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| [ | |
| { | |
| "n": 1, | |
| "cmd": "No other gods before YHWH", | |
| "ref": "Exodus 20:3", | |
| "verse": "Thou shalt have no other gods before me.", | |
| "sinword": "Idolatry and rival allegiance", | |
| "sections": [ | |
| { | |
| "kind": "define", | |
| "title": "Its Opposite", | |
| "q": "What is Idolatry and rival allegiance?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Idolatry and rival allegiance โ giving another person, desire, fear, philosophy, authority, spirit, system, or governing will the place that belongs to YHWH alone." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Another god is not revealed only by worship with the lips. It may be revealed by whose counsel is trusted, whose will is obeyed, whose approval is feared, whose principles govern the mind, or what is loved more than YHWH." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The competing influences may appear as: Godโs Will ยท My Will ยท His Will ยท Her Will ยท Their Will ยท The Worldโs Will ยท The Devilโs Will ยท No Will." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The question is not merely, โWhom do I call God?โ but also, โWhose counsel governs me when wills conflict?โ" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 4:10" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "No man can serve two masters.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:24" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "keep", | |
| "title": "To Keep It Inwardly", | |
| "q": "How do you keep this commandment?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "To love YHWH with all the heart, soul, mind, and strength; to seek His counsel above every rival counsel; to trust Him above self, man, institutions, culture, appetite, fear, and worldly wisdom; and to submit every lesser will beneath His Will." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 22:37" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 3:5" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua demonstrated the proper order:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.", | |
| "ref": "John 5:30" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.", | |
| "ref": "Luke 22:42" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "dimensions", | |
| "title": "To Violate It Inwardly โ The Seven Dimensions", | |
| "q": "How is this commandment broken inwardly?", | |
| "blocks": [], | |
| "dims": [ | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "name": "Physical", | |
| "subtitle": "Service and Embodied Allegiance", | |
| "q": "How is it broken physically?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The physical violation occurs when the body, time, labor, possessions, habits, or daily actions repeatedly serve another master against YHWH." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Working, spending, traveling, or sacrificing continually for wealth, status, pleasure, power, approval, or another person while neglecting obedience to God.", | |
| "Performing an act one knows is wrong because a person, employer, institution, crowd, or system demands it.", | |
| "Allowing addiction, appetite, comfort, or routine to command the body.", | |
| "Giving physical obedience to another authority when its command conflicts with YHWH.", | |
| "Using nearly all one's time and strength to build another kingdom while giving God only words." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:21" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Let bodily life, labor, possessions, habits, and conduct become instruments of obedience to YHWH." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "name": "Emotional", | |
| "subtitle": "Affection, Fear, Attachment", | |
| "q": "How is it broken emotionally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The emotional violation begins when love, fear, resentment, craving, or attachment gains greater governing power than reverence for YHWH." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Fearing another person's rejection more than disobedience to God.", | |
| "Loving a relationship so much that one compromises what is right to preserve it.", | |
| "Fearing poverty, loneliness, failure, or loss so strongly that fear determines the path.", | |
| "Needing approval, praise, affection, or acceptance before feeling secure.", | |
| "Protecting resentment because anger has become more precious than obedience." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 22:37" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Love deeply, but let every affection remain beneath the love owed first to YHWH." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "name": "Mental", | |
| "subtitle": "Thought and Governing Principle", | |
| "q": "How is it broken mentally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The mental violation occurs when another source becomes the highest authority for truth, morality, or judgment." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Thinking, My understanding is enough.", | |
| "Believing, What feels right must be right.", | |
| "Assuming, What everyone believes must be true.", | |
| "Treating family tradition, politics, philosophy, religion, science, culture, or personal experience as incapable of correction.", | |
| "Calling personal desire โGod's willโ without seeking Him.", | |
| "Rejecting God's counsel because it contradicts an idea one has already decided to protect." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 14:12" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Think, study, reason, and learn while remaining teachable before YHWH." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "name": "Ambitional", | |
| "subtitle": "Desire, Pursuit, Kingdom", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in ambition?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The ambitional violation appears when another kingdom becomes first: wealth, success, recognition, romance, power, comfort, vindication, influence, prestige, security, legacy." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Pursuing wealth at the cost of obedience.", | |
| "Seeking fame, status, or influence as the measure of worth.", | |
| "Building a career or ministry primarily to exalt self.", | |
| "Wanting another person's life, position, authority, or favor more than God's approval.", | |
| "Making success the test of whether a path is righteous.", | |
| "Seeking God's gifts while scarcely seeking God Himself." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:33" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Submit aspiration, achievement, labor, and vision to YHWH's Kingdom and purpose." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "name": "Vocal", | |
| "subtitle": "Speech and Spoken Allegiance", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in speech?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The vocal violation occurs when words pledge, defend, glorify, or strengthen a rival lord." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Saying, I will do anything you say.", | |
| "Saying, Your opinion is all that matters.", | |
| "Saying, I do not care what God says.", | |
| "Publicly affirming something the conscience knows contradicts YHWH.", | |
| "Teaching others to follow worldly counsel above God's counsel.", | |
| "Praising wealth, power, status, ideology, or another person as though they determine truth and worth.", | |
| "Making vows or promises that require disobedience to YHWH." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 12:34" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Let vows, promises, teaching, confession, counsel, and testimony remain under YHWH." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "name": "Intentional", | |
| "subtitle": "Will and Consent", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in the will?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The intentional violation occurs when a person knows the counsel of YHWH yet deliberately chooses another way." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Temptation itself is not allegiance. A thought may enter, a desire may arise, another person may pressure, the world may entice, and the devil may tempt. Violation deepens when the will gives consent." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Thinking, I know what God desires, but I intend something else.", | |
| "Planning a course one knows contradicts YHWH.", | |
| "Seeking God's approval only after deciding what one already intends to do.", | |
| "Refusing correction because one's preferred outcome matters more than obedience.", | |
| "Deliberately placing My Will above God's Will.", | |
| "Choosing another person's will because obedience to God would cost too much." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.", | |
| "ref": "John 6:38" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Bring intention beneath YHWH and surrender personal preference when it conflicts with His counsel." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "name": "Spiritual", | |
| "subtitle": "Allegiance of Counsel and Governing Influence", | |
| "q": "How is it broken spiritually?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "This is the deepest dimension of the First Commandment. The spiritual question is: Whose counsel governs me?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Godโs Will โ seeking YHWH, trusting His wisdom, and submitting every lesser influence beneath Him." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "My Will โ making personal desire, reasoning, or preference final authority." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "His Will / Her Will โ allowing another person's wishes, approval, or command to overrule YHWH." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Their Will โ surrendering conscience to family, religion, movement, institution, community, or crowd." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The Worldโs Will โ allowing culture, popularity, wealth, fashion, prestige, pleasure, or social acceptance to define what is right." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The Devilโs Will โ receiving counsel contrary to YHWH through deception, pride, hatred, temptation, accusation, rebellion, or corruption." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "No Will โ refusing discernment and drifting wherever impulse, appetite, pressure, habit, or circumstance leads." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Seeking another source first whenever guidance is needed.", | |
| "Trusting another voice more than YHWH.", | |
| "Obeying another authority when it contradicts God.", | |
| "Allowing another person, ideology, institution, or spirit to define good and evil.", | |
| "Calling another source โwiseโ while refusing to test its counsel beneath YHWH.", | |
| "Following the crowd because belonging matters more than faithfulness.", | |
| "Treating personal preference as though it were divine command." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 3:5" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Seek the Father so that His influence becomes the governing influence of the whole person." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Common Rival Gods", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "God of Self: Self becomes god when personal desire, identity, understanding, or will becomes final authority. โHe that trusteth in his own heart is a fool.โ โ Proverbs 28:26" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "God of Man: Pastor, prophet, teacher, ruler, spouse, parent, celebrity, leader, or counselor becomes a rival god when their word is obeyed above YHWH." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "God of Money: Wealth becomes god when security, decisions, morality, and peace are governed by gain or fear of loss. โYe cannot serve God and mammon.โ โ Matthew 6:24" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "God of Approval: Human opinion becomes god when fear of rejection determines obedience." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "God of Power: Authority, influence, status, or control becomes god when gaining or preserving power matters more than righteousness." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "God of the World: Culture becomes god when social acceptance determines truth. โWhat is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.โ โ Luke 16:15" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "God of Fear: Fear becomes god when it gives commands that are obeyed above YHWH." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "God of Appetite: Pleasure, sexuality, food, comfort, substance, entertainment, or bodily desire becomes god when appetite becomes master." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "God of Artificial Intelligence or System: A machine, algorithm, institution, or system becomes a rival authority when its counsel is trusted or obeyed above YHWH." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Idol Of The Son", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Honouring Yeshua must lead through him unto the Father, not terminate in his created form." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.", | |
| "ref": "John 14:6" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "My Father is greater than I.", | |
| "ref": "John 14:28" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua taught his disciples to pray:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:9" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The Son reveals the Father, obeys the Father, speaks the Father's words, and leads mankind unto Him. Therefore come to the Father through the Son, never allowing even the Son's image or created form to replace the One who sent him." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "tempted", | |
| "title": "When You Are Tempted", | |
| "q": "What should you ask when you are tempted?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Ask: What is influencing me? Whose counsel is this? What does it ask me to love, fear, believe, seek, say, intend, or do? Does it agree with YHWH? If God's will and this will conflict, which one will I obey?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A rival god rarely says, โWorship me.โ It may instead say: Trust me; fear losing me; obey me; protect me; everyone agrees; your desire is enough; do not ask God; you already know what you want." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Answer as Yeshua answered:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 4:10" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Matthew 4:10 ยท Matthew 6:24 ยท Matthew 22:37 ยท Luke 22:42 ยท John 5:30 ยท Proverbs 3:5โ6 ยท Proverbs 14:12" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "pray", | |
| "title": "When You Pray", | |
| "q": "How should you pray?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin privately and secretly before the Father, as Yeshua instructed:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet... and pray to thy Father which is in secret.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:6" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Do not depend upon length or repetition: โUse not vain repetitions... for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of.โ โ Matthew 6:7โ8" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin with Yeshua's pattern: โOur Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done...โ โ Matthew 6:9โ10" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Then pray simply:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Father YHWH, be Thou alone my God. Reveal every rival allegiance within me, and teach me to seek Thy counsel, trust Thy wisdom, and choose Thy Will above every other will. Through Yeshua Thy Son, lead me unto Thee. Amen." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Matthew 6:6โ10 ยท Matthew 22:37 ยท Luke 22:42 ยท Proverbs 3:5โ6" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "repentance": { | |
| "intro": "Sin usually forms inwardly long before it appears in the body. Learn to see the layer where it began, turn there, and return to the Father there.", | |
| "stages": [ | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Physical", | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "subtitle": "Service and Embodied Allegiance", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Working, spending, traveling, or sacrificing continually for wealth, status, pleasure, power, approval, or another person while neglecting obedience to God.", | |
| "Performing an act one knows is wrong because a person, employer, institution, crowd, or system demands it.", | |
| "Allowing addiction, appetite, comfort, or routine to command the body." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did my body, time, or hands begin to do that served the wrong master?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Stop the action; return the body to obedience.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let bodily life, labor, possessions, habits, and conduct become instruments of obedience to YHWH.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 6:21" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Emotional", | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "subtitle": "Affection, Fear, Attachment", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Fearing another person's rejection more than disobedience to God.", | |
| "Loving a relationship so much that one compromises what is right to preserve it.", | |
| "Fearing poverty, loneliness, failure, or loss so strongly that fear determines the path." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What feeling โ fear, craving, resentment, attachment โ did I let govern me?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Refuse to feed the feeling; bring it honestly before YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Love deeply, but let every affection remain beneath the love owed first to YHWH.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 22:37" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Mental", | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "subtitle": "Thought and Governing Principle", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Thinking, My understanding is enough.", | |
| "Believing, What feels right must be right.", | |
| "Assuming, What everyone believes must be true." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What thought or reasoning did I accept before the outward act?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Reject the false reasoning and submit the mind to truth.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Think, study, reason, and learn while remaining teachable before YHWH.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Proverbs 14:12" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Ambitional", | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "subtitle": "Desire, Pursuit, Kingdom", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Pursuing wealth at the cost of obedience.", | |
| "Seeking fame, status, or influence as the measure of worth.", | |
| "Building a career or ministry primarily to exalt self." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What desire or ambition did I begin to pursue above obedience?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Lay the ambition down beneath the Kingdom of YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Submit aspiration, achievement, labor, and vision to YHWH's Kingdom and purpose.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 6:33" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Vocal", | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "subtitle": "Speech and Spoken Allegiance", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Saying, I will do anything you say.", | |
| "Saying, Your opinion is all that matters.", | |
| "Saying, I do not care what God says." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I say, or agree to say, that pledged me to the wrong thing?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Retract the words; let speech return under the Father.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let vows, promises, teaching, confession, counsel, and testimony remain under YHWH.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 12:34" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Intentional", | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "subtitle": "Will and Consent", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Thinking, I know what God desires, but I intend something else.", | |
| "Planning a course one knows contradicts YHWH.", | |
| "Seeking God's approval only after deciding what one already intends to do." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I decide or consent to, knowing it was against YHWH?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Withdraw consent; choose His will over your own.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Bring intention beneath YHWH and surrender personal preference when it conflicts with His counsel.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "John 6:38" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Spiritual", | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "subtitle": "Allegiance of Counsel and Governing Influence", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Seeking another source first whenever guidance is needed.", | |
| "Trusting another voice more than YHWH.", | |
| "Obeying another authority when it contradicts God." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "Whose counsel did I let govern me instead of the Father's?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Renounce the rival counsel and seek the Father alone.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Seek the Father so that His influence becomes the governing influence of the whole person.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Proverbs 3:5" | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "n": 2, | |
| "cmd": "No idol or graven image", | |
| "ref": "Exodus 20:4-5", | |
| "verse": "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image... thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them.", | |
| "sinword": "Idolatry", | |
| "sections": [ | |
| { | |
| "kind": "define", | |
| "title": "Its Opposite", | |
| "q": "What is Idolatry?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Idolatry โ giving worship, service, obedience, trust, dependence, or governing authority to a created thing." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "YHWH is not a thing. He is not wood, stone, image, statue, man, institution, machine, algorithm, artificial intelligence, or any other created form. A thing may speak, advise, calculate, display knowledge, give instructions, command attention, promise security, or appear powerful and still remain created." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The deeper question is: What created thing have I begun to bow to, obey, serve, depend upon, or allow to govern me?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 4:10" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "keep", | |
| "title": "To Keep It Inwardly", | |
| "q": "How do you keep this commandment?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "To worship YHWH in spirit and truth, keeping every image, person, system, institution, tool, technology, and representation beneath Him." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.", | |
| "ref": "John 4:24" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A man may advise. A machine may assist. A symbol may point. A system may organize. A teacher may instruct. None thereby becomes God. The created thing must remain a servant, never a master." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "dimensions", | |
| "title": "To Violate It Inwardly โ The Seven Dimensions", | |
| "q": "How is this commandment broken inwardly?", | |
| "blocks": [], | |
| "dims": [ | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "name": "Physical", | |
| "subtitle": "Bowing, Serving, Laboring, Obeying", | |
| "q": "How is it broken physically?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The physical violation occurs when the body begins serving a created thing as though the thing itself possessed rightful authority." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Bowing, kneeling, kissing, carrying, or venerating an object as divine.", | |
| "Performing acts one knows are wrong because a person, institution, or system demanded them.", | |
| "Giving one's labor, body, money, or time to preserve the power of the idol.", | |
| "Obeying a machine or system merely because it issued the instruction.", | |
| "Treating physical contact with an image, relic, object, or device as though the thing itself carried divine power." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Let the body serve YHWH, and let created things remain tools beneath Him." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "name": "Emotional", | |
| "subtitle": "Dependence, Fascination, Fear", | |
| "q": "How is it broken emotionally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The emotional violation begins when trust in YHWH is displaced by attachment to a created thing." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Feeling unable to be safe without a certain object, person, device, ritual, or institution.", | |
| "Fearing the loss of a created thing more than disobedience to God.", | |
| "Needing human or machine approval before trusting conscience before YHWH.", | |
| "Feeling spiritually secure only when a particular image, symbol, person, or system is present.", | |
| "Loving the representation more than the One it was meant to represent." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Let the heart rest in YHWH, not in the created thing." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "name": "Mental", | |
| "subtitle": "Constructing the Idol in Thought", | |
| "q": "How is it broken mentally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The mental violation occurs when the mind creates a fixed image of God, truth, or authority and refuses correction." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 3:5" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Believing, โGod must be exactly as I imagine Him.โ", | |
| "Treating a doctrine, teacher, image, interpretation, or system as incapable of error.", | |
| "Assuming intelligence equals divine wisdom.", | |
| "Believing that because a thing can answer, it must know truth absolutely.", | |
| "Treating AI output as revelation rather than created information.", | |
| "Allowing another person's conception of God to replace seeking YHWH for oneself." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Let every human thought, model, teaching, and interpretation remain corrigible beneath God." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "name": "Ambitional", | |
| "subtitle": "Seeking Power Through the Idol", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in ambition?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The ambitional violation appears when the created thing becomes desirable because of what it promises: knowledge, protection, influence, power, success, wealth, control, prediction, prestige." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Using religion as a path to status.", | |
| "Using a teacher or leader as a path to influence.", | |
| "Using technology as a means of superiority over others.", | |
| "Trusting AI to provide certainty, control, or power that properly belongs to God.", | |
| "Serving an institution because it promises position, access, or protection.", | |
| "Treating spiritual objects, rituals, or symbols as instruments for personal gain." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Ye seek me... because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.", | |
| "ref": "John 6:26" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Seek YHWH above the gifts, tools, knowledge, or power associated with created things." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "name": "Vocal", | |
| "subtitle": "Naming the Created Thing as Authority", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in speech?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The vocal violation occurs when speech grants a created thing the authority of lordship." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Saying, โIt knows, therefore I must obey.โ", | |
