2 I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you forth from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

   We are slaves to materialistic experiences that feed our pleasures. Our personal land of Egypt is the pursuit of self indulgences we allow to dominate the direction of each day. We are told, "Follow your dream! You can accomplish anything you desire. Do not let anyone or anything tell you you cannot do anything you want to do." This gives to us motivations, incentives, impulses, encouragements, and stimulations which support the giving up of our lives in service to the industrial/technological system of commerce. It is profitable for our economic system to promote the casting aside of moralistic and wholesome values to replace them with situational ethics to enjoy the experiences of pleasures. When God is left out of our intent to accomplish our wishes, we are left with the animistic nature of confusion called variety.

   A surety we generally ignore is: God holds Himself to a promise: we should do only what we want to do, while His desire is that we should want to do His will. Jesus Christ exercised the fullness of God's will in our stead so that we can, through His authority, have the power to rely in the securities and freedoms of reality.

3 Thou shalt not have any other gods besides me.

   A god is anyone or anything we give our attentions to in order to reject anyone or anything that opposes our focus. We choose our gods, our delectable favors of influence, as a positive sort because we need our resentment against the evil of anything we view as offensive. This gives to us the energies to bolster our belief in the gods we desire. Most of us have so many gods in our attractions and fascinations with the various offerings around us, to counteract our attempts to reject fear, disappointment, and loathing, that we become a god of mastery over all we follow and deny. We become fools for what we allow, by transferring God's rightful Authority and protections over us, into anything and everything but Him. The god of our gods, most often, is our love of money.

   Giving all that we are over to God, by trusting Him to lead us in all that we do, allows us to see our attachments in a new way. We thank Him for the conveniences and joys available to us while seeing the idolatry of what we had previously accepted as our right of living as no longer an option within us. Active obedience to our invitation to share in God’s creativity changes fear of the unknown into the awe of discovery, disappointment into hopeful expectation, and loathing into compassion, respect, and loyalty.

4 Thou shalt not make for yourself an image or any form of likeness that is in the heavens above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

   This is the "lost" commandment. It is thought to be a part of the next commandment concerning bowing ourselves down to worship idols. However, this commandment specifically speaks of anything of interest enough to us where we spend our efforts, resources, and time in the making of, the manufacturing of, representations and examples. Vicariously experiencing the fruits of our labors, owning for ourselves the sense of control over the moment, brings us to believe the works of our hands make us who we are. And, they do make us who we are. We become owned by the things and activities that we consume and thereby are consumed.

   Jesus Christ accepts us as we are. Then, He rejects whatever is in us that does not conform to His purity and holiness. This can be entirely at once, but usually takes a lifetime of striving and faithfulness to achieve. Our thankfulness for the transformation into His righteous glory includes our appreciation for no longer being bound to the influences which brought us into self service at His expense. When we conform ourselves to anything of His death on the Cross, we die away from the life He obtained for us. When we tell ourselves God allows this or that expression of our humanity, because Jesus Christ gives us the freedom to relish in our pleasures, we are accepting the deceptions of the denial of creation. God's wrath against any infidelity of confusion is brought forth in the letter of the Law to remove from existence our evils. There is no compromise. There is only our unwarranted and undeserved place of reconciliation to God as the gift of life through the fullness of Christ's resurrection. It is His choices to which we humbly respond. Any reaching out of our own accord, to save ourselves through Him, exploits the very nature of the Work He has accomplished for us.

   However, lest it is feared the freedom of the Good News, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, becomes a tortured bondage of torment to us amid our treasured possessions... for God's sake, and the glory of His Victory, we have the unique opportunity to enjoy to the fullness the items and activities of our choosing. But, our choosing of items and activities does take on a particular weeding out of things that are an affront to decency and sense according to God's design instead of our own. The pride of self satisfaction over our accomplishments, understood in faith, becomes a thankful appreciation of our blessings.

