21/04/2025
We live in a lawless age at the end of the twentieth century. Lawlessness reigns in the home, in the church, in the school, and in the land. The Scriptures tell us that "righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people."
The law restrains sin. Without the moral law this world would be a field of blood, as is evidenced in places where there is no regard for God's commands. The Puritan, Samuel Bolton, in The True Bounds of Christian Freedom ([London: Banner of Truth, 1964], 79), explained,
๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ง๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ธ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ; ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ธ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ. ๐๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ญ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ. ๐๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฃ๐ด๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ง๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ข ๐๐ข๐ถ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง, ๐ข ๐๐ถ๐ฅ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ; ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฐ, ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ด.
Tragically, Christians have contributed to our society's moral decline by removing the Ten Commandments from their instruction.
โ Ernie Reisinger
