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Third Sunday in Lent (Series B) March 7, 2021 Trinity Free Lutheran Church, Grand Forks, ND Ny Stavanger Free Lutheran Church, Buxton, ND The Old Testament lesson for the Third Sunday in Lent comes from the second book of Moses, commonly known as Exodus. It’s chapter 20, verses 1 through 17. In this Scripture, God speaks directly to his people from a cloud of smoke. Please stand as you are able for God’s Holy Word. From Exodus 20, beginning at verse 1, we read in Jesus’ name. 1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. 7 “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. 8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 13 “You shall not murder. 14 “You shall not commit adultery. 15 “You shall not steal. 16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.” Father, these are your words. Sanctify us in the truth. Your Word is truth. Amen. Let’s start with a quiz. I’m sorry. I mean, “A celebration of academic achievement.” That sounds like more fun. There’s only one question in this celebration: How many commandments are there? If your answer is ten, you pass the quiz. Good job. But the best answer might be a little more complicated. If you answered “nine,” or “fourteen,” or even “fifteen,” you also get full credit. If you count up all the places in this passage where God gives a command, that is, where he says, “You shall,” or “You shall not,” or “Remember,” or “Honor,” we actually come up with fourteen commandments, fifteen if you read it in Hebrew, but we don’t need to get that complicated. But you might have also noticed that some of the “You shalls” and “You shall nots” are related to each other. So maybe we should consolidate some of them. And if we do that, we come up with nine. For example, people sometimes wonder why the Ninth Commandment, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house,” is separated from the Tenth Commandment, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife …” It seems like these could just be combined into one. Some Christians do combine them into one, but then they have to divide the First Commandment into two commandments. So they separate, “You shall have no other gods before me” (20:3), from, “You shall not make for yourself a carved image …” That becomes the Second Commandment, and what we consider to be the Second through Eighth Commandments each slide down a spot. We have this struggle because, if we consolidate the commandments that are related to each other, we only come up with nine. That’s close to ten, but not right on, so what’s the deal? We do need to come up with ten, because the Bible says there are ten. In three other places, once in Exodus (34:28) and twice in Deuteronomy (4:13; 10:4), Moses refers back to the Ten Commandments, specifically using the number ten. But if you look up those references, like Exodus 34:28, your Bible might have a little footnote saying that, literally, it’s “the Ten Words” (ר ָּב ָּד). And a “word” is broader than a commandment. If someone says, “Can I have a word with you?” they might give you a commandment, but they might also rebuke you, or they might compliment you, or they might make a promise. You never know until you hear their word. So the Ten Commandments are really the Ten Words. So when we try to identify ten, they don’t all have to be commandments. So we look again at our Old Testament lesson, and it starts this way: “And God spoke all these words” (20:1). Then what follows is like a ten-point