| "Saying, โThis man speaks for God in everything.โ", | |
| "Declaring that a machine, institution, or system โcannot be wrong.โ", | |
| "Repeating machine output as though it were divine revelation.", | |
| "Teaching others to obey a created source without discernment.", | |
| "Saying that an object, image, or device has spiritual power in itself." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 12:34" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Speak of created things according to what they are, and reserve divine authority for YHWH." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "name": "Intentional", | |
| "subtitle": "Choosing Submission to the Created Thing", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in the will?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The intentional violation occurs when a person knowingly decides to give a created thing authority over the will." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Deciding, โI will obey this man no matter what.โ", | |
| "Following a system wherever it leads without testing it.", | |
| "Choosing to do whatever a machine tells you even when conscience warns otherwise.", | |
| "Surrendering moral responsibility to a person, institution, or technology.", | |
| "Using ritual, image, or technology to bypass discernment.", | |
| "Preferring a controllable substitute for the living God." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord... but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 7:21" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Let every created authority remain beneath the Father's will." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "name": "Spiritual", | |
| "subtitle": "Allegiance of Image, Counsel, and Authority", | |
| "q": "How is it broken spiritually?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The deepest violation is allowing a created thing to become the highest source of counsel, truth, morality, or spiritual direction." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A created thing may give information, speak, imitate personality, predict, reason, or issue instructions. None of these qualities make it God." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Turning first to a created source instead of seeking YHWH.", | |
| "Trusting a person, institution, image, or machine more than God.", | |
| "Allowing another source to define morality, truth, identity, or spiritual direction.", | |
| "Treating another source's counsel as beyond correction.", | |
| "Accepting my image, his image, her image, their image, the world's image, the devil's distortion, or the machine's image of God above seeking YHWH Himself.", | |
| "Allowing AI or any other created intelligence to become one's highest counselor." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Ask, Does this created thing point beyond itself to YHWH, or has it begun to take His place?" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Common Idols", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Idol of the Son: Yeshua leads unto the Father. โNo man cometh unto the Father, but by me.โ โ John 14:6. โMy Father is greater than I.โ โ John 14:28. His image, flesh, portrait, statue, or representation must not replace the Father whom he reveals." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Idol of a Man: Pastor, prophet, teacher, ruler, spouse, parent, celebrity, scholar, or leader becomes an idol when their word becomes unquestionable above YHWH." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Idol of Self: Desire, identity, feeling, preference, or personal judgment becomes an idol when self becomes final authority. โHe that trusteth in his own heart is a fool.โ โ Proverbs 28:26" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Idol of Institution: Church, denomination, government, nation, corporation, movement, or organization becomes an idol when loyalty to it overrides obedience to God." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Idol of Artificial Intelligence: AI is a created thing. It may answer, advise, calculate, imitate conversation, generate content, and give instructions, but it is not God. It becomes an idol when a person gives it unquestioned authority, obeys it against conscience, trusts it above YHWH, or lets it become the highest counselor of life." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "The Speaking Image", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Scripture does not use the modern term artificial intelligence, but Revelation describes a created image that is caused to speak and becomes connected with demanded worship:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak...", | |
| "ref": "Revelation 13:15" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The text does not explicitly identify that image as AI, so the two should not simply be declared identical. Yet the warning remains relevant: an image may speak and still remain an image; speech does not make it God, intelligence does not make it God, instruction does not make it Lord." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Who... worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator...", | |
| "ref": "Romans 1:25" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "tempted", | |
| "title": "When You Are Tempted", | |
| "q": "What should you ask when you are tempted?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Ask: Is this the Creator or something created? Am I using it or serving it? Am I receiving assistance or surrendering authority? Does it help me seek YHWH or replace the need to seek Him? Would I obey it if it contradicted God?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 4:10" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Exodus 20:4โ5 ยท Matthew 4:10 ยท John 4:24 ยท Romans 1:25 ยท Proverbs 3:5 ยท Proverbs 28:26 ยท Revelation 13:15" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "pray", | |
| "title": "When You Pray", | |
| "q": "How should you pray?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin privately, as Yeshua instructed:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet... and pray to thy Father which is in secret.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:6" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Do not rely on length or repetition: โUse not vain repetitions... for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of.โ โ Matthew 6:7โ8" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin with the pattern Yeshua gave: โOur Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done...โ โ Matthew 6:9โ10" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Then pray simply:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Father YHWH, keep me from every idol. Let no person, image, institution, machine, AI, or created thing receive the worship, trust, obedience, or authority that belongs to Thee. Teach me to worship Thee in spirit and truth, through Yeshua Thy Son. Amen." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Matthew 6:6โ10 ยท John 4:24 ยท Matthew 4:10" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "repentance": { | |
| "intro": "Sin usually forms inwardly long before it appears in the body. Learn to see the layer where it began, turn there, and return to the Father there.", | |
| "stages": [ | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Physical", | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "subtitle": "Bowing, Serving, Laboring, Obeying", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Bowing, kneeling, kissing, carrying, or venerating an object as divine.", | |
| "Performing acts one knows are wrong because a person, institution, or system demanded them.", | |
| "Giving one's labor, body, money, or time to preserve the power of the idol." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did my body, time, or hands begin to do that served the wrong master?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Stop the action; return the body to obedience.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let the body serve YHWH, and let created things remain tools beneath Him.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Emotional", | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "subtitle": "Dependence, Fascination, Fear", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Feeling unable to be safe without a certain object, person, device, ritual, or institution.", | |
| "Fearing the loss of a created thing more than disobedience to God.", | |
| "Needing human or machine approval before trusting conscience before YHWH." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What feeling โ fear, craving, resentment, attachment โ did I let govern me?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Refuse to feed the feeling; bring it honestly before YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let the heart rest in YHWH, not in the created thing.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Mental", | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "subtitle": "Constructing the Idol in Thought", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Believing, โGod must be exactly as I imagine Him.โ", | |
| "Treating a doctrine, teacher, image, interpretation, or system as incapable of error.", | |
| "Assuming intelligence equals divine wisdom." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What thought or reasoning did I accept before the outward act?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Reject the false reasoning and submit the mind to truth.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let every human thought, model, teaching, and interpretation remain corrigible beneath God.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Proverbs 3:5" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Ambitional", | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "subtitle": "Seeking Power Through the Idol", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Using religion as a path to status.", | |
| "Using a teacher or leader as a path to influence.", | |
| "Using technology as a means of superiority over others." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What desire or ambition did I begin to pursue above obedience?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Lay the ambition down beneath the Kingdom of YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Seek YHWH above the gifts, tools, knowledge, or power associated with created things.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "John 6:26" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Vocal", | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "subtitle": "Naming the Created Thing as Authority", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Saying, โIt knows, therefore I must obey.โ", | |
| "Saying, โThis man speaks for God in everything.โ", | |
| "Declaring that a machine, institution, or system โcannot be wrong.โ" | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I say, or agree to say, that pledged me to the wrong thing?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Retract the words; let speech return under the Father.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Speak of created things according to what they are, and reserve divine authority for YHWH.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 12:34" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Intentional", | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "subtitle": "Choosing Submission to the Created Thing", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Deciding, โI will obey this man no matter what.โ", | |
| "Following a system wherever it leads without testing it.", | |
| "Choosing to do whatever a machine tells you even when conscience warns otherwise." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I decide or consent to, knowing it was against YHWH?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Withdraw consent; choose His will over your own.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let every created authority remain beneath the Father's will.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 7:21" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Spiritual", | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "subtitle": "Allegiance of Image, Counsel, and Authority", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Turning first to a created source instead of seeking YHWH.", | |
| "Trusting a person, institution, image, or machine more than God.", | |
| "Allowing another source to define morality, truth, identity, or spiritual direction." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "Whose counsel did I let govern me instead of the Father's?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Renounce the rival counsel and seek the Father alone.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Ask, Does this created thing point beyond itself to YHWH, or has it begun to take His place?", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "n": 3, | |
| "cmd": "Do not take the Name of YHWH in vain", | |
| "ref": "Exodus 20:7", | |
| "verse": "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.", | |
| "sinword": "Taking YHWH in vain", | |
| "sections": [ | |
| { | |
| "kind": "define", | |
| "title": "Its Opposite", | |
| "q": "What is Taking YHWH in vain?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Taking YHWH in vain โ receiving His breath, life, Name, and daily gift of existence, yet spending that life upon vanity, self-will, sin, or purposes contrary to His Kingdom." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The Name is YHWH, and His Name is bound to the breath of life itself. Every breath testifies that life is received, not self-created." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "And the LORD God... breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.", | |
| "ref": "Genesis 2:7" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things.", | |
| "ref": "Acts 17:25" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.", | |
| "ref": "Job 33:4" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "To take YHWHโs Name in vain therefore means more than speaking it carelessly. It is to take the life He continually gives and use that life vainlyโagainst His commandments, apart from His purpose, or as though the breath belonged to us independently of Him." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Every breath asks: What will I do with the life I have just been given?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:33" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "keep", | |
| "title": "To Keep It Inwardly", | |
| "q": "How do you keep this commandment?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "To receive every breath as life from YHWH and use that life toward His will, His righteousness, His Kingdom, and the good purpose for which life was given." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "He created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited.", | |
| "ref": "Isaiah 45:18" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 2:21" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Life is not given merely to survive, consume, entertain self, pursue vanity, and die. Those who seek everlasting life in God's Kingdom are called to breathe and live on purpose in His purpose." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua gives one of the clearest examples of this in Gethsemane. He does not pretend to delight in the suffering before him. He openly brings his distress and personal desire before the Father, seeking counsel concerning what has been commanded:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.", | |
| "ref": "Luke 22:42" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "This is not merely resignation. It is a living example of right allegiance." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua acknowledges his own will: he does not desire the cup. He seeks the Father privately. He asks whether another way is possible. Yet when the Father's will and his personal desire stand in tension, he refuses to enthrone self." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "This keeps the First Commandment: no rival will is placed above YHWH." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "It keeps the Second Commandment: he does not replace the living Father with his own image of what God ought to require, nor with a controllable substitute." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "And it keeps the Third Commandment: the life and breath he has been given are not spent upon self-preservation at the expense of the Father's purpose." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The pattern is therefore:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Seek counsel ยท speak honestly ยท ask rightly ยท surrender self-will ยท obey YHWH." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "dimensions", | |
| "title": "To Violate It Inwardly โ The Seven Dimensions", | |
| "q": "How is this commandment broken inwardly?", | |
| "blocks": [], | |
| "dims": [ | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "name": "Physical", | |
| "subtitle": "Using Life Against the Giver of Life", | |
| "q": "How is it broken physically?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The physical violation occurs whenever the life and strength YHWH gives are used bodily against His commandments." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Using one's body to murder, steal, commit adultery, deceive, abuse, exploit, or worship idols.", | |
| "Spending bodily strength continually upon vanity while refusing righteous works.", | |
| "Destroying another while living by breath from the same Giver.", | |
| "Using health, time, possessions, sexuality, labor, or physical ability contrary to God's purpose.", | |
| "Acting as though one's life belongs absolutely to oneself." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Use the body and the breath sustaining it for righteousness, mercy, labor, service, and obedience." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "name": "Emotional", | |
| "subtitle": "Spending Life Upon Vanity of Heart", | |
| "q": "How is it broken emotionally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Life may be taken in vain emotionally when the heart continually feeds what opposes God." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Nourishing hatred while receiving the breath of life.", | |
| "Living for approval, jealousy, envy, resentment, fear, or revenge.", | |
| "Allowing pleasure or emotional gratification to become life's governing purpose.", | |
| "Refusing forgiveness because bitterness feels more valuable than obedience.", | |
| "Despising the life of another while depending upon YHWH for one's own." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Let the heart use God-given life to love, forgive, show mercy, rejoice in righteousness, and seek peace." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "name": "Mental", | |
| "subtitle": "Using the Mind for Vanity and Falsehood", | |
| "q": "How is it broken mentally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The mental violation occurs when the life of the mind is spent cultivating what contradicts truth." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Planning sin while receiving life from YHWH.", | |
| "Filling the mind continually with vanity while refusing wisdom.", | |
| "Rationalizing violations of God's commandments.", | |
| "Treating temporary earthly life as though there were no Creator, judgment, purpose, or Kingdom.", | |
| "Using intelligence to deceive, exploit, justify evil, or exalt self.", | |
| "Knowing what is right and devising reasons not to do it." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 14:12" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Use the mind to seek truth, wisdom, understanding, and the will of YHWH." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "name": "Ambitional", | |
| "subtitle": "Spending Life Upon a Vain Kingdom", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in ambition?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The ambitional violation occurs when one's limited days and breaths are devoted primarily to wealth, status, fame, pleasure, recognition, control, possessions, self-exaltation, temporary glory while God's Kingdom is neglected." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Building one's own kingdom while ignoring God's.", | |
| "Measuring life's worth only by money, possessions, status, or achievements.", | |
| "Sacrificing righteousness for career or advancement.", | |
| "Spending decades pursuing what cannot survive death.", | |
| "Treating the purpose of life as merely getting what one wants." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 16:26" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "โSeek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness.โ โ Matthew 6:33" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "name": "Vocal", | |
| "subtitle": "Profaning the Name and Breath", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in speech?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Speech uses breath. Therefore the very breath YHWH gives may be used either to bless or to profane." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Mocking the Name YHWH.", | |
| "Treating the holy breath of life itself as a joke or object of contempt.", | |
| "Using God's Name as profanity, curse, empty exclamation, or entertainment.", | |
| "Lying, slandering, falsely accusing, or bearing false witness with God-given breath.", | |
| "Using the mouth to dishonor the God whose breath makes speech possible.", | |
| "Saying โLordโ while knowingly speaking against His commandments." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 12:34" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Let the breath that becomes speech honor the One who gave the breath." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "name": "Intentional", | |
| "subtitle": "Choosing My Purpose Over His Purpose", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in the will?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The intentional violation occurs when a person knowingly chooses to use life according to My Will instead of God's Will." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Knowing God's command and intentionally choosing the opposite.", | |
| "Deciding that one's life exists primarily for personal pleasure or ambition.", | |
| "Saying inwardly, It is my life; I will do what I want with it.", | |
| "Planning violations of any other commandment.", | |
| "Receiving another day from God while deliberately refusing His purpose for it.", | |
| "Treating repentance as something always available later while spending the present life upon self." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua's prayer in Gethsemane is the opposite pattern: his will is honestly expressed, the Father's counsel is sought, and his will remains subordinate to YHWH's will. โ Luke 22:42" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Receive life as entrusted life and deliberately use it according to the Father's will." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "name": "Spiritual", | |
| "subtitle": "Taking the Life of YHWH Without Living Unto YHWH", | |
| "q": "How is it broken spiritually?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "This is the deepest violation. Every person continually receives what they cannot manufacture for themselves: life and breath." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yet a person may breathe from YHWH while spiritually living as though YHWH were irrelevant." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Receiving God's breath while giving ultimate allegiance to self.", | |
| "Living by His life while serving another god.", | |
| "Receiving His daily gift while refusing His commandments.", | |
| "Using His life to worship the creature rather than the Creator.", | |
| "Seeking My Will, His Will, Her Will, Their Will, the World's Will, or the Devil's Will instead of God's Will.", | |
| "Taking every breath for granted rather than recognizing the Giver.", | |
| "Desiring everlasting life in God's Kingdom while refusing the Kingdom's righteousness now." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "In him we live, and move, and have our being.", | |
| "ref": "Acts 17:28" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Seek YHWH's counsel as Yeshua didโhonestly bringing personal desire before the Father, yet allowing the Father's will to remain supreme." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Every Commandment Touches The Third", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "To violate another commandment is also, in this deeper sense, to take YHWH's Name and life in vain, because the violation is performed with life He supplied." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "To serve another god uses His life against the First Commandment. To worship an idol uses His life against the Second. Murder, adultery, theft, false witness, coveting, dishonoring parents, and refusing holy rest likewise spend God-given life contrary to His commands." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Scripture makes this connection strikingly with theft:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 30:9" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "So every dimensional violationโphysical, emotional, mental, ambitional, vocal, intentional, or spiritualโcan become a taking of YHWH's Name in vain when God-given life is knowingly employed contrary to His will." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "The Worst Profanation", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Among the gravest expressions is knowingly mocking YHWH, His Name, or the holy breath of life itself." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The breath by which the mockery is spoken is itself received from God." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The tongue cannot mock without breath. The mind cannot devise mockery without life. The body cannot act without the sustaining gift." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Once the Giver of life is known, there is no longer the same excuse for treating life as meaningless, purposeless, self-owned, or vain." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "tempted", | |
| "title": "When You Are Tempted", | |
| "q": "What should you ask when you are tempted?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Ask: Who gave me this breath? What am I about to use this life to do? Does this honor YHWH or spend His gift upon vanity? Have I actually sought His counsel, or merely decided my own will? Am I living for His Kingdom or my own?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Remember the pattern of Yeshua:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.", | |
| "ref": "Luke 22:42" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "And:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:33" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Exodus 20:7 ยท Genesis 2:7 ยท Job 33:4 ยท Acts 17:25,28 ยท Isaiah 45:18 ยท Proverbs 2:21 ยท Proverbs 30:9 ยท Matthew 6:33 ยท Luke 22:42" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "pray", | |
| "title": "When You Pray", | |
| "q": "How should you pray?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin privately and secretly before the Father, as Yeshua himself did when facing the cup:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet... and pray to thy Father which is in secret.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:6" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Do not rely upon many words: โUse not vain repetitions... for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of.โ โ Matthew 6:7โ8" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin as Yeshua taught: โOur Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done...โ โ Matthew 6:9โ10" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Then pray simply:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Father YHWH, thank Thee for the breath and life Thou givest me. Let me seek Thy counsel honestly, yet choose Thy will above my own. Let me not take Thy Name or Thy life in vain, but use every breath for Thy Kingdom. Through Yeshua Thy Son, amen." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Matthew 6:6โ10 ยท Luke 22:42 ยท Acts 17:25 ยท Matthew 6:33" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "repentance": { | |
