Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Sunday Service, episode thirty five.
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Speaker 1: finished the Gospel of Luke, so yeah, praise God for that.
Speaker 1: And you know, we're doing Deuteronomy today and I want
Speaker 1: to kind of just pull my notes up first and
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Speaker 1: pull up. Let's do this real quick. It's kind of
Speaker 1: there we go Luke. Nope, we don't want Luke. We
Speaker 1: want Deuteronomy. And then I'm going to pull up Deuteronomy
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Speaker 1: It was weird? Okay, Deuteronomy twenty nineteen. Man, so there's
Speaker 1: someone all right, So yeah, I think we're on Deuteronomy
Speaker 1: in nineteen. If I'm mistaken. We did eighteen through fourteen
Speaker 1: through eighteen last week, so we are on Deuteronomy nineteen.
Speaker 1: And let's go through this. You know, I kind of
Speaker 1: I did a I listened to nineteen twenty and twenty one.
Speaker 1: I kind of did some studies on those, and yeah,
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Speaker 1: start Deuteronomy nineteen one. I'm on my notes there, and
Speaker 1: then I always like to I have two phones now
Speaker 1: because of a comment that somebody made to kind of
Speaker 1: be faster on getting to the notes. And that's just
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do here. So we're gonna be Deuteronomy
Speaker 1: nineteen The three Cities of refuge is where we're at,
Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and find out what that is.
Speaker 1: So when the Lord your God has cut off the
Speaker 1: nations whose land the Lord your God is giving you
Speaker 1: and you and disposes them, and you disposes them and
Speaker 1: dwell in their cities and in their houses, you shall
Speaker 1: separate three cities for yourself. In the midst of your land,
Speaker 1: which the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
Speaker 1: You shall prepare roads for yourself and divide into three parts,
Speaker 1: and territory of your land, which your Lord your God
Speaker 1: is giving you to inherit, and any man slayer may
Speaker 1: flee there, so that any man slayer may flee there.
Speaker 1: Manslayer is the same word for manslaughter. Okay, it's somebody
Speaker 1: that kills somebody on accident. But you want to create
Speaker 1: these cities of refuge so that these people that killed
Speaker 1: somebody on accident their family members don't come and kill you,
Speaker 1: you know, or kill them, not you, but kill them, okay.
Speaker 1: So it's a city of refuge for them to be
Speaker 1: able to stay in, and it's somewhere that if something
Speaker 1: like that ever does happen. Obviously, manslaughter is when you
Speaker 1: do it on accident, right, not with malice, not with intent,
Speaker 1: but a total accident. But still, if you know somebody
Speaker 1: accidentally killed your brother back then, and you see that
Speaker 1: guy that killed your brother on accident, you may want
Speaker 1: to go and kill him, right. So that is the
Speaker 1: reason for these cities of refuge. Okay, So let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and keep reading. This is Deuteronomy nineteen, verse four,
Speaker 1: and this is the case of the man slayer who
Speaker 1: flees there that he may live. Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally,
Speaker 1: not having hated him in the time past. And when
Speaker 1: a man goes to the woods with his neighbor to
Speaker 1: cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the accent,
Speaker 1: cut down the tree, and the head slips from the
Speaker 1: handle and strikes his neighbor, so that he dies. He
Speaker 1: shall flee to one of these cities and live, lest
Speaker 1: the Avenger of blood, while his anger is hot, pursue
Speaker 1: the manslayer and overtake him because the way is long,
Speaker 1: and kill him through what is not deserving of death,
Speaker 1: since he had not hatred, hated the victim and the
Speaker 1: time past. Therefore, I command you saying you shall separate
Speaker 1: three cities for yourself. So it's it's like a cool
Speaker 1: off period, right for the people that are maybe brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, dads.
Speaker 1: Obviously the uncles and the brothers and the dads would
Speaker 1: be the ones you really have to worry about. I mean,
Speaker 1: so it's like a that's what it's saying. It's you
Speaker 1: flee there. So the avenger of blood while his anger
Speaker 1: is hot, you know, the avenger of the blood means
Speaker 1: like the avenger of the brothers sister whoever got killed
Speaker 1: from him, you know, swinging that axe for example, and
Speaker 1: it accidentally killing the person. Another thing he could do
Speaker 1: is chop down that tree, right, with the axe timber
Speaker 1: and then boom, the tree falls on somebody. That's another
Speaker 1: thing that could happen, and that's just that's totally not
Speaker 1: on purpose at all. You know. You could be trying
Speaker 1: to kill a a animal and pull the bow back
Speaker 1: and shoot, and then the bow misses the animal and
Speaker 1: shoots somebody like far in a distance right and ends
Speaker 1: up killing them. The guy meant to kill the animal,
Speaker 1: not to kill the person, so it just ended up happening.
Speaker 1: It's a total accident, you know. And you could probably
Speaker 1: imagine a few things that can happen back then that
Speaker 1: would put a person in that situation. Right. Let's continue
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy nineteen verse eight. Now, if the Lord your God
Speaker 1: enlarges your territory, and he swore to your fathers and
Speaker 1: gives you the land which he promised to give to
Speaker 1: your fathers, And if you keep these commandments and do
Speaker 1: them which I command you today, to love the Lord
Speaker 1: your God and walk always in his ways, then you
Speaker 1: shall add three more cities for yourselves Beside these three.
Speaker 1: Three more cities. Besides these three cities for yourself, besides
Speaker 1: these three, less innocent blood be shed in the midst
Speaker 1: of your land. Which your Lord, your God has given
Speaker 1: you as it inherits, thus guilt and bloodshed upon you.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and stop there. Let's let's find let's
Speaker 1: do some teaching points for Deuteronomy nineteen two through three,
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy nineteen four through six, real quick, So we have
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy nineteen two through three instructs the Israelites to set
Speaker 1: aside these cities as places of refuge. These cities were
Speaker 1: meant to protect individuals who had Sorry, jeez, right in
Speaker 1: the middle of reading that, it switched pages on me.
Speaker 1: These cities were meant to protect individuals who had accidentally
Speaker 1: killed someone, providing them a safe haven from the avenger
Speaker 1: of blood, which we kind of went through already. It's
Speaker 1: nothing crazy. And then that's places I want to talk.
Speaker 1: I want to check out events. So God commands the
Speaker 1: Israelites to set aside three cities for the refuge of
Speaker 1: land he has given them, which we already know. These
Speaker 1: cities are meant to provide a safe haven for any
Speaker 1: one who has killed anyone unintentionally. The Hebrew term for
Speaker 1: refuge is mclatt hopefully I'm pronouncing that right. Emphasizes the
Speaker 1: purpose of these cities as places of protection. Okay, and
Speaker 1: then another thing is the criteria for manslaughter. In my notes,
Speaker 1: I have the passage outlines the criteria for determining in
Speaker 1: a if a killing is accidental, such as a person
Speaker 1: kills another without prior enmity or intent. This distinction is
Speaker 1: crucial for the person to be eligible for refuge, highlighting
Speaker 1: the importance of justice and mercy in the law. And
Speaker 1: then the procedure for seeking refuge is the person who
Speaker 1: has killed unintentionally must flee to one of these cities
Speaker 1: to save their life from the avenger of blood. The
Speaker 1: Hebrew word for avenger is go out, refers to a
Speaker 1: family member seeking justice for the slain relative, underscoring the
Speaker 1: cultural context of family duty. So that is the cultural
Speaker 1: context of family duty. If somebody kills your brother, it
Speaker 1: looks like the Israelites, we're gonna go and kill that person. Right.
Speaker 1: Expansion of cities of refuge. If the Lord enlarges the
Speaker 1: territory of the Israelites, they are instructed to add three
Speaker 1: more cities of refuge. This expansion is content upon their
Speaker 1: obedience to God's commandments, reflecting the covenant relationship between God
Speaker 1: and Israel. Okay, we have that, and then let's see,
Speaker 1: we are gonna go back up to my notes right here,
Speaker 1: and we'll have fifteen through twenty one. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and continue. Okay, So we already talked about
Speaker 1: verses eight through ten. Now we're gonna jump to eleven.
Speaker 1: Doune Army nineteen eleven says, but if anyone hates his neighbors,
Speaker 1: lies in wait for him, rises against him, and strikes
Speaker 1: him mortally so that he dies, he flees to one
Speaker 1: of these cities, then the elders of his city shall
Speaker 1: send and bring him from there over to the hand
Speaker 1: of the avenger of blood, that he may die. Your
Speaker 1: eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away
Speaker 1: the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go,
Speaker 1: that it may go well with you. But if okay,
Speaker 1: so it says, but if anyone hates his neighbor, lies
Speaker 1: in wait for him, rises against him, and strikes him
Speaker 1: mortally so that he dies, and he flees to one
Speaker 1: of these cities, so he's like, he does it actually
Speaker 1: intentionally with malice, with intent, and then he tries to flee,
Speaker 1: it says, Then the elders of his city shall send
Speaker 1: and bring him from there and deliver him to the
Speaker 1: hand of the avenger of blood. So they ain't gonna
Speaker 1: let that slide. If you do that, they're gonna go
Speaker 1: into the city of refuge. They're gonna get you like
Speaker 1: the police would. And nowadays you're gonna be a wanted man.
Speaker 1: They're gonna come and get you, and they're gonna bring
Speaker 1: you to those brothers, uncles, dads, whoever it is, and
Speaker 1: they are gonna deliver them to him that he may die. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not the same. This is like the while West.
Speaker 1: Almost your eyes shall not pity him, but you shall
Speaker 1: put away the guilt of venison, blood from Israel, that
Speaker 1: it may go well with you. So if you go
Speaker 1: and kill somebody, murder somebody back, then you are not
Speaker 1: you'ren't gonna get away with it and just be scott free.
Speaker 1: And then it's gonna be like whatever, And it's okay,
Speaker 1: all right, you're gonna die too, so you might as
Speaker 1: well control your anger, you know, or else you're gonna
Speaker 1: be in a world of hurt. Right, So let's see.
Speaker 1: Let's see criteria procedure for seeking refuge expansive cities. We
Speaker 1: talked about protection against false witnesses. Well, we haven't talked
Speaker 1: about the false witnesses yet, so we don't need to
Speaker 1: read that. So let's go ahead and continue. Now we're
Speaker 1: on Deuteronomy nineteen, verse fourteen. You shall not remove your
Speaker 1: neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set in
Speaker 1: your inheritance, which you inherit in the land that your
Speaker 1: Lord God has given you to possess. Okay, so this
Speaker 1: part is like, okay, So let's say you have this
Speaker 1: land right, and it's your land, and there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of rocks surrounding your land. Right, there's just a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of rocks surrounding it, so you know exactly where
Speaker 1: your land is, or a whole bunch of trees whatever.