sermon, except God is more efficient with his points than most preachers are. And the first point, or the First Word is this: “I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery” (20:2). Then we take the nine commandments after that, and it adds up to Ten Words, just like it’s supposed to. So the First Commandment is really the Second Word, the Second Commandment is really the Third Word, and so on, all the way down to the Ninth and Tenth Commandments. And since those two commandments are quite similar, we can count them as one, and they become the Tenth Word. And this, from what I understand, is actually how the Israelites counted them. But somewhere along the lines, Christians started to number them differently, and they started to call them the Ten Commandments instead of the Ten Words. It seems that Martin Luther recognized this issue when he wrote his catechisms in 1529, and it might have been an opportunity to correct the numbering. But Luther didn’t like to change things that didn’t need to be changed, so he left the numbering alone. Instead, he included the First Word, “I am the LORD your God,” as the Introduction to the Ten Commandments. That way he could get all the content in without having to mess with the way people had learned the commandments. So he stuck with the traditional Christian numbering. It was only after this that other reformers in other places developed the newer Christian numbering, where they combined the Ninth and Tenth and divided the First Commandment into two. And that’s why some of our Protestant friends count the commandments differently than we do. But enough history. There is a point to counting the Ten Words this way. This isn’t just a trivial matter. So if I lost you with all the counting and history, this would be a good time to check back in. Christians have always considered the First Commandment to be the most important commandment. And this is pretty easy to recognize. “You shall have no other gods before me” is pretty important. All of the other commandments flow from this one. And it’s placed at the front of the list to emphasize its importance. Any time someone makes a list of rules, “Rule Number One” is usually the most important. And this is certainly true for the First Commandment. But when we recognize the commandments to really be the Ten Words, and when we recognize the First Commandment to really be the Second Word, and when we recognize the Introduction to be the First Word, then we see that there is something even more important than the First Commandment. It’s the First Word: “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.” The giving of the Ten Words comes immediately after Israel’s escape from Egypt. They had been slaves there for 430 years (Ex. But God had promised a land to their father Abraham. So God delivered them from Egypt. God did this by first sending ten plagues upon Egypt. During these plagues, Moses requested that Pharaoh permit them to leave. And Pharaoh continually refused until the tenth plague, which was the death of all the firstborn. God spared the Israelites from this plague by commanding them to sacrifice the Passover lamb and paint the blood on the doorposts of their houses. So all the firstborn of the Egyptians died, while the LORD passed over the houses of the Israelites. Finally, Pharaoh summoned Moses and gave Israel permission to leave (12:31). So they left in haste, just as God commanded them. But Pharaoh soon changed his mind and chased after them with his army (14:5-7). God led