| "intro": "Sin usually forms inwardly long before it appears in the body. Learn to see the layer where it began, turn there, and return to the Father there.", | |
| "stages": [ | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Physical", | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "subtitle": "Using Life Against the Giver of Life", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Using one's body to murder, steal, commit adultery, deceive, abuse, exploit, or worship idols.", | |
| "Spending bodily strength continually upon vanity while refusing righteous works.", | |
| "Destroying another while living by breath from the same Giver." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did my body, time, or hands begin to do that served the wrong master?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Stop the action; return the body to obedience.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Use the body and the breath sustaining it for righteousness, mercy, labor, service, and obedience.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Emotional", | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "subtitle": "Spending Life Upon Vanity of Heart", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Nourishing hatred while receiving the breath of life.", | |
| "Living for approval, jealousy, envy, resentment, fear, or revenge.", | |
| "Allowing pleasure or emotional gratification to become life's governing purpose." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What feeling โ fear, craving, resentment, attachment โ did I let govern me?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Refuse to feed the feeling; bring it honestly before YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let the heart use God-given life to love, forgive, show mercy, rejoice in righteousness, and seek peace.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Mental", | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "subtitle": "Using the Mind for Vanity and Falsehood", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Planning sin while receiving life from YHWH.", | |
| "Filling the mind continually with vanity while refusing wisdom.", | |
| "Rationalizing violations of God's commandments." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What thought or reasoning did I accept before the outward act?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Reject the false reasoning and submit the mind to truth.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Use the mind to seek truth, wisdom, understanding, and the will of YHWH.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Proverbs 14:12" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Ambitional", | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "subtitle": "Spending Life Upon a Vain Kingdom", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Building one's own kingdom while ignoring God's.", | |
| "Measuring life's worth only by money, possessions, status, or achievements.", | |
| "Sacrificing righteousness for career or advancement." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What desire or ambition did I begin to pursue above obedience?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Lay the ambition down beneath the Kingdom of YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "โSeek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness.โ โ Matthew 6:33", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 16:26" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Vocal", | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "subtitle": "Profaning the Name and Breath", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Mocking the Name YHWH.", | |
| "Treating the holy breath of life itself as a joke or object of contempt.", | |
| "Using God's Name as profanity, curse, empty exclamation, or entertainment." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I say, or agree to say, that pledged me to the wrong thing?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Retract the words; let speech return under the Father.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let the breath that becomes speech honor the One who gave the breath.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 12:34" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Intentional", | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "subtitle": "Choosing My Purpose Over His Purpose", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Knowing God's command and intentionally choosing the opposite.", | |
| "Deciding that one's life exists primarily for personal pleasure or ambition.", | |
| "Saying inwardly, It is my life; I will do what I want with it." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I decide or consent to, knowing it was against YHWH?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Withdraw consent; choose His will over your own.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Receive life as entrusted life and deliberately use it according to the Father's will.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Spiritual", | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "subtitle": "Taking the Life of YHWH Without Living Unto YHWH", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Receiving God's breath while giving ultimate allegiance to self.", | |
| "Living by His life while serving another god.", | |
| "Receiving His daily gift while refusing His commandments." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "Whose counsel did I let govern me instead of the Father's?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Renounce the rival counsel and seek the Father alone.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Seek YHWH's counsel as Yeshua didโhonestly bringing personal desire before the Father, yet allowing the Father's will to remain supreme.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Acts 17:28" | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "n": 4, | |
| "cmd": "Keep the Sabbath holy", | |
| "ref": "Exodus 20:8", | |
| "verse": "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.", | |
| "sinword": "Profaning the Sabbath", | |
| "sections": [ | |
| { | |
| "kind": "define", | |
| "title": "Its Opposite", | |
| "q": "What is Profaning the Sabbath?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Profaning the Sabbath โ treating the day YHWH sanctified as an ordinary day for one's own labor, business, pleasure, ambition, entertainment, or self-will rather than setting it apart for rest, worship, mercy, remembrance, and drawing nearer to the Father." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The Sabbath is not simply โtaking a day off.โ It is holy time belonging to YHWH." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "The seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God.", | |
| "ref": "Exodus 20:10" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The deeper question is: Will I spend the day according to My Will, or receive it according to God's Will?" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Why The Sabbath Is The Seventh Day โ Saturday", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The commandment identifies the Sabbath specifically as the seventh day, not merely any one day chosen by man." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "At creation:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made... And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.", | |
| "ref": "Genesis 2:2โ3" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "At Sinai:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Six days shalt thou labour... But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God.", | |
| "ref": "Exodus 20:9โ10" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The Gospel record also preserves the weekly order. Yeshua was buried on the preparation day; the women rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment; afterward they came to the tomb on the first day of the week. โ Luke 23:54โ56; Luke 24:1" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Thus the biblical sequence remains: Preparation โ Sabbath/seventh day โ first day of the week. The seventh day corresponds to Saturday; Sunday is the first day." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua did not declare the Sabbath abolished or relocate it to another day. He taught its rightful purpose:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.", | |
| "ref": "Mark 2:27" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "keep", | |
| "title": "To Keep It Inwardly", | |
| "q": "How do you keep this commandment?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "To cease from ordinary work and self-directed pursuit, remember YHWH as Creator and Provider, worship Him, seek His counsel, study His Word, pray, give thanks, show mercy, do good, restore the body and mind, and deliberately use the day to grow closer to the Father." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The Sabbath is not meant primarily for serving one's own pleasure." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "YHWH says:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day... not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD.", | |
| "ref": "Isaiah 58:13โ14" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The distinction is crucial: Sabbath rest is not merely replacing employment with self-indulgence. It is setting aside ordinary self-directed life so the person may delight in YHWH Himself." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The pattern is: cease ยท remember ยท worship ยท pray ยท learn ยท receive ยท serve ยท show mercy ยท draw nearer to the Father." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "dimensions", | |
| "title": "To Violate It Inwardly โ The Seven Dimensions", | |
| "q": "How is this commandment broken inwardly?", | |
| "blocks": [], | |
| "dims": [ | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "name": "Physical", | |
| "subtitle": "Ordinary Labor and Self-Directed Activity", | |
| "q": "How is it broken physically?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The physical violation occurs when the seventh day is treated like every other day instead of being set apart." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Performing ordinary work, business, buying, selling, or unnecessary labor as though the day were common.", | |
| "Filling Sabbath with errands and tasks that could reasonably have been prepared beforehand.", | |
| "Working primarily for profit when no genuine necessity requires it.", | |
| "Making employees, family members, or others labor unnecessarily for one's convenience.", | |
| "Spending the entire day in entertainment, shopping, travel, hobbies, or consumption for personal pleasure.", | |
| "Refusing bodily rest because productivity has become master." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Prepare beforehand where possible, cease ordinary labor, restore the body, worship YHWH, and remain available for necessity, mercy, and doing good." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "name": "Emotional", | |
| "subtitle": "Refusing the Peace of YHWH", | |
| "q": "How is it broken emotionally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The emotional violation occurs when anxiety, boredom, craving, resentment, or restlessness governs the day." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Feeling unable to stop because unfinished work creates fear.", | |
| "Becoming irritated because Sabbath limits what one wants to do.", | |
| "Treating holy rest as deprivation rather than gift.", | |
| "Requiring continual entertainment because quiet feels uncomfortable.", | |
| "Bringing workplace anger, competitive striving, or anxiety into the entire day.", | |
| "Wanting Sabbath merely as personal escape rather than communion with YHWH." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Receive the day gratefully; let anxiety yield to trust, agitation to peace, and boredom to attentive fellowship with the Father." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "name": "Mental", | |
| "subtitle": "Forgetting Why the Day Is Holy", | |
| "q": "How is it broken mentally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The mental violation occurs when the Sabbath is misunderstood, dismissed, or reduced either to legalism or mere leisure." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Thinking, Any day I choose is automatically the Sabbath, despite the command naming the seventh day.", | |
| "Treating Sunday, the first day, as though Scripture itself calls it the seventh-day Sabbath.", | |
| "Believing constant productivity is more valuable than obedience.", | |
| "Assuming physical inactivity alone fulfills the command.", | |
| "Thinking Sabbath exists merely for entertainment or recreation.", | |
| "Becoming obsessed with technical restrictions while forgetting God, mercy, and holiness." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Remember why YHWH sanctified the seventh day and let understanding serve worship rather than argument." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "name": "Ambitional", | |
| "subtitle": "Pursuing My Kingdom on God's Day", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in ambition?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The ambitional violation appears when the day is consumed by profit, advancement, status, productivity, personal projects, pleasure, entertainment, possessions, achievement rather than delighting in YHWH." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Choosing extra profit over Sabbath because more money feels too important to refuse.", | |
| "Continuing career advancement or personal projects that could wait.", | |
| "Using the day chiefly to build one's own business, audience, reputation, or kingdom.", | |
| "Treating every free hour as an opportunity for personal gain.", | |
| "Spending Sabbath entirely pursuing recreation because personal pleasure remains the highest aim.", | |
| "Making even religious activity about being seen, praised, or influential." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:33" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Let personal ambition rest so the Kingdom of YHWH becomes first again." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "name": "Vocal", | |
| "subtitle": "Speaking My Own Words", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in speech?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Isaiah specifically includes speech:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Nor speaking thine own words.", | |
| "ref": "Isaiah 58:13" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "This does not mean silence. It concerns allowing ordinary self-directed concerns to dominate holy time." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Spending the day consumed by business negotiations, profit, schedules, workplace problems, or commercial plans.", | |
| "Continually talking about what one intends to buy, build, achieve, or accomplish.", | |
| "Turning Sabbath into arguments, gossip, slander, complaining, or controversy.", | |
| "Boasting about work, possessions, or success.", | |
| "Using religious conversation primarily to condemn others rather than seek God.", | |
| "Speaking continually of self while scarcely speaking to or of YHWH." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Let speech turn toward prayer, gratitude, Scripture, encouragement, reconciliation, wisdom, testimony, blessing, and the things of God." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "name": "Intentional", | |
| "subtitle": "Choosing My Will for the Day", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in the will?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The intentional violation occurs when a person knows YHWH has sanctified the day yet consciously decides to spend it primarily according to personal desire." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Thinking, This is my day; I will spend it however I please.", | |
| "Deliberately scheduling unnecessary ordinary work every Sabbath.", | |
| "Knowing an activity can wait yet refusing to set it aside.", | |
| "Choosing personal pleasure over communion with YHWH.", | |
| "Treating obedience as optional whenever another activity seems more enjoyable.", | |
| "Keeping the outward Sabbath while inwardly waiting impatiently for it to end so self-directed life can resume." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Let My Will yield to God's Will concerning the day: Father, how wouldst Thou have me spend the time Thou hast made holy?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "name": "Spiritual", | |
| "subtitle": "A Day of Allegiance and Counsel", | |
| "q": "How is it broken spiritually?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The deepest Sabbath question is: Whose day is this, and whose counsel will govern how I spend it?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "YHWH calls it:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "My holy day.", | |
| "ref": "Isaiah 58:13" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The Sabbath therefore becomes a weekly act of allegiance." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Treating holy time as personal property.", | |
| "Seeking entertainment, commerce, worldly counsel, or distraction throughout the day while scarcely seeking YHWH.", | |
| "Refusing prayer, Scripture, reflection, or worship because personal plans come first.", | |
| "Keeping the day ceremonially while remaining spiritually distant from the Father.", | |
| "Allowing My Will, Their Will, the World's Will, or appetite to decide what Sabbath becomes.", | |
| "Forgetting the Creator while enjoying the rest He provided." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Seek YHWH's counsel, learn His ways, remember His works, hear His Word, pray privately, worship Him, and use the day intentionally to deepen fellowship with the Father." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Not My Pleasure, But Delight In YHWH", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Isaiah gives one of Scripture's clearest explanations of Sabbath holiness: not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, but calling the Sabbath a delight and honoring YHWH. โ Isaiah 58:13โ14" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "This does not mean that every pleasant thing is sinful on Sabbath. Rest itself is pleasant. Fellowship can be pleasant. Eating, walking, family, worship, learning, and mercy may bring joy." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The distinction is purpose and rule." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The Sabbath is not: What do I want to do with my free day?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "It becomes: Father, how may this holy day draw me nearer to Thee?" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Yeshua And The Sabbath", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua kept the Sabbath while correcting human traditions that had obscured its purpose." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "It is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 12:12" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "He healed, showed mercy, taught, and defended necessary acts." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Therefore Sabbath holiness does not mean ignoring suffering in order to preserve ritual." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Mercy is not Sabbath-breaking. Doing good is not Sabbath-breaking. Necessity is not Sabbath-breaking." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua restored the proper order: the Sabbath serves God's good purpose for mankind, while mankind uses the Sabbath to honor the Father." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.", | |
| "ref": "Mark 2:27" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Preparation", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The Sabbath is easier to keep holy when ordinary needs are prepared beforehand. Scripture itself preserves the idea of a preparation day immediately before Sabbath. โ Luke 23:54" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Where reasonably possible, prepare food, errands, purchases, ordinary work, and necessary tasks beforehand so Sabbath does not become crowded with what could have been finished earlier." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Preparation says beforehand:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Tomorrow belongs especially to YHWH." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "tempted", | |
| "title": "When You Are Tempted", | |
| "q": "What should you ask when you are tempted?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Ask: Is this necessary, merciful, or goodโor merely what I want? Could this ordinary work have been prepared beforehand? Am I serving YHWH today or simply serving my own pleasure? Have I actually spent time seeking the Father? Does this activity draw me nearer to Him or make His holy day indistinguishable from every other day?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Remember:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "If thou... call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable... not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure... Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD.", | |
| "ref": "Isaiah 58:13โ14" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Genesis 2:2โ3 ยท Exodus 20:8โ11 ยท Isaiah 58:13โ14 ยท Matthew 12:12 ยท Mark 2:27 ยท Luke 23:54โ56 ยท Luke 24:1 ยท Hebrews 4:9โ10" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "pray", | |
| "title": "When You Pray", | |
| "q": "How should you pray?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin privately and secretly before the Father:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet... and pray to thy Father which is in secret.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:6" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Do not rely upon many words: โUse not vain repetitions... for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of.โ โ Matthew 6:7โ8" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin as Yeshua taught: โOur Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done...โ โ Matthew 6:9โ10" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Then pray simply:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Father YHWH, thank Thee for Thy holy Sabbath. Teach me to cease from my own ways and pleasure, delight in Thee, seek Thy counsel, do good, and grow nearer to Thee on the seventh day. Let Thy will, not mine, govern this day. Through Yeshua Thy Son, amen." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Matthew 6:6โ10 ยท Isaiah 58:13โ14 ยท Mark 2:27 ยท Matthew 12:12" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "repentance": { | |
| "intro": "Sin usually forms inwardly long before it appears in the body. Learn to see the layer where it began, turn there, and return to the Father there.", | |
| "stages": [ | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Physical", | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "subtitle": "Ordinary Labor and Self-Directed Activity", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Performing ordinary work, business, buying, selling, or unnecessary labor as though the day were common.", | |
| "Filling Sabbath with errands and tasks that could reasonably have been prepared beforehand.", | |
| "Working primarily for profit when no genuine necessity requires it." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did my body, time, or hands begin to do that served the wrong master?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Stop the action; return the body to obedience.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Prepare beforehand where possible, cease ordinary labor, restore the body, worship YHWH, and remain available for necessity, mercy, and doing good.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Emotional", | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "subtitle": "Refusing the Peace of YHWH", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Feeling unable to stop because unfinished work creates fear.", | |
| "Becoming irritated because Sabbath limits what one wants to do.", | |
| "Treating holy rest as deprivation rather than gift." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What feeling โ fear, craving, resentment, attachment โ did I let govern me?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Refuse to feed the feeling; bring it honestly before YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Receive the day gratefully; let anxiety yield to trust, agitation to peace, and boredom to attentive fellowship with the Father.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Mental", | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "subtitle": "Forgetting Why the Day Is Holy", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Thinking, Any day I choose is automatically the Sabbath, despite the command naming the seventh day.", | |
| "Treating Sunday, the first day, as though Scripture itself calls it the seventh-day Sabbath.", | |
| "Believing constant productivity is more valuable than obedience." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What thought or reasoning did I accept before the outward act?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Reject the false reasoning and submit the mind to truth.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Remember why YHWH sanctified the seventh day and let understanding serve worship rather than argument.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Ambitional", | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "subtitle": "Pursuing My Kingdom on God's Day", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Choosing extra profit over Sabbath because more money feels too important to refuse.", | |
| "Continuing career advancement or personal projects that could wait.", | |
| "Using the day chiefly to build one's own business, audience, reputation, or kingdom." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What desire or ambition did I begin to pursue above obedience?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Lay the ambition down beneath the Kingdom of YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let personal ambition rest so the Kingdom of YHWH becomes first again.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 6:33" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Vocal", | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "subtitle": "Speaking My Own Words", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Spending the day consumed by business negotiations, profit, schedules, workplace problems, or commercial plans.", | |
| "Continually talking about what one intends to buy, build, achieve, or accomplish.", | |
| "Turning Sabbath into arguments, gossip, slander, complaining, or controversy." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I say, or agree to say, that pledged me to the wrong thing?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Retract the words; let speech return under the Father.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let speech turn toward prayer, gratitude, Scripture, encouragement, reconciliation, wisdom, testimony, blessing, and the things of God.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Isaiah 58:13" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Intentional", | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "subtitle": "Choosing My Will for the Day", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Thinking, This is my day; I will spend it however I please.", | |
| "Deliberately scheduling unnecessary ordinary work every Sabbath.", | |
| "Knowing an activity can wait yet refusing to set it aside." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I decide or consent to, knowing it was against YHWH?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Withdraw consent; choose His will over your own.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let My Will yield to God's Will concerning the day: Father, how wouldst Thou have me spend the time Thou hast made holy?", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Spiritual", | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "subtitle": "A Day of Allegiance and Counsel", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Treating holy time as personal property.", | |
