The Eighth Commandment: What’s Mine Belongs to God | Exodus 20:15

When the Nazis took power in Germany in 1933, they started a process of gradually seizing property from its Jewish citizens. They began to seize Jewish businesses, then they began to confiscate from the Jews their financial assets and investments. Then they forced them out of their homes and any land they owned, seizing most of their earthly possessions in the process. Herded into the concentration camps, the Jews took with them the little they could
salvage in a few suitcases. But even these was seized from them once they arrived at the camps. Even their gold fillings were ripped out, before most of them were murdered in the ovens and gas chambers. This is one example of shocking state-sponsored theft – from an entire people.

In this sermon, we look at the Eighth Commandment, "Do not steal." God’s design for a flourishing humanity is that we are to respect what belongs to others – don’t take what doesn’t belong to you! Private property is therefore a good thing, something that God has
ordained. But ultimately everything that we have belongs to God himself. What we’re going to see is that because all things belong to God, we are to be good stewards of our own property and respect the property of others.

Preacher: Rev. Antonio Coppola.

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