   The call of God on our responsibility is not to eliminate our frivolous possessions of images and items, it is to see our devices for what they are in order to put them to the why of proper use. Realism is not reality except for the offense to sensibilities of trust and faith. It is not the physical content of an involvement with images and items that brings evil into the heart. The diversion from attentions to responsible dignity of purpose becomes frustrated by the influence of distraction. Of course, what cannot be put to proper use are the things that must be discarded. Proper use does not exclude simple appreciation and enjoyment, but it does exclude items and images which, by design, are intended for drawing us away from our respect for what we know is right.

5 Thou shalt not bow thyself down to worship them nor be led to serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous GOD, visiting the iniquity of fathers upon sons, unto three generations and, unto four, of them that reject me;

6 but I show loving kindness and covenant faithfulness unto thousands of generations, of those who love me and keep my commandments.

   Generational sin is the changing of, or mutation of, our physical genes by the idolatries which influence our behavior. The essence of our decisive emotional intent, as affected by the intrusion of demonic pressures and whims, changes the physical aspects of our minds and bodies. As generations have progressed through the ages, the accumulative changes in genetic structure have aligned our tainted patterns of inheritance to more easily be manipulated by forces of darkness. However, Jesus said. "What is the difference whether I say, ‘Be healed' or ‘Your sins are forgiven you.'"?

   No matter who we are, there is a constant destructive presence working to keep our sights away from the life God created for us to have. Demons role-play a person's personality to convince them that the thoughts and emotions they have are self-generated. Gradually, through the events of the moments and through dreams and ironic twists of thought, a demon alters the personality of its host so subtly that the change is not noticed. Combining this with traumas from other people and the disappointments of the struggles of life, and the God-given authority to decide righteously the choices before you has been changed into a fantasy of distorted perception. Using this, a demon will invite more demons to join him. They intermingle themselves with the person, and at the same time are intermingled with the consciousness of other demons, who are all controlled by their presence within Satan's being. It is similar to a mainframe computer with many satellite computers connected through a network. The mainframe has absolute control over the satellite computers, but the satellite computers can function as separate units while being in service to the mainframe.

   Any of the mind-altering substances, poisons, including marijuana, change the thought processes away from the functions God designed for thinking. People seek the drug instead of seeking God. "Recreational drugs infiltrate the mind in such a way as to cause the user to contemplate the fascination with the nature of things. It causes a reactionary fantasy that seems to be real instead of a response to reality. It is toying with the distortions of a poisoning. This brings connections with the diabolical collective consciousness that lead to the breaking down of God's grace for natural living. In some individuals, because each person has a different and specific purpose for their life, a demon of anti-holiness will infiltrate the person as an angel of light - usually as an angel or Christ Himself.

   Anything a person pursues to gratify their senses – to obtain a thrill of experience – is taking the place of God. So, when a demon introduces himself as a part of God in some way via the intoxication, the individual is convinced the self-indulgence came from God.

7 Thou shalt not make use of the name of the LORD thy God for falsehood, for God will not let him go unpunished who uttereth his name in vain.

   Spiritual wickedness in high places is when people fall for the experience, instead of the purpose, time and time again. Results oriented religious pride always opens the door to a demonic counterfeit. It is a worshiping of creation, in the Name of the Creator, instead of the worshiping of the Creator. The worship of the Name as a symbol itself is a religious ritualistic act instead of an actual appreciation of the Holder of the Name. The worship of God's Name is the worship of God's power instead of God Himself. It is self reflective instead of dynamically responsive. In everything, it is not a matter of what you do. It is why you do what you do. The use of God's Name, He has many names in many languages throughout the world, always must center in the reason for using His Name. YHVH is the Holy Name of God, Joshua or YHVHshua is the Holy Name of Christ, Jesus is the Title of Christ and is, respectfully, the Name used by the majority of Christians - not always with reverence. Other languages will have other pronunciations and spellings. When the proper purposes for anything are held in priority, what you do will follow a different pathway.