Speaker 1: I think rocks is a better example. And you know,
Speaker 1: you got this acre of land right that's all squared
Speaker 1: out with all these rocks. What this is saying is,
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't God doesn't want your neighbor to
Speaker 1: go to sleep at night, and these passed out and
Speaker 1: then you get, you know, twenty guys, and you guys
Speaker 1: move those rocks, you know, to the left, you know,
Speaker 1: twenty feet or whatever, so that you gather more land.
Speaker 1: It says, you shall not remove your neighbor's landmark which
Speaker 1: the men of old have set in your inheritance. Say,
Speaker 1: you inherit the land that the Lord God has given
Speaker 1: you to possess, So don't steal land, just leave it.
Speaker 1: When you got your land, you're good. You got your
Speaker 1: acre set out or half an acre or ten acres,
Speaker 1: whatever they're doing, you got that set out. Just that's
Speaker 1: your land, Okay. You don't get to just go ahead
Speaker 1: and move the landmarks further out from the you know,
Speaker 1: or let's say, for example, God also doesn't want, you know,
Speaker 1: you to have everything set out perfectly. You got your landmarks,
Speaker 1: and then your neighbor dies, and then you know, you're
Speaker 1: waiting for their sons to move in, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden you're like, oh, he's dead anyways, so
Speaker 1: I'm going to go ahead and move it further out
Speaker 1: and take some of his land so when the sons come,
Speaker 1: they're not going to know anyways. It says do not
Speaker 1: move the landmark which the men of old have set right,
Speaker 1: So that totally makes sense. You know, it would cause
Speaker 1: a quarrel or a fight between you and your neighbor,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to have that, you know, especially
Speaker 1: between two Israelites. They don't want that. Let's continue. This
Speaker 1: is the law concerning witnesses. One witness shall not rise
Speaker 1: against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that
Speaker 1: he commits. By the mouth of two or three witnesses.
Speaker 1: The matter shall be established. If a false witness rises
Speaker 1: against any man to tell against them of wrongdoing, then
Speaker 1: both men in the controversy shall stand before the Lord,
Speaker 1: before the priest and the judges who serve in those days,
Speaker 1: and the judges shall make careful inquiry. And indeed, if
Speaker 1: the witness is a false witness who has testified falsely
Speaker 1: against his brother, then you shall do to him as
Speaker 1: he thought to have done to his brother. So you
Speaker 1: shall put away the evil from among you, and those
Speaker 1: who remain shall hear and fear hereafter that they do
Speaker 1: not commit this such an evil among you. Your eyes shall
Speaker 1: not pity. Life shall not be for life, eye for
Speaker 1: an eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for
Speaker 1: a foot. So this is just the way it has
Speaker 1: to be. I mean, back then you come and you
Speaker 1: tell you start saying that this person did this. It's
Speaker 1: a big thing. I mean, back then, if you disrespect
Speaker 1: your parents, they have the right to have you go
Speaker 1: out there and get stoned and killed. So this is
Speaker 1: no joke. You could do false witness against somebody and
Speaker 1: you could cause somebody to get killed. So this has
Speaker 1: to be like this now. It's just it's just the
Speaker 1: way that God is handling them, because you don't want
Speaker 1: that evil cancer in your place anyway. For someone that
Speaker 1: doesn't even care about someone else's life, that they would
Speaker 1: bear false witness against somebody knowing what the consequences are
Speaker 1: going to be for that person, it makes total sense
Speaker 1: to me, and it should make total sense to you guys.
Speaker 1: Why that's even there. So in fifteen through twenty one,
Speaker 1: let's see what our teaching points there. So this is
Speaker 1: going to be witnesses injustice, so Verses fifteen through twenty
Speaker 1: one highlight the necessity of multiple witness to establish a matter,
Speaker 1: underscoring the importance of truth and fairness legal proceedings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I also like the fact that they go up
Speaker 1: and says, we'll stand before the Lord, like God, before
Speaker 1: the priest and the judges who serve in those days.
Speaker 1: So you got three, you got God, who's the best
Speaker 1: judge you can ever have in your life. You have
Speaker 1: the priest, who should have a strong integrity, and then
Speaker 1: you have the judges, and the judges shall make careful inquiry.
Speaker 1: And indeed, if the witnesses is a false so this
Speaker 1: is I like that. I think that's that's I think
Speaker 1: that's that's a highly intelligent way to go. And I
Speaker 1: like how God is involved. If you see nowadays, what
Speaker 1: do they have you do? Well? They all they have
Speaker 1: you do is swear on a Bible. That's all they
Speaker 1: bring God in. They're not they're not praying, they're not
Speaker 1: asking God to come. Hey, assist me with this. I
Speaker 1: don't know what judges do, and I'm not going to
Speaker 1: judge anybody that's a judge because I have no clue
Speaker 1: what they're doing or their faith, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't say that every single judge
Speaker 1: is like a Mason or free Mason or this or that.
Speaker 1: Who knows, but who knows the relationship with God. Hopefully,
Speaker 1: if I was a judge, I would be praying to
Speaker 1: God because somebody's life is in your hands, your fingertips,
Speaker 1: and this person that's on the like that you're actually
Speaker 1: going to you know, judge has a mom, a dad,
Speaker 1: a daughter, they're an uncle to you know. There they
Speaker 1: have people that are depending on them, and you could
Speaker 1: be putting away the wrong person. If I was a judge,
Speaker 1: I'd be praying to God for sure, because you don't
Speaker 1: want to be putting these people away, you know. So,
Speaker 1: and in these days also they have to make careful inquiry. Indeed,
Speaker 1: if if the witness is a false witness, yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, man's that's a big and back then if
Speaker 1: you're a judge, man, can you imagine, because you can
Speaker 1: make a decision and that person gets killed. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta be careful for sure. So principle of retribution.
Speaker 1: The chapter concludes with the principles of life for life
Speaker 1: I for an eye, tooth for a tooth, which underscores
Speaker 1: the need for proportional Sorry, proportional justice. Sorry about that.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and check this. So the protection against
Speaker 1: false witnesses, right, So, the chapter also addresses the issue
Speaker 1: of false witnesses, instruct that if a witness is found
Speaker 1: to be lying, there to receive the punishment they intended
Speaker 1: for the accused. So whatever they accused them of is
Speaker 1: what they're going to get punished. For right. So the
Speaker 1: principle of reciprocal justice is rooted in the Hebrew concept
Speaker 1: of measure for measure. It's it's called meda, next meda,
Speaker 1: it's sorry, meda, next meda, Okay. And then purging evil
Speaker 1: from the community is another portion that's important. It says
Speaker 1: the ultimate goal of these laws is to purge evil
Speaker 1: from the community, ensuring that justice prevail and that the
Speaker 1: people live according to God's righteous standards. This reflects the
Speaker 1: broader Biblical theme of holiness and communal responsibility. You see,
Speaker 1: you need holiness like Israel is supposed to be set apart.
Speaker 1: You don't want these people that are little cancers, false witnesses,
Speaker 1: not caring about somebody's life, having people get killed because
Speaker 1: they want to sit there and try to testify against them,
Speaker 1: and they're actually doing it falsely. It's terrible. So that
Speaker 1: wraps up Chapter nineteen. What I always like to do
Speaker 1: is kind of go over some practical applications that we
Speaker 1: could kind of take home with us. The first one
Speaker 1: is seek justice and mercy. As Christians, we are called
Speaker 1: to uphold justice while extending mercy, reflecting God's character in
Speaker 1: our interactions with others. So as Christian we're called to
Speaker 1: uphold justice while extending mercy. Yes, U phole justice while
Speaker 1: extending mercy reflecting God's character interactions with them of course.
Speaker 1: So if you become a manager, or you become a
Speaker 1: police officer, or you become a judge or a lawyer,
Speaker 1: or you become something like that, and you're a Christian,
Speaker 1: then you need to make sure with anybody in life,
Speaker 1: even if you're not a judge, if you're just a person,
Speaker 1: you're a dad, you're a mom, and you have kids,
Speaker 1: you could also need to uphold justice with extending mercy
Speaker 1: reflecting God's character. Right, So we have value of intent,
Speaker 1: consider the intentions behind actions, both in our lives and
Speaker 1: the life of others before passing judgment. Yeah, we are
Speaker 1: not the judge. You know, God is the judge, right,
Speaker 1: But you know, if we have a Christian brother that
Speaker 1: we are let's say that are in our congregation, and
Speaker 1: if somebody is messing up, then you do have the
Speaker 1: right to grab another brother with you that's a solid brother,
Speaker 1: go up to them and then talk to them and
Speaker 1: speak to them and correct them if they're having if
Speaker 1: there's something's going on in their life that you know
Speaker 1: of right two or more witnesses right community responsibility engage
Speaker 1: in community efforts to ensure justice and protection for the vulnerable,
Speaker 1: just as the Israelites were instructed to maintain cities of refuge. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because the people that are man slayors are very vulnerable,
Speaker 1: especially back then, and that that would kind of be
Speaker 1: nerve wracking, right to be going to sleep in that
Speaker 1: city because you know, there's a bunch of man slayers there,
Speaker 1: you know, So you're going into that city and like
Speaker 1: you probably think, like, oh man, hopefully someone somebody doesn't
Speaker 1: try to come and get any of these other guys
Speaker 1: and accidentally come into my tent and kill me. You know,
Speaker 1: you might be worried about that. So, I mean it's
Speaker 1: something that but yeah, what an interesting chapter that was.
Speaker 1: That was chapter nineteen, and we're going to go to
Speaker 1: chapter twenty. And as we do that, we moved to
Speaker 1: a couple of different notes. So this is principles of
Speaker 1: governing warfare. So Deuteronomy twenty, verse one, So let's go there.
Speaker 1: Laws of warfare. Let's go too. When you go out
Speaker 1: to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots
Speaker 1: and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid
Speaker 1: of them. For the Lord your God is with you,
Speaker 1: who brought you up from the land of Egypt. So
Speaker 1: let's stop there real quick. So we need to understand something, Okay.
Speaker 1: In tewod Corinthians ten, verses four through six, this is
Speaker 1: what Paul says. He says, for the weapons of our
Speaker 1: warfare are not carnal but mighty in God, for pulling strong,
Speaker 1: pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments in every high thing
Speaker 1: that hasalk uself against the knowledge of God, bringing every
Speaker 1: thought into captivity to to obedience to Christ, and being
Speaker 1: ready to punish all disobedience when obedience is fulfilled. So
Speaker 1: our weapons of warfare are not carnal but mighty in God. Okay.
Speaker 1: So when God says tells you that the Lord is
Speaker 1: with you like I am with you, it's a little different.