Israel to the Red Sea, and it was there that Pharaoh caught up with them. So now Israel was trapped between the sea and an army. It looked like a hopeless situation, but God had really brought this about so that he might get glory over Pharaoh (14:4). God sent a strong wind to part the waters of the Red Sea and dry up the ground (14:21). The people of Israel walked through on dry land. But when Pharaoh’s army attempted to chase them through the sea, God let the wind stop. The waters returned to their natural place, and the Egyptian army was drowned in the sea. In the morning, Israel found themselves alive and free on the other side of the sea. The result was that, not only had Israel escaped from Egypt, but there was no one left to chase them. They were free. This is the event that we refer to as the Exodus, and it is the primary deliverance event in the Old Testament. It’s what God refers to when he says, “I am the LORD your God, who brought It was kind of like their Fourth of July. Except, instead of signing a piece of paper, then waiting for the King of England to receive that piece of paper, and then fighting a war for several years, it all happened in one night. And instead of the people fighting a war, God fought and won the war in one night. So this became the primary deliverance event of the Old Testament. And it continued to be God’s greatest act of deliverance until the cross, where he delivered the world from even greater enemies through the death of his Son. After their deliverance fro Egypt, Israel began their journey to the land God had promised to Abraham. On the way, God spoke to them at Mount Sinai. The people all stood at the base of the mountain, the mountain was wrapped in smoke, God came down upon the mountain, and from there he spoke to them, from within the cloud of smoke. And this, as far as I can tell, is the only time God spoke directly to all the people. Usually he spoke to his servant Moses, and Moses then spoke to the people. But here, Moses is with the people, and God speaks to them directly (19:16-20:1). The people were naturally terrified (20:18), though they should not have been, because the words God spoke to them were gracious and kind. From this cloud of smoke, God spoke the Ten Words. And he begins by declaring himself to be their God. That’s the First Word. The LORD declares himself to be their God who delivered them from slavery to Egypt. This is the First Word, and it teaches us something about the other Nine Words. God makes himself to be their God, and he saves them before he commands anything of them. Our natural minds have this belief that we use the commandments in order to earn God’s favor. That is, if we want to be saved and go to the good place when we die, we need to do good things, like keep the Ten Commandments. This is the basic assumption of all natural religion. So our natural minds grab the Ten Commandments and think, Alright, if I keep these commandments, then God will save me. But that’s not how it is. God saved Israel before he gave them the commandments. He declared himself to be their God, and them to be his people, before he required anything of them. And this is radically different from the way our natural minds work. We switch things around. We think it is us who must do the work of reconciling ourselves to God, and we use God’s Law to do it. And it is true that if we do actually keep all of God’s commandments, we will have eternal life (Luke 10:28). God would let us in to the good place, and he would be happy to