   Many times God's wrath with people, individuals, and nations, displays His furious anger over what has become of them. It is not a hatred for anyone. He pleads with His children to turn to Him because of His compassion and concern. Eternity is a very long time to have lost the clothes of righteousness to a moment's worldly pleasure. Conversely, the joy of righteous living is different, more glorious and worthwhile. Faith, and the understanding required to be faithful, starts with the meanings of names. Names tell who a soul is and the level of the power of authority bestowed upon that soul. To use a name is to exercise the dynamic essence of the office of the holder of the name. Many of us resent authority, but the chain of command of authorities is the structure of intelligent living. Authorities and titles are directly recognized by and through the name of the position of authority.

   The name of Jesus is His positional title of savior. Part of the purpose of language is to utter specific sounds that have a dynamic value. The distortion of the sounds linked to meaning that make up the symbols of the words of expression is also an avenue of attack, through the centuries, of diabolic intent. However, the Holy Spirit is in Authority of creative power through the Word of Christ, so in Him, any faithful utterance is subject to the Power of the Holy spirit of Truth, to make true what is not, within the physical speaking of any corrupted language.

   The taking of God's name in vain is to proclaim we are His in a hypocritical fashion. The most common reason we have for the taking of God's name in vain is peer pressure. We want to fit in socially, and we want a justified covering for the darkness we hide in our hearts. We role play our attitudes and perspectives depending on the setting and the others around us. This is because we are confused about who we are. Since we are confused about who we are, we are confused about Who God is through Jesus Christ.

   Jesus Christ does not justify our sinfulness by justifying us. We are justified in Him according to our accepted gift of His promise - as our strength of faith from Him allows us the strength of resolve to step aside from the wrongs we have held so dearly and close to our heart. Then, we are no longer living to please others to please ourselves, we are living to please Him.

8 Remember the Sabbath day, to set it apart to hallow it:

   The "great Sabbath debate" seems to never end. Sunday is the seventh day of the week. Sunday may be shown on the traditional graph of the calendar in the position of the first day of the week, but, Monday is the first day of the week.

9 Six days, shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;

10 but, the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD thy God; on it thou shalt do no work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, nor thy sojourner who is within thy gates,

11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart and hallowed it.

   Under the Law of Moses, we are subject to the Sabbath day in obedience to God's discipline. Within the fulfillment of the Law of Moses in Christ, the Sabbath is subject to us in the freedom to regard the day as we see fit. Respect for God's intentions for the Sabbath provides to us a sense for taking rest and recreation one day a week.

   Under the Law of Moses our six day labor is for our sake while the Sabbath is for God's sake. The fruits of our labor are our own with a first portion set aside for God. Within the fulfillment of the Law of Moses in Christ, our six day labor is for God’s sake while the Sabbath is our own. The fruits of our labor are God's with a last portion set aside for ourselves.

12 Honor your father and your mother, that thy days may be prolonged upon the land the LORD your God is giving to you.

   Just as God tends to us, whether we accept His care or not, our parents tended to us so that we might be successful in life - or perhaps they did not. We did not choose to be born unto them, they chose to accept the responsibility to choose us to be born unto them. In honor to our parents, no matter how we feel they have treated us, we are responsible to care for their lives honestly with respect and consideration. To be sure, if they have made mistakes where we are concerned, it does not discharge our duty and witness to them for God's sake.

13 Thou shalt not commit murder.

   Murder is an attempt to find life through the death of one’s own will. Because God gave the commandment to do no murder, the understanding of murder must be from His perspective. A person has to have murdered themselves before he or she can murder someone else. Murder is the taking of another's life - it is the stopping of the means of which a person has to survive. The means a man has to survive is his integrity. A man's integrity is established by the name he has made for himself and the name others have made for him. This is his reputation. Any destruction of a man's reputation, by any means, is the murder of the man. The most important foundation of a man's integrity through his reputation is his marriage with a woman and the children they have together as one unto God. A man's property, his home and belongings are the extension of his position of character before God and to others and must be respected. A man's employment, no matter his station in society, is the means by which he establishes and supports the status of the celebration of the awareness of life given to him by God. Disrespect for the man, his wife, children, work, and property through any attack against his rights to honor, is murder.