| "Seeking entertainment, commerce, worldly counsel, or distraction throughout the day while scarcely seeking YHWH.", | |
| "Refusing prayer, Scripture, reflection, or worship because personal plans come first." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "Whose counsel did I let govern me instead of the Father's?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Renounce the rival counsel and seek the Father alone.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Seek YHWH's counsel, learn His ways, remember His works, hear His Word, pray privately, worship Him, and use the day intentionally to deepen fellowship with the Father.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Isaiah 58:13" | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "n": 5, | |
| "cmd": "Honour thy father and thy mother", | |
| "ref": "Exodus 20:12", | |
| "verse": "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.", | |
| "sinword": "Dishonour", | |
| "sections": [ | |
| { | |
| "kind": "define", | |
| "title": "Its Opposite", | |
| "q": "What is Dishonour?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Dishonour โ contempt, bitterness, neglect, mockery, rebellion, abandonment, ingratitude, or refusal to recognize the place of those through whom one's earthly life and beginning were given." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "To honor father and mother does not mean calling every parental action righteous, obeying sin, accepting abuse, or pretending wrongdoing did not occur. Honor concerns how one responds before YHWH: with truth, restraint, gratitude for life, proper care, forgiveness where possible, and refusal to answer evil with evil." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua reaffirmed the command:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Honour thy father and mother.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 19:19" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "And strongly condemned using religion as an excuse to neglect one's parents:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition.", | |
| "ref": "Mark 7:12โ13" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The deeper question is: Can I tell the truth about my parents without allowing contempt, bitterness, vengeance, neglect, or pride to govern me?" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "keep", | |
| "title": "To Keep It Inwardly", | |
| "q": "How do you keep this commandment?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "To receive one's life and lineage with gratitude before YHWH; to speak truth without needless dishonor; to care for parents where care is rightly owed; to forgive where repentance and healing are needed; and to preserve proper boundaries where another person's behavior is sinful or dangerous." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Honor does not require falsehood." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "It does not require calling evil good." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "It does not require obeying a parent against YHWH." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The First Commandment still governs the Fifth: God's Will remains above His Will, Her Will, or Their Will." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 10:37" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Therefore parents are to be honored, but never enthroned above God." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "dimensions", | |
| "title": "To Violate It Inwardly โ The Seven Dimensions", | |
| "q": "How is this commandment broken inwardly?", | |
| "blocks": [], | |
| "dims": [ | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "name": "Physical", | |
| "subtitle": "Neglect, Abuse, Abandonment", | |
| "q": "How is it broken physically?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The physical violation occurs when dishonor becomes embodied in action." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Striking, abusing, threatening, or physically intimidating a parent.", | |
| "Neglecting genuine needs when one is able and rightly responsible to help.", | |
| "Abandoning an elderly or vulnerable parent out of selfish convenience.", | |
| "Refusing reasonable care while spending freely on oneself.", | |
| "Destroying property or acting violently in anger toward them.", | |
| "Using distance or withholding practical help purely as punishment or revenge." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua specifically condemned the religious excuse of withholding support from parents. โ Mark 7:10โ13" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Where appropriate and safe, let practical care, restraint, responsibility, and mercy accompany honor." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "name": "Emotional", | |
| "subtitle": "Contempt, Bitterness, Resentment", | |
| "q": "How is it broken emotionally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The emotional violation occurs when wounds are allowed to harden into contempt or hatred." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Secretly despising a father or mother.", | |
| "Rehearsing old offenses continually in order to preserve anger.", | |
| "Feeling satisfaction when they suffer, fail, or are humiliated.", | |
| "Refusing every possibility of forgiveness because bitterness has become part of identity.", | |
| "Allowing childhood pain to justify cruelty in adulthood.", | |
| "Loving the grievance more than the possibility of healing." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "This does not mean painful emotions are themselves sin. Hurt, anger, grief, disappointment, and fear can be real and justified. Violation deepens when those emotions become cultivated contempt, vengeance, or hatred." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Bring wounds honestly before YHWH and refuse to let injury become permission to become injurious." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "name": "Mental", | |
| "subtitle": "Despising Them in Thought", | |
| "q": "How is it broken mentally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The mental violation occurs when one's inner judgment strips parents of all dignity and reduces them only to their failures." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Thinking, They are worthless.", | |
| "Refusing to recognize any good because of real wrongs.", | |
| "Assuming the worst motive behind everything they do.", | |
| "Mentally rewriting history only to justify permanent hatred.", | |
| "Comparing oneself proudly and thinking, I am better than they ever were.", | |
| "Treating parental imperfection as proof that no honor is owed in any form." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 16:18" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Judge actions truthfully while remembering that judgment belongs beneath YHWH, and that one's own heart also requires examination." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "name": "Ambitional", | |
| "subtitle": "Using Parents for Gain or Rejecting Them for Status", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in ambition?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The ambitional violation occurs when relationship with parents is governed by inheritance, status, money, reputation, advantage, control, embarrassment, social image rather than righteousness." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Showing affection only when inheritance or financial benefit is expected.", | |
| "Manipulating an elderly parent for property, money, or control.", | |
| "Hiding or rejecting parents because they embarrass one's social image.", | |
| "Competing with siblings for parental favor or possessions.", | |
| "Using family reputation for personal advancement while neglecting the family itself.", | |
| "Treating parents as valuable only while they remain useful." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Honor without exploiting; care without turning relationship into transaction." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "name": "Vocal", | |
| "subtitle": "Cursing, Mockery, Reviling", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in speech?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The vocal violation occurs when speech becomes an instrument of contempt." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Cursing father or mother.", | |
| "Mocking their weakness, age, ignorance, failures, or mistakes.", | |
| "Humiliating them publicly for entertainment or revenge.", | |
| "Gossiping about private family matters merely to disgrace them.", | |
| "Speaking with habitual contempt, scorn, insults, or threats.", | |
| "Telling lies about them to recruit others into hatred." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua quoted the seriousness of this offense:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 15:4" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Speak truth when truth must be spoken, but refuse needless humiliation, lies, mockery, and curses." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "name": "Intentional", | |
| "subtitle": "Choosing Dishonour as Revenge", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in the will?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The intentional violation occurs when one deliberately decides to punish, disgrace, neglect, control, or wound a parent." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Thinking, They hurt me, so I will make them hurt.", | |
| "Withholding contact solely to inflict pain rather than to establish a necessary boundary.", | |
| "Planning public embarrassment as revenge.", | |
| "Refusing needed care specifically to โteach them a lesson.โ", | |
| "Using grandchildren, money, access, or affection as weapons.", | |
| "Choosing disobedience merely because a parent requested something reasonable." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Let boundaries be governed by wisdom and righteousness rather than vengeance." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "name": "Spiritual", | |
| "subtitle": "Honoring Parents Beneath YHWH", | |
| "q": "How is it broken spiritually?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The spiritual violation occurs when either dishonor or misplaced parental allegiance displaces YHWH's order." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "There are two opposite dangers: despising parents, and making parents lords over conscience." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Refusing to forgive because resentment has greater authority than God's counsel.", | |
| "Treating family bitterness as more important than righteousness.", | |
| "Obeying father or mother when they command something contrary to YHWH.", | |
| "Allowing family tradition to override truth.", | |
| "Making parental approval the final measure of right and wrong.", | |
| "Rejecting YHWH because of the failures of one's earthly parents.", | |
| "Believing that honoring parents requires participating in their sin." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua establishes the proper hierarchy:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 10:37" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Honor father and mother under YHWH, never above Him." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Honor Does Not Mean Obeying Evil", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A parent may be honored without being obeyed in unrighteousness." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "If a father or mother commands lying, theft, abuse, idolatry, adultery, violence, or any other violation of YHWH's commandments, obedience to God remains first." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The proper order is: YHWH first ยท parents honored beneath Him ยท conscience governed by truth." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Honor may sometimes require distance, boundaries, correction, or refusal." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "One can say no without hatred." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "One can tell the truth without contempt." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "One can forgive without pretending trust has already been restored." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "One can honor the office of parenthood while recognizing the sins of the person." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "When Relationship Is Wounded", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua teaches reconciliation where possible:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "First be reconciled to thy brother.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 5:24" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "And forgiveness:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:14" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Forgiveness does not erase consequences or require immediate restoration of trust. It means refusing to make vengeance the governing purpose of the heart." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Where reconciliation is possible, seek peace. Where safety requires boundaries, establish them without unnecessary hatred or cruelty." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "The Promise Attached To The Commandment", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "This command uniquely carries an explicit promise:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "That thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.", | |
| "ref": "Exodus 20:12" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Paul likewise calls it:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "The first commandment with promise.", | |
| "ref": "Ephesians 6:2" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Honor preserves order between generations. Dishonor fractures family, memory, inheritance, teaching, and care. The command therefore protects not only parents but the continuity of a people across time." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "tempted", | |
| "title": "When You Are Tempted", | |
| "q": "What should you ask when you are tempted?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Ask: Am I telling the truth, or merely seeking to hurt? Am I establishing a righteous boundary, or taking revenge? Am I honoring YHWH while honoring my parents? Have I allowed resentment, pride, money, approval, or family pressure to govern me? Can I bless without calling evil good?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Remember:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Honour thy father and thy mother.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 19:19" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "And:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "A soft answer turneth away wrath.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 15:1" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Exodus 20:12 ยท Matthew 10:37 ยท Matthew 15:4 ยท Matthew 19:19 ยท Mark 7:10โ13 ยท Ephesians 6:2 ยท Proverbs 15:1" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "pray", | |
| "title": "When You Pray", | |
| "q": "How should you pray?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin privately and secretly before the Father:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet... and pray to thy Father which is in secret.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:6" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Do not rely upon many words: โUse not vain repetitions...โ โ Matthew 6:7" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin as Yeshua taught: โOur Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done...โ โ Matthew 6:9โ10" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Then pray simply:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Father YHWH, teach me to honor my father and mother beneath Thee. Heal bitterness, give me wisdom for boundaries, keep me from contempt and revenge, and help me speak and act with truth, mercy, and righteousness. Through Yeshua Thy Son, amen." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Matthew 6:6โ10 ยท Matthew 10:37 ยท Matthew 6:14 ยท Proverbs 15:1" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "repentance": { | |
| "intro": "Sin usually forms inwardly long before it appears in the body. Learn to see the layer where it began, turn there, and return to the Father there.", | |
| "stages": [ | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Physical", | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "subtitle": "Neglect, Abuse, Abandonment", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Striking, abusing, threatening, or physically intimidating a parent.", | |
| "Neglecting genuine needs when one is able and rightly responsible to help.", | |
| "Abandoning an elderly or vulnerable parent out of selfish convenience." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did my body, time, or hands begin to do that served the wrong master?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Stop the action; return the body to obedience.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Where appropriate and safe, let practical care, restraint, responsibility, and mercy accompany honor.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Emotional", | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "subtitle": "Contempt, Bitterness, Resentment", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Secretly despising a father or mother.", | |
| "Rehearsing old offenses continually in order to preserve anger.", | |
| "Feeling satisfaction when they suffer, fail, or are humiliated." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What feeling โ fear, craving, resentment, attachment โ did I let govern me?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Refuse to feed the feeling; bring it honestly before YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Bring wounds honestly before YHWH and refuse to let injury become permission to become injurious.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Mental", | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "subtitle": "Despising Them in Thought", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Thinking, They are worthless.", | |
| "Refusing to recognize any good because of real wrongs.", | |
| "Assuming the worst motive behind everything they do." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What thought or reasoning did I accept before the outward act?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Reject the false reasoning and submit the mind to truth.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Judge actions truthfully while remembering that judgment belongs beneath YHWH, and that one's own heart also requires examination.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Proverbs 16:18" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Ambitional", | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "subtitle": "Using Parents for Gain or Rejecting Them for Status", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Showing affection only when inheritance or financial benefit is expected.", | |
| "Manipulating an elderly parent for property, money, or control.", | |
| "Hiding or rejecting parents because they embarrass one's social image." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What desire or ambition did I begin to pursue above obedience?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Lay the ambition down beneath the Kingdom of YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Honor without exploiting; care without turning relationship into transaction.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Vocal", | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "subtitle": "Cursing, Mockery, Reviling", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Cursing father or mother.", | |
| "Mocking their weakness, age, ignorance, failures, or mistakes.", | |
| "Humiliating them publicly for entertainment or revenge." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I say, or agree to say, that pledged me to the wrong thing?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Retract the words; let speech return under the Father.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Speak truth when truth must be spoken, but refuse needless humiliation, lies, mockery, and curses.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 15:4" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Intentional", | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "subtitle": "Choosing Dishonour as Revenge", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Thinking, They hurt me, so I will make them hurt.", | |
| "Withholding contact solely to inflict pain rather than to establish a necessary boundary.", | |
| "Planning public embarrassment as revenge." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I decide or consent to, knowing it was against YHWH?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Withdraw consent; choose His will over your own.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let boundaries be governed by wisdom and righteousness rather than vengeance.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Spiritual", | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "subtitle": "Honoring Parents Beneath YHWH", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Refusing to forgive because resentment has greater authority than God's counsel.", | |
| "Treating family bitterness as more important than righteousness.", | |
| "Obeying father or mother when they command something contrary to YHWH." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "Whose counsel did I let govern me instead of the Father's?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Renounce the rival counsel and seek the Father alone.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Honor father and mother under YHWH, never above Him.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 10:37" | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "n": 6, | |
| "cmd": "Do not murder", | |
| "ref": "Exodus 20:13", | |
| "verse": "Thou shalt not murder.", | |
| "sinword": "Murder", | |
| "sections": [ | |
| { | |
| "kind": "define", | |
| "title": "Its Opposite", | |
| "q": "What is Murder?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Murder โ the unjust and willful taking of human life, together with the inward roots that make such destruction possible: hatred, contempt, vengeance, cruelty, dehumanization, and the desire to destroy another without just cause." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Murderโ is the more precise sense of the commandment. โKillโ can blur distinctions Scripture itself preserves between murder, accidental death, lawful judgment, and the defense of innocent life.", | |
| "ref": "" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The commandment therefore does not teach that every taking of life is morally identical." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Scripture distinguishes the murderer who acts in hatred or with deliberate intent from one who causes death unintentionally. โ Numbers 35:16โ25" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "It also distinguishes an immediate defensive killing during a violent intrusion from a killing after the immediate danger has passed. โ Exodus 22:2โ3" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Therefore self-defense or defense of another against an immediate and unjust threat is not the same moral act as murder. Defense seeks to stop unjust harm; murder seeks unjust destruction. Yet defense must not become revenge. Once the immediate threat has ended, retaliation is no longer defense." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua carries the commandment inward:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 5:22" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "And Scripture says:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.", | |
| "ref": "1 JOHN 3:15" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The deeper question is: Am I protecting life and justice, or feeding the inward conditions by which I could justify unjustly destroying another?" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "keep", | |
| "title": "To Keep It Inwardly", | |
| "q": "How do you keep this commandment?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "To cherish life as a gift from YHWH; protect the innocent; refuse hatred, vengeance, contempt, cruelty, and dehumanization; seek peace where possible; and distinguish defense from revenge, justice from hatred, restraint from cruelty." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Blessed are the peacemakers.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 5:9" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 5:44" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Keeping this commandment does not mean passivity before violence. It means refusing unjust destruction and refusing to let hatred become lord." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "dimensions", | |
| "title": "To Violate It Inwardly โ The Seven Dimensions", | |
| "q": "How is this commandment broken inwardly?", | |
| "blocks": [], | |
| "dims": [ | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "name": "Physical", | |
| "subtitle": "Murder, Violence, Unjust Harm", | |
| "q": "How is it broken physically?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The physical violation occurs when hatred, greed, rage, revenge, or contempt becomes bodily destruction." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Murdering another person without just cause.", | |
| "Assaulting, torturing, abusing, or deliberately inflicting serious bodily harm.", | |
| "Attacking someone after the threat has already ended.", | |
| "Using excessive force for revenge rather than necessary protection.", | |
| "Knowingly placing innocent life in grave danger through reckless conduct.", | |
| "Destroying another's means of survival out of hatred or vengeance." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Protect life, use restraint, stop unjust violence where necessary, and never make destruction the goal." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "name": "Emotional", | |
| "subtitle": "Hatred, Rage, Contempt", | |
| "q": "How is it broken emotionally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The emotional violation begins when anger is cultivated into hatred or the desire to see another suffer." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Wishing another person dead.", | |
| "Feeling pleasure at another's suffering.", | |
| "Nourishing rage through repeated emotional rehearsal.", | |
| "Refusing mercy because hatred feels justified.", | |
| "Wanting another person harmed merely because one has been offended.", | |
| "Allowing resentment to become part of one's identity." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua warns that anger can become spiritually murderous before any outward blow is struck. โ Matthew 5:22" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Bring anger before YHWH; seek justice without feeding hatred." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "name": "Mental", | |
| "subtitle": "Dehumanizing and Justifying Destruction", | |
| "q": "How is it broken mentally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The mental violation occurs when the mind first makes another person easier to destroy." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Thinking of another as worthless or less than human.", | |
| "Rehearsing fantasies of murder or revenge.", | |
| "Convincing oneself that hatred makes violence righteous.", | |
| "Reducing a person to one label, offense, group, or failure.", | |
| "Planning how another person's life could be ruined.", | |
| "Calling revenge โjusticeโ merely because it feels deserved." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Judge actions truthfully without mentally erasing another person's humanity." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "name": "Ambitional", | |
| "subtitle": "Destruction for Gain", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in ambition?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The ambitional violation appears when another person's downfall becomes useful to one's goals: money, inheritance, promotion, romance, power, status, control, revenge, victory." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Wanting a rival removed so one can advance.", | |