Speaker 1: You have like you have God with you. So and
Speaker 1: God cannot lie like that's tightus one too. And it's
Speaker 1: impossible for God to lie Hebrews six eighteen. So when
Speaker 1: he tells you go into that city I have you, guys,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. Then you got to be prepared
Speaker 1: and ready, all right. No, you got to know and
Speaker 1: have faith that God has your back. Okay. So Deuteronomy
Speaker 1: divine assurance in battle. Deuteronomy twenty one twenty verse one
Speaker 1: states when you go out to war against your enemies
Speaker 1: and you see horses and chariots, don't be afraid of them,
Speaker 1: because the Lord God is with you. This verse underscores
Speaker 1: the importance of relying on God's presence and past deliverance
Speaker 1: as a source of courage. Like God split the Red
Speaker 1: Sea for you, so you don't have to worry, you know,
Speaker 1: Like he split the Red sea, you're able to walk.
Speaker 1: And then what happened when they were chasing you, the chariots.
Speaker 1: What did God do? He closed the Red sea and
Speaker 1: they killed all the people that were chasing them. Okay,
Speaker 1: the whole army got killed. Now let's continue show it.
Speaker 1: This is Deuteronomy twenty verse two. So it shall be
Speaker 1: that when you are on the verge of battle, that
Speaker 1: the priest shall approach and speak to the people, and
Speaker 1: he shall say to them, here, oh Israel, today you
Speaker 1: are on the verge of battle with your enemies. Do
Speaker 1: not let your heart faint, do not be afraid, do
Speaker 1: not tremble or be terrified because of them. For the
Speaker 1: Lord God is he who goes with you to fight you,
Speaker 1: to fight for you against your enemies, and to save you.
Speaker 1: So we have chaplains that come out and speak to
Speaker 1: us in the army if we're about to go to
Speaker 1: war or when we're you know, you might have your
Speaker 1: sergeant major come out you know what I mean, or
Speaker 1: whatever and come and speak to you. Okay, So chaplains
Speaker 1: they pray for you, they talk to you. I didn't
Speaker 1: go into combat, Okay. I went into Kuwait and I
Speaker 1: was feeling helicopters and then and then the helicopters that
Speaker 1: I was feeling went into combat. Okay, So they were
Speaker 1: and they were you know, they're bringing troops here and
Speaker 1: there apaches you know, with weapons loaded and everything ready
Speaker 1: to go. H We were feeling them. So uh and
Speaker 1: you know Chanook's and all these different helicopters. But what
Speaker 1: I will say is, uh, this right, the pre is tight, dude.
Speaker 1: The priest comes out like I mean, I I I'm
Speaker 1: prior military. So to me, this is this is dope,
Speaker 1: you know, like to me like dope as in like
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say this is dope. This is awesome right
Speaker 1: here to me because it's like, all right, getting them
Speaker 1: ready for battle. This like pumps me up a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, so giving them that pep talk, right, So
Speaker 1: it says that in verses two through four highlights the
Speaker 1: priest's role in encouraging the troops, reminding them of God's
Speaker 1: faithfulness and faithfulness and urging them to not fear. This
Speaker 1: reflects the spiritual leadership necessary in times of crisis, of course,
Speaker 1: like the people need to hear that right to pump
Speaker 1: them up. So and also people need to know that
Speaker 1: are you know, when it comes to warfare, like spiritual warfare,
Speaker 1: we wrestle not against flush and bub or principalities of evil.
Speaker 1: They need to know that there's principalities of evil that
Speaker 1: are also involved. So they're gonna, you know, they don't
Speaker 1: want the Israelites to obviously win the war, so they're
Speaker 1: gonna try to do their best to give you this
Speaker 1: these little things in your brain where you're starting to
Speaker 1: doubt yourself and start feeling bad and feel in a
Speaker 1: certain way and oh no, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So you know, they got to understand that aspect too.
Speaker 1: What's happening to them, So the priest has to come
Speaker 1: and straighten them out, say the Lord God is with you,
Speaker 1: you know. And if the Lord God is with you,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he was trying to keep those principalities of
Speaker 1: evil away from the battlefield against Israel, are away from
Speaker 1: the Israelites. Deuteronomy twenty verse five. Let me just make
Speaker 1: sure I'm not missing anything here in my notes. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we already talked about that this is the reflects
Speaker 1: the spiritual leadership necessary in times of crisis. Yet we
Speaker 1: talked about that the role of the priest. Now we're
Speaker 1: going to go through five through nine real quick. So
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy twenty verse five says, then the officers shall speak
Speaker 1: to the people, saying, what man is there who has
Speaker 1: built a new house and has dedicated it, Let him
Speaker 1: go and return to his house, less he die in battle,
Speaker 1: and another man dedicated. Also, what man there who has
Speaker 1: planted a vineyard who has not eaten it? Let him
Speaker 1: go return to his house, less he die in the battle,
Speaker 1: and another man eat of it. And what man is
Speaker 1: there who is bethrawed a woman to a woman and
Speaker 1: has not married her. Let him go and return to
Speaker 1: his house. Lets he die in the battle, and another
Speaker 1: man married. So they're reducing the army, right, it's they're
Speaker 1: actually reducing the army when they say that. So it's
Speaker 1: you know when you know, well, first of all, this
Speaker 1: is really honorable for them to do this, to to
Speaker 1: tell the people like, hey, if you've done this, you
Speaker 1: can go do this. I mean, I think it's honorable.
Speaker 1: And these are exemptions from battle. And you know, back
Speaker 1: in the day when we had the draft, there was
Speaker 1: some exemptions from battle also, right, I think I don't
Speaker 1: know all of them off the top of my head,
Speaker 1: but there was definitely some sumptions. One of them I
Speaker 1: think was going to college. What are the exemptions from
Speaker 1: from being drafted? In? Military? Draft exemptions are situations that
Speaker 1: make someone ineligible for service due to specific circumstances or conditions.
Speaker 1: Some common exemptions include being on active duty, being a student,
Speaker 1: having a physical or mental disability, or being conscientious objector. Additionally,
Speaker 1: certain individuals with soul responsibilities for support or dependents might
Speaker 1: also be exempt. Physical or mental disabilities. Individuals with severe
Speaker 1: physical disabilities or mental conditions that make them unfit for
Speaker 1: service may be exempt. That's obvious because if someone is crazy,
Speaker 1: you don't want to hand them a weapon because they
Speaker 1: can end up starting to kill you know, our own men.
Speaker 1: Specific medical conditions conditions like heart or lung disease, kidney problems,
Speaker 1: or brain disorders could also be dislocked by individuals active.
Speaker 1: Did you of Those already serving in military on activity
Speaker 1: are typically exempt from the draft. Students Student deferments may
Speaker 1: allow individuals to postpone their draft obligations that while they're
Speaker 1: in a school. The conscientious objectors those are sincerely held
Speaker 1: religious or ethical objections to military service, may be exempt
Speaker 1: and may be required to perform alternative service. Sole support
Speaker 1: for independent individuals who are the sole provider for their family.
Speaker 1: Sole surviving son of a widowed mother might be exempt.
Speaker 1: Certain elected officials. Some elected officials may be exempt as
Speaker 1: long as they hold their positions. That should not be there,
Speaker 1: because if you're going to send people to war, you
Speaker 1: should go to War two yourself. I think that should
Speaker 1: not be there. Certain jobs deemed essential for national security
Speaker 1: or welfare, such as healthcare professionals and those in critical infrastructure,
Speaker 1: may be exempt. Okay, makes sense. I was just kind
Speaker 1: of reading off the ones for our draft. But these
Speaker 1: are exemptions from battle. Let's go ahead and check out
Speaker 1: the notes on this, or you know what hold on,
Speaker 1: let's his house he die. Let me continue. We'll go
Speaker 1: all the way to nine, and then we'll stop. The
Speaker 1: officers shall speak further to the people. We're on Deuteronomy
Speaker 1: twenty verse eight. Now the officers shall speak further to
Speaker 1: the people, and say, what man is there who is
Speaker 1: fearful and faint hearted? Let him go and return to
Speaker 1: his house less the heart, the heart of his brethren,
Speaker 1: faint like his heart. And so it shall be, when
Speaker 1: the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they
Speaker 1: may they shall make captains of armies to lead the people.
Speaker 1: So exemptions for battle provide exemptions for those who have
Speaker 1: built a new house, planted a vineyard, or are be throwed.
Speaker 1: This demonstrates God's compassionate understanding of human needs and fears,
Speaker 1: so that yes, I think it's a beautiful thing to
Speaker 1: have those exemptions there. So certain men are exempt from battle,
Speaker 1: including those we already read about. That the officers shall
Speaker 1: say to the army, has anyone built a new house dedicated?
Speaker 1: We already know that the Hebrew word for dedicated is
Speaker 1: chan nak, implies a consecration of settling apart for a
Speaker 1: special purpose, setting apart for a special purpose, and Deuronomy eight.
Speaker 1: After exemptions are given, officers are appointed to lead people.
Speaker 1: Then the officers shall add, is anyone afraid or faint hearted,
Speaker 1: let him go home so the hearts of his brothers
Speaker 1: will not melt like his own. So if you are scared,
Speaker 1: you're gonna make other people scared. If you could be
Speaker 1: like a cancer, it'll start to spread. So they don't
Speaker 1: want those kind of people that they want people that
Speaker 1: are ready for war. That's why they put you through
Speaker 1: basic training in the army to weed out the weaklings,
Speaker 1: the ones that cannot handle it. And if you ever
Speaker 1: got kicked out of basic training or you couldn't make it,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but this this is just the way that
Speaker 1: the military runs. They want to weed out the ones
Speaker 1: that when the going gets tough, they get going. The
Speaker 1: ones when they're going gets tough and they stick around
Speaker 1: and they continue and they push through. Those are the
Speaker 1: ones that the United States Army wants. I know that
Speaker 1: the Marines obviously want that as well, and you know
Speaker 1: the Navy, an Air Force they also want that as well.
Speaker 1: So that's why they put you through boot camp or
Speaker 1: basic training. It's called something different in the Navy and
Speaker 1: Army but boot camp and basic training. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you right now when it comes to basic training, when
Speaker 1: you go through when you go through Army basic training,
Speaker 1: it's ten weeks. When you go through Marine basic training,
Speaker 1: it's thirteen weeks. Navy and Air Force when I was
Speaker 1: in was six weeks and six weeks, right, So six
Speaker 1: weeks for the Navy, six weeks for the Air Force.
Speaker 1: So if you are ever an Navy, let's say you
Speaker 1: were in the Navy for fifteen sixteen years, right, and
Speaker 1: then you get out of the Navy and then you
Speaker 1: want to join the Army National Guard, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to even though you're already a staff sergeant by that
Speaker 1: time or whatever your rank is, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: go and do basic training once again because you only
Speaker 1: did a six week basic training. When you're getting into
Speaker 1: the Army, you need to do a ten week basic training.
