The Ninth Commandment: No False Testimony
Exodus 20:16Commandment #9: No False Testimony If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 20:16. We are continuing our study through the ten words this morning, the words that God spoke to Israel and wrote with His own finger. We are in the second table of the law, and over and over we have seen the lesson repeated that our love to neighbor — especially as we have been studying from the fifth commandment to the ninth today — our love to neighbor is closely tied to our love to God. Remember, John can say in 1 John 3 that this is how we know that we have passed into light, that we love our brother. What's he stressing? He is stressing that our obedience to the second table of the law — our love of neighbor — is a reflection, it is an index of the reality…