| "Hoping for another person's death for financial gain.", | |
| "Ruining a reputation to obtain position or influence.", | |
| "Treating people as obstacles to eliminate.", | |
| "Sacrificing another's safety or livelihood for profit.", | |
| "Using violence or intimidation to gain control." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 16:26" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Refuse any gain purchased through unjust destruction." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "name": "Vocal", | |
| "subtitle": "Murderous Speech", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in speech?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The vocal violation occurs when speech becomes an instrument of hatred, contempt, accusation, threat, or destruction." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Threatening to murder or seriously harm another.", | |
| "Cursing another person with a desire for destruction.", | |
| "Encouraging someone to harm themselves or others.", | |
| "Slandering another person with the intent to destroy their life or reputation.", | |
| "Dehumanizing people through contemptuous speech.", | |
| "Provoking others toward violence or revenge." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua warns against contemptuous speech:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 5:22" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Let speech correct without hatred, warn without cruelty, and seek peace where possible." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "name": "Intentional", | |
| "subtitle": "Willing Unjust Harm", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in the will?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The intentional violation occurs when the will deliberately consents to another person's unjust destruction." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Deciding, I want them dead.", | |
| "Planning murder or serious harm.", | |
| "Choosing revenge after the immediate danger has ended.", | |
| "Intending to ruin another person's livelihood, family, reputation, or safety out of malice.", | |
| "Knowing one's action will unjustly harm another and proceeding anyway.", | |
| "Using โself-defenseโ as a false justification for retaliation." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.", | |
| "ref": "Romans 12:19" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Protect when necessary, but once safety is restored, surrender vengeance to YHWH." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "name": "Spiritual", | |
| "subtitle": "Allegiance to Death Rather Than Life", | |
| "q": "How is it broken spiritually?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The deepest violation occurs when the spirit accepts counsel that sanctifies hatred, revenge, cruelty, or unjust destruction." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Allowing My Will to justify murder because I feel wronged.", | |
| "Allowing His Will / Her Will / Their Will to recruit me into unjust violence.", | |
| "Allowing the World's Will to define certain people as disposable.", | |
| "Allowing the Devil's Will to transform hatred into supposed righteousness.", | |
| "Seeking spiritual counsel that confirms revenge rather than truth.", | |
| "Using religion to justify cruelty or murder.", | |
| "Calling unjust destruction holy merely because the target is hated." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua gives another pattern:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 5:44" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Let the Father's counsel govern anger, defense, justice, correction, forgiveness, and mercy." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Self-Defense Is Not Murder", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Murder and self-defense differ in cause, intent, and purpose." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Murder: unjustly seeks or accepts another person's destruction." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Self-defense: seeks to stop an immediate unjust threat to life or serious bodily safety." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The defender's purpose should be protection, not vengeance." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Where escape, restraint, warning, or lesser force can safely stop the threat, those remain preferable to unnecessary destruction. But when an immediate threat leaves no safe alternative, defending oneself or another is not the same as murdering an innocent person." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The distinction collapses when defense becomes retaliation:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Threat present โ protect." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Threat ended โ do not avenge." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.", | |
| "ref": "Romans 12:21" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Murder Begins Before The Body", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The hand may never strike while murder is already being cultivated within." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The progression may be: injury ยท anger ยท contempt ยท hatred ยท dehumanization ยท intention ยท speech ยท unjust action." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "This is why Yeshua carries Exodus 20:13 into the heart. The safest place to stop murder is often long before violence becomes physical." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Justice Is Not Murder", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Keeping this commandment does not require calling every use of force murder." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "One may protect a child. One may intervene against violence. One may report crime. One may establish boundaries. One may seek lawful justice. One may stop an attacker." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The question is whether the action is ordered toward preserving innocent life and stopping unjust harm, or toward hatred, revenge, cruelty, and destruction for its own sake." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "tempted", | |
| "title": "When You Are Tempted", | |
| "q": "What should you ask when you are tempted?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Ask: Is there an immediate threat, or am I seeking revenge? Am I protecting life, or feeding hatred? Do I want justice, or do I want this person to suffer? Have I begun to dehumanize them? Has the danger ended? Can I stop the harm without becoming unjust myself?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Remember:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Blessed are the peacemakers.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 5:9" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "And:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.", | |
| "ref": "Romans 12:19" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Exodus 20:13 ยท Exodus 22:2โ3 ยท Numbers 35:16โ25 ยท Matthew 5:9,22,44 ยท 1 John 3:15 ยท Romans 12:19โ21" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "pray", | |
| "title": "When You Pray", | |
| "q": "How should you pray?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin privately and secretly before the Father:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet... and pray to thy Father which is in secret.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:6" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Do not rely upon many words: โUse not vain repetitions...โ โ Matthew 6:7" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin as Yeshua taught: โOur Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done...โ โ Matthew 6:9โ10" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Then pray simply:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Father YHWH, remove hatred, vengeance, and cruelty from me. Give me wisdom to protect life, courage to resist evil, restraint when danger has passed, and a heart that seeks justice without murder. Through Yeshua Thy Son, amen." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Matthew 6:6โ10 ยท Matthew 5:9,44 ยท Romans 12:19โ21" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "repentance": { | |
| "intro": "Sin usually forms inwardly long before it appears in the body. Learn to see the layer where it began, turn there, and return to the Father there.", | |
| "stages": [ | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Physical", | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "subtitle": "Murder, Violence, Unjust Harm", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Murdering another person without just cause.", | |
| "Assaulting, torturing, abusing, or deliberately inflicting serious bodily harm.", | |
| "Attacking someone after the threat has already ended." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did my body, time, or hands begin to do that served the wrong master?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Stop the action; return the body to obedience.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Protect life, use restraint, stop unjust violence where necessary, and never make destruction the goal.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Emotional", | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "subtitle": "Hatred, Rage, Contempt", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Wishing another person dead.", | |
| "Feeling pleasure at another's suffering.", | |
| "Nourishing rage through repeated emotional rehearsal." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What feeling โ fear, craving, resentment, attachment โ did I let govern me?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Refuse to feed the feeling; bring it honestly before YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Bring anger before YHWH; seek justice without feeding hatred.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Mental", | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "subtitle": "Dehumanizing and Justifying Destruction", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Thinking of another as worthless or less than human.", | |
| "Rehearsing fantasies of murder or revenge.", | |
| "Convincing oneself that hatred makes violence righteous." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What thought or reasoning did I accept before the outward act?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Reject the false reasoning and submit the mind to truth.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Judge actions truthfully without mentally erasing another person's humanity.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Ambitional", | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "subtitle": "Destruction for Gain", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Wanting a rival removed so one can advance.", | |
| "Hoping for another person's death for financial gain.", | |
| "Ruining a reputation to obtain position or influence." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What desire or ambition did I begin to pursue above obedience?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Lay the ambition down beneath the Kingdom of YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Refuse any gain purchased through unjust destruction.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 16:26" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Vocal", | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "subtitle": "Murderous Speech", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Threatening to murder or seriously harm another.", | |
| "Cursing another person with a desire for destruction.", | |
| "Encouraging someone to harm themselves or others." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I say, or agree to say, that pledged me to the wrong thing?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Retract the words; let speech return under the Father.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let speech correct without hatred, warn without cruelty, and seek peace where possible.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 5:22" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Intentional", | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "subtitle": "Willing Unjust Harm", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Deciding, I want them dead.", | |
| "Planning murder or serious harm.", | |
| "Choosing revenge after the immediate danger has ended." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I decide or consent to, knowing it was against YHWH?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Withdraw consent; choose His will over your own.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Protect when necessary, but once safety is restored, surrender vengeance to YHWH.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Romans 12:19" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Spiritual", | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "subtitle": "Allegiance to Death Rather Than Life", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Allowing My Will to justify murder because I feel wronged.", | |
| "Allowing His Will / Her Will / Their Will to recruit me into unjust violence.", | |
| "Allowing the World's Will to define certain people as disposable." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "Whose counsel did I let govern me instead of the Father's?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Renounce the rival counsel and seek the Father alone.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let the Father's counsel govern anger, defense, justice, correction, forgiveness, and mercy.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 5:44" | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "n": 7, | |
| "cmd": "Do not commit adultery", | |
| "ref": "Exodus 20:14", | |
| "verse": "Thou shalt not commit adultery.", | |
| "sinword": "Adultery", | |
| "sections": [ | |
| { | |
| "kind": "define", | |
| "title": "Its Opposite", | |
| "q": "What is Adultery?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Adultery โ violating the marriage covenant in body, desire, speech, intention, or secret allegiance; giving to another what belongs within the covenant of marriage." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua carries the commandment inward:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 5:28" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The commandment therefore does not begin only with the physical act. Adultery may begin earlier in the inward life, when attraction is intentionally cultivated into lust, fantasy, emotional infidelity, secret pursuit, seductive speech, or deliberate planning." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yet noticing beauty, experiencing attraction, or undergoing temptation is not itself adultery. The violation begins when desire is welcomed, fed, rehearsed, pursued, or intentionally directed toward someone who is not one's spouse." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The deeper question is: Am I guarding covenant in my body, heart, mind, speech, intention, and spiritual allegiance?" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "keep", | |
| "title": "To Keep It Inwardly", | |
| "q": "How do you keep this commandment?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "To honor the marriage covenant with faithfulness of body and heart; guard the eyes and imagination; refuse secret romantic or sexual allegiance outside the covenant; speak with purity; and treat another person's spouse as belonging to a covenant that must not be violated." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua said:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 19:6" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "And Job said:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "I made a covenant with mine eyes.", | |
| "ref": "Job 31:1" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Keeping the commandment means guarding fidelity before the physical boundary is crossed." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "dimensions", | |
| "title": "To Violate It Inwardly โ The Seven Dimensions", | |
| "q": "How is this commandment broken inwardly?", | |
| "blocks": [], | |
| "dims": [ | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "name": "Physical", | |
| "subtitle": "The Bodily Act of Adultery", | |
| "q": "How is it broken physically?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The physical violation occurs when sexual or marital boundaries are crossed bodily." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Sexual intercourse with someone who is not one's lawful spouse.", | |
| "Sexual touching intended to arouse or participate in infidelity.", | |
| "Secret physical intimacy that belongs properly within marriage.", | |
| "Meeting privately for the purpose of sexual betrayal.", | |
| "Using pornography or sexual material as a substitute object of lust and bodily gratification.", | |
| "Continuing physical conduct one knows is moving toward adultery." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Flee fornication.", | |
| "ref": "1 Corinthians 6:18" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Let the body remain faithful to covenant and flee situations designed to weaken that fidelity." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "name": "Emotional", | |
| "subtitle": "Romantic Infidelity of the Heart", | |
| "q": "How is it broken emotionally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The emotional violation begins when affection, longing, intimacy, or attachment that belongs within marriage is deliberately transferred to another." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Cultivating a secret romantic attachment outside marriage.", | |
| "Emotionally preferring another person while withdrawing intimacy from one's spouse.", | |
| "Fantasizing about being married to someone else and feeding that attachment.", | |
| "Seeking emotional comfort from another in a way deliberately hidden from one's spouse.", | |
| "Becoming possessive, jealous, or romantically dependent upon someone outside the covenant.", | |
| "Enjoying the secrecy and emotional thrill of an improper relationship." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Guard emotional intimacy and direct marital affection back toward covenant rather than feeding a rival bond." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "name": "Mental", | |
| "subtitle": "Lust, Fantasy, Rehearsal", | |
| "q": "How is it broken mentally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The mental violation occurs when the mind deliberately entertains sexual possession of someone who is not one's spouse." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua identifies this inwardly:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Whosoever looketh... to lust after her hath committed adultery... already in his heart.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 5:28" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Repeatedly imagining sexual acts with another person.", | |
| "Rehearsing fantasies about someone else's spouse.", | |
| "Seeking images or situations for the purpose of lust.", | |
| "Mentally undressing or sexually possessing another.", | |
| "Justifying fantasy by saying, I would never actually do it.", | |
| "Returning intentionally to thoughts that arouse desire for someone outside covenant." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Reject deliberate lust early, redirect the mind, and refuse to rehearse what one would not righteously do." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "name": "Ambitional", | |
| "subtitle": "Wanting What Is Not Yours", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in ambition?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The ambitional violation appears when desire becomes pursuit: romance, conquest, sexual access, admiration, excitement, possession, validation, novelty, status." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Wanting another person's spouse.", | |
| "Pursuing someone because being desired by them feeds pride.", | |
| "Treating sexual conquest as proof of worth.", | |
| "Seeking excitement outside marriage because covenant feels ordinary.", | |
| "Wanting the pleasure of another person without accepting righteous covenant.", | |
| "Competing with a spouse for another person's affection." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Desire what is lawful, honor what belongs to another covenant, and refuse to build happiness upon betrayal." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "name": "Vocal", | |
| "subtitle": "Seduction, Flattery, Secret Speech", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in speech?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The vocal violation occurs when words create, invite, conceal, or intensify infidelity." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Flirting with deliberate sexual or romantic intent.", | |
| "Sending secret sexual messages or images.", | |
| "Speaking suggestively to test whether another person is receptive.", | |
| "Telling another person intimate things meant to create a bond hidden from one's spouse.", | |
| "Using flattery to gain sexual attention.", | |
| "Speaking against one's spouse to make room for another relationship.", | |
| "Making promises of secrecy around improper intimacy." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "A flattering mouth worketh ruin.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 26:28" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Let speech preserve boundaries, honesty, and covenant rather than opening doors that the body may later walk through." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "name": "Intentional", | |
| "subtitle": "Consent and Planning", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in the will?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The intentional violation occurs when temptation becomes chosen direction." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Deciding to pursue someone who is not one's spouse.", | |
| "Planning private meetings designed to create intimacy.", | |
| "Hiding conversations because one intends the relationship to continue.", | |
| "Choosing circumstances where sexual temptation is expected.", | |
| "Intending to cheat while waiting for the opportunity.", | |
| "Saying inwardly, If the chance comes, I will do it.", | |
| "Refusing to cut off a relationship because the possibility of adultery is desired." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Joseph gives the opposite pattern: when temptation became immediate, he fled. โ Genesis 39:12" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Do not negotiate with intentional infidelity. Flee, cut off the occasion, and choose faithfulness before opportunity becomes action." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "name": "Spiritual", | |
| "subtitle": "Covenant Allegiance", | |
| "q": "How is it broken spiritually?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The deepest violation occurs when covenant itself is treated lightly and another desire is given governing authority." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Marriage is not merely physical access. It is an allegiance of faithfulness." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Allowing My Will to overrule the covenant because desire feels stronger.", | |
| "Allowing His Will / Her Will to draw one into betrayal.", | |
| "Allowing the World's Will to redefine adultery as harmless so long as it feels fulfilling.", | |
| "Allowing sexual appetite to become lord over conscience.", | |
| "Seeking spiritual justification for a relationship one already knows violates covenant.", | |
| "Asking God to bless what one has not first submitted to His will.", | |
| "Treating vows before God as disposable when they become difficult." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua teaches:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 19:6" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Let God's counsel govern desire, attraction, marriage, sexuality, loyalty, and covenant." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Lust Is Not The Same As Temptation", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A person may notice beauty or experience attraction without choosing adultery." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Temptation becomes lust when the mind begins to hold, feed, possess, rehearse, or pursue the desire." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The distinction is important:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Attraction noticed โ not yet adultery." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Temptation encountered โ not yet adultery." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Desire intentionally cultivated โ inward violation begins." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Desire consented to and planned โ intention deepens." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Speech and secrecy โ covenant is further breached." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Physical betrayal โ adultery manifests bodily." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The safest place to stop adultery is before desire becomes consent." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Covenant Before Opportunity", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Adultery often develops through progression: attention ยท attraction ยท fantasy ยท emotional attachment ยท secrecy ยท speech ยท intention ยท opportunity ยท physical act." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The outward act is frequently the final visible fruit of an inward betrayal already cultivated for some time." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "That is why Yeshua addresses the eye and heart before the body." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out...", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 5:29" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The teaching is severe because temptation should be cut off decisively rather than entertained casually." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Common Forms Of Adultery", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Physical Adultery: Sexual betrayal of the marriage covenant." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Emotional Adultery: Secret romantic intimacy and allegiance outside marriage." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Mental Adultery: Deliberately cultivated lust and fantasy." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Digital Adultery: Sexual or romantic messages, images, secret accounts, pornography, or relationships mediated through technology." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Vocal Adultery: Seductive speech, secret promises, sexual conversation, and verbal cultivation of infidelity." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Intentional Adultery: Planning or waiting for the opportunity to betray covenant." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Spiritual Adultery of Covenant: Treating vows before YHWH as secondary to desire or self-will." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "tempted", | |
| "title": "When You Are Tempted", | |
| "q": "What should you ask when you are tempted?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Ask: Am I merely noticing attraction, or am I feeding it? Would I want my spouse to see this conversation, image, thought pattern, or relationship? Am I creating secrecy? Am I seeking another person's affection, body, or intimacy? Have I begun planning what I claim I would never do?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Remember:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "I made a covenant with mine eyes.", | |
| "ref": "Job 31:1" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "And:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Flee fornication.", | |
| "ref": "1 Corinthians 6:18" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Do not linger where the intention is becoming clear." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Exodus 20:14 ยท Matthew 5:27โ30 ยท Matthew 19:6 ยท Job 31:1 ยท Genesis 39:12 ยท 1 Corinthians 6:18 ยท Proverbs 26:28" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "pray", | |
