The Ten Commandments Won't Budge Reversing the Curse

The Ten Commandments won't budge! As we mentioned last time, they are written on the hearts of all men! Godless societies have the Law in their hearts, but it gets buried deeper and deeper with the passing of time. The “how to's” of loving God and neighbor are obscured, and when that happens, love is absent, and violence and disorder and hate follow. After man attempted to make himself god at the Tower of Babel, the people were dispersed and made into nations. They spread out over the world. They carried the Law of God and the promises of God in their hearts and still do to this day! But the Word was neglected, and it doesn't take long for this generational curse to set in. Ex 20:5,6 says, “ I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. Think about it, if the commands show us how to love God, then the ignoring of them produce the opposite effect, they produce hate! And this ignoring of God's commands has a generational impact, and you can see how quickly a society can lose it! So this curse of the Tower of Babel took effect on these people as they meandered away from Babel and on that first Pentecost when the disciples spoke the wonderful works of God in all these various languages to those pilgrims gathered in Jerusalem, the curse was beginning to be reversed! The wonderful works of God, (dare we say the Law and Gospel) spoken in their own language resonating with those long buried truths in their hearts and the Holy Spirit using those words to rekindle faith in their hearts! This is the mission of the church to this day! To go out and speak the wonderful works of God in the language of the people in order to bring 'em all back in! We are charged with reversing the curse! I hope your church has some sort of involvement in foreign missions! The task is not yet complete! There are still unreached people groups saddled with the curse of Babel. They are waiting for someone to come to them speaking the wonderful works of God in their own language. The Holy Spirit yearning to peel aside the layers of hardness around the heart with the proper proclamation of the Law and the Gospel! As it is written in Ro 10:15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!" Let us work, let us pray, let us support the work of sending out missionaries with this Good News!