Rule No. 8
Happy Good Friday – The Day of The CROSS
The High Cost Of Stealing
Share an experience when your private property was taken and your emotions.
How does the teaching of Jesus: “Treat others as you want to be treated,” relate
to stealing?
- What are some of the high costs of stealing that we all have to pay?
- What is Rule No. 8 for the Road? (Exodus 20:15)
- What does giving your employer a fair day’s work have to do with stealing? (Ephesians 4:28)
Discuss: If you do not profit your employer, your employer cannot afford to keep you.
How big of a problem is tax evasion?
As Christians, what are we to do according to Romans 13:6-7?
- At what point does something you borrow and have not taken back become something you have stolen?
- Is it essential to take things back quickly that we have borrowed?
- Read together Luke 19:1-10. What do we learn from this passage about the cure for stealing? How was Zaccheaus’ character rebuilt?
- What did Jesus do for the thief on the cross that asked for forgiveness?
- Why do we all need Jesus’ forgiveness and grace? (Romans 3:23)
One of my cherished songs for Easter Season especially on a Good Friday like Today is the old rugged cross: i am sharing here the first verse and the chorus:
On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross
The emblem of suffering and shame
And I love that old cross where the dearest and best
For a world of lost sinners was slain
The emblem of suffering and shame
And I love that old cross where the dearest and best
For a world of lost sinners was slain
Chorus:
So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross (rugged cross)
Till my trophies at last I lay down
I will cling to the old rugged cross
And exchange it some day for a crown
Till my trophies at last I lay down
I will cling to the old rugged cross
And exchange it some day for a crown
Join me tomorrow for Rule No. 9