do so. But sometimes we don’t keep God’s commandments. To say it more accurately, we only keep God’s commandments some of the time. Or to say it even more accurately, we only sort of keep God’s commandments some of the time. You and I have never, ever, in the entire history of our entire lives, done a good work with a truly sincere heart. We only deceive ourselves into thinking that God must be pleased with our goodness. In this way we flip God’s will on its head. And we really try to take God’s place in the work of salvation. We think that we are the ones who reconcile ourselves to God. We think that we can earn his favor by keeping his commandments. But this can never be. And the attempt to do so is really an attempt to steal God’s glory for ourselves. God is the reconciler. This is what we learn from the First Word. God did not give the commandments to Israel so that they could earn their place as his people. He made them his people when he delivered them from Egypt. He gave them the commandments because they were his people. Do you see the difference? The commandments were not given so that they might become God’s people, but because they were his people. This is the way God’s Law continues to function in our lives as Christians. Jesus Christ has fulfilled the Law on our behalf. He is God’s Son. He took on human flesh willingly. And he did it to fulfill the Law on our behalf. Where we only sort of obey God’s commandments some of the time, and never with a sincere heart, Jesus kept every commandment all of the time with a fully devoted heart. He did this so that he might suffer and die for our sake. This is God’s new and greater deliverance event. The Exodus from Egypt was a foreshadowing of Jesus’ death and resurrection. By Jesus’ death and resurrection, he has delivered us from the greater enemies of sin, death, and the devil. This is God’s new and greater deliverance. So when we read the First Word as Christians, we can think of it in terms of Jesus’ deliverance: “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of slavery to sin, death, and the devil.” By doing this, Jesus has made himself to be our God, and he has made us to be his people. It is into this new reality, as children in the house of God, that the commandments come. God still gives his commandments. But he does not give them to us so that we might become his people, but because we are his children in Jesus Christ. It’s like parents setting the rules of the house. The rules are not there as a path for the children to earn their place in the family. The rules are there to protect the children, because they are members of the family. This is the correct way to view the commandments. And when we view them this way, they become gifts instead of a burden. They might, sometimes, still feel like a burden, but this is only because our sinful flesh still wants to use them to steal God’s place. That false use of the commandments only leads us back into slavery. If we submit ourselves to the commandments as a means of gaining freedom, we will fail, and we will be enslaved to this futile quest for freedom. But we are not enslaved to the commandments. Through Jesus Christ, we are not enslaved to anything. We live in God’s house as children. And as children, we are not slaves of anything, but we are heirs of his glory (Gal. So our relationship to the commandments is that we obey them in freedom, for we have been freed from sin, death, and the devil. The commandments become part of the lifestyle of those who have been