Speaker 1: So you have to go through basic training in order
Speaker 1: for you to get into the Army. Now, if you
Speaker 1: are somebody that's in the Army and you did sixteen
Speaker 1: years in the Army and then somehow you decided to
Speaker 1: go to the Navy, you don't have to do basic training.
Speaker 1: But if you were an army guy that was in
Speaker 1: the army for sixteen years, but you want to join
Speaker 1: the Marines now, you want to get gun ho. You
Speaker 1: even though let's say you were an infantry or a
Speaker 1: staff sergeant or whatever, you're still gonna have if you're
Speaker 1: gonna switch to the Marines, you're gonna have to still
Speaker 1: go to buqu and you need to go to their
Speaker 1: through their thirteen week course. That's just the way it works.
Speaker 1: That's how it worked when I was in I don't
Speaker 1: know how it is now, but I thought that was
Speaker 1: absolutely fascinating because when I was in basic training for
Speaker 1: the Army, I had these are these guys that were
Speaker 1: already specialists, already coming in right, So I'm like, did
Speaker 1: you guys go to college? No, we didn't. What's up?
Speaker 1: They're like, oh no, we're prior Navy. I'm like okay.
Speaker 1: So I was like, all right, I probably should follow
Speaker 1: what these guys are doing, because, you know, because I
Speaker 1: was green, I was coming in, you know, not knowing anything.
Speaker 1: So it's smart to kind of see that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff and be like, okay, they know what's up. But
Speaker 1: it was very h Yeah, what an awesome thing. Sorry
Speaker 1: I jumped off of off of that right now. But
Speaker 1: I was just kind of telling you of my life
Speaker 1: experiences that kind of go with this, you know. So Okay,
Speaker 1: so we already did nine. We're gonna be on Deuteronomy
Speaker 1: twenty verse ten and before we get one thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'll stay right there. Let's see if there's any
Speaker 1: teaching points for you guys. Yeah, and you know, I
Speaker 1: like to make sure, so ten through twelve is gonna
Speaker 1: be what we're gonna do next, So we'll have those
Speaker 1: teaching points. Okay. So Deuteronomy twenty verse ten, when you
Speaker 1: go near a city to fight against it, then proclaim
Speaker 1: an offer of peace to it, And it shall be
Speaker 1: that if they accept your offer of peace and open
Speaker 1: to you, then all the people who are found in
Speaker 1: it shall be placed under tribute to you and serve you. Now,
Speaker 1: if the city will not make peace with you, but
Speaker 1: war against you, then you shall besiege it, And when
Speaker 1: the Lord your God delivers it into your hands, you
Speaker 1: shall strike every male in it with the edge of
Speaker 1: the sword. But the women, the little ones, the livestock,
Speaker 1: and all that's in the city and its spoil, you
Speaker 1: shall plunder for yourself. And if you shall eat the
Speaker 1: enemy's plunder which the Lord God gives you. Thus you
Speaker 1: shall do to all the cities which are very far
Speaker 1: from you, which are not the cities of these nations.
Speaker 1: So it sounds brutal, you know, to people. But let's
Speaker 1: see offers of peace in verses ten through twelve. I
Speaker 1: want to see. I have my notes here. God instructs
Speaker 1: the Israelites to offer peace to a city before engaging
Speaker 1: in battle, showing a preference for peaceful resolutions when possible.
Speaker 1: And we only went to fifteen, right, so we'll read
Speaker 1: rules of engagement after, and then let's see this one
Speaker 1: right here in terms of peace. So in when approaching
Speaker 1: a city to fight, the Israelites are to offer terms
Speaker 1: of peace. First, when you approach the city to fight
Speaker 1: against him, you were to make an offer of peace.
Speaker 1: The Hebrew word for peace is of course, it's shalom,
Speaker 1: encompasses completeness, welfare, and harmony. And then right here, when
Speaker 1: we were talking about the treatment of conquered cities, if
Speaker 1: a city accepts peace, it's people become forced laborers. If not,
Speaker 1: the city is besieged. If they accept your offer of
Speaker 1: peace and open their gates and all the people are there,
Speaker 1: become forced laborers to serve you. The Hebrew word for
Speaker 1: forced labors is moss. Indicates a levee or tribute. Wow, okay, tribute.
Speaker 1: I need to write that down because somebody asked me
Speaker 1: a question about that tribute. Okay. I have to write
Speaker 1: that down because somebody was thinking that it was Okay.
Speaker 1: The Hebrew for destroy implies the devotion for destruction for
Speaker 1: a sacred purpose. Okay, cool, I'm sorry. Moss, that's the
Speaker 1: word for forced laborers. Indicates a levee or tribute. Okay.
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure that's written down because
Speaker 1: somebody thought that was meaning a totally different thing, and
Speaker 1: I gotta make sure I go back and tell him
Speaker 1: that he might be listening now I don't know, okay, Okay.
Speaker 1: So we went to your cities very far from here,
Speaker 1: not to cities these nations. Let's continue. We'll go through
Speaker 1: sixteen and then we'll come back to the we'll come
Speaker 1: back to the teaching points for the rules of engagement.
Speaker 1: But of the cities of these people, which the Lord
Speaker 1: your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let
Speaker 1: nothing that breeze remain alive, but you shall utterly destroy them.
Speaker 1: The Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizite,
Speaker 1: and the Hivite and Thebucite. Just as the Lord God
Speaker 1: has commanded you, lest they teach you to do according
Speaker 1: lest they teach you to do according to their abominations,
Speaker 1: shall which you have done, which they have done for
Speaker 1: their gods, and you sin against the Lord your God.
Speaker 1: So wow, that's okay. So a couple of these are
Speaker 1: giant tribes, right, The Hittites, I believe, the Amorites, they're
Speaker 1: not all giants though, the Canaanites, they're not all giants.
Speaker 1: So and obviously we would want he would want to
Speaker 1: wipe out that DNA of those giants. So what do
Speaker 1: we have, but you utterly destroyed the hit Tite. Are
Speaker 1: the hit Tites giants? I know? The wrights for giants?
Speaker 1: Are the hit Tites. When the Biblical text refers to
Speaker 1: giants like the Anakin Raffie, there's no explicit mention of
Speaker 1: Hittites being giants, and the Bible Hittites are mentioned as
Speaker 1: some of the peoples inhabiting Canaan. Some scholars suggest that
Speaker 1: the Biblical giants might have been associated with Hittite or
Speaker 1: Horene religious beliefs that Goliath they Philistine, the Raphi and
Speaker 1: maybe maybe descendants of the if I am under another
Speaker 1: term for giant. The Hittites are mentioned in various places
Speaker 1: in the Bible, such as when Abraham purchases a buryo cave.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, from Efron the Hittite when the is Israelites
Speaker 1: encounter them. I do remember that, Okay, so we don't
Speaker 1: have any direct links for the hit Tites. Let's see
Speaker 1: the Yeah, I didn't think that they were. I know
Speaker 1: the who Rights were the Amorites. I know because that's
Speaker 1: King of Bashan's people, am Rights, So we know that
Speaker 1: one already. And then Amos two ten I think it
Speaker 1: is what it talks about them being as big as
Speaker 1: cedars or something like that, the am rights. So the
Speaker 1: am Rights are giants. What about the hip Bites. Let's see, No,
Speaker 1: the Bible does not specifically state that the Hibbites were giants.
Speaker 1: While giants such as the nefflie Me and Anicheimer mentioned
Speaker 1: the Bible, the hi Bites are not directly associated. So
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go through each one because I
Speaker 1: have a better person to ask about that will probably
Speaker 1: be Gary Wayne. But because he's kind of does the
Speaker 1: bloodlines all the way back. But I know the Amorites
Speaker 1: definitely are the Canaanites. I think the Canaanites. It just
Speaker 1: varies the Parazites, the hipbites of the Jbsites. Just as
Speaker 1: Lord commendity. So these these tribes have been giving time
Speaker 1: after time, given time for them to repent and for
Speaker 1: them to worship God. Okay. So it's not like God
Speaker 1: hasn't gave them plenty of time, okay, to to conform,
Speaker 1: But they're doing abominations to their gods, right, And that's
Speaker 1: just it just is what it is. You know, some
Speaker 1: things in the Bible are sometimes harder for some people
Speaker 1: to understand, or you know, there's some things in the
Speaker 1: Old Testament it's harder for people to understand. But let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and check out the rules of engagement. So
Speaker 1: in verses thirteen through twenty, which we haven't read twenty yet,
Speaker 1: let's before we read that, let's go ahead and finish.
Speaker 1: When you besiege a city for a long time, we'll
Speaker 1: making war against it to take it all. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want that to be happening. When you besiege
Speaker 1: the city for a long time, we'll making a war
Speaker 1: against it to take it. You shall not destroy its
Speaker 1: trees by welding an axe against them. If you can
Speaker 1: eat of them, do not cut them down to use
Speaker 1: in the siege. For the tree of the field is
Speaker 1: man's food. Only the trees which you know are not
Speaker 1: trees for food, you may destroy and cut down to build.
Speaker 1: Siege works against the city that makes war with you
Speaker 1: until it's subdued. So in verses thirteen through twenty outlines
Speaker 1: the treatment of conquered cities and the person preservation of
Speaker 1: preservation of resources, emphasizing justice and stewardsh it until warfare,
Speaker 1: and then we'll go to the bottom. I should have
Speaker 1: a little bit more notes in here, like that one
Speaker 1: part about in Deuteronomy. In Deuteronomy twenty sixteen, that whole
Speaker 1: portion right there, there's some notes here for that. So
Speaker 1: it says specific nations are to be completely destroyed to
Speaker 1: prevent idolatry. However, in the cities of the nations, the
Speaker 1: Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you
Speaker 1: must not leave alive anything that breathes. The Hebrew word
Speaker 1: for destroy is sharam, implies a devotion to destruction for
Speaker 1: a sacred purpose. So they're doing something here. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: more than just worshiping another god and God is jealous
Speaker 1: or kill them all. There's something more here that we
Speaker 1: might not be able to grasp. We would have to
Speaker 1: do deep studies on each one of these tribes, right
Speaker 1: and find out what they were doing. I mean, was
Speaker 1: it like Sodommegamura like you know, like Sodomega Mora was doing.
Speaker 1: They were going after strange flesh. They were going after
Speaker 1: something that they're doing something that's that's so abominable to God,
Speaker 1: not just the sodomy, but something where they were trying
Speaker 1: to go after, Like what are they trying to do?
