We come this morning to discuss what is forbidden in the sixth commandment. We saw last week that, positively speaking, the commandment requires us to exert all lawful endeavors to preserve our own lives and the lives of others. Negatively speaking, though, this commandment forbids us from taking away human life unjustly — and it also forbids anything that tends that direction. Again, this is a law from Jesus our King. It is a gospel law because it is given to people redeemed from Egypt, redeemed from slavery to sin. And it is a good law, a law that preserves and protects our lives and the lives of all people.