   "If everyone always told the truth about themselves there would never be any conflict." The problem: the previous statement is loaded with the terms: "everyone", "always", "never", and "any". Fear produced emotional intensity causes us to resent ourselves in a way that expresses exaggeration of our pains and concerns. Unable to contain the internal stresses and pressures, we strike out at others to unload our miseries. This overloads our victim who spills back into us and others. So, we have produced a scapegoat to accuse, as a confirmation of the weaknesses we then view as not our own. This gives to us a false sense of strength which increases our inner turmoil. We are born into a life that has its natural frustrations and difficulties in its design. Properly, these stresses have an avenue of resolution provided by our Creator.

   The sharing of sexual intimacy between a married man and a woman is designed by God to appreciate the joys of procreation and togetherness. It is murder (and suicide) of a man and a woman to disrespect marriage and the holy bond it represents to relish in the pleasures of intimate union outside the permanent commitment of marriage. The emotionally conflicting results is often why sex is used as a weapon of manipulation.

   In homosexuality, a man is exploiting his own suicide combined with the murder of another man. The sensual pleasures of the fantasy/emotion/physical sensations drive into the heart acts of shared self deprecation - a sense of ironical permanence of death in the soul. Murder is a striking out against the evil in oneself by transferring our inabilities to cope with the pressures of life to others. Others may be responsible for aggravations and powerfully angering situations or others may just be in the way of our own will of confused motivations. Furthermore, others may represent a solution to offset some sort of overdriven obsession which has found its way into our distortions and desires to offset our wrong with a greater wrong. To murder another is an attempt to release a pent-up anguish over our own internal death. Usually, the personal emotional trauma inside was driven into the murderer by the abuse of others directly, or indirectly by the callous or absent minded disregard for our responsibilities under the hand of God. Defense of self and family, or any threatened sanctity of peace and security against an assailant is killing for the sake of protection but it is not murder.

   Consider the play process of many video games: The joy of mystery solving (mazes and puzzles) has as its goal to ultimately kill any creature in the way of progress through the levels of the game. When any target is eliminated the player is paid off with money and points. The more difficult the prey, the more the payoff. At the conclusion of each level, the skills learned to master the level are put to the test to kill the boss of the level. In order to beat the complete game, there is a "boss of the game" to eliminate. When a video game is concluded by winning the final level, the player has become the boss over the scenario, through the mastery of the entire game. He or she has the internal satisfaction of conquest combined with the numbing effect of having just committed psychological suicide because the game teaches that the boss must die. The compulsions to purchase another game to play are driven by the motivations to escape one’s own demise - to live again through the exploitation and destruction of other characters not oneself.

   The central focus of video game conquest is to identify what matters most to “antagonists” where destruction brings a symbolically monetary reward. Video games draw upon internal psycho-emotional instinctual motivations that cannot tell the difference between fantasy and reality. So, players learn to actively respond adversely the same to situations at hand whether in and of the game or in and of the people they are related to or acquainted with. They are used as “Friend/Enemies (frenemies) to supply fulfillment to the void left by self-indulgent isolation. Video games teach a compulsively destructive spiteful retaliation against anyone and anything in the way of goals to win because the process overtakes the purpose... simply because it is inconsiderate in denying the created reasons we have protective instinctual motivations. These trained practiced patterns of repetition reinforce the “conflict as progress” distancing of cares and concerns for oneself and others to the ultimate demise of our personal respect, and therefore livelihood, for who we and others are.

