Many of you, I'm sure, have seen those public service announcements on television promoting the use of safety belts which close with the tag line: "A law we can live with." It's intended, of course, to be something of a double entendre -- the phrase "can live with" meaning both able to accept and able to survive. Whether it will actually prove an effective campaign, I suppose only time will tell. However, at the risk of appearing irreverent, it seems to me that the same could be claimed of the Ten Commandments. Granted, we may not always live by them, but we are nevertheless offered life through them. Indeed, they may well be "a law we can live with" in the most profound sense of the phrase. And it is this truth which I would like to consider with you this morning.

Having said that, thoug…