Speaker 1: Like it could be that these tribes are trying to
Speaker 1: they're trying to bring down angels and have sex with
Speaker 1: them or cause something big like and their gods they
Speaker 1: have a fallen angel behind them. Right, they're not gonna
Speaker 1: They're not just some They're not just worshiping some some
Speaker 1: like like box, Like this is a box I have
Speaker 1: in my hand. Okay, They're not just wishing some box
Speaker 1: or some wood or some there's a demon behind it
Speaker 1: or a fallen angel behind it. So something is there.
Speaker 1: There's some kind of abomination going on to me. I mean,
Speaker 1: you'd have to do a deep study on each one
Speaker 1: of these tribes. The Amorites, obviously, that's king of King
Speaker 1: of Baisham was an Amorite. His bed was fifteen by
Speaker 1: seven feet. If you do a royal cubit it's actually
Speaker 1: bigger than that. Okay. So there's something else going on there,
Speaker 1: something else going on there that's deeper. And then we
Speaker 1: go to Deuteronomy twenty nineteen. It says fruit trees are
Speaker 1: to be preserved during the siege, as they provide sustenance.
Speaker 1: When you lay seeds to a city for a long time,
Speaker 1: finding against it to capture it, to do not destroy
Speaker 1: it trees by putting an axe to them, because you
Speaker 1: can eat their fruit. The Hebrew's word for destroy means
Speaker 1: to ruin or corrupt, highlighting the importance of preserving life
Speaker 1: giving resources. So there's a lot going on in this
Speaker 1: chapter that a lot of people probably would would kind
Speaker 1: of not really be able to accept, especially especially especially
Speaker 1: when you know, I got to turn the lights off
Speaker 1: real quick, Mike. My wife is in our back house.
Speaker 1: I bought a back house, you know, for them, it's
Speaker 1: just like a it's not like a backhouse like a
Speaker 1: full backhouse and everything. It's a it's like a shed
Speaker 1: where she turned my shed that I thought was gonna
Speaker 1: be my shed into a freaking full house. She put
Speaker 1: like wood floors, and she put a bed in there,
Speaker 1: she put everything. So she's saying, have a good podcast.
Speaker 1: I love you too, babe. Sorry, guys, I don't mean to.
Speaker 1: Don't forget to drop off a box of milk in
Speaker 1: front door for the morning before your Podet's right. I
Speaker 1: don't know how I'm gonna do that, but whatever, All right,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and continue. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: things in here that atheists would point to, like look
Speaker 1: at that, that's slavery, and then oh, look at this part.
Speaker 1: They're gonna kill all the men, women and children. That's
Speaker 1: a jealous god, but just because they're worshiping other gods.
Speaker 1: But you gotta get the full context and find out
Speaker 1: what was going on. There's abominations, right, abominations. So what
Speaker 1: I could do is just kind of I should have
Speaker 1: done a deeper dive on this portion right here, because
Speaker 1: there's so much to it. But this is this is
Speaker 1: kind of the same stuff that people they debate about. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is where atheists would come and say, look at
Speaker 1: what your God does. Look at the you know, they
Speaker 1: try to say that, you know, not knowing what's going
Speaker 1: on there. You know, a lot of these are giant
Speaker 1: tribes some of them, and there's things going on. But he, uh,
Speaker 1: God does in the beginning, does what he offers? Peace? Right,
Speaker 1: God offers, gives you a peace offering, and if you
Speaker 1: decide for the peace offering, then the people, Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: used as laborers. But the way that the Israelites are
Speaker 1: supposed to treat their laborers, they're supposed to give them food,
Speaker 1: supposed to give them water. You know. So do I
Speaker 1: agree with slavery or agree with all this stuff? Well,
Speaker 1: it's a lot different than our times now, and we
Speaker 1: have and and and it's it's just it's just different,
Speaker 1: you know. So I kind of I want to go
Speaker 1: to that portion right there, sixteen and there it is
Speaker 1: right there. I want to look at that word abominations
Speaker 1: real quick, because that word is a disgusting thing, abomination,
Speaker 1: abominal and ritual sense of unclean food, idols, mixed marriages,
Speaker 1: and ethical sense wickedness. Okay, so where else does abominations use?
Speaker 1: Genesis forty three thirty two, Egyptians might not eat better
Speaker 1: with the Hebrews, for that as an abomination under the Egyptians.
Speaker 1: But we want to find out what abominations to God is. Okay,
Speaker 1: that shall not lie with mankind, as it is womankind
Speaker 1: is abomination, So that is one right, shall not commit
Speaker 1: any of these abominations. So if you therefore keep my
Speaker 1: statute adjustment and shall not commit any of these abominations,
Speaker 1: neither any of their nation. So I'm just looking at
Speaker 1: the strong for any time it says abomination for whoever
Speaker 1: this is a Leviticus eighteen twenty, whoever shall commit any
Speaker 1: of these abominations, even the souls that commit them, shall
Speaker 1: be cut off from among their people. Yeah. So Doude
Speaker 1: Army seventeen one says thou shall not sacrifice unto the
Speaker 1: Lord thy God, any bullock or sheep when it is blemist,
Speaker 1: or any evil favored ness that is an abomination unto
Speaker 1: the Lord. We talked about that already, So we actually
Speaker 1: talked that a few weeks ago. All right, So let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and continue. Uh, this would be a good
Speaker 1: portion for you guys to look into. Deuteronomy twenty verses
Speaker 1: sixteen through eighteen and find out like like wow, like
Speaker 1: God he is so he's so they're doing so much
Speaker 1: that like why would he have him do that utterly
Speaker 1: destroy them these people? Only like he's really pointing to
Speaker 1: the people and saying to do that. So that's that's
Speaker 1: something I think would be good to look into if
Speaker 1: you're interested in it. I know it's people getting destroyed
Speaker 1: and killed, but what is that abument? Like what are
Speaker 1: they doing? We want to make sure that we're not
Speaker 1: doing that, or there's nobody in living today that are
Speaker 1: doing this, which I think there probably are plenty of them. Right,
Speaker 1: So if people are doing stuff that that are this bad, right,
Speaker 1: then we need to make sure that they stop stop
Speaker 1: doing that because if God hates it that much, you know,
Speaker 1: tribulation is coming. We already know that. So let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and continue Deuteronomy twenty verse twenty one. Now we're
Speaker 1: going to be talking about the law concerning unsolved murder.
Speaker 1: But before we go there, let me go ahead and
Speaker 1: do some practical applications. Sorry, I should have remember to
Speaker 1: do that. So practical applications you can kind of put
Speaker 1: towards your life. Just as the Israelites are encouraged to
Speaker 1: trust in God's presence, We too can find courage and
Speaker 1: knowing that God is with us in our battles, whether
Speaker 1: they're physical, emotional, or spiritual. God is with us. Right so,
Speaker 1: especially with these spiritual battles that we go through on
Speaker 1: a day to day basis, God is with us. We
Speaker 1: could do anything through Christ, who strengthens me. We could
Speaker 1: do anything with God. Anything. Everything is possible. Right with man,
Speaker 1: it's impossible. With God, everything is possible. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of verses you can go to for that seek spiritual guidance.
Speaker 1: The role of a priest in encouraging the troops highlights
Speaker 1: the importance of seeking spiritual guidance and encouragement from faith
Speaker 1: leaders in our own lives. Yeah. So, like my pastor
Speaker 1: was really good about giving me advice and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Like we still work out together, and he's a pastor
Speaker 1: Dan Awesome, awesome gentlemen, and great leader. You know, some
Speaker 1: pastors are great with teaching. Some pastors are great with preaching.
Speaker 1: Some pastors are good with preaching and teaching. Some pastors
Speaker 1: are good with preaching, teaching and leadership. You know. So
Speaker 1: I happened to Calviy Chapel Fontana was it's the church.
Speaker 1: I'm still with its just I've been doing. You know,
Speaker 1: I got my own ministry going now pretty much I
Speaker 1: have my own ministry. So now I'm stepping in the
Speaker 1: role of like what a pastor's doing. You know, So
Speaker 1: I still want my family to do get fed. I
Speaker 1: just I work Sundays, so you know, it's it's helping
Speaker 1: me to be able to do this show. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of benefits to me working on Sundays. And people
Speaker 1: might go, ah, why would you work on Sundays. That's
Speaker 1: it's like I have to because all the people that
Speaker 1: are it's like my job. A lot of people are
Speaker 1: taking leave of absences right now. There's like a lot
Speaker 1: of people getting injured. So it's crazy. But anyways, let's
Speaker 1: continue seek spiritual guidance the role of a priest. We
Speaker 1: already talked about that recognized personal limitations. Understanding the exemptions
Speaker 1: from battle can remind us to recognize our own limitations
Speaker 1: and to seek rest and renewal when needed. That is
Speaker 1: so important. Pursue peace. The instruction to offer peace first
Speaker 1: encourages us to seek peaceful resolutions in our conflicts, whether
Speaker 1: whenever possible. Yeah, that's definitely true, like seek peace first.
Speaker 1: We don't want war, right, especially when you're talking to
Speaker 1: your wife or arguing with your wife. I think you
Speaker 1: should seek peace for sure, peaceful resolution instead of fighting,
Speaker 1: arguing and keep you know, there's like a little tiny
Speaker 1: flint that's lighting this little fire, and then you keep
Speaker 1: fighting and fighting, that flint starts to turn to a fire.
Speaker 1: And now that you've got this fire, raging fire happening,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it just you know, you got your kids watching,
Speaker 1: and you know you don't want that to happen. So
Speaker 1: peaceful resolutions definitely exercise justice and stewardship. The Rules of
Speaker 1: Engagement reminds us to act justly and responsibly even in
Speaker 1: challenging situations. And one thing I forgot to go to
Speaker 1: before was the connecting versus, but we'll do it for
Speaker 1: this one. Additional scriptures you could go to is Joshua
Speaker 1: one nine. Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous,
Speaker 1: Do not be afraid, do not be discouraged, For the
Speaker 1: Lord your God is with you. The Lord your God
Speaker 1: will be with you wherever you go. The verse echoes
Speaker 1: the assurance of God's presence in Deuteronomy twenty Amen I
Speaker 1: love that I was. You know, my name is josh right,
Speaker 1: Joshua right love that Psalm's forty six to one. God
Speaker 1: is our refuge and strength and ever present help in
Speaker 1: times of trouble. This psalm reinforces the theme of divine
Speaker 1: support and adversity. All right, perfect, that's so. Check that
Speaker 1: one out. And then Romans twelve eighteen, if it is
Speaker 1: possible on your part, live at peace with everyone. This
Speaker 1: New Testament verse aligns with the call to pursue peace
Speaker 1: in Deuteronomy twenty verse nine. It says, if it is
Speaker 1: possible in your part, live at peace with everyone. Right,
Speaker 1: So that's one true peace is way better. Peace and
Speaker 1: joy and love is way better. I've been in war
Speaker 1: with back in the day, Like I was that war
Speaker 1: freak before. Like like, I mean, I'm a nice person now,
Speaker 1: but you know, at one time, uh when I when
Speaker 1: I in my younger years, you know, uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: used to like to get down sometimes. But in my
Speaker 1: brother too, you know, we used to try to you know,
Speaker 1: we used to fight back to back against people. But
Speaker 1: now it's like, you know, I realized that it was
Speaker 1: just this I was just this broken kid, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to always trying to prove myself or I had,
Speaker 1: you know, some kind of chip on my shoulder, you know,
Speaker 1: and uh now it's like I have so much joy
Speaker 1: and peace. It's just it's a blessing. I live at
Speaker 1: peace with everyone. You'll be happy, You'll be joyful, you
Speaker 1: won't be watching your back all the time. You won't
Speaker 1: need to go to the city of refuge. You know
Speaker 1: you ain't gonna have to do that. So let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and check this out. This is pretty interesting. I
Speaker 1: studied this this weekend, this Deuteronomy twenty verse one, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest. I used to well, I still
Speaker 1: like watching them, but I used to watch the first
Speaker 1: forty eight. I used to watch Forensic Files. I used
Speaker 1: to watch all these different crime shows, like like maybe
Speaker 1: you know when I got out of basic training. Oops,
Speaker 1: when I got out of basic training, I know what happened.
