Murder / Adultery / Divorce & Remarriage

Erhm...... someone says that I seldom update my blog. Usually, I try to update it at least once a week. Nowadays, after work just feel like going back home to have a good rest. Because most of the times, I feel tired.

Saturday continues another lesson of SOTM (Sermon on the Mount). it focus on some of the 10 commandments: Murder, Adultery, Divorce and Remarriage. What is written in the pharisees and scribes try to relax/loosen the 10 commandments.

Let me explain: "You shall not murder" means that murdering a human being is a capital sin, where blood must be spill from that person and this life shall be gone. Jesus teaches us that we must have righteousness that surpasses that of the Pharisees and scribes. He come to give the 10 commandments a new definition so that it may not be misled through some loopholes in the Pharisees and scribes. Thus "You shall not murder" also means that deep in our mind, we must not have hatred to someone without valid reasons, because it is a sin commited as if we have hatred in our mind, our heart wont be cleansed and we wont have eternal life in heaven. Whether our heart is pure or not depends on the ways we treat others as we ourselves expect others to teach us, such as we shouldnt be biased against certain groups of people.

"Neither shall you commit adultery" in the Pharisees and scribes means catching your wife/husband in bed with another person. But the true teaching of the law that Jesus sought to restore is that once you are married, you cannot have lust to another person, whoever else is it. Once the lust is in you, you are already considered to have commited adultery.

Divorce and Remarriage- As Christians, we are forbided to divorce and remarriage unless under the following circumstances:
- Your spouse committing adultery,
- Your spouse past away
- Your spouse after marriage is still a non-believer and she chooses to seperate with you
- Divorcing at a time where you are still non-believer

Controlling our actions may be seem rather hard, but rather than manipulating our body parts as what the pharisees and scribes says, what it really means is disregarding / disfunctioning these body parts , that is we must have a strong mentality that overcomes our body and as long we achieve it, we can be proud of ourselves being a Christian.

The service is quite interesting and meaningful. After that, the rest of us have a simple meal affair in Long John Silver at Century Square.

Sunday afternoon, I meet up with Christopher and Junguo to Bugis to buy a birthday gift for another good friend of ours. Have a hard time looking for the right gift but still find one that matches his style. And after we go nearby to eat Katong Laksa, really taste spicy but absoutely fantastic. Life is great eating this sort of stuff. Yah, this is another enjoyable weekend.