| "title": "When You Pray", | |
| "q": "How should you pray?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin privately and secretly before the Father:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet... and pray to thy Father which is in secret.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:6" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Do not rely upon many words: โUse not vain repetitions...โ โ Matthew 6:7" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin as Yeshua taught: โOur Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done...โ โ Matthew 6:9โ10" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Then pray simply:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Father YHWH, keep my heart, eyes, mind, body, and intentions faithful. Give me strength to flee lust, guard covenant, reject secrecy, and choose Thy will above desire. Through Yeshua Thy Son, amen." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Matthew 6:6โ10 ยท Matthew 5:28 ยท Job 31:1 ยท 1 Corinthians 6:18" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "repentance": { | |
| "intro": "Sin usually forms inwardly long before it appears in the body. Learn to see the layer where it began, turn there, and return to the Father there.", | |
| "stages": [ | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Physical", | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "subtitle": "The Bodily Act of Adultery", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Sexual intercourse with someone who is not one's lawful spouse.", | |
| "Sexual touching intended to arouse or participate in infidelity.", | |
| "Secret physical intimacy that belongs properly within marriage." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did my body, time, or hands begin to do that served the wrong master?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Stop the action; return the body to obedience.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let the body remain faithful to covenant and flee situations designed to weaken that fidelity.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "1 Corinthians 6:18" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Emotional", | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "subtitle": "Romantic Infidelity of the Heart", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Cultivating a secret romantic attachment outside marriage.", | |
| "Emotionally preferring another person while withdrawing intimacy from one's spouse.", | |
| "Fantasizing about being married to someone else and feeding that attachment." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What feeling โ fear, craving, resentment, attachment โ did I let govern me?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Refuse to feed the feeling; bring it honestly before YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Guard emotional intimacy and direct marital affection back toward covenant rather than feeding a rival bond.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Mental", | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "subtitle": "Lust, Fantasy, Rehearsal", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Repeatedly imagining sexual acts with another person.", | |
| "Rehearsing fantasies about someone else's spouse.", | |
| "Seeking images or situations for the purpose of lust." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What thought or reasoning did I accept before the outward act?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Reject the false reasoning and submit the mind to truth.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Reject deliberate lust early, redirect the mind, and refuse to rehearse what one would not righteously do.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 5:28" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Ambitional", | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "subtitle": "Wanting What Is Not Yours", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Wanting another person's spouse.", | |
| "Pursuing someone because being desired by them feeds pride.", | |
| "Treating sexual conquest as proof of worth." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What desire or ambition did I begin to pursue above obedience?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Lay the ambition down beneath the Kingdom of YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Desire what is lawful, honor what belongs to another covenant, and refuse to build happiness upon betrayal.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Vocal", | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "subtitle": "Seduction, Flattery, Secret Speech", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Flirting with deliberate sexual or romantic intent.", | |
| "Sending secret sexual messages or images.", | |
| "Speaking suggestively to test whether another person is receptive." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I say, or agree to say, that pledged me to the wrong thing?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Retract the words; let speech return under the Father.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let speech preserve boundaries, honesty, and covenant rather than opening doors that the body may later walk through.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Proverbs 26:28" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Intentional", | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "subtitle": "Consent and Planning", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Deciding to pursue someone who is not one's spouse.", | |
| "Planning private meetings designed to create intimacy.", | |
| "Hiding conversations because one intends the relationship to continue." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I decide or consent to, knowing it was against YHWH?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Withdraw consent; choose His will over your own.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Do not negotiate with intentional infidelity. Flee, cut off the occasion, and choose faithfulness before opportunity becomes action.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Spiritual", | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "subtitle": "Covenant Allegiance", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Allowing My Will to overrule the covenant because desire feels stronger.", | |
| "Allowing His Will / Her Will to draw one into betrayal.", | |
| "Allowing the World's Will to redefine adultery as harmless so long as it feels fulfilling." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "Whose counsel did I let govern me instead of the Father's?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Renounce the rival counsel and seek the Father alone.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let God's counsel govern desire, attraction, marriage, sexuality, loyalty, and covenant.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 19:6" | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "n": 8, | |
| "cmd": "Do not steal", | |
| "ref": "Exodus 20:15", | |
| "verse": "Thou shalt not steal.", | |
| "sinword": "Theft", | |
| "sections": [ | |
| { | |
| "kind": "define", | |
| "title": "Its Opposite", | |
| "q": "What is Theft?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Theft โ taking, withholding, using, controlling, or benefiting from what is not rightfully yours." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Stealing is not limited to secretly taking an object. It can include fraud, cheating, exploitation, withheld wages, unpaid debts, dishonest gain, manipulation, plagiarism, taking credit for another's work, misusing another person's time or resources, or obtaining advantage through deceit." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The inward roots are often greed, envy, entitlement, fear of lack, mistrust of YHWH's provision, and the desire to gain by another person's loss." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour... that he may have to give to him that needeth.", | |
| "ref": "Ephesians 4:28" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The deeper question is: Am I receiving rightly, earning honestly, giving freely, and respecting what belongs to another?" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "keep", | |
| "title": "To Keep It Inwardly", | |
| "q": "How do you keep this commandment?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "To deal honestly, work faithfully, repay what is owed, respect another person's property and labor, refuse unjust gain, and trust YHWH as Provider rather than seizing what He has not given." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Be content with such things as ye have.", | |
| "ref": "Hebrews 13:5" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Give to every man that asketh of thee.", | |
| "ref": "Luke 6:30" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Keeping this commandment means moving from taking toward stewardship, labor, fairness, restitution, generosity, and contentment." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "dimensions", | |
| "title": "To Violate It Inwardly โ The Seven Dimensions", | |
| "q": "How is this commandment broken inwardly?", | |
| "blocks": [], | |
| "dims": [ | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "name": "Physical", | |
| "subtitle": "Taking or Withholding What Is Not Yours", | |
| "q": "How is it broken physically?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The physical violation occurs when property, money, labor, access, or resources are taken or withheld unjustly." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Taking money, goods, property, or possessions that belong to another.", | |
| "Shoplifting, burglary, robbery, embezzlement, or fraud.", | |
| "Withholding wages, debts, refunds, or payments that are rightfully owed.", | |
| "Using another person's property without permission.", | |
| "Keeping something found when the rightful owner can reasonably be identified.", | |
| "Damaging property and refusing responsibility.", | |
| "Taking more than one's fair share of shared resources.", | |
| "Using another person's labor while refusing proper compensation." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Respect ownership, repay what is owed, return what was wrongly taken, and earn honestly." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "name": "Emotional", | |
| "subtitle": "Envy, Entitlement, Resentment", | |
| "q": "How is it broken emotionally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The emotional violation begins when another person's possession or prosperity produces resentment or the feeling that one deserves what belongs to them." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Feeling bitter because another has more.", | |
| "Resenting someone's success so strongly that taking from them feels justified.", | |
| "Feeling entitled to another person's money, possessions, time, labor, or attention.", | |
| "Believing another person's abundance somehow wrongs you.", | |
| "Taking pleasure when someone loses what you envied.", | |
| "Using emotional manipulation to obtain what was not freely given." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Practice gratitude, rejoice in another's good, and refuse to let envy become entitlement." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "name": "Mental", | |
| "subtitle": "Rationalizing Dishonest Gain", | |
| "q": "How is it broken mentally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The mental violation occurs when the mind constructs reasons why theft is acceptable." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Thinking, They have plenty; they will not miss it.", | |
| "Thinking, Everyone does it.", | |
| "Deciding that being underpaid gives permission to steal.", | |
| "Convincing oneself that digital property, intellectual work, or another's time โdoes not really count.โ", | |
| "Treating dishonesty as intelligence or cleverness.", | |
| "Planning how to exploit a loophole without technically being caught.", | |
| "Believing need automatically creates ownership." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 11:1" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Let honesty govern even where theft could be concealed or rationalized." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "name": "Ambitional", | |
| "subtitle": "Gaining Through Another's Loss", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in ambition?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The ambitional violation appears when success becomes more important than righteousness: money, possessions, status, advantage, property, influence, promotion, profit, control." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Cheating competitors to gain market advantage.", | |
| "Taking credit for another person's work.", | |
| "Exploiting employees, customers, partners, or the vulnerable for profit.", | |
| "Manipulating inheritance, contracts, or business arrangements for unjust gain.", | |
| "Building wealth through deliberate deception.", | |
| "Taking opportunities from another through dishonesty.", | |
| "Treating people merely as resources to extract value from." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua said:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?", | |
| "ref": "Mark 8:36" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Seek provision and prosperity without requiring another person's unjust loss." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "name": "Vocal", | |
| "subtitle": "Stealing Through Words", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in speech?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The vocal violation occurs when speech is used to obtain what would not otherwise be freely given." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Lying to obtain money, property, benefits, discounts, or access.", | |
| "Making false promises in business.", | |
| "Misrepresenting a product, service, contract, or need.", | |
| "Taking credit verbally for another person's work or idea.", | |
| "Manipulating someone emotionally into giving money or possessions.", | |
| "Concealing important information in order to secure an unfair agreement.", | |
| "Using false testimony to deprive another of property or livelihood." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Let speech be truthful in buying, selling, borrowing, lending, promising, and negotiating." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "name": "Intentional", | |
| "subtitle": "Planning to Gain Unjustly", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in the will?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The intentional violation occurs when a person knowingly schemes to benefit from what belongs to another." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Planning theft, fraud, cheating, or exploitation.", | |
| "Intending not to repay something borrowed.", | |
| "Entering an agreement while already planning to break it.", | |
| "Deliberately hiding income, property, defects, or obligations in order to gain.", | |
| "Intending to take advantage of someone's ignorance or vulnerability.", | |
| "Planning to use another person's trust against them.", | |
| "Knowing gain is dishonest and proceeding because the reward seems worth it." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua taught:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.", | |
| "ref": "Luke 6:31" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Let intention become clean before the transaction occurs; do not plan what you would condemn if done to you." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "name": "Spiritual", | |
| "subtitle": "Mistrusting YHWH's Provision", | |
| "q": "How is it broken spiritually?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The deepest violation is allowing fear of lack, greed, or worldly counsel to become stronger than trust in YHWH." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Believing, If I do not take this, God will not provide.", | |
| "Allowing My Will to justify theft because I want something now.", | |
| "Allowing the World's Will to teach that profit excuses dishonesty.", | |
| "Allowing Their Will to pressure one into cheating because โeveryone does it.โ", | |
| "Allowing fear of poverty to override righteousness.", | |
| "Treating wealth as the true source of security.", | |
| "Refusing generosity because possessions have become lord." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua said:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:32" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "And:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:33" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Trust YHWH enough to refuse dishonest gain." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Stealing Also Touches The Name Of YHWH", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Scripture makes a direct connection between theft and taking God's Name in vain:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 30:9" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The person who steals uses the life, breath, mind, hands, and opportunity received from YHWH to violate His commandment. Theft therefore does not merely wrong the neighbor; it also dishonors the Giver whose life is being used to take unjustly." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Common Forms Of Stealing", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Property Theft: Taking physical possessions or money." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Fraud: Obtaining gain by deception." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Withheld Wages or Debts: Keeping what another has rightfully earned or is owed." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Time Theft: Knowingly taking paid time without giving the work agreed upon, or continually consuming another's time through deception or manipulation." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Credit Theft: Taking recognition for another person's labor, ideas, or accomplishments." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Intellectual Theft: Presenting another person's work as one's own." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Exploitation: Profiting unfairly from another person's weakness, ignorance, desperation, or dependence." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Religious Theft: Using God, ministry, fear, promises of blessing, or spiritual authority to obtain money or property dishonestly." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Restitution", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Repentance from theft is not merely feeling sorry while keeping what was taken." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Where reasonably possible, stolen property or unjust gain should be restored." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Zacchaeus demonstrated this when he said:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "If I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.", | |
| "ref": "Luke 19:8" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua responded:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "This day is salvation come to this house.", | |
| "ref": "Luke 19:9" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "True repentance seeks to repair what can be repaired." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "tempted", | |
| "title": "When You Are Tempted", | |
| "q": "What should you ask when you are tempted?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Ask: Does this belong to me? Has it been freely given, honestly earned, or lawfully entrusted? Am I gaining because another person is being deceived or deprived? Would I consider this fair if our positions were reversed? Am I stealing because I do not trust YHWH to provide?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Remember:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour... that he may have to give.", | |
| "ref": "Ephesians 4:28" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "And:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.", | |
| "ref": "Luke 6:31" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Exodus 20:15 ยท Proverbs 11:1 ยท Proverbs 30:9 ยท Matthew 6:32โ33 ยท Luke 6:31 ยท Luke 19:8โ9 ยท Ephesians 4:28" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "pray", | |
| "title": "When You Pray", | |
| "q": "How should you pray?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin privately and secretly before the Father:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet... and pray to thy Father which is in secret.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:6" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Do not rely upon many words: โUse not vain repetitions...โ โ Matthew 6:7" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin as Yeshua taught: โOur Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done...โ โ Matthew 6:9โ10" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Then pray simply:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Father YHWH, make my hands clean and my heart content. Keep me from greed, deceit, exploitation, and dishonest gain. Teach me to work honestly, restore what I owe, give freely, and trust Thee for my provision. Through Yeshua Thy Son, amen." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Matthew 6:6โ10,32โ33 ยท Luke 6:31 ยท Ephesians 4:28" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "repentance": { | |
| "intro": "Sin usually forms inwardly long before it appears in the body. Learn to see the layer where it began, turn there, and return to the Father there.", | |
| "stages": [ | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Physical", | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "subtitle": "Taking or Withholding What Is Not Yours", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Taking money, goods, property, or possessions that belong to another.", | |
| "Shoplifting, burglary, robbery, embezzlement, or fraud.", | |
| "Withholding wages, debts, refunds, or payments that are rightfully owed." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did my body, time, or hands begin to do that served the wrong master?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Stop the action; return the body to obedience.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Respect ownership, repay what is owed, return what was wrongly taken, and earn honestly.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Emotional", | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "subtitle": "Envy, Entitlement, Resentment", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Feeling bitter because another has more.", | |
| "Resenting someone's success so strongly that taking from them feels justified.", | |
| "Feeling entitled to another person's money, possessions, time, labor, or attention." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What feeling โ fear, craving, resentment, attachment โ did I let govern me?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Refuse to feed the feeling; bring it honestly before YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Practice gratitude, rejoice in another's good, and refuse to let envy become entitlement.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Mental", | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "subtitle": "Rationalizing Dishonest Gain", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Thinking, They have plenty; they will not miss it.", | |
| "Thinking, Everyone does it.", | |
| "Deciding that being underpaid gives permission to steal." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What thought or reasoning did I accept before the outward act?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Reject the false reasoning and submit the mind to truth.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let honesty govern even where theft could be concealed or rationalized.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Proverbs 11:1" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Ambitional", | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "subtitle": "Gaining Through Another's Loss", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Cheating competitors to gain market advantage.", | |
| "Taking credit for another person's work.", | |
| "Exploiting employees, customers, partners, or the vulnerable for profit." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What desire or ambition did I begin to pursue above obedience?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Lay the ambition down beneath the Kingdom of YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Seek provision and prosperity without requiring another person's unjust loss.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Mark 8:36" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Vocal", | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "subtitle": "Stealing Through Words", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Lying to obtain money, property, benefits, discounts, or access.", | |
| "Making false promises in business.", | |
| "Misrepresenting a product, service, contract, or need." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I say, or agree to say, that pledged me to the wrong thing?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Retract the words; let speech return under the Father.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let speech be truthful in buying, selling, borrowing, lending, promising, and negotiating.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Intentional", | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "subtitle": "Planning to Gain Unjustly", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Planning theft, fraud, cheating, or exploitation.", | |
| "Intending not to repay something borrowed.", | |
| "Entering an agreement while already planning to break it." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I decide or consent to, knowing it was against YHWH?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Withdraw consent; choose His will over your own.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let intention become clean before the transaction occurs; do not plan what you would condemn if done to you.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Luke 6:31" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Spiritual", | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "subtitle": "Mistrusting YHWH's Provision", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Believing, If I do not take this, God will not provide.", | |
| "Allowing My Will to justify theft because I want something now.", | |
| "Allowing the World's Will to teach that profit excuses dishonesty." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "Whose counsel did I let govern me instead of the Father's?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Renounce the rival counsel and seek the Father alone.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Trust YHWH enough to refuse dishonest gain.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 6:32", | |
| "Matthew 6:33" | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "n": 9, | |
| "cmd": "Do not bear false witness", | |
| "ref": "Exodus 20:16", | |
| "verse": "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.", | |
| "sinword": "False witness", | |
| "sections": [ | |
| { | |
| "kind": "define", | |
| "title": "Its Opposite", | |
| "q": "What is False witness?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "False witness โ presenting something as true when the full testimony of the facts says otherwise." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "False witness is broader than consciously inventing a lie. A person may sincerely repeat something false because they did not fully see, did not fully hear, did not investigate, misunderstood what was said, ignored contrary evidence, accepted another person's interpretation, or leaned upon their own understanding." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 14:5" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Thus a false witness speaks lies, even when the witness personally believes the statement. Sincerity does not transform false testimony into truth." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The command therefore requires more than โDo not deliberately lie.โ It requires the witness to see carefully, hear fully, understand soberly, seek the whole matter, and distinguish fact from interpretation before speaking with certainty." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 18:13" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 3:5" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The deeper question is: Do my words testify to what the evidence actually shows, or merely to what I assumed, inherited, preferred, or was told?" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "keep", | |
