The Fifth Commandment: Protecting Our Neighbors | The Ten Commandments: What Does This Mean?

This week we'll be studying 1 John 3:11-18 & Exodus 20:13 under the theme of "The 5th Commandment: Protecting Our Neighbors." If we operate with the knowledge that relatively few have murdered, but the assumption that everyone has broken the 5th Commandment, it leads us to an understanding of the command that suggests the fallen human condition struggles with anger that leads us to poorly love our neighbors. Luther would go so far as to say that failing to help someone in need when we have resources to do so is tantamount to killing them. The only way to learn to love properly is to see clearly the Savior who was murdered in our place.