5th May 2025


Pray (ACts)


Read (Philippians 1:9-11)


Message (Alan Burke) 


I know someone and they are all about the supplements. In their house if you didn’t know any better you’d think that Holland & Barret had paid for an advertising stand in their kitchen. They take all these things in order to feel better and also because of their vanity as they want to reclaim what they have lost, they want to reverse the effects of ageing. If you have a cupboard filled with supplements that you take religiously every day, maybe you’re swallowing them with a cuppa tea as you read this devotion I’ve got some bad news that what you’re likely achieving is just really expensive pee. What you’d be better doing is focus on eating a balanced nutritious diet but Holland & Barret along with the many other supplement makers don’t want you to believe that and if you don’t believe me ask yourself why your doctor hasn’t prescribed all these supplements to you. This is why you read these devotions obviously for their healthy cynicism. I’ll get to my point, while you probably don’t need the supplements (unless the Dr has prescribed them) there is something that we are deficient in that no amount of supplements we take can do a think about and what we need is God to work. What we are deficient in is love. 


Look what Paul says here, his prayer for the Philippians at the beginning of v9, it is his prayer that love may abound more and more. What most people think of love, how they define it is pure drivel. How do we know what love is, it is by looking to God in Jesus Christ, 1 John 3:16 tells us; By this we know love, that he (Christ Jesus) laid down his life for us. Without Jesus we cannot even begin to comprehend what love is, for the believer we know what love is because of how our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ exemplified love towards us. He did that as he laid down his life for us. It is much more than the crucifixion, it is seen from the moment he condescended in the incarnation, that he who was God and was with God in the beginning emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross where he experienced the wrath of a Holy God against sin for us (Jn 1:1, Phil 2:7-8). 


Love in the believer imitates God’s own love for “God is Love” (1 Jn 4:7-8) rather than the drivel that is served up to us by the culture, instead the love we look to is that love which is exemplified in Christ Jesus. Loving doesn’t mean calling their sin good, it isn’t shown by applauding someone sinful lifestyle or saying that our sin doesn’t matter. Love is truthful and to love is to do what is best regardless of the cost. Because of how we have been loved it should motivate and mitigate our actions and one of the hardest teachings of Jesus that came in the sermon on the mount was about love. There in the sermon on the mount, Jesus teaches us to love our enemies, he teaches us to love our enemies for that is what he has done for us, he has shown his love towards we who by our nature his enemies. Can we say we love as we have been loved, is it seen in our actions, in speech in how we are praying? Paul prayed that the church in Philippi would abound more and more, if we are honest we are deficient in love, let us pray and stay one another up to look to Christ and love as we have been loved.


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Q75 What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
A. The eighth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever doth, or may, unjustly hinder our own, or our neighbor’s, wealth, or outward estate.
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3rd May 2025


Pray (ACts)


Read (Romans 7v19-25)


Message (Scott Woodburn)


Did you know that there are churches who would prefer no mention of sin? I’m not exaggerating. I know of fellowships who genuinely believe that the concept of sin isn’t one for polite discussion. But what are we doing if the message of the church is that everything is fine? Is it really a sermon if we tell people they are good and Jesus wants to make them even better?


Christ Jesus came to save sinners and I believe this is truly good news. Why? Because, just like Paul, we are all the chief of sinners. I don’t sin the odd time, I don’t just fall into sin at the weekend and I don’t go for months at a time without sin. I am a sinner, conceived in sin, born in sin and walking in sin. I need a Saviour not a message that tells me not to worry.


I am not able to keep God’s commandments in this life. I can’t do it on my own and I will never progress to a point in my Christian walk when I am without sin. Instead I am a law breaker who breaks God’s law everyday in my thoughts, words and deeds. Paul summed this up wonderfully in Romans 7 where he stated “For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.” You and I know what God requires and yet we do the opposite. We are Christians who know that the Lord is not pleased with our gossip but we do it anyway.


As Paul considered this reality he cried out “Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?” (v24) We know the answer don’t we? Christ Jesus is the saviour and friend of sinners and He is the one who will rescue us from our miserable condition. The Gospel is extraordinarily good news for men and women who know their wretchedness. It is honey on the lips and it is balm to the soul.


