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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

God shows us the importance of the commandment [to honor our parents in Exodus 20] in several different ways: 1. First of all, notice that He puts it first in the list of our horizontal responsibilities. Our vertical responsibilities are addressed in commands one through four to Him, but when He begins to express our horizontal responsibilities, our responsibilities in our human relations with one another, the very first thing He says is, “Honor your father and your mother.” 2. Secondly, it is interesting. If we were to go ahead and read the laws all the way up through Exodus 24, you would find that God attaches the same penalty to disobedience of parents that He attaches to blasphemy and idolatry and the worship of false gods. In both cases, blasphemy and idolatry, worship of false gods, and in the case of disobedience to parents, in the laws of Moses the death penalty is given. 3. Thirdly, notice that this command flows out of and is closely connected to what is said in the first four commands. The first four commands basically said, “Worship God only. Revere God only.” And then the fifth commandment, what is the first word out of God’s mouth to us about our parents? “Revere your parents.” Isn’t it fascinating that He could spend four commands, and especially the first two commands, claiming to Himself the exclusive right to our reverence, to our worship, and to our adoration. And then in the very first word out of His mouth to us in how we relate to one another, He can say, “Revere your father and mother.”
Ligon Duncan

There is another warfare of far greater importance than any war that was ever waged by man. It is a warfare which concerns not two or three nations only, but every Christian man and woman born into the world. The warfare I speak of is the spiritual warfare. It is the fight which everyone who would be saved must fight about his soul… It has its watchings and fatigues. It has its sieges and assaults. It has its victories and its defeats. Above all, it has consequences which are awful, tremendous, and most peculiar. In earthly warfare the consequences to nations are often temporary and remediable. In the spiritual warfare it is very different. Of that warfare, the consequences, when the fight is over, are unchangeable and eternal.
J.C. Ryle

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50:1 Psalam. Asafov. Bog nad bogovima, Jahve, govori i zove zemlju od izlaza sunčeva do zalaza.

50:2 Sa Siona predivnog Bog zablista:

50:3 Bog naš dolazi i ne šuti. Pred njim ide oganj što proždire, oko njega silna bjesni oluja.

50:4 On zove nebesa odozgo i zemlju da sudi narodu svojemu:

50:5 “Saberite mi sve pobožnike koji žrtvom Savez sa mnom sklopiše!”

50:6 Nebesa objavljuju pravednost njegovu: on je Bog sudac!

50:7 “Slušaj, narode moj, ja ću govoriti, o Izraele, svjedočit ću protiv tebe: ja, Bog – Bog tvoj!

50:8 Ne korim te zbog žrtava tvojih – paljenice su tvoje svagda preda mnom.

50:9 Neću od doma tvog’ uzet junca, ni jaraca iz tvojih torova:

50:10 tÓa moje su sve životinje šumske, tisuće zvjeradi u gorama mojim.

50:11 Znam sve ptice nebeske, moje je sve što se miče u poljima.

50:12 Kad bih ogladnio, ne bih ti rekao, jer moja je zemlja i sve što je ispunja.

50:13 Zar da ja jedem meso bikova ili da pijem krv jaraca?

50:14 Prinesi Bogu žrtvu zahvalnu, ispuni Višnjemu zavjete svoje!

50:15 I zazovi me u dan tjeskobe: oslobodit ću te, a ti ćeš me slaviti.”

50:16 A grešniku Bog progovara: “Što tumačiš naredbe moje, što mećeš u usta Savez moj?

50:17 Ti, komu stega ne prija, te riječi moje iza leđa bacaš?

50:18 Kad tata vidiš, s njime se bratimiš i družiš se s preljubnicima.

50:19 Svoja si usta predao pakosti, a jezik ti plete prijevare.

50:20 U društvu na brata govoriš i kaljaš sina matere svoje.

50:21 Sve si to činio, a ja da šutim? Zar misliš da sam ja tebi sličan? Pokarat ću te i stavit ću ti sve to pred oči.”

50:22 Shvatite ovo svi vi koji Boga zaboraviste, da vas ne pograbim i nitko vas spasiti neće.

50:23 Pravo me štuje onaj koji prinosi žrtvu zahvalnu: i onomu koji hodi stazama pravim – njemu ću pokazati spasenje svoje.