6. These last two commandments, even as the First Commandment, especially teach us that we have not kept the commandments of our Lord, and _that we cannot keep them perfectly._ Our hearts are full of lust against the demands of God, full of evil thoughts. Our lust so often entices and tempts us to sin by word and deed. We must confess that _we all are sinners in the sight of God._ And "the wages of sin is death." We are poor and lost sinners. Therefore _we daily pray for God's forgiveness,_ we beg our heavenly Father to be gracious unto us for Christ's sake, who has fulfilled the commandments of God in our stead and borne our sins. REMEMBER:-- _1. "Thou shalt not covet," is God's command. If you covet what belongs to your neighbor, you sin against God. Every desire in your heart to do what the Lord has forbidden is a sin in the sight of God._ _2. God wants our hearts to be without sin, perfect and holy, as He Himself is holy._ _3. My heart is sinful. "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me."_ Ps. 51,10. MEMORIZE:-- _By love serve one another._ Gal. 5,13. _Ye shall be holy; for I, the Lord, your God, am holy._ Lev. 19,2. _Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect._ Matt. 5,48. QUESTIONS. 1. What does God forbid in the last two commandments? 2. What does it mean to covet? 3. Why should we not covet our neighbor's property? 4. How should we not seek to get our neighbor's inheritance and house? 5. What does it mean to obtain our neighbor's property by a show of right? 6. Whom should we not force and entice away from our neighbor? 7. What should we do concerning our neighbor's inheritance and house? 8. What does our Lord tell us Gal. 5,13? 9. What should we do concerning our neighbor's wife and servants? 10. What important lesson do these commandments teach us? 11. What does every impure desire in our heart prove? 12. How should our hearts be? 13. What does our Lord command Lev. 19,2? 14. With what ought our hearts to be filled? 15. What does our Savior say Matt. 5,48? 16. What must we confess when we consider the commandments of God? 17. What should therefore be our daily prayer? LESSON 11. The Close of the Commandments. What does God say of all these Commandments? _He says thus: I, the Lord, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them, that love Me and keep My commandments._ What does this mean? _God threatens to punish all that transgress these commandments. Therefore we should fear His wrath, and not act contrary to them. But He promises grace and every blessing to all that keep these commandments. Therefore we should also love and trust in Him, and willingly do according to His commandments._