Here is my condition - I am a sinner who breaks God’s law on a daily basis. Here is my hope - by faith in Christ I am forgiven and saved. We started this walk through the commandments by considering the words of Gresham Machen. Do you remember? As he was dying he telegrammed his friend to say that he was so thankful for the active obedience of Christ for there was no hope without it. Me too brothers and sisters and hopefully you too.


We’ll leave the commandments here but I trust you and I will respond rightly to them. Let us root and ground ourselves in the perfect obedience of Christ. As we daily see our guilt may it cause us to run to the grace of God. Finally, may we respond to the Lord’s awesome work with gratitude. We are unprofitable servants but nevertheless may our daily cry be SOLI DEO GLORIA!


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Q74 What is required in the eighth commandment? The eighth commandment requireth the lawful procuring and furthering the wealth and outward estate of ourselves and others.

2nd May 2025


Pray (ACts)


Read (Philippians 1:7-8)


Message (Alan Burke)


There are some ministers that I know who you just get the feeling that they are phoning it in. If you don’t know what phoning it in means it is to do what you have to do with minimal effort or enthusiasm, they are going through the motions. The origin of the phrase is reckoned to come from journalist who phoned into the office the news stories instead of returning and writing up the article for the newspaper. I’ll not name anyone but the local coffee shops get good business and they get their money out of their Netflix subscription that’s for sure. At the same time I know ministers whose congregations think that they are lazy,  and I’ve been asked by members in other places what does their minister do. In response I try to be gracious but when their minister leaves I’m going to enjoy watching looking on from afar because the place is going to have a shock when they try to get someone to do all the jobs their minister has been doing or  find another minister to give the level of attention that he has given to the congregation. 


One of the things that is most important in a minister is that he has a heart for the people. A heart that will mean he’ll call you out for being a numpty and he’ll love you and pick you up when you’ve fallen. This is something that is seen in Paul, this heart for the people of God, he’s not willing to pander to nonsense as some ministers are nor is he afraid to show his love and affection for them. In some of Paul’s letters he calls them numpties (not literally, figuratively) here in Philippians his heart for God’s people is clearly on display. These verses show the heart of a minister, of a pastor who loves the people of God in Christ. This affection isn’t seen in the same way in other letters written by Paul. This is Paul rejoicing in what the Lord has done and would do for those to whom he writes. 


Here in v8 he speaks of how he longs for them with the affection of Christ Jesus (8). I love the way the KJV translates affection, it says bowels so Paul longs after them in the bowels of Jesus Christ. He is conveying his deep affection for them. This longing, this heart that Paul had for the church in Philippi, this affection that he had is that of Christ Jesus. It has come because of the work of God within him, not because of anything that Paul has done in himself, it was God’s work within Paul that had led him to sharing affection in Christ. The Lord as he had worked in Paul had caused such affection to rise up in him, such love, such grace. 


This wasn’t just a love for the wealthy, the ones who had treated him well, this was for each one of those whom he wrote, even the old goat who couldn’t look at him without a scowl on their face. It was an affection for those who had by the world's standards everything and an affection for those who had by the world's standards nothing. With the affection of Christ Jesus Paul here has that longing for them, he has them in his heart and in this he is saying that this longing, this affection, is the same as that of Christ Jesus, it is that this longing, this affection, is because it has been produced by the work of God within him. 


May God work within us and create in us such love and such grace and such affection here in this place. That should be our desire, that should be our prayer that we would see God’s grace at work. It’s hard to love those who have rubbed us up the wrong way, who have put our noses out of joint. Just think how radically different the church would be if we had such an affection for our bothers and sisters. May God be pleased to give us such affection for his glory alone. 


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Q73 Which is the eighth commandment? 
A. The eighth commandment is, Thou shalt not steal.
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1st May 2025


Pray (ACts)


Read (1 John 1v8)


Message (Scott Woodburn)


The old story goes that if we just change course by one small step per day, eventually our lives will have moved to a radically different place. What is it that we often see on Facebook? Every journey begins with the first step. To be honest I don’t really dispute this. If your goal is to run a marathon then at some point you’re going to need to start running. But spiritually speaking we need to realise that we are never going to be perfect this side of glory.