freed from sin, death, and the devil. Dear saints who trust in Jesus, You are not slaves of anything. Jesus has purchased you, “not with silver and gold, but with his holy and precious blood, and with his innocent sufferings and death.” You are no longer slaves to sin, death, and the devil. You are not slaves to the commandments. You are not even slaves of God. Christ has purchased you. He has made you to be his own. But he did not do this to make you slaves of God, but children of God. This is where it gets really marvelous. Christ did not purchase you from slavery to make you his slaves. He purchased you from slavery to make you free. And it’s not the kind of freedom where he just releases us back into the wild. He purchases us to adopt us as children of God. It is into this reality that God gives us the commandments. So we treasure them as redeemed and free children of God. Amen. Now may the peace of God, which passes all understanding, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus (Phil. Amen.
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यो सामान्यतया स्वीकार गरिन्छ कि हामी कलियुग वा कलिको युगमा बाँचिरहेका छौं। यो अन्तिम युग हो जुन सत्य युग,,त्रेता युग र द्वापर युगबाट सुरू हुन्छ। यी चार युगको बीचमा साझा कुरा भनेको सत्यको पहिलो युग (सत्ययुग) बाट अहिलेको कलियुग सम्म स्थिर नैतिक र सामाजिक क्षय हो। महाभारतमा मार्कंडेयले कलियुगमा मानव आचरणको वर्णन यसरी गर्छन् : रिस, , क्रोध र अज्ञानता बढ्नेछ । धर्म, सत्यता,, शुद्धता , सहिष्णुता,, दया, शारीरिक शक्ति र स्मृति हरेक बित्दै जाने दिनको साथ घट्दै जान्छ। बिना कुनै औचित्य संग मानिसहरूले हत्याको विचारहरू गर्नेछन र त्यसमा केही गलत देख्नेछैनन । वासनालाई सामाजिक रूपले स्वीकार्यको रूपमा हेरिने छ र यौन संभोग जीवनको केन्द्रीय आवश्यकताको रूपमा देखिने छ। पाप द्रुत गतिमा बढ्नेछ,, जबकि सद्गुण बिलोप हुनेछ र फस्टाउन बन्द हुनेछ। मानिसहरू मादक पदार्थहरू र लागूऔषधको दुर्व्यसनी हुन्छन्। गुरुहरुलाई अब सम्मान गरिने छैन र तिनीहरुका बिद्यार्थीहरुले तिनीहरुलाई घाइते बनाउन कोशिस गर्नेछन्। उनीहरूको शिक्षाको अपमान हुनेछ, र कामका अनुयायीहरुको दिमाग सबै मानबजाती बाट नियन्त्रण गरिनेछ । सबै मानिसहरु आफैंलाई देवता वा देवहरु द्वारा वरदान भनेर घोषित गर्छन् र यसलाइ शिक्षाको सट्टा एक व्यापार बनाउनेछन। मानिसहरु अब विवाह गर्दैनन् र एक अर्कासँग बस यौन सुखको लागि बस्दछन्। मोशा र दश आज्ञाहरू हिब्रू वेदले हाम्रो वर्तमान युगलाई पनि उस्तै तरीकाले वर्णन गर्दछ। हाम्रो पाप गर्ने प्रवृत्तिको कारण, निस्तार चाडको लगत्तै मिश्रबाट भाग्ने बित्तिकै परमेश्वरले मोशालाई दश आज्ञा दिनुभयो। मोशाको लक्ष्य इस्राएलीहरूलाई मिश्रदेशबाट डोर्याउनु मात्र थिएन, तर तिनीहरूलाई नयाँ जीवनशैलीमा डोर्याउनु पनि थियो। यसकारण निस्तार चाडको पचास दिन पछि इस्राएलीहरूले उद्धार पाए। सीनै पर्वत (माउन्ट होरेब ) जहाँ उनीहरूले परमेश्वरबाट व्यवस्था प्राप्त गरे। यो कानून कलियुगमा प्राप्त भयो कलि युगको समस्याहरूको समाधान गर्नको लागि । मोशाले कुन आज्ञा पाए ? यद्यपि यो पूर्ण व्यवस्था एकदम लामो थियो, तर मोशाले पहिलो नैतिक आज्ञाहरु पर्मेश्वरद्वारा लेखिएको एक जोडा ढुँगाको पाटीमा ती आज्ञाहरु पाए, जसलाई दश आज्ञा वा (डिका्लाग) भनेर चिनिन्छ। यी दशले कानूनको सारांसलाई गठन गरे – सानो विवरण अघि नैतिक धर्म – र तिनीहरू अब कलियुगमा भएको सामान्य कुकर्महरूको पश्चात्ताप गर्न हामीलाई राजी पार्न परमेश्वरको सक्रिय शक्ति हो। दश आज्ञा यहाँ दस आज्ञाको पूर्ण सूची छ, परमेश्वरले ढुँगामा लेखेका, अनि हिब्रू वेदमा मोशाले रेकर्ड गरेका छन्। ब परमप्रभुले भन्नुभयो,डराउँछन् प्रस्थान २०: १-१८ 2 “म परमप्रभु तिमीहरूको परमेश्वर हुँ। मैले तिमीहरूलाई मिश्र देशबाट बाहिर ल्याएँ जहाँ तिमीहरू कमारा-कमारीहरू थियौ। 3 “तिमीहरूले मबाहेक अरू कुनै देवता पूज्नु हुँदैन। 4 “तिमीहरूले कुनै मूर्ति बनाउनु हुँदैन। कुनै प्रकारको मूर्ति अथवा नक्सा नबनाऊ जो आकाशमा अथवा तल पृथ्वीमाथि, पृथ्वी मुनि पानीमा छ। 