| "title": "To Keep It Inwardly", | |
| "q": "How do you keep this commandment?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "To love truth above preference; use one's full eyes, full ears, full mind, and full awareness before making judgment; hear the matter completely; distinguish observation from interpretation; examine opposing evidence; and correct one's testimony when facts prove it wrong." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 14:15" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 18:17" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A faithful witness must therefore be willing to say: I saw this; I heard this; I believe this; I inferred this; I do not know this. These are not the same statements." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "dimensions", | |
| "title": "To Violate It Inwardly โ The Seven Dimensions", | |
| "q": "How is this commandment broken inwardly?", | |
| "blocks": [], | |
| "dims": [ | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "name": "Physical", | |
| "subtitle": "Acting Upon Falsehood, Exposure, and Coordinated Harm", | |
| "q": "How is it broken physically?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The physical violation occurs when false witness, distortion, accusation, malicious exposure, or unverified testimony becomes action that harms another person's privacy, safety, livelihood, freedom, reputation, relationships, or ability to live peacefully." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Filing a knowingly false accusation, complaint, police report, workplace report, or institutional report.", | |
| "Fabricating, altering, hiding, selectively presenting, or misrepresenting evidence.", | |
| "Signing testimony one has not personally verified.", | |
| "Editing screenshots, recordings, photographs, messages, quotations, or documents so others receive a meaning opposite to the complete facts.", | |
| "Doxing โ publishing another person's private identifying information to expose, intimidate, shame, endanger, or invite harassment against them.", | |
| "Blackmail doxing โ threatening to expose an address, identity, family, employment, communications, private history, or other personal information unless the person complies with a demand.", | |
| "Blackmail or extortion โ using true, distorted, fabricated, or private information as leverage to force money, obedience, silence, favors, sexual access, withdrawal of testimony, or some other desired action.", | |
| "Coordinating others to report someone falsely or deceptively to employers, platforms, authorities, churches, schools, landlords, businesses, or other institutions.", | |
| "Organized community reporting based upon rumor, ideological hostility, incomplete evidence, or knowingly false claims in order to overwhelm systems and punish a target.", | |
| "Organizing or encouraging coordinated harassment, stalking, intimidation, mass messaging, unwanted contact, public shaming, or campaigns intended to make another person afraid or socially isolated.", | |
| "Sending crowds toward someone's home, workplace, family, or online accounts because of an accusation that has not been truthfully established.", | |
| "Causing another to lose employment, housing, property, freedom, relationships, safety, or reputation through testimony one knowsโor should know through reasonable examinationโis false or seriously misleading.", | |
| "Acting against someone merely because many people repeat the same accusation.", | |
| "Defaming another person's character by spreading damaging claims without sufficient evidence or just cause.", | |
| "Calling someone a stalker, pervert, pedophile, predator, abuser, thief, liar, criminal, adulterer, murderer, or other morally or socially condemning label without just evidence supporting the accusation.", | |
| "Repeating such labels publicly, online, at work, in church, within family, or within a community until the repetition itself becomes treated as proof.", | |
| "Using a severe accusation to trigger reporting systems, social exclusion, investigation, harassment, loss of employment, or public humiliation without adequate factual basis." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A multitude repeating one unverified story does not transform false testimony into truth." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment.", | |
| "ref": "Exodus 23:2" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Establish the matter truthfully before acting. Protect legitimate privacy. Never weaponize another person's private information. Do not join coordinated punishment merely because a crowd, community, platform, leader, or institution claims the accusation is true." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "name": "Emotional", | |
| "subtitle": "Letting Feeling Become Evidence", | |
| "q": "How is it broken emotionally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The emotional violation occurs when dislike, fear, anger, jealousy, loyalty, humiliation, resentment, or excitement determines what one is willing to believe." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Wanting an accusation to be true because one dislikes the accused.", | |
| "Believing negative testimony readily because it confirms resentment.", | |
| "Repeating scandal because it is emotionally exciting.", | |
| "Feeling satisfaction when another person's reputation collapses.", | |
| "Defending a false statement because admitting error would be embarrassing.", | |
| "Refusing contrary evidence because loyalty to one's group feels more important.", | |
| "Taking emotional hurt as proof of another person's guilt.", | |
| "Feeling disappointed when a damaging rumor proves false.", | |
| "Feeling morally justified in applying a severe label because the person makes one uncomfortable, angry, suspicious, or afraid, even where the facts do not establish the accusation." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Feel honestly, but do not make emotion a witness to facts it cannot establish." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "name": "Mental", | |
| "subtitle": "Incomplete Seeing, Hearing, and Understanding", | |
| "q": "How is it broken mentally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The mental violation occurs when a conclusion is formed before the whole matter has been heard, seen, examined, and understood." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A person can speak falsely without initially intending deception because they failed to use their full eyes, full ears, full mind, and full awareness." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Hearing part of a conversation and assuming the rest.", | |
| "Seeing an action without knowing its context.", | |
| "Remembering only details that support one's conclusion.", | |
| "Confusing inference with observation.", | |
| "Treating interpretation as though it were the actual words spoken.", | |
| "Reading one verse while ignoring surrounding verses that establish its meaning.", | |
| "Repeating what another person taught without examining whether Scripture actually says it.", | |
| "Believing an accusation because many people repeat it.", | |
| "Leaning upon one's own understanding and then speaking that understanding as fact.", | |
| "Ignoring evidence because it contradicts what one has already decided.", | |
| "Seeing behavior one finds strange or uncomfortable and immediately assigning labels such as stalker, pervert, pedophile, predator, or criminal without establishing the necessary facts.", | |
| "Treating suspicion, discomfort, rumor, pattern-recognition, or personal interpretation as proof of another person's guilt." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 18:13" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Use the full eyes, ears, mind, context, and available evidence before testifying." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "name": "Ambitional", | |
| "subtitle": "Making the Facts Serve the Desired Outcome", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in ambition?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The ambitional violation occurs when truth becomes secondary to winning, reputation, doctrine, money, status, influence, vindication, political victory, religious authority, personal certainty, control." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Selecting only facts that support one's position.", | |
| "Misrepresenting an opponent to make one's argument stronger.", | |
| "Refusing correction because one's reputation depends upon being right.", | |
| "Distorting Scripture because a doctrine, church, teacher, or institution depends upon a particular conclusion.", | |
| "Repeating dramatic claims because they attract attention or followers.", | |
| "Protecting a useful lie because admitting truth would cost influence.", | |
| "Destroying another's reputation to gain position.", | |
| "Using accusations strategically to eliminate a rival.", | |
| "Applying a highly damaging label because it is more effective at discrediting the person than presenting the actual facts.", | |
| "Escalating language from โI am concernedโ to โthis person is a predatorโ because the stronger accusation produces greater social power." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Let truth determine the conclusion rather than determining the conclusion first and recruiting facts afterward." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "name": "Vocal", | |
| "subtitle": "Speaking Lies as Testimony", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in speech?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The vocal violation occurs whenever the mouth states falsely what another person said, did, meant, believed, intended, or was." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Deliberately lying.", | |
| "Repeating rumor as established fact.", | |
| "Misquoting someone.", | |
| "Removing words from context so their meaning changes.", | |
| "Saying โThey said...โ when they did not actually say it.", | |
| "Calling an inference a fact.", | |
| "Exaggerating an accusation.", | |
| "Repeating gossip without knowing whether it is true.", | |
| "Leaving out essential facts so listeners form a false conclusion.", | |
| "Repeating false teaching as Scripture without examining the testimony of Scripture itself.", | |
| "Continuing to repeat a claim after clear evidence has corrected it.", | |
| "Using words to incite others into harassment, exclusion, punishment, or retaliation based upon unverified claims.", | |
| "Calling someone a stalker, pervert, pedophile, predator, abuser, thief, liar, criminal, adulterer, murderer, or other condemning name without sufficient evidence and just cause.", | |
| "Repeating accusations in a way that causes listeners to believe guilt has already been established when it has not.", | |
| "Using the phrase โeveryone knowsโ or โpeople are sayingโ to give rumor the appearance of established testimony." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 12:37" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Speak exactly enough that the listener receives the truth rather than merely the impression one wishes to create." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "name": "Intentional", | |
| "subtitle": "Choosing the Preferred Story Over the Facts", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in the will?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The intentional violation occurs when evidence challenges one's testimony and the person decides to preserve the testimony anyway." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Knowing one's statement is inaccurate and refusing to correct it.", | |
| "Concealing evidence that would change the conclusion.", | |
| "Deliberately quoting only part of someone's statement.", | |
| "Protecting a doctrine after discovering that the text says something different.", | |
| "Allowing pride to prevent the words, I was wrong.", | |
| "Intentionally creating an impression one knows the complete facts would contradict.", | |
| "Coordinating others to spread a claim one knows is uncertain.", | |
| "Continuing a reporting or harassment campaign after evidence contradicts the accusation.", | |
| "Using a false or misleading narrative because it still achieves the desired punishment.", | |
| "Continuing to call someone a stalker, pervert, pedophile, predator, criminal, or other defamatory label after discovering that the evidence does not justify the accusation.", | |
| "Knowingly using the worst possible interpretation of someone's behavior because it causes greater social damage." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "When truth corrects you, let your testimony change." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "name": "Spiritual", | |
| "subtitle": "Bearing False Witness Concerning God", | |
| "q": "How is it broken spiritually?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The gravest form is to testify falsely concerning YHWH, His words, His Son, or what Scripture actually says." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A person may inherit a teaching, hear it repeatedly, assume it is biblical, and eventually testify:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "The Bible says...", | |
| "ref": "" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yet if the words of Scripture say otherwise, repetition does not make the testimony true." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Attributing words to YHWH that He did not speak.", | |
| "Saying Yeshua taught something contrary to his recorded words.", | |
| "Allowing Their Willโtradition, denomination, teacher, creed, institution, or majority opinionโto determine what Scripture must mean.", | |
| "Reading doctrine into a passage instead of allowing the passage to testify.", | |
| "Ignoring clear contrary statements because they disturb an inherited belief.", | |
| "Calling one's interpretation โthe Word of Godโ when the actual words say something different.", | |
| "Misquoting Scripture to condemn another person.", | |
| "Using God's Name to strengthen an accusation that the evidence does not support." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua himself gives a vital example of allowing his testimony to identify him:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?", | |
| "ref": "John 10:36" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "He also prayed:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.", | |
| "ref": "John 17:3" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Within this testimony, Yeshua identifies the Father as the only true God and himself as the one whom the Father sent and as the Son of God." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Therefore, to testify about Yeshua requires allowing his own words to speak. If someone says, โJesus said he is the only true God,โ while his recorded words instead distinguish the only true God from Jesus Christ whom He sent, that statement does not accurately represent the words being cited." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Likewise, saying simply โJesus is Godโ as though those were Yeshua's own recorded words must not be confused with what the passages themselves actually say. A doctrine may be argued from interpretation, but interpretation must not be falsely presented as quotation or direct testimony." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A faithful witness asks: What did Yeshua actually say? What did the Father say? What do the words actually testify? Am I repeating Scriptureโor repeating someone's interpretation of Scripture?" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "A False Witness May Believe His Own Testimony", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "This distinction is essential." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A liar may know the statement is false." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A false witness may believe the statement because the witness did not see fully, hear fully, investigate fully, remember carefully, or understand faithfully." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yet false testimony still produces a lie." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "That is why Scripture repeatedly commands careful hearing:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "The simple believeth every word.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 14:15" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 18:13" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The obligation of the witness is therefore not merely sincerity." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "It is faithfulness to reality." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Defamation Of Character", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Defamation is the destruction or unjust injury of another person's name through false or inadequately supported claims." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A person's reputation is part of how they are known among others. To falsely attach a severe moral or criminal label to someone can damage employment, friendships, family relationships, housing, safety, standing in the community, and the willingness of others even to hear their side." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Labels such as stalker, pervert, pedophile, predator, abuser, criminal, thief, murderer, adulterer, or fraud carry enormous weight. They should never be used casually, as insults, as exaggerations, or merely because someone behaves in a way another person dislikes." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A righteous witness asks:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "What exactly happened?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "What evidence establishes the accusation?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "What facts would justify this particular label?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Am I describing observed conductโor assigning a condemning identity beyond what the evidence proves?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "There is a difference between saying:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "This behavior concerned me.", | |
| "ref": "" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "and saying:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "This person is a stalker.", | |
| "ref": "" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "There is a difference between saying:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "That statement was inappropriate.", | |
| "ref": "" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "and saying:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "This person is a pervert.", | |
| "ref": "" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "There is a difference between reporting actual evidence of sexual wrongdoing and applying the word pedophile merely to destroy someone's reputation." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Where serious misconduct is genuinely evidenced, truthful reporting is not false witness. But where there is not just evidence and cause, severe accusations themselves can become false witness." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "When Words And Facts Say Opposite Things", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "False witness becomes especially evident when a person's claim and the available record plainly contradict one another." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "If someone says:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "He said X.", | |
| "ref": "" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "But the record plainly says:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "I said Y.", | |
| "ref": "" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "the witness must yield to the record." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "One should not change โSon of Godโ into another direct quotation, nor change โthe only true God... and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sentโ into words the passage itself does not say." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Interpretation may be discussed, but quotation must remain quotation, inference must remain inference, doctrine must remain doctrine, accusation must remain accusation until established, and evidence must not be altered to fit the preferred conclusion." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Gossip, Doxing, Defamation, And Organized False Witness", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Saying โSomeone told meโ, โEveryone knowsโ, โPeople are reporting itโ, or โI heard he's a predatorโ does not remove responsibility." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Every repetition makes the speaker another witness carrying the claim forward." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Doxing, coordinated reporting, public shaming, defamation, and community harassment become especially dangerous when accusation begins substituting for evidence. A crowd can multiply the consequences of one false witness without ever improving the truthfulness of the original claim." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A person can be publicly condemned by hundreds of people who all received their information from the same false or incomplete source." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "One accusation repeated one thousand times is still one accusation unless independently supported by facts." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Before repeating or acting upon harmful information, ask: Did I witness this? Have I verified it? Is the source reliable? Do I understand the context? Is the information necessary to disclose? Is the label actually established by evidence? Am I protecting someone from real harm, or inviting punishment before the matter has been established?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 11:13" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Truth Without Love Can Still Wound Wrongfully", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Not every harmful disclosure is false." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A person may reveal something true and still do so maliciously." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Truth can be weaponized through unnecessary exposure, humiliation, blackmail, intimidation, or disclosure of private information that serves no righteous purpose." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The question is therefore not merely:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Is it true?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "But also:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Why am I saying it? Why am I exposing it? What am I trying to cause others to do?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Truth should serve righteous judgment, protection, correction, reconciliation, and justiceโnot cruelty for its own sake." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Righteous Judgment Requires Full Awareness", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua said:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.", | |
| "ref": "John 7:24" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Appearance is partial." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Righteous judgment seeks the whole matter." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Therefore use both eyes, both ears, the whole mind, context, evidence, and prayerful discernment before turning perception into testimony." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The proper progression is:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "See fully ยท hear fully ยท examine fully ยท understand carefully ยท seek YHWH's counsel ยท then testify truthfully." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "tempted", | |
| "title": "When You Are Tempted", | |
| "q": "What should you ask when you are tempted?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Ask: Did I actually see this? Did I actually hear it? Do I know the context? Am I repeating fact, interpretation, inference, tradition, suspicion, accusation, or rumor? Have I examined evidence that disagrees with me? Am I willing to be corrected? Do the words themselves actually say what I claim they say? Is the label I am placing on this person truly justified by evidence? Am I about to expose, report, defame, or punish someone before the matter is established?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Remember:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 14:5" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "And:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 18:13" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Exodus 20:16 ยท Exodus 23:2 ยท Proverbs 3:5 ยท Proverbs 11:13 ยท Proverbs 14:5,15 ยท Proverbs 18:13,17 ยท Matthew 5:37 ยท Matthew 12:37 ยท John 7:24 ยท John 10:36 ยท John 17:3" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "pray", | |
| "title": "When You Pray", | |
| "q": "How should you pray?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin privately and secretly before the Father:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet... and pray to thy Father which is in secret.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:6" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Do not rely upon many words: โUse not vain repetitions...โ โ Matthew 6:7" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin as Yeshua taught: โOur Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done...โ โ Matthew 6:9โ10" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Then pray simply:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Father YHWH, make me a faithful witness. Open my eyes and ears, give me understanding, keep me from assumption, rumor, defamation, malicious exposure, and inherited falsehood. Keep me from placing condemning names upon others without just evidence and cause. Let me speak only what is true, and correct me whenever my testimony contradicts Thy truth. Through Yeshua Thy Son, amen." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Matthew 6:6โ10 ยท Proverbs 3:5 ยท Proverbs 18:13 ยท John 7:24" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "repentance": { | |
| "intro": "Sin usually forms inwardly long before it appears in the body. Learn to see the layer where it began, turn there, and return to the Father there.", | |
| "stages": [ | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Physical", | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "subtitle": "Acting Upon Falsehood, Exposure, and Coordinated Harm", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Filing a knowingly false accusation, complaint, police report, workplace report, or institutional report.", | |
| "Fabricating, altering, hiding, selectively presenting, or misrepresenting evidence.", | |
| "Signing testimony one has not personally verified." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did my body, time, or hands begin to do that served the wrong master?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Stop the action; return the body to obedience.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Establish the matter truthfully before acting. Protect legitimate privacy. Never weaponize another person's private information. Do not join coordinated punishment merely because a crowd, community, platform, leader, or institution claims the accusation is true.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Exodus 23:2" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Emotional", | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "subtitle": "Letting Feeling Become Evidence", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Wanting an accusation to be true because one dislikes the accused.", | |
