Continuing our series on the Ten Commandments, this morning we’ll be looking at the seventh commandment. While obviously applying to fidelity in marriage, the prohibition of adultery is also a comprehensive call to purity before a Holy God. As such, the Scriptures we read and the psalms and hymns we sing encourage us to purity in our thoughts, words, and actions. Our service opens with the admonition to “worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness” in both the Call to Worship (1 Chronicles 16:29) and the opening psalm (The Voice Of The Lord Is Over The Waters—Psalm 29). We read and sing from Psalm 119, asking “How can a young man keep his way pure?” Knowing how much we lack purity, we cry out to our Savior, “make and keep me pure within” (Jesus, Lover Of My Soul) and “make me pure, Thy grace bestow” (God Be Merciful To Me—Psalm 51). Coming back from the table, we declare our reliance on “the blood of Calvary’s lamb” to “wash [our] garments white” (Jesus Paid It All). Though we may come in this morning “bearing shame,” our pardon was sealed with Jesus’ blood (Man Of Sorrows!). We are no longer “ruined sinners,” but we go out with the promise from 1 Thessalonians that our God will “sanctify [us] completely,” and that our “whole spirit and soul and body [will] be kept blameless.” —Henry C. Haffner
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