I once knew a man who was a fine Christian and yet he believed that he had grown so much in his Christian walk that he was now able to keep God’s law fully. He quoted the golden rule and boldly stated that he kept God’s command perfectly. We argued back and forth and I could not shift him from his assertion that he loved his God and neighbour spotlessly. Let me stress that I am convinced the man was truly saved but he was also truly misguided.


Am I saying that progress isn’t possible in the Christian walk? By no means. Progress (sanctification) is a sure and certain work which is taking place each day as the Spirit moves. The Lord has begun this work and He will certainly complete it at the day of Christ, but this work will not be completed on this side of heaven.


Why is this important? The catechism asks “Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?” The answer given tells us that no man can keep God’s commandments perfectly either by himself or by any grace received in this life. In other words it doesn’t matter how much growth the Christian experiences, no one is able to walk rightly before the Lord.


There can be no room for arrogance in the Christian life. I have met some incredibly holy people over the years and yet all of them needed the grace of God on a daily basis. I’ve also met others dripping with self-righteousness whose attitude suggested they were faultless in every way.


Brothers and sisters, we should desire holiness without which none of us will see the Lord but we should never put our trust in our own obedience. There will be days that you will win and days that you will lose - always remember that you are but an unprofitable servant who even on your best day falls far short of what is required. Even so, perhaps you and I will pray as Robert Murray M’Cheyne once did, “Lord, make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be.” May it be so.  


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Q72 What is forbidden in the seventh commandment? The seventh commandment forbiddeth all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions.
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30th April 2025


Pray (ACts)


Read (Philippians 1:7-8)


Message (Alan Burke)


There are words that we use all the time that we use without a second thought and there is one that I think especially in the church we use without really grasping the wonder of what it means, it flows off the tongue and we hear it week after week, we sing songs about it but it has led to semantic saturation. Semantic saturation is a psychological phenomenon which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds. The word that I’m referring to is the word ‘Grace’. It has become nothing more than a platitude to many, others it goes in one ear and out the other, for others it is something they do not need for they are good people but the scriptures teaching of who we are in Adam, that we are sinners and the grace that God has shown to us is so profound that we need reminded again and again and again and again and again so that we may never loose its wonder. 


Grace is exactly the opposite of what we deserve. Q84 in the Shorter Catechism asks; What does every sin deserve? The answer is; Every sin deserves God’ s wrath and curse, both in this life, and that which is to come. God gives to you his grace, his undeserved and unmerited favour towards you a sinner. By his death and resurrection Jesus secured for you exactly what you don’t deserve, what I don’t deserve, that none of us do, what we deserve is God’s wrath and curse in this life and in that which is to come what we receive is not what we have merited, it is unmerited, the unmerited favour of God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 


Paul speaks here about how the church in Philippi that whether he is in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, they all share in God’s grace with him. He often spoke and defended the faith, defended the truth of the gospel and confirming the gospel means to affirm the truth of the gospel, how this happens is by holding to its truth and showing it in our lives. Paul whether he spoke the gospel, defending it, or confirmed the gospel, affirmed the truth of the gospel which was seen in how he was willing to be imprisoned for its truth. For the church in Philippi he speaks of them sharing in God’s grace whether he was in chains or defending and confirming the gospel because the grace that they had come to know through Jesus Christ had led them to share in his suffering. It was evidence to Paul in their continued to support him in the work of Christ that they had come to know this grace. 


He was confident in the change in the lives of the believers, that they shared in the grace of God because it was seen in them. It was evident to Paul that there was spiritual health in church in Philippi, he could see it in them and he was more concerned about the work of God within them than he was in his own circumstances languishing in prison. He seen how they too share in the grace of God, they were sharing, another word that is used is partakers, like that of partnership, the trust of what is being said here is how they were part even though they were separate, they were sharing Grace in Christ. The work of God should be evident in us, in our private and public lives. Evidence that we are God’s children is shown in how we live, if we share in the grace of God, that is seen is in how we are commitment to worship, prayer, sacrificial giving, loving our neighbours, and sharing the gospel. Because without a genuine spiritual commitment then we do not share in Grace in Christ and are of no more use than a chocolate tea pot in this world. Is the work of the grace of God evident in us?


