20:3 “You shall have no other gods before me.
God of pleasure
God of beauty
God of materialism
God of Independence
God of Government and laws
God of career
God of the "God is Dead" movement
Hollywood
Las Vegas
20:4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of
anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is
in the water below. 20:5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for
I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of
fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of
those who reject me, 20:6 and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand
generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Money
Materialism
Power
Greed
Satanic lure away from God
Sports
20:7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord
will not hold guiltless anyone who takes his name in vain.
Presidential tapes
Cable Television
Entertainment
Everyday conversation
20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day to set it apart as holy. 20:9 For six days
you may labor and do all your work, 20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath
to the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or
your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle,
or the resident foreigner who is in your gates. 20:11 For in six days the
Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and
he rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and
set it apart as holy.
24/7 Work week
24/7 Commerce
20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in
the land the Lord your God is giving to you.
Nursing Homes
High Divorce rates
Rebellion of youth
20:13 “You shall not murder.
Significant murder rates (From National Center for Health Statistics for the
year 2011 there were 16,238 murders. 5.2 murders for each 100,000
population)
Abortion (1.2 million abortions per year in the United States. Since 1973
there have been 57,158,083 babies aborted.)
20:14 “You shall not commit adultery.
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Statistic Verification
Source: Associated Press, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
Research Date: 1.1.2014
Marriage Infidelity Statistics Data
Percent of marriages where one or both spouses admit to infidelity,
either physical or emotional 41 %
Percent of men who admit to committing infidelity in any
relationship they’ve had 57 %
Percentage of women who admit to committing infidelity in any
relationship they’ve had 54 %
Percent of married men who have strayed at least once during their
married lives 22 %
Percent of married women who have strayed at least once during
their married lives 14 %
Percentage of men and women who admit to having an affair with a
co-worker 36 %
Percentage of men and women who admit to infidelity on business
trips 35%
Percentage of men and women who admit to infidelity with a
brother-in-law or sister-in-law 17 %
Average length of an affair 2 years
Percentage of marriages that last after an affair has been admitted
to or discovered 31 %
Percentage of men who say they would have an affair if they knew
they would never get caught 74 %
Percentage of women who say they would have an affair if they knew
they would never get caught 68 %
Percent of children who are the product of infidelity 3 %
Statistic Verification
Source: Associated Press, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
Research Date: January 1, 2014
Pervasive sexual preoccupation
Significant rate of affairs within marriage
Pornography
Lust
20:15 “You shall not steal.
Embezzlement
Work place theft
Government theft of public money through deficit spending
Ponzi schemes
20:16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
Pervasive lying (According to a 2002 study conducted by the
University of Massachusetts, 60% of adults can’t have a ten minute
conversation without lying at least once.
20:17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not
covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female
servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to
your neighbor.”
Identity Theft (According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics 16.6
MILLION PEOPLE EXPERIENCED IDENTITY THEFT IN 2012
Theft of possessions or objects
Advertising
Plagiarism
Cohabitation outside of marriage
How are we doing so far?
[By JIM KILLEBREW]
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