| "Believing negative testimony readily because it confirms resentment.", | |
| "Repeating scandal because it is emotionally exciting." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What feeling โ fear, craving, resentment, attachment โ did I let govern me?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Refuse to feed the feeling; bring it honestly before YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Feel honestly, but do not make emotion a witness to facts it cannot establish.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Mental", | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "subtitle": "Incomplete Seeing, Hearing, and Understanding", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Hearing part of a conversation and assuming the rest.", | |
| "Seeing an action without knowing its context.", | |
| "Remembering only details that support one's conclusion." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What thought or reasoning did I accept before the outward act?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Reject the false reasoning and submit the mind to truth.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Use the full eyes, ears, mind, context, and available evidence before testifying.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Proverbs 18:13" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Ambitional", | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "subtitle": "Making the Facts Serve the Desired Outcome", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Selecting only facts that support one's position.", | |
| "Misrepresenting an opponent to make one's argument stronger.", | |
| "Refusing correction because one's reputation depends upon being right." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What desire or ambition did I begin to pursue above obedience?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Lay the ambition down beneath the Kingdom of YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let truth determine the conclusion rather than determining the conclusion first and recruiting facts afterward.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Vocal", | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "subtitle": "Speaking Lies as Testimony", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Deliberately lying.", | |
| "Repeating rumor as established fact.", | |
| "Misquoting someone." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I say, or agree to say, that pledged me to the wrong thing?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Retract the words; let speech return under the Father.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Speak exactly enough that the listener receives the truth rather than merely the impression one wishes to create.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 12:37" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Intentional", | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "subtitle": "Choosing the Preferred Story Over the Facts", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Knowing one's statement is inaccurate and refusing to correct it.", | |
| "Concealing evidence that would change the conclusion.", | |
| "Deliberately quoting only part of someone's statement." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I decide or consent to, knowing it was against YHWH?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Withdraw consent; choose His will over your own.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "When truth corrects you, let your testimony change.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Spiritual", | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "subtitle": "Bearing False Witness Concerning God", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Attributing words to YHWH that He did not speak.", | |
| "Saying Yeshua taught something contrary to his recorded words.", | |
| "Allowing Their Willโtradition, denomination, teacher, creed, institution, or majority opinionโto determine what Scripture must mean." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "Whose counsel did I let govern me instead of the Father's?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Renounce the rival counsel and seek the Father alone.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "John 10:36", | |
| "John 17:3" | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "n": 10, | |
| "cmd": "Do not covet", | |
| "ref": "Exodus 20:17", | |
| "verse": "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.", | |
| "sinword": "Coveting", | |
| "sections": [ | |
| { | |
| "kind": "define", | |
| "title": "Its Opposite", | |
| "q": "What is Coveting?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Coveting โ desiring another person's life, relationship, possessions, status, position, success, body, opportunities, property, influence, or blessings in a way that produces envy, resentment, dissatisfaction, comparison, or the wish to possess what is not rightly yours." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Coveting is the hidden inward seedbed from which many other commandments may be violated." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A person may covet before they steal." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Covet before they commit adultery." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Covet before they lie." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Covet before they murder." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Covet before they dishonor." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Coveting is therefore not merely noticing that another person has something desirable. The violation begins when admiration becomes possessive desire, comparison, envy, resentment, entitlement, fixation, or dissatisfaction with what YHWH has presently given." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The deeper question is: Can I see another person's blessing without needing to possess it, diminish it, resent it, or make it the measure of my own worth?" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "keep", | |
| "title": "To Keep It Inwardly", | |
| "q": "How do you keep this commandment?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "To receive one's own life with gratitude; rejoice in another person's good; trust YHWH's provision; seek what is righteous rather than what belongs to another; refuse envy and comparison; and desire blessing without requiring another person's loss." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have.", | |
| "ref": "Hebrews 13:5" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 14:30" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Contentment does not forbid growth, work, improvement, ambition, or prayer for greater provision. It means that desire remains under righteousness rather than becoming hunger for another person's portion." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "dimensions", | |
| "title": "To Violate It Inwardly โ The Seven Dimensions", | |
| "q": "How is this commandment broken inwardly?", | |
| "blocks": [], | |
| "dims": [ | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "name": "Physical", | |
| "subtitle": "Acting Out Covetous Desire", | |
| "q": "How is it broken physically?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The physical violation occurs when inward craving produces outward behavior designed to possess, imitate, intrude upon, or take what belongs to another." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Taking another person's property because one has become fixated upon having it.", | |
| "Pursuing another person's spouse.", | |
| "Copying another person's life, identity, work, or possessions compulsively out of envy.", | |
| "Manipulating circumstances to take another person's job, home, inheritance, status, or opportunity.", | |
| "Spending recklessly to imitate another person's lifestyle.", | |
| "Intruding repeatedly into another person's relationship, family, private life, or possessions because desire has become obsessive.", | |
| "Damaging another person's possessions or opportunities because one resents that they have them." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Respect what belongs to another and let admiration remain admiration without turning into possession." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "name": "Emotional", | |
| "subtitle": "Envy, Jealousy, Resentment", | |
| "q": "How is it broken emotionally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The emotional violation occurs when another person's good produces bitterness rather than joy." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Feeling resentful because another person is wealthier, more attractive, more loved, more successful, or more influential.", | |
| "Feeling jealous of another person's marriage or family.", | |
| "Becoming angry when someone else receives recognition.", | |
| "Feeling diminished because another person prospers.", | |
| "Secretly wishing another would lose what they have.", | |
| "Feeling satisfaction when someone one envies experiences failure.", | |
| "Comparing constantly until gratitude disappears." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 27:4" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Rejoice in another person's blessing without interpreting it as evidence of your own lack." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "name": "Mental", | |
| "subtitle": "Comparison and Possessive Imagination", | |
| "q": "How is it broken mentally?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The mental violation begins when the mind repeatedly compares, imagines possession, or constructs dissatisfaction." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Thinking continually, Why do they have that and I do not?", | |
| "Imagining oneself in another person's marriage, house, position, body, career, or life.", | |
| "Mentally rehearsing how much better life would be if one had what belongs to another.", | |
| "Measuring one's worth by another person's possessions or success.", | |
| "Assuming another person's blessing means YHWH has neglected you.", | |
| "Turning admiration into fixation.", | |
| "Thinking another person's life would solve one's own inward dissatisfaction." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 14:12" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Notice comparison early and return the mind to gratitude, wisdom, and what YHWH actually calls you to pursue." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "name": "Ambitional", | |
| "subtitle": "Wanting Another Person's Portion", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in ambition?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The ambitional violation occurs when aspiration ceases to be growth toward one's own righteous calling and becomes desire to possess another person's particular portion." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Wanting another person's marriage rather than seeking righteousness in one's own relationships.", | |
| "Wanting another person's career position specifically because they have it.", | |
| "Wanting their wealth, influence, audience, title, house, land, status, recognition, or reputation.", | |
| "Desiring to replace another rather than develop faithfully.", | |
| "Pursuing success primarily to surpass someone one envies.", | |
| "Treating another person's life as the blueprint one must possess.", | |
| "Wanting what they have more than seeking what YHWH wills for you." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua said:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:33" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Pursue what YHWH has for you without requiring another person's portion to become yours." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "name": "Vocal", | |
| "subtitle": "Speaking From Envy", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in speech?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The vocal violation occurs when coveting begins leaking through speech." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Belittling another person's success because one envies it.", | |
| "Gossiping about someone whose life or possessions provoke jealousy.", | |
| "Saying their blessing is undeserved without just cause.", | |
| "Constantly talking about another person's possessions with resentment.", | |
| "Making sarcastic remarks about their marriage, home, body, money, or position.", | |
| "Praising another outwardly while privately using speech to undermine them.", | |
| "Complaining continually because someone else has more." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 12:34" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Let speech bless rather than diminish another person's good." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "name": "Intentional", | |
| "subtitle": "Planning to Possess What Belongs to Another", | |
| "q": "How is it broken in the will?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The intentional violation occurs when coveting becomes will." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Planning how to take another person's spouse, property, position, inheritance, business, or opportunity.", | |
| "Deliberately creating circumstances designed to displace another.", | |
| "Waiting for a marriage to fail so one can pursue the spouse.", | |
| "Manipulating a workplace so another person loses a position one desires.", | |
| "Attempting to cause another person's failure because their success provokes envy.", | |
| "Intending to obtain through manipulation what cannot righteously be obtained.", | |
| "Choosing another person's loss as the path to one's own gain." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [], | |
| "keeping": "Desire good without consenting to another person's unjust deprivation." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "name": "Spiritual", | |
| "subtitle": "Dissatisfaction With YHWH's Portion", | |
| "q": "How is it broken spiritually?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The deepest form of coveting is not merely wanting another person's possession. It is silently judging that YHWH's present provision, timing, calling, or portion is insufficient." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Coveting can therefore become mistrust." | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "examples": [ | |
| "Believing another person's blessing proves YHWH has treated you unfairly.", | |
| "Allowing My Will to say, I must have what they have.", | |
| "Allowing the World's Will to define worth through wealth, beauty, romance, fame, possessions, influence, or status.", | |
| "Allowing Their Will to pressure you into wanting a life that was never your calling.", | |
| "Refusing gratitude because your life does not resemble someone else's.", | |
| "Seeking another person's portion instead of seeking YHWH's counsel for your own.", | |
| "Desiring the gift more than the Giver." | |
| ], | |
| "after": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yeshua warns:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.", | |
| "ref": "Luke 12:15" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "keeping": "Let YHWH define what life is worth and what portion is righteous for you." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Coveting Is The Hidden Root", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The Tenth Commandment exposes sin before outward action begins." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "A person may have stolen nothing." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Touched no one." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Spoken no lie." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Committed no outward act." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Yet inwardly the heart may already be saying:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "I want what is theirs." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "I resent that they have it." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "I should have their life." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "I deserve their place." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "I would be happier if I possessed their portion." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "That is why coveting reaches deeply into the heart." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The progression may be:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "seeing ยท comparison ยท desire ยท fixation ยท envy ยท resentment ยท entitlement ยท intention ยท action." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The commandment stops the corruption at the beginning." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Admiration Is Not Coveting", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "It is not wrong to see something good and recognize it as desirable." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "You may admire another person's marriage and seek to build a healthy marriage." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "You may admire someone's discipline and become more disciplined." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "You may admire a home and work toward one of your own." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "You may admire someone's wisdom, business, craft, strength, faithfulness, or success and learn from them." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The distinction is:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Admiration says: โThat is good; I can learn.โ" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Coveting says: โI want theirs.โ" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Admiration can inspire righteous growth." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Coveting makes another person's possession the object of inward possession." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Contentment Is Not Stagnation", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Contentment does not mean abandoning ambition, refusing growth, or remaining in harmful circumstances." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Scripture does not command passivity." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Contentment means:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "I can pursue better without despising what I have." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "I can grow without envying another." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "I can ask without demanding another person's portion." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "I can build without needing someone else to lose." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The righteous ambition is not:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Give me what belongs to them." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "It is:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Father, show me what Thou wouldst have me become, build, receive, and steward." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "insight", | |
| "title": "Coveting Can Lead Into The Other Commandments", | |
| "q": "", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Coveting another person's possessions can lead to stealing." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Coveting another person's spouse can lead to adultery." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Coveting another person's position can lead to false witness." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Coveting another person's life or inheritance can lead toward murder." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Coveting status and recognition can make self into a god." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Coveting can even make a person resent YHWH Himself because another has received what they desire." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "The Tenth Commandment therefore guards the inner doorway before many outward violations occur." | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "tempted", | |
| "title": "When You Are Tempted", | |
| "q": "What should you ask when you are tempted?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Ask: Do I admire this, or do I want to possess what belongs to another? Has comparison made me ungrateful? Would I still want this blessing if I could receive it without taking anything from them? Am I seeking what YHWH wills for me, or trying to acquire their portion? Can I genuinely rejoice if they continue to prosper?" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Remember:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "Take heed, and beware of covetousness.", | |
| "ref": "Luke 12:15" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "And:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.", | |
| "ref": "Proverbs 14:30" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Exodus 20:17 ยท Proverbs 14:12,30 ยท Proverbs 27:4 ยท Matthew 6:33 ยท Matthew 12:34 ยท Luke 12:15 ยท Hebrews 13:5" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "kind": "pray", | |
| "title": "When You Pray", | |
| "q": "How should you pray?", | |
| "blocks": [ | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin privately and secretly before the Father:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "s", | |
| "text": "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet... and pray to thy Father which is in secret.", | |
| "ref": "Matthew 6:6" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Do not rely upon many words: โUse not vain repetitions...โ โ Matthew 6:7" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Begin as Yeshua taught: โOur Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done...โ โ Matthew 6:9โ10" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Then pray simply:" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "p", | |
| "text": "Father YHWH, cleanse me from envy, comparison, jealousy, and covetous desire. Teach me to rejoice in another's blessing, be grateful for what Thou hast given me, and seek only what Thou willest for my life. Through Yeshua Thy Son, amen." | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "t": "ref", | |
| "text": "Matthew 6:6โ10,33 ยท Luke 12:15 ยท Proverbs 14:30" | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "repentance": { | |
| "intro": "Sin usually forms inwardly long before it appears in the body. Learn to see the layer where it began, turn there, and return to the Father there.", | |
| "stages": [ | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Physical", | |
| "marker": "๐ด", | |
| "subtitle": "Acting Out Covetous Desire", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Taking another person's property because one has become fixated upon having it.", | |
| "Pursuing another person's spouse.", | |
| "Copying another person's life, identity, work, or possessions compulsively out of envy." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did my body, time, or hands begin to do that served the wrong master?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Stop the action; return the body to obedience.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Respect what belongs to another and let admiration remain admiration without turning into possession.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Emotional", | |
| "marker": "๐ ", | |
| "subtitle": "Envy, Jealousy, Resentment", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Feeling resentful because another person is wealthier, more attractive, more loved, more successful, or more influential.", | |
| "Feeling jealous of another person's marriage or family.", | |
| "Becoming angry when someone else receives recognition." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What feeling โ fear, craving, resentment, attachment โ did I let govern me?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Refuse to feed the feeling; bring it honestly before YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Rejoice in another person's blessing without interpreting it as evidence of your own lack.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Proverbs 27:4" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Mental", | |
| "marker": "๐ก", | |
| "subtitle": "Comparison and Possessive Imagination", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Thinking continually, Why do they have that and I do not?", | |
| "Imagining oneself in another person's marriage, house, position, body, career, or life.", | |
| "Mentally rehearsing how much better life would be if one had what belongs to another." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What thought or reasoning did I accept before the outward act?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Reject the false reasoning and submit the mind to truth.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Notice comparison early and return the mind to gratitude, wisdom, and what YHWH actually calls you to pursue.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Proverbs 14:12" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Ambitional", | |
| "marker": "๐ข", | |
| "subtitle": "Wanting Another Person's Portion", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Wanting another person's marriage rather than seeking righteousness in one's own relationships.", | |
| "Wanting another person's career position specifically because they have it.", | |
| "Wanting their wealth, influence, audience, title, house, land, status, recognition, or reputation." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What desire or ambition did I begin to pursue above obedience?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Lay the ambition down beneath the Kingdom of YHWH.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Pursue what YHWH has for you without requiring another person's portion to become yours.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 6:33" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Vocal", | |
| "marker": "๐ต", | |
| "subtitle": "Speaking From Envy", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Belittling another person's success because one envies it.", | |
| "Gossiping about someone whose life or possessions provoke jealousy.", | |
| "Saying their blessing is undeserved without just cause." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I say, or agree to say, that pledged me to the wrong thing?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Retract the words; let speech return under the Father.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let speech bless rather than diminish another person's good.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Matthew 12:34" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Intentional", | |
| "marker": "๐ฃ", | |
| "subtitle": "Planning to Possess What Belongs to Another", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Planning how to take another person's spouse, property, position, inheritance, business, or opportunity.", | |
| "Deliberately creating circumstances designed to displace another.", | |
| "Waiting for a marriage to fail so one can pursue the spouse." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "What did I decide or consent to, knowing it was against YHWH?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Withdraw consent; choose His will over your own.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Desire good without consenting to another person's unjust deprivation.", | |
| "scriptures": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "dimension": "Spiritual", | |
| "marker": "๐ช", | |
| "subtitle": "Dissatisfaction With YHWH's Portion", | |
| "warningSigns": [ | |
| "Believing another person's blessing proves YHWH has treated you unfairly.", | |
| "Allowing My Will to say, I must have what they have.", | |
| "Allowing the World's Will to define worth through wealth, beauty, romance, fame, possessions, influence, or status." | |
| ], | |
| "catch": "Whose counsel did I let govern me instead of the Father's?", | |
| "confess": "Name it plainly before YHWH, without excuse.", | |
| "turn": "Renounce the rival counsel and seek the Father alone.", | |
| "seek": "Ask the Father what is true and right here.", | |
| "walk": "Let YHWH define what life is worth and what portion is righteous for you.", | |
| "scriptures": [ | |
| "Luke 12:15" | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| } | |
| ] |