   Murder is to take away a person's purpose in life. Since every one of us was born into the world at the hands of others, we have a God given purpose in life we are drawn to seek. To remove the purpose of life from a child not born, through abortion, is murder. Thank God murder is not the unforgivable sin. But, it is not for us to decide what act (no matter how vile or disgusting), or avoidance of responsibility, is the unforgivable sin. Everyone, without exception, has a heart and everyone, without exception, is being torn this way or that through the torments of evil misunderstanding not human. We should humbly take note of the results of our indignation over darkness and mayhem finding its way through the works of our fellow human beings.

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

   Adultery is the betrayal of matrimonial trust. Adultery and fornication are inseparable: Adultery is the casting aside of one’s place of commitment to a spouse whether past, present, or future. Fornication is a giving of one’s personal attentions to another than one’s spouse whether past, present, or future. There are two aspects of adultery/fornication, spiritual and physical, that can be both intertwined or respectively separate. The spiritual aspect is the revealing and sharing, with another not one’s spouse, personal and private cares and concerns. The physical aspect is the revealing and sharing, with another not one’s spouse, personal and private physical intimacy. Another form of adultery/fornication is found in the secret self gratification in response to fantasy. Infidelity springs from desires to realize, through service from others, imaginary wishes to support and verify our personal comforts and securities. When conflict arises, due to our disappointment over how we believe things ought to be, we are compelled to be vengeful - to strike out and to punish the source of our frustrations. In railing against the failing of another, we internalize the nature of our difficulties and become the situation we hate. So, to relieve the pressures of contrary loathing, we spitefully flip the matter to what seems like a positive, by involving our attentions in unsavory pleasurable compensations.

   Satan calls himself the master of images. Responding to the imagery of fantasy in your mind and emotions – when you give yourself to imagined ecstasy – the lie of your involvement is a lie of interlacing yourself with demonic persuasion. The orgasmic results are a feeding ground for the evil entities that have drawn you away from the glory of God in a marriage. The only way to stop the pornography industry is to discontinue buying. Buying includes time. Time spent involved in darkness is time lost from life. The people involved in production and sales are discouraged and tormented daughters and sons, wives and husbands, sisters and brothers. To view the blaspheming of the sacred holiness of the private celebrations of intimacy is to share in the downfall of the souls involved in the act. The freedoms to express ones faith were not meant to provide a shield for evil to hide behind.

   We complicate our problems, instead of solving them, because we identify others by the evil we believe is manifesting itself through them. This causes us to identify ourselves with the problems and, therefore, the evil is manifested through our own perspective to be free from the evil. The adversary laughs us to scorn as he has taunted us into blaming and accusing each other into ecstasy for his own works. We help each other by recognizing the difference between who we are in Christ unto God and the evils that have invaded our sanctity. This is where we learn to practice seeing our troubles for what they are as we reverently share in the giving up of the emotional turmoils to God.

   The conception of a child is brought about through the will of the people involved. God provides to us the joy of deciding to have children as we wish. The idea that there is a “meant to be” justification for bringing a human being into the world, through an act of disobedience, is pure egotistical guilt manipulation. When one is unable to take responsibility for their own sins, it is most common to thrust the blame and obligation involved onto God.

   In marriage between man and woman there is a God designed glory to be exclusively shared. The Bible declares in several places that the two are united as one. In this, the wife is unto the husband as the church is unto Christ. But, the Bible goes further and says the man's body is not his own, but his wife's - and the wife's body is not her own, but her husband's. The commitment of responsibility here is tremendous and greatly rewarding. A man must take care of his body for his wife's sake and a woman must take care of her body for her husband's sake. Just as they must take care of their bodies together for God's sake to be a witness to each other and a witness to the communities. As we err and make mistakes (whether ignorantly or intentional) our understanding love and commitment to God through faith in Christ gives to us the opportunity to be steadfast and loyal in our witness to our spouse; according to our position of authority.

