June 8, 2017
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Reading along with us in Exodus? Here’s today’s reading:
Exodus 23 (ESV)
“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. 2 You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, 3 nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.
4 “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him. 5 If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.
6 “You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit. 7 Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked. 8 And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
9 “You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt… Continue Reading
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Love others if you do not like them
Remember being a sojourner , look at the heart.
20″Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. 21Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him. 😇❤️ Very cool!
It was not good to be one of the -ites in that day!
I spent the weekend in Numbers preparing for Sunday, and now trying to catch up here. There are so many valuable truths here. The ones that jumped out at me most…”Do not follow the crowd In doing wrong”, don’t leave your enemies ox injured rather help him, leaving fields fallow for a Sabbath year as provision for the poor and wild animals, an angel to guide, and God sending the dread of His people ahead of them into the hearts of other nations. We certainly have seen that in our study of numbers as well as the victory that God assures them in this passage of Exodus.