Speaker 1: That text message came in and it vibrated my phone
Speaker 1: and knocked it down. Yeah. All I want to say
Speaker 1: is I used to love crime shows. Okay, so I
Speaker 1: used to love them, so so I was kind of
Speaker 1: interested in this, this this portion of Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy twenty one,
Speaker 1: verse one, and we are going to go to Deudonomy
Speaker 1: twenty one in our notes. That's going go there. So
Speaker 1: if anyone is found slain, this is Deuteronomy twenty one
Speaker 1: one we're gonna read. Now. If anyone is found slang
Speaker 1: lying in the field, in the land which the Lord
Speaker 1: of God has given you to possess, and it is
Speaker 1: not known who killed them, then your elders and your
Speaker 1: judges shall go out and measure the distance from the
Speaker 1: slain man to the surrounding cities. And it shall be
Speaker 1: that the elders of your city nearest to the slain man,
Speaker 1: excuse me, will take a heifer which has not been worked,
Speaker 1: and which has not hold with a yoke. The elders
Speaker 1: of the city shall bring you the helper down to
Speaker 1: a valley with flowing water, which is neither plowed nor sown,
Speaker 1: and they shall break the heifer's neck in the valley.
Speaker 1: Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near,
Speaker 1: for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister
Speaker 1: to him and to bless the name of the Lord.
Speaker 1: By the word. Every controversy and every assault shall be settled,
Speaker 1: And all the elders of the city nearest to this
Speaker 1: lame mound shall wash their hands over the heifer whose
Speaker 1: neck was broken in the valley. So this is when
Speaker 1: someone dies. There's gonna be death. That's that's that's that's
Speaker 1: what's happening here. Then they shall answer and say, our
Speaker 1: hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes
Speaker 1: seen it. Provide atonement, O Lord, for your people Israel,
Speaker 1: whom you have redeemed. Do not lay innocent blood to
Speaker 1: the charge of your people Israel, And atonement shall be
Speaker 1: provided on their behalf for the blood. So you shall
Speaker 1: put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you
Speaker 1: when you do what is right in the side of
Speaker 1: the Lord. Now you read this verse and you go,
Speaker 1: what you're going to kill that animal? But what you
Speaker 1: don't realize this is for atonement for sin, like whoever
Speaker 1: did that? Because they are uh. It outlines the procedure
Speaker 1: for dealing with the unsolved murder right, emphasizing the community's
Speaker 1: responsibility to seek justice in atonement. The elders and the
Speaker 1: priests play a crucial role in the process, highlighting the
Speaker 1: importance of leadership and maintaining the social order. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you are when you kill somebody and the blood is
Speaker 1: there you're you're you're ruining the land. Right, it's impure
Speaker 1: like the land, right because the blood was shed there.
Speaker 1: So and you have to kill this animal for atonement. Okay,
Speaker 1: we failed. People failed to realize they might be thinking
Speaker 1: of the animal. That's sad for the animal. But what
Speaker 1: about Jesus. He died on the cross. Uh, your show
Speaker 1: with the machioc right, the Messiah, he Jesus died on
Speaker 1: the cross. God on the flesh, died on the cross
Speaker 1: for us had to go through all that because of
Speaker 1: all the sins that we've committed. So innocent blood right,
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's yeah, it's part of the deal.
Speaker 1: Value of human life as well. In verses one through nine,
Speaker 1: the ritual described in verses one through nine underscores the
Speaker 1: sanctity of human life and the need for atonement when
Speaker 1: blood is shed, even when the perpetrator is unknown. This,
Speaker 1: this reflects God's justice and seriousness which he views the
Speaker 1: taking of life. Now you see nowadays, I've seen the
Speaker 1: first forty eight where this guy he literally he killed
Speaker 1: somebody for twenty dollars. Other people kill people for less
Speaker 1: than that twenty dollars, or if somebody is on you
Speaker 1: know your city block, and you know you're stealing drugs,
Speaker 1: and someone goes and tries to deal drugs in your block,
Speaker 1: you kill them. I mean, what are you making You're
Speaker 1: making one hundred dollars two hundred dollars a day on
Speaker 1: selling drugs. Are you're gonna kill this person when you
Speaker 1: could go out and get a job that make two
Speaker 1: or three hundred dollars a day, you know, being an
Speaker 1: electrician working in the water industry doing something that you
Speaker 1: know and you don't have to worry about anybody killing you,
Speaker 1: So why are you gonna go and do all that
Speaker 1: and risk your life for that? But anyways, all I'm
Speaker 1: saying is nowadays, life, like human life is, is so precious,
Speaker 1: but people don't understand that like that, There's people are
Speaker 1: killing people for oh man. I've seen so many TV
Speaker 1: shows that I that I watched were it's like, I
Speaker 1: cannot believe this person did that. So atonement for unsold
Speaker 1: murders when a slain person is found in the land,
Speaker 1: let me just highlight this. I make sure when a
Speaker 1: slain person is found in the land and the murder
Speaker 1: is unknown, the elders and judges measure the distance of
Speaker 1: the surrounding cities, which we read the elders of the
Speaker 1: nearest city must take a heffer and a valley are
Speaker 1: running water break us new. Yes, this ritual serves as
Speaker 1: atonement for the bloodshed. The Hebrew word for atonement is kapoor,
Speaker 1: meaning to cover and make reconciliation. All right, So next
Speaker 1: versus we're gonna go over is ten through fourteen marrying
Speaker 1: a captive woman. So it's gonna tell you all about
Speaker 1: that and family and inheritance laws. So we'll go there first.
Speaker 1: Stay here for my notes. I want to go ten
Speaker 1: through fourteen. Let's go. We're gonna go. Deuteronomy twenty one,
Speaker 1: verse ten. When you go out to war against your enemies,
Speaker 1: and the Lord of God delivers them into your hand,
Speaker 1: and you take them captive, and you see among the
Speaker 1: captives a beautiful woman, and desire her and would take
Speaker 1: her for your wife. Then you shall bring her home
Speaker 1: to your house, and she shall shave her head and
Speaker 1: trim her nails. She shall put off the clothes in captivity,
Speaker 1: remain in your house, and mourn her father and her mother.
Speaker 1: A full month after that you may go into her
Speaker 1: and be her husband, and she shall be your wife,
Speaker 1: and it shall be if you have no delight in her,
Speaker 1: and then you shall set her free. But you certainly
Speaker 1: shall not sell her for money. You shall not treat
Speaker 1: her brutally because you have humbled her. So understand that marriage,
Speaker 1: even the marriage that we do. Now, okay, it's not biblical.
Speaker 1: It's tradition. So going up there and and you know,
Speaker 1: dum dunt the dum doom, dun't the dumb And then
Speaker 1: you know, you have your dad walk you down the
Speaker 1: aisle with all these people looking at you, you know,
Speaker 1: family on one side, family on the other side, and
Speaker 1: you walk down the aisle and then you say your
Speaker 1: vows and then you have a priest marry you. That's
Speaker 1: not biblical. And even though you might think gets in
Speaker 1: the Bible somewhere, like I know it's somewhere on here.
Speaker 1: Let me check Exodus, let me see. Nope, nope, it's
Speaker 1: not Deuteronomy. Okay, let me tell let's check the New Testament.
Speaker 1: Let's see. This is in Ephesians, Corinthians, Colossians. Where's it. No,
Speaker 1: it's nowhere. It's just tradition. And you don't need to
Speaker 1: go to a church to get married. What the Bible says,
Speaker 1: I mean, even though like Jesus was at feast, you know,
Speaker 1: you know that, you know, Jesus is at a party
Speaker 1: for a wedding. You see what I mean. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that that wasn't part of the tradition. But the
Speaker 1: Bible doesn't tell you anywhere that you need to go
Speaker 1: get a pastor and have him marry you. Just doesn't
Speaker 1: say that. You know how you get married in the Bible,
Speaker 1: it says it right there, you go into her. Okay,
Speaker 1: just like Jacob he went into the tent Leah came in.
Speaker 1: He went into her. Now they're married. That's the way
Speaker 1: it worked. So when we're out here hooking up with
Speaker 1: all these different people that we don't know, and we're
Speaker 1: just going into this person and then going into this person,
Speaker 1: becoming one with this person, becoming one with this person,
Speaker 1: becoming one with this person, what we failed to realize
Speaker 1: is there's studies that they've done now where sometimes the
Speaker 1: ex person, the ex husband or whatever, the ex lever,
Speaker 1: their DNA is like still in some of these women
Speaker 1: not you know, it's like you become one with them,
Speaker 1: and that's literally marriage in God's eyes. So obviously I
Speaker 1: never knew this back when I was partying in my
Speaker 1: party stage of you know, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty,
Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty two before I met my wife. You know,
Speaker 1: I was like twenty four when I met my wife.
Speaker 1: So this is something that we need to definitely show
Speaker 1: our kids, our teenagers, and let them know that in
Speaker 1: God's eyes, once you go into somebody, you are now married.
