Huwag Magnanakaw!

You Shall Not Steal!

Exodus 20:15

“You shall not steal.”

• Nanakawan Ka Na Ba?

• Nagnakaw ka Na Ba?

How Do We Acquire Things?

• Given as a Gift? (Natatanggap Bilang Regalo)

• Earn Salary or Income. (Nagkakaroon ng pera sa pamamgitan ng sweldo o kita sa negosyo).

• Steal. (Sa Pagnanakaw.)– Ninanakaw ang hindi niregalo sa kanya.– Ninanakaw ang di naman nya kinita.

Ways People Steal – Things Proverbs 28:24

• Pagkupit o pagholdap• Snatching• Blackmail

Ways People Steal - Things

• Kumukuha ng Walang Paalam

• Pagkain na hindi sa iyo.

• Mga napulot na bagay na di sinoli.

• Hindi pagsoli ng hiniram na bagay.

Ways People Steal – At Work• Kumukuha ng Gamit

Sa Trabaho.• Pagdaya sa Oras sa

Trabaho. Both Employer and Employee.

• Taking Credit for One’s Work.

Ways People Steal – Business• Sobrang pagpatubo sa

utang.– Exodus 22:25– Ezekiel 18:8

• Taking Advantage of Emergencies

• Hoarding• Not Giving Fair Wages• Madayang Timbangan

Ways People Steal – Business

• Unequal Sharing in Income between Partners

• Unfair Policies na nagpapahirap sa mahihirap.

• Sobrang tubo sa mga produkto.

Ways People Steal - Nations • War just to

acquire more territory.

• Violent Revolts• Exploitation of

Natural Resources

• Corruption• Abuse of Power

Ways People Steal - People

• Adultery• Juvenile Elopement

(Pagtanan ng menor de edad)

What Does God Say?

• Psalm 62:10– “Do not trust in extortion

       or take pride in stolen goods;        though your riches increase,        do not set your heart on them. “

• Isaiah 61:8– “"For I, the LORD, love justice;

       I hate robbery and iniquity.        In my faithfulness I will reward them        and make an everlasting covenant with them.

What Does God Say?

• Deuteronomy 16:19– Do not pervert justice or show partiality.

Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous. “

• Ephesians 4:28– “He who has been stealing must steal no

longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need.”

What Does God Say?

• Exodus 22:1– "If a man steals an ox or a sheep and

slaughters it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.”

What Does God Want For Us?

God wants you to be prosperous.

“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. “

John 10:10

What Are We Doing?"Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me.

      "But you ask, 'How do we rob you?'       "In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse—the whole nation of you—because you are robbing me. (Malachi 3:8)

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.

What Is God’s Promise?Bring the whole tithe into the

storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.

Malachi 3:9-11

What Is Should We Do Now?if my people, who are called by my

name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14