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Q71 What is required in the seventh commandment?
A. The seventh commandment requireth the preservation of our own and our neighbor’s chastity, in heart, speech, and behaviour.
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29th April 2025


Pray (ACts)


Read (Ecclesiastes 7v20)


Message (Scott Woodburn)


The time has come for us to complete our study of the Ten Commandments but before we move to pastures new there is one more question asked by the Larger Catechism. It is a question which speaks right to our spiritual need for it addresses our complete inability to keep God’s law perfectly. The catechism asks “Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?” 


I have met many people who would answer “Yes. Me. I have kept God’s commandments.” Such individuals are well meaning but they are sadly deluded. The catechism answers “No man is able, either of himself, or by any grace received in this life, perfectly to keep the commandments of God; but doth daily break them in thought, word, and deed.”


That is an incredibly bleak but true summary of the human condition. There is no one alive who is able to keep God’s commands by his own strength. To clarify, it wasn’t always this way. Adam was the first man and he was able to keep the commandments of God fully. If he had done so then he and those after him would have enjoyed everlasting life. As we know, Adam did not obey and the rest is utterly tragic history.


Even so, it is essential that we understand that our obedience will never be perfect and it cannot save us. In the past I’ve referred to us as “unprofitable servants” who even on our best day fall far short of what is required. Brothers and sisters, I find this strangely refreshing because I know just how disobedient I often am. I couldn’t imagine a life filled with a daily quest to keep God’s law perfectly. We wouldn’t last a day on such a quest, in fact we wouldn’t last a minute.


I am so thankful for the Gospel which points us away from ourselves and onto Jesus. Christ’s obedience was actively and passively perfect. He is the true Adam who kept the law fully and therefore all who are in Christ by faith are counted as obedient by Almighty God. This is our only hope and good news for disobedient sinners. It frees us to obey not to achieve salvation but because we have been saved and now respond in gratitude.


To those reading these words still thinking that they will be proved good enough before God by their own imperfect works…it is time to turn to Christ. No one can keep God’s law perfectly and all who try will not stand in the judgement. Christ calls you to trust in Him and His finished work for in Jesus there is fullness of joy.  


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Q70 What is the seventh commandment? The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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28th April 2025


Pray (ACts)


Read (Philippians 1:7-8)


Message (Alan Burke) 


I’ve seen the gospel bring transformation in peoples lives, some of whom when I have met years later I’m left with my mouth open, stunned by what the Lord has done. It is easy to read these verses and forget the transformation that had taken place in Paul. He was once called Saul and was a Pharisee and known for his hatred of Christian’s, he persecuted the church, people lived in fear of him. But it was by the grace of God that he was transformed. He was called by Jesus while he was on the way to Damascus to be an apostle (Acts 9:3-19), and the Lord had used him as  his instrument to take to the gospel to the gentiles (Acts 9:15) which included the church in Philippi to whom he writes.


This was a transformation that came because of the work of Grace in his life it was obvious, a visible 180 degree turn in the direction he was heading, the man once with a personal mission to destroy the church became a man planting and building up the church of Christ. He was one once filled with hate for Christian’s but transformed into one so filled with love for them that they are held in his heart. For us it confronts us with likewise how there should be a transformation within us, a transformation that should be seen in how we live and love, how we feel about and how we treat those around us, we should hold our brothers and sisters in our heart. 


In 1 John 4 we are told; If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother (1 Jn 4:20–21). Our love of Christ, our union with him leads to a response in our lives in how we live and love. If we have saving faith we know the love that has been shown to us by the Lord our God, that even though we were unlovable, his committed enemies, we were sinners who did not love the Lord our God. What happens that enables us to love is that the Lord changes our hearts and enables us to love him. It changes us inwardly from being naturally opposed to the Lord and his people to being enabled to love him and his people. That was the change that took place in Paul and for us as believers here in this place we are to share a love for one another in Christ Jesus. 


