Good morning, Welcome to our church. My name is Mike, one of the four pastors here at this church. It’s an honor to be a few. Today. We’re looking at the eighth commandment. You’ve probably heard your mom with the eighth commandment. You remember your mom? She would say in the second book of Mom, chapter 24 verse seven, Thou shalt not try me was your mom? That was that was another woman. Um, okay. But today, seriously, we look at the eighth commandment. Let’s look at it together. The eighth commandment. Exodus. 20 verse 15. It says you shall not steel. Steel. Okay, so imagine a world where there was no stealing. You wouldn’t have to carry these things around. These things are a trophy to our humanity and how we steal from each other, How we still and we don’t trust people, we have to lock up buildings, work cars. Right? These things remember these awkward things in your skinny jeans guys, these awkward things that you have to carry around in your purse that get lost that are weapons in the parking lot in case things go down, right, Keys. Yeah, that’s an idea. You learn things at church. So imagine a world where we didn’t have to steal anything at a college roommate, Shane, who left his keys in his car when we got out of the car. He was giving me a ride. I was bumming rides for years. Um, he’s from small town Nebraska. We got out of the car and like you left your kids, man. He’s like, oh, that’s fine. I did it all growing up. And I’m like, well, this isn’t, this isn’t a small town Nebraska. He’s like, it’s fine. And I’m like, what? They didn’t steal your car in Madison? And he’s like, well, if they did they take it somewhere and bring it back. It’s like, oh, that’s great. I’m like, this is I don’t know how things work in Omaha’s, but in Denver, where I grew up that wouldn’t fly. And so Shane hopefully left his keys not in his car this morning, but stealing. It’s just imagine a world where that was your reality. You didn’t have to have keys to get into your car, You could leave your house unlocked, you can leave the church unlocked, you can leave your work unlocked and people were trustworthy to not take advantage of each other. Imagine that wonderful world that we don’t live in. Amen. Alright, so 86% of adults when surveyed, which are the 10 commandments, They’re confident they kept 86% of adults claim that they keep the eighth commandment, 86% of people probably might have came this morning thinking I’m good on this one. I’m gonna come on church this week, 86% adults think they keep the eighth commandment. So before we jump into the eighth commandment, let’s pray, will you bow your heads with me to close your eyes and try to focus our thoughts and our minds on what God might be doing in your heart this morning. Let’s pray. Thank you for this morning. Thank you for the Bible. Thank you for these 10 commandments we’ve been looking at for Coming up on 10 weeks here. I ask that you would let your work do what your work does, your word do what your word does and you do work in our lives. Let the word of God speak instruct convict. Rebuke correct, encourage our souls today. I pray to be the bible and the scripture that instructs our souls today. Okay, I’ll get out of the way. We’ll get out of the way and we would listen so that we might obey what we hear today. I commit this time to you Lord in jesus name. We pray amen. Alright, so we do steal theft, thieving, stealing is knitted into the fabric of our society as people. It’s what happens as people. So how we steal. There’s many not obvious ways that we are engaged in stealing as a society, as a culture. We still So let’s work through our list. Here. I got for you. Number one is we steal from our employees. We cheat them on pay. We cheat them on benefits. We can be cheap and we can che…