   God says the two are one in marriage. He expects there to be open honesty with no hidden things or motives. This way there will be no barriers of blocks that cause spite. When a married man and woman keep their personal matters between each other, others don’t become a party to the marriage. The strength of hope and faith is to be trusting enough to put ourselves completely open before each other with respect to our created roles. The Grace of God in this faith-action of living, in the responsibility of marriage, brings about trust and integrity.

15 Thou shalt not steal.

   Imagination, role playing our dreams of various scenarios within our minds to overcome the stark realities of inadequacy, and the emotional confusions of fear, doubt, and disappointment, cause us to cry out for help to overcome the emptiness we have inside our hearts. We are embarrassed about our inability to comprehend the strength of peace of honesty. Our fear produced anguish is based in our attempts to cover our hidden motives. Because we believe our inner turmoil is based in the pain of uncertainty, we cannot experience, sensibly, a respect for what belongs to others.

   A distorted sense of fairness denies the right of others to their possessions because we experience our own awareness more fully than is possible another. Except for a vicarious attempt at concerned empathy, we thrust our imaginative perceptions of situations we believe should be onto the responsibilities of the ones around us. Most thieves know what we have because they are close to us in some way. 

   When we steal, we are exercising a reaching out of our desire for understanding and companionship in the only way that will not expose our inner lack of viability and security. But, when we steal, it increases our internal lack and our outer compulsions to ‘fairness' in a way that calls for more stealing. Basically, we get something out of wronging others and we increase a self perpetuating cycle of persecuting ourselves. Combining our self persecution at the expense of others with anger, resentment, and spite, over the fact that others have actually wronged us, spins the dynamic out of control and reinforces the driving of our perceptions into ever increased fantasy and negative emotions. The intensities confirm for us a false reality of self righteous indignation we use to perpetuate our right of acquisition to what does not belong to us.

   We cannot trust ourselves and we cannot trust others, so we are wary of others because we are wary of ourselves. Thus, we have internal pressures of false justification which expresses itself in compulsive actions. We cannot control our acting out impulses because we believe our self respect and our respect for others must come from within. The more materialistic pleasures we accumulate offset an increasing terror of failure we are bound to evade. So, we run, escape, evade, manipulate, and destroy to our hearts content.

   The source of an honest and right way cannot be found from deep within ourselves. We have a need to reach out to a Higher Authority because the mess that has control of us will not let us go until we are completely consumed. This is why we have a God designed family structure to teach us co-dependence, priorities, degrees and positions of authority, and personal responsibilities.

   There were two thieves crucified with Jesus Christ. One held to his death a mocking self assured resentment over his situation, while the other honestly accepted the emptiness of his own ways to humbly reach out to the One who provides our reasons and ways for being.

16 Thou shalt not give a witness of false testimony against another.

   Gossip can be considered counterfeit preaching and is the enemy of privacy. Invasion of privacy brings about negative assumptions that must continue to reinforce negative assumptions. Assuming opinions in the rating of others creates an awkward knowledge to categorize stereotypes. To accept a positive through awkward knowledge convicts the heart of the guilt of intrusion and appeals to concern for another - so the intrusion into other's affairs spins the attentions back to the negative. Mockery of others, in the name of concern, serves to falsely lift up oneself above personal fears. This causes a mockery of oneself by what is believed about another and has nothing to do with who they are. Lying is an attempt to find a position over a perceived intimidation, and tries to make liars out of others to hide the ploy. Usually the clever use of language will cover a deception because no one is perfect enough to speak exactly the truth. The nature of words of language leaves enough room for doubt in whatever is said to give the manipulator what is believed to be opportunity. Violation of trust comes not as much through specific words and phrases as it does in not considering who our companions are in God's plans for us all. Respectful mindfulness of our own family business gives the strength of courage to stand against adversarial attacks from others we are not acquainted.