Think of the words of Jesus to his disciples in John 13, when he said; 34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” Jn 13:34–35. For us can we say that we have those around us in our heart as Paul said to the church in Philippi? Do we pray for our brothers and sisters in the pews around us, do we seek to encourage them in their faith, to cheer them on as they race to the finish line? I would say if we are honest to that question we know that there is much work for the Lord still to do in us and there are times that all we want to do is hi five their face but for us we should always remember the wonder of what Christ has done. How he gave his life willingly for we who are his enemies, that love that will never let us down, that will never cast us aside, that does not grow or wain, ebb or flow, grow stronger or weaker it is intrinsic to the very nature of God and he loves you child of God. What love has been shown to us and that love should be our motivation in how we love.


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Q69 What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
A. The sixth commandment forbiddeth the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbor unjustly, or whatsoever tendeth thereunto.
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26th April 2025


Pray (ACts)


Read (Exodus 20v17)


Message (Scott Woodburn)


If you can remember as far back as Thursday then you perhaps recall that the Larger Catechism’s  description of the tenth commandment’s duties was relatively short. In similar fashion the discussion about what is forbidden by the commandment is just one sentence long. “What are the sins forbidden in the tenth commandment? The sins forbidden in the tenth commandment are, discontentment with our own estate; envying, and grieving at the good of our neighbor, together with all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his.”


Now you’d think that we could handle one sentence but truth be told discontentment is an all too familiar feeling. Perhaps our work has been a chore for several years, maybe a relationship isn’t all we hoped for or we’re maybe just sick of sitting in Ballynahinch traffic. Can we say that contentment abounds in our soul? I’m not suggesting for a moment that just because you’re grumpy in traffic that you have left the tenth commandment behind but do you display a persistent attitude of poor-me-ism? Nothing is ever your fault, nothing is ever right and nothing ever pleases you. Is this how you’ve been for longer than you can remember? Equally if you are grieved by your neighbour’s prosperity and find yourself resentful of his/her estate isn’t it perhaps time to do business with the Lord?


Brothers and sisters, I’m not writing this to bash you. As I’ve formed these words I’ve had to consider my own soul. I have much to be thankful for and yet I’m often frustrated, disappointed and begrudging. I regularly find my mind wondering “if only” and “what if” and “why me.” May God forgive me and may the Spirit cultivate in me an attitude of gratitude and contentment. Indeed, even if my plans fall whilst my neighbour soars, may I have the grace to be thankful.


In the Gospel we have received the greatest treasure imaginable. Delight your soul in Jesus and never forget that He is more than enough. 


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Q68 What is required in the sixth commandment? The sixth commandment requireth all lawful endeavours to preserve our own life, and the life of others.
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25th April 2025


Pray (ACts)


Read (Philippians 1:3-6)


Message (Alan Burke)


I was sharing at our evening service a few weeks ago how I was learning the harmonica. What happened was that not long after I was installed and ordained in Lissara some years ago my mum brought me up some of my many boxes of junk that I’ve gathered over the years and in that was some of my dads stuff which she didn’t know what to do with so they came to me and then a couple of weeks after they arrived something happened that meant that I wasn’t allowed to leave the house. It all seems a bit surreal looking back on it but at the beginning of my house arrest I took out the harmonica and decided before this was over I was going to learn how to play that harmonica. It hasn’t happened, they are sitting in my study making me feel guilty because when I say I was learning the harmonica I still haven’t learnt it and doubt I ever will no matter how good my intentions are. If you’re wondering what on earth does this have to do with this passage before us it is because of those words that come in v6, how he who has began a good work in you will bring it to completion. If salvation was dependant on me, on my works or endeavours I can guarantee it would just be like that harmonica in my study that confronts me every day with just how much I have failed to do what I set out to do, if salvation was about me and dependant on me I would have fallen by the wayside years ago. 


