Requirement for Consent

1. Everything that says “thou shalt NOT ” or uses the word “no” and carries with it a punishment is a “public law”. 1 2. Everything that says “thou shalt ” is a “private law” that is essentially a voluntary contract. It has no punishment for 2 disobedience but usually has a blessing for obedience. 3

To start off, we will list each of the Ten Commandments, from Exodus 20:3-17, NKJV: 4

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"You shall have no other gods before Me.

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2. "You shall not make for yourself a carved image-- any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the 6 earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD 7 your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of 8 those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. 9 3. "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His 10 name in vain. 11 4. "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the 12 Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male 13 servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD 14 made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD 15 blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. 16 5. "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving 17 you. 18 6. "You shall not murder. 19 7. "You shall not commit adultery. 20 8. “You shall not steal. 21 9. “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 22 10. "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his 23 female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's." 24

Now some statistics on the above commandments based on our analysis in this section: 25

1. Commandments 1,2,3,6,7,8,9,10 are “public law”. 26 everyone . Disobeying these laws will harm either ourself or our neighbor, will offend God, and carry with them 27 punishments for disobedience. 28 2. Commandments 4 and 5 are “private law”, and apply only to those who consent. Blessings flow from obeying them 29 but no punishment is given for disobeying them anywhere in the Bible. Below is an example of the blessings of 30 obedience to this “private law”: 31 They are things you cannot do and which apply equally to

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is

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giving you ”

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[Exodus 20:12, Bible, NKJV].

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“Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be long,

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and that it may be well with you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you. ”

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[Deut. 5:16, Bible, NKJV]

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3. The first four commandments deal with our vertical relationship with God, our Creator, in satisfaction of the first Great 38 Commandment to love our God found in Matt. 22:37. 39 4. The last six commandments deal with our horizontal , earthly relationship with our neighbor, in satisfaction of the 40 second of two Great Commandments to love our neighbor found in Matt. 22:39. 41 How do we turn a “private law” into a “public law”? Let’s use the fifth commandment above to “honor your father and 42 mother”. Below is a restatement of that “private law” that makes it a “public law”. A harmful behavior of “cursing” is 43 being given the punishment of death: 44

"He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.”

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[Exodus 21:17, Bible, NKJV]

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The other interesting thing to observe about our deceitful public servants is that if they want to trick you into complying 47 with law that they know you are not subject to, then they will: 48

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