5 कुनै पनि प्रकारको मूर्ति त्यस्तो प्रतिरूपको पूजा नगर र त्यसको अगाडी ननिहुर। म परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वर हुँ। म मेरा मानिसहरूले अरू देवताहरूको पूजा गरेको घृणा गर्छु। यदि कसैले मलाई घृणा गर्छ भने, तिनीहरूका सन्तानहरू, नाती-नातिनाहरूलाई म तिनीहरूको अपराधका निम्ति जिम्मेवार ठह्राउनेछु। 6 तर म हजारौं पुस्तासम्म ती सन्तानहरूसित दयालु हनेछु जसले मलाई प्रेम गर्छ र मेरो आज्ञाहरू पालन गर्छ। 7 “तिमीहरूले परमप्रभु तिमीहरूको परमेश्वरको नाउँ दुरूपयोग गर्नु हुँदैन। जसले परमप्रभुको नाउँको दुरूपयोग गर्छन् तिनीहरूलाई बाँच्न दिनु हुँदैन। 8 “विश्राम दिनलाई एक विशेष दिन भनी मान्नु पर्छ भनी सधैं ध्यानमा राख। 9 हप्तामा छ दिन आफ्नो काम गर। 10 “तर सातौं दिन परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरको सम्मानमा विश्रामको दिन हो। यसर्थ त्यो दिन कसैले पनि काम गर्नु हुँदैन तिमीहरूका कमारा-कमारीहरू, छोरा-छोरीहरू अनि तिमीहरूका पशुहरू तथा तिमीहरूका शहरहरूमा भएका विदेशीहरूले पनि काम गर्नु हुँदैन। 11 किन? किनभने परमप्रभुले छ दिनमा आकाश, पृथ्वी, समुद्र अनि तिनीहरूमा भएका प्रत्येक चीज सृष्टि गर्नु लगाउनु भयो अनि सातौं दिनमा उहाँले विश्राम लिनु भयो। यस प्रकारले विश्राम दिनलाई परमप्रभुले आशीर्वाद दिनु भयो। त्यस दिनलाई परमप्रभुले विशेष दिन बनाउनु भयो। 12 तिमीहरूले आफ्नो आमा-बाबुलाई आदर गर्न पर्छ। यसो गर्यौ भने तिमीहरू परमप्रभु तिमीहरूको परमेश्वरद्वारा दिइने भूमिमा धेरै समयसम्म बाँच्न सक्नेछौ। 13 “तिमीहरूले कसैको हत्या गर्नु हुँदैन। 14 “तिमीले व्यभिचार गर्नु हुँदैन। 15 “तिमीले कुनै चीज चोरी गर्नु हुँदैन। 16 “तिमीले अरूको विषयमा झूटो गवाही दिनु हुँदैन। 17 “तिमीहरूले छिमेकीहरूका घर, पत्नी, पुरूष अनि स्त्री, कमारा, कमारीहरू अथवा तिनीहरूको केही चीजहरूको चाहना गर्नु हुँदैन”मानिसहरू परमेश्वरसित दश आज्ञा को मानक आज हामी कहिलेकाँही बिर्सन्छौं कि यी आज्ञाहरू हुन्। तिनीहरू सुझावहरू हैनन्। न त ती सिफारिसहरू नै हुन्। तर कुन हदसम्म हामी यी आज्ञाहरू पालन गर्दछौं ? दश आज्ञा दिनु भन्दा पहिले तलका कुरा आउँदछ । 3 तब मोशा परमेश्वरसित भेट गर्न पर्वतमा चढे। परमप्रभुले मोशासित कुरा गर्नु भयो अनि तिनलाई भन्नु भयो, “यी कुराहरू याकूबको ठूलो परिवारलाई भन,प्रस्थान १९:३,५ 4 ‘तिमीहरुले देख्यौ मैले तिमीहरूलाई मिश्रबाट चील झैं ल्याएँ। 5 यसकारण म अहिले तिमीहरूलाई मेरा आज्ञा पालन गर अनि मेरो करार अनुशरण गर भन्छु। यदि तिमीहरूले यसो गर्यौ भने तिमीहरू मेरो आफ्नै मानिसहरू हुनेछौ। सम्पूर्ण संसार मेरो हो। यो दस आज्ञा पछि मात्र दिइएको थियो । 7 मोशाले करारको पुस्तक मानिसहरूका निम्ति पढे अनि मानिसहरूले भने, “परमप्रभुले आदेश गर्नु भएको प्रत्येक चीज हामी गर्ने छौं।”प्रस्थान २४:७ कहिलेकाँही स्कूलको परीक्षामा, शिक्षकले धेरै प्रश्नहरू दिन्छन् ( उदाहरणका लागि २० ) तर केही प्रश्नको मात्र उत्तर दिन आवश्यक पर्दछ। उदाहरणका लागि २० वटा प्रश्न मध्य कुनै १५ वटा प्रश्नहरू हामी छान्न सक्छौ । प्रत्येक विद्यार्थीले उत्तर दिनको लागि उसले\ / उनले १५ ओटा सजिलो प्रश्नहरू लिन सक्दछन्। यस तरिकाले शिक्षकले परीक्षा सजिलो बनाउँछन्। धेरैले दश आज्ञाको बारेमा पनि यसरी सोच्ने गर्दछन । उनीहरू सोच्दछन् कि परमेश्वरले , दश आज्ञा दिए पछि , “यी दश मध्ये कुनै ६ ओटा मात्र प्रयास गर्नुहोस्” जस्तो अर्थ लगाऊँछन । हामी यो तरिकाले सोच्छौं किनकि हामी परमेश्वरले हाम्रा ‘खराब कामहरू’ को बिरूद्ध हाम्रा ‘राम्रा कामहरू’ सन्तुलन गर्नुहुन्छ भन्ने कल्पना गर्छौं। यदि हाम्रो राम्रो गुणहरू धेरै भयो वा हाम्रो खराब दोषहरू रद्द भयो भने हामी आशा गर्छौं कि यो परमेश्वरको कमाउनको लागि पर्याप्त छ। यद्यपि, दश आज्ञाको इमानदार पठनले देखाउँदछ कि यो यसरी दिइएको थिएन। व्यक्तिहरूले सबै आदेशहरू मान्न र पालना गर्नु पर्थ्यो – सधै । यसको पूर्ण कठिनाइले धेरैलाई दश आज्ञाहरू खारेज गरेको छ। तर तिनीहरू कलियुगमा कलियुगले ल्याएको अवस्थाका लागि दिइयो। दस आज्ञा र कोरोनाभाइरस परीक्षण २०२० मा विश्वभरि फैलिरहेको कोरोनाभाइरस महामारीको साथ तुलना गरेर