There is a wonderful comfort in what Paul says here, a great encouragement for all of us who know and love the Lord Jesus Christ. Whether you feel that you have failed as a Christian, whether you are filled with doubts and fears or you have confident assurance that you are his, God who has begun a good work in us will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. You might be filled with fear that you will fail to reach the finish line, that when this life is done we will not be destined for Glory but instead hell, because you’ve not done enough or you’ll fail along the way. It is easy to always be second guessing ourselves, can I do enough, will I keep going. But it is not about us, our works, endeavours, it is about what God has done for us, because of that Paul can clearly rejoice. 


Say you fell into six year ago, it cannot separate you from the love of God, or that sin that you can’t seem to get shot off, it cannot can separate you from the love of God, nothing can. This should be a wonderful comfort to us as believers, for nothing can, nothing can separate us from the love of God, we will persevere, because God will preserve us, nothing will be able to snatch you from the hand of the saviour. This is the teaching of scripture known as perseverance of the saints and it means that our confidence, our assurance comes not because of us, it doesn’t rest on who we are or what we have done or can do it rests on the Lord Jesus, what the triune God has done for us. As we are reminded in the Westminster Confession of Faith when it says, “They, whom God has accepted in his Beloved (the beloved being Jesus Christ, His only Son), effectually called, and sanctified by his Spirit, can neither totally nor finally, fall away from the state of grace; but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternally saved” (WCF 17.1). Those who truly believe will preserver, they will be preserved by the Lord, none that has been given to Jesus can be snatched from his hand no matter the sin, no matter the denial like Peter. This should be such a comfort for you brothers and sisters, that he who has begun a good work in you will bring it to completion, that the Lord Jesus shall loose none of all that he was given by the Father, none of his sheep will be able to be snatched from his hand, we will be sustained to the end so we will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ (Phil 1:6, Jn 6:39, Jn 10:28, 1 Cor 1:8). 


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Q67 Which is the sixth commandment? 
A. The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill.
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24th April 2025


Pray (ACts)


Read (Exodus 20v17)


Message (Scott Woodburn)


By this stage I’m sure you are not surprised when the Westminster Larger Catechism takes a commandment and outlines it in a fulsome manner. But as our look at the commandments comes to an end, the Larger Catechism is uncharacteristically brief in it’s treatment of the tenth commandment.


What is required of us in the tenth commandment? The Catechism answers “The duties required in the tenth commandment are, such a full contentment with our own condition, and such a charitable frame of the whole soul toward our neighbor, as that all our inward motions and affections touching him, tend unto, and further all that good which is his.”


This straightforward reply points us in two directions. Firstly, the tenth commandment requires us to be content with our own estate. This isn’t something that any of us finds easy, we often daydream about all sorts of life improvements. How better would things be if your wage doubled? Wouldn’t it be great if you had a new wife/husband? How improved would your mood be if you finally bought that “forever home”? Let me stress that while you shouldn’t be daydreaming about another man/woman, there is nothing sinful about a promotion, bigger wage or even moving house. The problem comes when we are utterly captured by the temporary shiny lights of this world. They become idols which capture our hearts and rob our contentment.


Secondly, we aren’t to gaze longingly at all our neighbour owns but we are to be charitable towards him. Indeed, our charity should seek his good. There is a begrudging spirit in the modern world which loves nothing more than to see people fall flat on their faces. Often it is those who we see as successful who are the target of our bitterness. Elon Musk is one of the richest men alive and because of his support of Donald Trump he has gone from hero to villain in just a few short years. You might believe that Musk deserves all he gets but is that attitude in keeping with the demands of the tenth commandment?


If you neighbour has just added a whopping great extension to his home or his wife is just back from Turkey with bright white shiny teeth, don’t you worry your wee head. Pray for your neighbour, bless him with kindness and work to further all that good which is his. It is in this manner that you protect your heart from covetousness and bring glory to the Gospel of Christ. 


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Q66 What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment? The reason annexed to the fifth commandment is, a promise of long life and prosperity (as far as it shall serve for God’s glory, and their own good) to all such as keep this commandment.
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