Speaker 1: And now when you go into these other people, when
Speaker 1: you're sleeping with this person, this person, this person, this person,
Speaker 1: you're literally committing adultry. So not only are you fornicating what,
Speaker 1: you're committing adultry because in God's eyes, you just married
Speaker 1: that person. So that's why it's important for you to
Speaker 1: wait till you're married, or wait till you or want
Speaker 1: to be with that person forever before you actually go
Speaker 1: into her or him. I know it's nowadays everything is
Speaker 1: pushing these people to not wait and just to divorce
Speaker 1: and just to do this, and this is something that
Speaker 1: people need to understand. But with this in context of
Speaker 1: this verse right here, I just want to just say,
Speaker 1: so I'll go over the notes real quick and then
Speaker 1: I'll kind of go with my own little breakdown. She
Speaker 1: shall yeah and shave her head and all that that
Speaker 1: might be because God just wants her to just have
Speaker 1: a renewed life. If an Israelite man desires to marry
Speaker 1: a captive woman, he must bring her into his home,
Speaker 1: allow her to mourn her parents for a month, and
Speaker 1: then he may marry her if he later finds no
Speaker 1: delight in her. Yeah, we read that, so that the
Speaker 1: word the Hebrew word for captive is chaba is shabba,
Speaker 1: indicating someone taken in war. Okay, so the Hebrew word
Speaker 1: for okay, hold on real quick, okay, marrying a captive
Speaker 1: woman if he later find okay, So we kind of
Speaker 1: went over that. Yeah, so uh, let's see, got the
Speaker 1: punishment dignity, rebellious children, family inheritance laws, which is going
Speaker 1: to be fifteen through seventeen. So now we're gonna go
Speaker 1: over that. So Deuteronomy twenty one, verse fifteen, if a
Speaker 1: man has two wives, one love and the other unloved,
Speaker 1: then they have borne him children, both the loved and unloved.
Speaker 1: Real quick, I'm gonna stop the show real quick. I'll
Speaker 1: be right sorry about that, guys. I'll jump right back.
Speaker 1: Took a quick break, real quick, because my wife is
Speaker 1: such it's too hot back there, so I'll have to
Speaker 1: get them as soon as I get done with this.
Speaker 1: All right, let's continue. So now we're gonna do firstborn
Speaker 1: inheritance rights. Deuteronom Be. Twenty one to fifteen. If a
Speaker 1: man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved,
Speaker 1: then they have borne him children, both the loved and unloved.
Speaker 1: And if the firstborn son is of her who is unloved,
Speaker 1: then it shall be on the day he bequeaths his
Speaker 1: possessions to his sons, that he must not bestow firstborn
Speaker 1: status on the son of the loved wife in preference
Speaker 1: to the son of the unloved the true firstborn. But
Speaker 1: he shall acknowledge the son of the unloved wife as
Speaker 1: the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of that
Speaker 1: he has, for he is the beginning of his strengths.
Speaker 1: The right of the firstborn is his. So in fifteen
Speaker 1: through seventeen it addresses the rights of the firstborn son.
Speaker 1: Even in a polygamous family setting setting, the law ensures
Speaker 1: fairness to the protection of inheritance rights, demonstrating God's concern
Speaker 1: for justice within the family unity. So yeah, polygamy obviously
Speaker 1: now is as a no no, okay, so that Jesus
Speaker 1: kind of makes that clear. But back then, you know,
Speaker 1: and this is something also people go do like, oh,
Speaker 1: how was this? Okay? You know, it says if a
Speaker 1: man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, Okay,
Speaker 1: so kind of like Jacob, right, Jacob had Leah and
Speaker 1: then he had Rachel. Right, So he had two wives,
Speaker 1: and then you know, they also had helpers or assistants,
Speaker 1: and then he even slept with some of them, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's just it's just different now. But this is
Speaker 1: kind of talking about the inheritance laws to protect them. Right,
Speaker 1: And let's see what we have in my other notes
Speaker 1: here ten to fourteen, we went through the rights of
Speaker 1: the firstborn. So the Hebrew term are the firstborn a
Speaker 1: title to a double portion of the inheritance. The Hebrew
Speaker 1: term for firstborn is bacore, emphasizes the primacy of birthright. Okay,
Speaker 1: now we're gonna go into the rebellious son. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be Deuteronomy twenty one eighteen. If a man has
Speaker 1: a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the
Speaker 1: voice of his father or the voice of his mother,
Speaker 1: and who, when they have chasen him, will not heed them.
Speaker 1: Then his father and his mother shall take hold of
Speaker 1: him and bring him out to the elders of his city,
Speaker 1: to the gate of his city, and they shall say
Speaker 1: to the elder of the city, this son of ours
Speaker 1: is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice.
Speaker 1: He is a glutton and a drunkard. Then all the
Speaker 1: men of the city shall stone him to death with stones.
Speaker 1: So you shall put away the evil from among you,
Speaker 1: and all israels shall hear and fear. You see what
Speaker 1: I mean. I talked about this earlier, right that you
Speaker 1: if you disrespect your parents, or if you're a glutton,
Speaker 1: or if you're a drunkard, then you could get stoned
Speaker 1: to death. Right if if a man has a stubborn
Speaker 1: or rebellious son who will not obey the voice of
Speaker 1: his father. So this is also like a little cancer
Speaker 1: of evil, and God does not want that to pass
Speaker 1: through the city. You know, if you're a little cancer
Speaker 1: of evil and you're rebellious, then you're gonna have other
Speaker 1: people follow your rebellion, and then you're gonna start influencing
Speaker 1: other people. And then a lot more people are gonna
Speaker 1: become stubborn rebellious. And then also if you're drinking or
Speaker 1: you're causing you know, all this disruption, then that's the
Speaker 1: way they handled it back then. They would stone him
Speaker 1: to death with stones. Now do I agree with that, No,
Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's you know, now, in
Speaker 1: my position right now, I would think that that'd be harsh.
Speaker 1: But that's just the way it went back then. And
Speaker 1: you know, God knows best. I don't know best. God
Speaker 1: knows best. Right, So let's let's read what the notes
Speaker 1: say here every rebellious Son. It says if parents have
Speaker 1: a stubborn, everybellied son who does not obey them after discipline,
Speaker 1: they must bring him to the elders of the city gate.
Speaker 1: If the son is found guilty, the men of the
Speaker 1: city will stone them to death to purge the evil
Speaker 1: from among them. The Hebrew word for rebellious is marah,
Speaker 1: meaning to be contentious or disobedient. Okay, so marah, Wow,
Speaker 1: so very interesting, and I'll hop up to the top
Speaker 1: here check out if I have anything else here rebellious children.
Speaker 1: This reflects the importance of parental authority and community standards
Speaker 1: in maintaining order and respect. Also, you know, it's one
Speaker 1: of the Ten Amendments, right for them to honor thy father,
Speaker 1: honor thy father and mother. It's one of the commandments.
Speaker 1: So they should already know that. They should it should
Speaker 1: already be instilled in them to not do that right,
Speaker 1: so they should know that. Now we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about capital punishment and dignity. If a man has committed
Speaker 1: a sin deserving of death, and he is put to death,
Speaker 1: and you hang him on a tree, his body shall
Speaker 1: not remain overnight in the tree, but you shall surely
Speaker 1: bury him that day so that you not defiled, so
Speaker 1: you do not defile the land which the Lord God
Speaker 1: has given you as an inheritance, for he who is
Speaker 1: hanged is a cursed of God. Like, Uh, defile is
Speaker 1: the word I was looking for when I was talking about, Like,
Speaker 1: if a murder happens on a land and the blood
Speaker 1: is shed, you're defiling the land. So that's that's what
Speaker 1: God wanted. That's why God wanted them to break the
Speaker 1: neck of the Hepper. So let's go ahead and see
Speaker 1: what the notes say about this capital punishment and dignity.
Speaker 1: The chapter concludes with instructions on the treatment of executing
Speaker 1: criminals Versus Twenty two and twenty three, emphasizing that even
Speaker 1: in judgment, human dignity must be preserved. The body must
Speaker 1: not remain hanging overnight, showing respect for the deceased and
Speaker 1: the land man. That's just so brutal, you know. Back then,
Speaker 1: if a man is executed and hanged on a tree,
Speaker 1: the body must not have made overnight. It must be buried.
Speaker 1: We talked about that already. The Hebrew word for curse
Speaker 1: is quilla, indicating a state of being despised or at horrid. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we have that, and then let's go over some
Speaker 1: practical applications. Seek justice and reconciliation and reconciliation. Just as
Speaker 1: the Israelites sought to atone for unsolved murderers, we should
Speaker 1: strive for justice and reconciliation reconciliation in our communities, addressing
Speaker 1: wrongs and seeking peace. Honor family responsibilities, uphold fairness and integrity,
Speaker 1: and family relationship consharying that each member is treated with
Speaker 1: respect and justice, especially in matters or inheritance and responsibility. Yes,
Speaker 1: discipline with love and community support. Approach discipline with balance
Speaker 1: of love and firmness. Involving community support when necessary to
Speaker 1: guide and correct wayward behavior. Approach discipline with the balance
Speaker 1: of love and firmness, of course, and that's something you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes there's a one one one family member or one
Speaker 1: husband or wife will be like kind of a pushover
Speaker 1: more and the other will be more strict. It happens,
Speaker 1: So we got to have balance of love and firmness, okay,
Speaker 1: And then it looks like involving community support when necessary,
Speaker 1: like if you're in a church and if you want to,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe community support the guide and correct wayward behavior.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't really involve anybody else in the
Speaker 1: way I do parenting, but you can maybe involve your
Speaker 1: pastor if you have that you don't want to ask
Speaker 1: questions and going to get some parental advice, or maybe
Speaker 1: like a good friend that you know has been parenting,
Speaker 1: you know already has kids and does a great job,
Speaker 1: then you can ask them for advice. That is a
Speaker 1: good way to guide and protect your wayward behavior the
Speaker 1: way their wayward behavior, Ask how they handled it, and
Speaker 1: then you can kind of use that same thing on
Speaker 1: your kids. Respect for life and dignity. Uphold the sanctity
Speaker 1: of life in all circumstances, treating every individual with dignity
Speaker 1: and respect, even in situations of judgment or punishment. Can't
Speaker 1: emphasize that enough. That's that's it's perfectly said right there.
Speaker 1: And then we have some connecting scriptures to this. Would
Speaker 1: be justice and atonement would be Mackay six. Verse eight
Speaker 1: emphasizes doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God,
Speaker 1: echoing the themes of justice and atonement in Deuteronomy twenty one.
Speaker 1: Family integrity would be a Feesian six verses one through
Speaker 1: four instructs children to obey their parents and parents to
Speaker 1: bring up their children, and the discipline and instruction of
Speaker 1: the Lord reinforcement the family principles and found in Deuteronomy
Speaker 1: twenty one. So that's a verse that would connect to this.