   Confidentiality is not an attempt to hide anything, privacy is a dignified appreciation of the bond of marriage and the children thereof. The extended family structure of esteem for the sanctity of each household, as it is integrated and interacts with the community, is solidified through the dignity of women honoring their husbands who honor their wives. The covering of the grace of sophistication rests in the containment of personal matters between husbands and wives, and is extended to their children's reliance in their parents to uphold and resolve matters of living. Others, outside the family structure, have no business outside their own family structure, to meddle in the affairs of the rights of other family's members to the peace and securities of loyalty and trust. Being honest is not what we say or do - being honest is who we say what we say to, and who we do what we do with.

   A lie is not the symbols of words spoken. A lie is concealing and withholding the truth in order to deceive. All of living existence is, and remains existing, simply because of the Truth of God. Only God is God, so utterances of humankind are not entirely accurate. We are created in the likeness, or image, of God similar to how the moon reflects sunlight, but the moon does not produce the sun’s spectrum of vitality. If we hold to the limited balance between light and darkness of the light of the moon, our generated expressions are void of the sun’s vitality, and imagination fills in with contrivances where direct sunlight brings natural growth. Moonlight is analogous to our physical emotional nature, with light and dark representing the knowledge of good and evil, and sunlight is analogous to our spiritually responsive nature, with a range of life giving properties beyond our design to fully grasp – a positional promise in Christ, to be finished in fullness in the hereafter.

17 Thou shalt not desire another man's wife, nor should you crave his house, his field, his male and female servants, his ox, his ass, or anything else which belongeth unto him.

   Dissatisfaction with our lot in life is drawn from, and is in response to, our own selfish desires compared to the position we perceive others occupy. Jealousy and envy combine to make us greedy for things and ways we do not have. Many times the others we admire for their possessions have an admiration for our own state in life. When we are able to thank God for the blessings of our neighbor for our neighbor's sake, we can accept that, no matter our own circumstances, God has not forgotten our situation in all its detail. As we do what we can, where we can, with what we have, it is enough to satisfy God's expectations for our life. Many situations and people can, and will, be very difficult. But, as we have the understanding to help others where they hurt instead of condemning them for their difficulties, we will be living in the honesty and truth of responding to the moments of life according to God's will, whether we feel like He is with us or not. Right is right, no matter how we feel about it. But, it is what we do to make a difference for God's sake that makes the difference.

   Jesus Christ said: "A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another. As I have loved you, that you also love one another." This is not simply a suggestion, this commandment is as much an integrated part of our created being as our heart.

   Knowing our plight of evil involvement, God supplies a sure and true avenue of rescue. He took on Himself, in our behalf, any and all depths of darkness we may find ourselves to be immersed. As we accept His loving results of restitution in life, we become part of His endeavors for the sake of those around us. It is no strain of our integrity and self esteem to extend the work of our life in lifting, even the worst of our fellow human beings, out of the mires of evil.

   The three tiers of the Gospel are: God, through His direct intervention in response to faith in Him; (the people of Noah) God, through His law in response to faith in Him; (the people of Ishmael) and God, through His grace in response to faith in Him; (the people of Israel). The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. For example, Islam, under the Law of mortal responsibility unto God, represents retribution for evil. Christianity, under the Law of Grace in responsibility, represents redemption from evil. The two religions represent the two edges of the Sword of the Word of God, Jesus Christ. The freedom out from under the Islamic law of retribution, the rule of law, is found in our redemption in Jesus Christ Who paid the consequences of error in our behalf.

   Israel was given a new dispensation of God's plan for mankind through the authority of Christ's Grace in Isaac. The dispensation of the Rule of Law, then, is transferred to and belongs to Ishmael - both in Abraham. Other empires and peoples represent Noah's strength of God's purpose in the cleansing of the world from evil influences. So, by adhering to the Law of Moses, which was transmitted to the people in the wilderness of Arabia, Israel is frustrating God's witness to the world through tradition by not embracing the Grace of Christ through faith - but, Israel must retain this position because Israel is existing in the balance of the paradox of the witness of the world through the Law and the witness to the entire world through the Gospel.