even in murder, and say, boy, you have done splendidly. So how many did you kill today? 100? 2,000? How many? 3,000? Oh, there's a reward for you. Now, my dear friends, to call that kind of thing God or religion is complete mental, moral derangement.

And people are afraid to say this. Why? So white has become black, and black has become white, even to our parliaments, so that there is not enough restraint applied to this situation. How sad.

And think of parents who feel highly elated and honored by sons who have gone thus with explosives round their waist and embraced the innocent to their mutual death. Oh, my dear friends, we really ought to weep and cry to the living God. God set our world right side up.

You have loved it, and what a lot of people in the world today know, that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus, that whosoever, look at that wonderful whosoever, believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life. So here we see this young man Abel murdered, and his brother disclaiming.