Good morning. My name is Shane and one of the pastors here. If you are new with us this weekend. Thanks for joining us. Uh, it’s been a beautiful weekend. And so hopefully you’ve had Fun with friends and family. We have been working through the 10 commandments. And so today we’re on commandment six and I tell you to flip open your bibles and we would read through it. But I bet I can tell you it before we get there. Right, you shall not murder. So there’s our text for today. We’re looking at exodus 20 13. So in English, we’re talking about four words. Uh, hebrew. We’re talking about to write no murder. So how are we gonna fill a half hour time? Well you’ll see. So some translations actually will look if you flip open, some may say you shall not kill. I’ll tell you why in a little bit here on why murder would be the better translation. It opens the door when it’s just used the word killed. To some misinterpretation justified areas where killing may be necessary. So I’m not gonna actually spend a ton of time on that portion of it except for the fact that you know sometimes to understand what something does mean. It is good to understand what it doesn’t mean. It can narrow the scope. And so I want to narrow our scope a little bit because I do think there might be some legitimate questions around what this may or may not include. So when I think about what are some areas that this does not include, that the context of this verse, you shall not murder is not talking about. So the first one that we would take into consideration would be ex exodus 22 2. If somebody breaks into my house and I have a wife and four kids and there’s an imminent threat to health and life, I’m going to defend my family at any cause. And if that results in death, right? This is not the context of this verse. You shall not murder is not talking about legitimately defending your home, your family from an imminent threat. It is also, uh, not talking about a pure accident. If we look at Exodus 21, it will differentiate. It talks about hey, if you’re in an accident, right, you’re out doing something recreationally. You’re driving a vehicle, you get in a wreck, somebody in your vehicle dies. It’s purely an accident. It’s not something you’re trying to do, right? It’s gonna differentiate from that versus do not murder. So, it’s not talking about an accidental death in those situations. It is it is not addressing capital punishment. In a sense of the bible talks about there’s an authority of life for a life or that. Uh, in genesis nine or Romans 13 where God has given the governing authorities the right to yield the sword for legitimate again, legitimate reasons where somebody takes a life that could be tried and prosecuted and convicted of a crime where they could then lose their life. So this is not talking about capital punishment. That’s not the area when we refer to you shall not murder? That people can take this out of context. Other concerns, which is fitting for today would be What about war? Should we advocate people signing up for the military? Is that just Murder? And it’s not right? So in in all the old testament as murder is used 47 times. It is never once used in the context of war and which is again fitting for this weekend. I’d like to say, thank you for anybody here who is, who has served in the military, who is serving in the military memorial weekend is to honor you. And I just want to say, thank you for protecting uh, some of the many freedoms. We have one to be here together as a church. Thank you for defending those. One other one that I’m very thankful for is it’s not talking about that. We need to all be vegetarians or vegans. Okay, so hopefully have a nice thick steak and a burger and some brats today. Right? So it’s not talking about killing a…