कलियुगमा कडा दश आज्ञाको उद्देश्यलाई हामी अझ राम्ररी बुझ्न सक्छौं। कोभिड -१९ एक रोग हो जुन ज्वरो ,खोकी र सास फेर्न गार्हो हुने लक्षण हुन्छ जुन कोरोनाभाइरस को कारणले हुन्छ – केहि सानो कुरा जसलाइ हामी देख्न सक्दैनौं। मानौं कसैले कसैलाई ज्वरो लागेको छ र खोकी लागेको छ। यो व्यक्ति समस्या के हो भनेर आश्चर्यचकितमा पर्दछ। के उसलाई / उनलाई सामान्य ज्वरो आएको हो वा तिनीहरू कोरोनाभाइरस संक्रमित छन् ? यदि त्यसो हो भने यो गम्भीर समस्या हो – ज्यान जोखिममा पनि पर्न सक्छ । कोरोनाभाइरस धेरै छिटो फैलिन्छ र सबैलाई असर पुर्याउन सक्छ यो एक वास्तविक संभावना हो। पत्ता लगाउन उनीहरूले एउटा विशेष परीक्षण लिन्छन् जसले कोरोनाभाइरस उनीहरूको शरीरमा अवस्थित छ कि छैन भनेर निर्धारण गर्दछ। कोरोनाभाइरस परीक्षणले उनीहरूको रोगको उपचार गर्दैन, ,यसले उनीहरुलाई निश्चित बताउँदछ यदि तिनीहरूसँग कोरोनाभाइरस छ जसको परिणाम स्वरूप कोविड १९ हुनेछ, वा उनीहरुलाई साधारण ज्वरो छ । यो दश आज्ञा को एक समान छ। कलियुगमा नैतिक पतन २०२० मा कोरोनाभाइरस जत्तिकै प्रचलित छ। सामान्य नैतिक दुराचारको यस युगमा हामी आफैं धर्मी छौं कि छैनौं वा हामी पापले दागी छौं भने पनि जान्न चाहन्छौं। यदि पाप र त्यसबाट आउने कर्मबाट स्वतन्त्र छौं वा पापले हामीमा नियन्त्रणमा पारेको छ भने उनीहरूको बिरूद्ध हाम्रो जीवनको अध्ययन गर्न दश आज्ञा दिइएको थियो । दश आज्ञाले कोरोनाभाइरस परीक्षण जस्तै कार्य गर्दछ – ताकि तपाईंलाई थाहा हुन्छ क यदि तपाईंसँग रोग (पाप) छ वा यदि तपाईं यसबाट स्वतन्त्र हुनुहुन्छ । पापको शाब्दिक अर्थ “हराइरहेको” छ जसको लक्ष्य हामी हामीबाट अरूलाई कसरी व्यवहार गर्छौं, आफैलाई र परमेश्वरलाई व्यवहार गर्छौं भनेर परमेश्वरले हामीबाट आशा गर्नुहुन्छ। तर हाम्रो समस्या पहिचान गर्नुको सट्टा हामीले या त आफूलाई अरूसँग दाँज्न खोज्छौं (आफूलाई गलत मापदण्डको बिरूद्ध मापन गर्दछ), धार्मिक योग्यता प्राप्त गर्न कडा प्रयत्न गर्दछौं, वा त्यागेर र खुशीको लागि मात्र बाँच्दछौं। त्यसकारण परमेश्वरले दश आज्ञा दिनुभयो ताकि: 20 किनभने व्यवस्थालाई पछ्याएर कोही पनी परमेश्वरको अघि धर्मी हुन सक्तैन। व्यवस्थाले हाम्रो पापलाई मात्र औंल्याउँछ।रोमी ३:२० यदि हामीले दश आज्ञाको स्तर बिरूद्ध हाम्रो जीवन जाँच्दछौं भने यो कोरोनाभाइरस परिक्षण लिनु जस्तै हो जसले आन्तरिक समस्या देखाउँदछ। दस आज्ञाले हाम्रो समस्या ‘ठीक’ गर्दैन, तर समस्या प्रस्ट पार्दछ त्यसैले हामी परमेश्वरले प्रदान गर्नुभएको उपचार स्वीकार गर्नेछौं। आफैलाई धोकामा नपार्नुको सट्टा व्यवस्थाले हामीलाई आफूलाई राम्ररी हेर्नको लागि अनुमति दिन्छ। पश्चातापमा परमेश्वरको उपहार दिइयो परमेश्वरले प्रदान गर्नुभएको उपाय भनेको येशू ख्रीष्टको मृत्यु र पुनरुत्थान द्वारा पाप क्षमाको उपहार हो – येशु सत्संग। जीवनको यो उपहार हामीलाई मात्र दिइएको छ यदि हामी विश्वास गर्छौं वा येशूका कामहरूमा विश्वास गर्छौं । 16 हामी जान्दछौं, व्यवस्था मान्दैमा कोही पनि परमेश्वरको अघि धर्मी बन्दैनौं। येशू ख्रीष्टमा विश्वास गरे मात्र मानिस परमेश्वरमा धर्मी बन्न सक्छ। यसकारण हामी पनि येशू ख्रीष्टमा विश्वास गर्छौं। अनि परमेश्वरको माध्यममा ख्रीष्टमा विश्वास राखेर नै हामी परमेश्वरको सेवक बनेकाछौं, व्यवस्था मानेर होइन्। किन कि व्यवस्था मानेर मात्र कोही पनि धर्मी बन्न सक्दैन।गलाती २: १६ परमेश्वरको अगाडि श्री अब्राहम धर्मी ठहरिए हामीलाई पनि धार्मिकता दिन सकिन्छ। तर यसको लागि हामीले पश्चात्ताप गर्नुपर्छ। पश्चाताप प्रायः गलत अर्थमा बुझिन्छ, तर पश्चात्तापको अर्थ भनेको केवल ‘हाम्रो दिमाग बदल्नु’ हो पापबाट फर्कनु र परमेश्वर र उहाँले दिनलागेको वरदानतिर फर्कनु हो। जसरी वेद पुष्टकन (बाइबल) ले वर्णन गर्दछ: 19 यसैले तिमीहरूले आफ्ना हृदयहरू र जीवन परिवर्तन गर्नै पर्छ! परमेश्वर तर्फ र्फक अनि उहाँले तिमीहरूको पापहरूलाई क्षमा दिनुहुन्छ। ()प्रेरित ३:१९ तपाईं र मेरो लागि प्रतिज्ञा यो हो कि यदि हामीले पश्चात्ताप गर्यौं, र परमेश्वरमा फर्क्यौं भने, हाम्रा पापहरू हाम्रा विरुद्धमा गनिने छैन र हामीले जीवन प्राप्त गर्नेछौं। परमेश्वरले ,आफ्नो ठूलो कृपामा, हामीलाई कलियुगमा पापको परीक्षण र एउटा खोप दुवै दिनुभएको छ।