Speaker 1: It's a feast in six versus one through four. Community
Speaker 1: responsibility Galatians six one through two encourages believers to bear
Speaker 1: one another's burdens, reflecting the communal responsibility seen in handling
Speaker 1: of unsolved crimes. So yeah, so I'm gonna take a
Speaker 1: quick break, real quick to bring my kids in. Be
Speaker 1: right back. You guys won't even notice. Hold on stop
Speaker 1: screen share, I apologize, guys. I'm so sorry. I'm decided
Speaker 1: to stop twice. You won't even notice it stopped, but
Speaker 1: I do. Okay, So we kind of went over all that.
Speaker 1: We went through, connecting verses Galatians six to one through two.
Speaker 1: We talked about that it's gonna be believers to bear
Speaker 1: one another's burdens, reflecting the community responsibility seen in handling
Speaker 1: of unsolved crimes. Okay, so all right, and let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and make sure I'm there. All right, Let's go
Speaker 1: to Deuteronomy twenty two and we will talk. We'll go
Speaker 1: over those real quick. So we're moving right along through Deuteronomy.
Speaker 1: So this is the very various laws of morality. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we'll go over Deuteronomy twenty two to one through four,
Speaker 1: and then I'll have a little bit of notes to
Speaker 1: go over here. Okay. So Deuteronomy twenty two, verse one
Speaker 1: says you shall I will not see your brother's ox
Speaker 1: or his sheep going astray and hide yourself from them.
Speaker 1: You shall certainly bring them back to your brother. And
Speaker 1: if your brother is not near you or you do
Speaker 1: not know him, then you shall bring it to your
Speaker 1: own house, and it shall remain with you. Until your
Speaker 1: brother seeks it, then you shall restore it to him.
Speaker 1: You shall do the same with his donkey, And you
Speaker 1: shall do the same with this, And you shall do
Speaker 1: with his garment. With any lost thing of your brother's
Speaker 1: which he has lost and you have found, you shall
Speaker 1: do likewise. You must not hide yourself. You must not
Speaker 1: hide yourself. Right. So, in Deuteronomy twenty two, verses one
Speaker 1: and four emphasize the importance of helping others even when
Speaker 1: it is inconvenient. If you see your brother's ox or
Speaker 1: sheep strayed, you must not ignore it, be sure to
Speaker 1: return it to your brother. Deuteronomy twenty two one. This
Speaker 1: teaches us about the responsibility we have towards neighbors and
Speaker 1: the importance of community care. Take care of people. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like loving your neighbors as you know, as you
Speaker 1: love yourself. Right, it's I mean, it's all biblical principles
Speaker 1: right there. So so when we go to the Hebrew
Speaker 1: word for return implies restoration and responsibility, right, so, that
Speaker 1: would be that. And then in helping with fallen animals,
Speaker 1: if you see your brother's donkey ox fallen on the road,
Speaker 1: you must not ignore it. You are to help and
Speaker 1: lift it up. Do Teronomy twenty two, verse four. This
Speaker 1: emphasizes here is on community responsibility and assistance. Right, So
Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and go back up and let's continue.
Speaker 1: We're going to read verses five through twelve, and then
Speaker 1: I'll have a little bit of notes for that. So
Speaker 1: you shall not see your brother's donkey or as ox
Speaker 1: fall down along the road and hide yourself from them.
Speaker 1: You shall surely help it and lift them up again.
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy twenty two to five. A woman shall not wear
Speaker 1: anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man
Speaker 1: put on a woman's garment, For all who do so
Speaker 1: are an abomination to the Lord your God. Wow, a
Speaker 1: woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man,
Speaker 1: nor shall a man put a woman's garment, for all
Speaker 1: those who do so are an abomination to God. What
Speaker 1: agenda is being pushed so hard right now? So not
Speaker 1: even like transitioning, but even putting on women's clothes being
Speaker 1: a man, it's an abomination to the Lord your God.
Speaker 1: And what do they always do to actors that are
Speaker 1: I mean, there's some African American actors, a lot of them,
Speaker 1: or rappers that are out right now, they're trying to
Speaker 1: to demasculate them by having them put on women's clothes
Speaker 1: or women's dresses. You know this, this is the conspiracy
Speaker 1: aspect of it. Bruce Jenner, when he became Caitlyn Jenner
Speaker 1: or whatever, he's still Bruce Jenner, that was one giant.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was a huge spell cast on mankind.
Speaker 1: You know, it was like a huge ritual. When he
Speaker 1: was in the spotlight with that Kardashian family was in
Speaker 1: the spotlight, and then he transitioned like that. It caused
Speaker 1: that whole bloodgate to open, and now it's everywhere. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not here to judge whatever you do in your bedroom.
Speaker 1: I'm not here to judge anything you do whatever. I'm
Speaker 1: not the judge. I'm only here to teach and preach,
Speaker 1: and I have to show that if the Bible says
Speaker 1: this here, we got to understand it's abomination to the Lord, right,
Speaker 1: So when we see it's abomination, you know, like witchcraft
Speaker 1: or sorcery or or you know, we have to make
Speaker 1: sure we pay attention to that. So yeah, let's continue.
Speaker 1: If a bird's nest happens to be before you along
Speaker 1: the way, in any tree or on the ground, with
Speaker 1: young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the
Speaker 1: young or on the eggs. You shall not take the
Speaker 1: mother with the young. You shall surely let the mother
Speaker 1: go and take the young for yourself, that it may
Speaker 1: be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
Speaker 1: This is a verse eight twenty two. Verse eight. When
Speaker 1: you build a new house, then you shall make a
Speaker 1: parapet parapet for your roof, that you may not bring
Speaker 1: guilt or bloodshed on your household if anyone falls from it.
Speaker 1: You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed,
Speaker 1: lest you yield the seed with you have sown, and
Speaker 1: your fruit and your vineyard be defiled. Ten says you
Speaker 1: shall not plow with an ox or donkey together. Eleven
Speaker 1: says you should not wear a garment of different sorts
Speaker 1: such as wool and linen, mix together people. This is
Speaker 1: something that people go to when we see how people
Speaker 1: how they're designing clothes. Now right, you shall make tassels
Speaker 1: on the four corners of your clothing. You shall make
Speaker 1: tassels on the fore corner of your clothing with which
Speaker 1: you cover yourself. So in distinction and order, discuss to
Speaker 1: the various laws that maintain. So in verses five through twelve,
Speaker 1: it discuss the various laws that maintain order and distinction,
Speaker 1: such as the prohibition against cross dressing and the command
Speaker 1: to build a parapet to you for your roof. These
Speaker 1: laws highlight the importance of respecting God's created order and
Speaker 1: ensuring the safety and well being of And yeah, you
Speaker 1: see the agendas. You know where they're trying to throw
Speaker 1: the middle finger to yahweh, right to the most High.
Speaker 1: And that's one of the genders. So prohibition of cross dressing.
Speaker 1: A women must not wear men's clothing or a manda
Speaker 1: or women's clothing. This is detestable to the Lord your God.
Speaker 1: The Hebrew word to eva is used here, often translating
Speaker 1: as abomination, indicating a strong moral prohibition. Okay, this is
Speaker 1: not like traditionally. Hey, this is tradition. We don't like it.
Speaker 1: This is like abomination to God. It's something that we
Speaker 1: should pay attention to the bird's nest law. If you
Speaker 1: come across the bird's nest with chicks or eggs, we
Speaker 1: talked about it. This law reflects reflects a principle of
Speaker 1: compassion and sustainability, because if you take the mom and
Speaker 1: the babies and the eggs. Then the mom can't reproduce.
Speaker 1: So you want to make sure that you are you know,
Speaker 1: you want sustainability. You want them to be able to
Speaker 1: keep producing more birds. Right. Building a parapet. Let's see
Speaker 1: what this is. When you build a new house, you
Speaker 1: must make a parapet for your roof so you will
Speaker 1: not bring blood guilt to your house if someone falls
Speaker 1: from it. The law outside the importance and safety of
Speaker 1: prevention of harm. I don't know what a parapet is.
Speaker 1: I could probably look that up real quick. Let's find
Speaker 1: out what that is. What is a When I'm reading it,
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is a parapet? What is it? Like
Speaker 1: a ladder or something? A parapet? Okay? So. In the Bible,
Speaker 1: a parapet, also known as a battlement, is a protective structure,
Speaker 1: typically a low wall or railing, that is built around
Speaker 1: the edge of a flat roof to prevent people from
Speaker 1: falling off. This is specifically mentioned in Deuteronomy twenty two eight,
Speaker 1: with states that when you're building a new house, once
Speaker 1: you construct a parapet on the roof to prevent the
Speaker 1: guilt of bloodshed of someone falls from it. Purpose the
Speaker 1: primary person of paraphet has prevent accidental falls from the
Speaker 1: flat roof, which are common in ancient Near Eastern homes
Speaker 1: and often used for social gatherings, dry and produced and
Speaker 1: sleeping commandment significance. The commandment highlights of biblical principles of
Speaker 1: loving one's neighbor and proactively ensuring the safety, of demonstrating
Speaker 1: God's concern for human life. Okay, so we kind of
Speaker 1: see what that is. Now, now we know a good thing.
Speaker 1: I read that because I did not know Deteronomy nine. Okay, so,
Speaker 1: and then prohibiting mixing. Do not plant your vineyard with
Speaker 1: two types of seed, lest the entire harvests be defiled.
Speaker 1: Do not plow with an ox and a docy yoke together.
Speaker 1: Do not wear clothes of wool. These laws highlight the
Speaker 1: principle of separation and purity. And then the tassels on garments.
Speaker 1: You are to make tassels of four corners of the
Speaker 1: cloak you wear Deuonomy twenty two twelve. This commands served.
Speaker 1: This is a physical reminder of the commandments and covenant
Speaker 1: with God. Now we're going to go through the laws
Speaker 1: of sexual morality. So this is something we should read
Speaker 1: and find out what's and pay attention to as well.
Speaker 1: And let's see if we have anything in my teaching
Speaker 1: point notes purity and intigrity thirteen through thirty, which we're
Speaker 1: about to read, so that starts there. So let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and read these laws of sexual morality Deuteronomy twenty two,
Speaker 1: verse thirteen. If any man takes a wife and goes
Speaker 1: into her and detest her and charges her with shameful
Speaker 1: conduct and brings a bad name on her, and says,
Speaker 1: I took this woman, and when I came to her,
Speaker 1: I found she was not a virgin. Then the father
Speaker 1: and mother of the young woman shall take and bring
Speaker 1: out the evidence of the young woman's virginity to the
Speaker 1: elders of the city of the gate. And the young
Speaker 1: woman's father shall say to the elders, that gave my
Speaker 1: daughter to this man, as why and he detests her
Speaker 1: now he has charged her with shameful conduct, saying I
Speaker 1: found your daughter was not a virgin, and yet there's
Speaker 1: evidences of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the
Speaker 1: cloth before the elders of the city. Then the elders
Speaker 1: of the city shall take the man and punish him,
Speaker 1: and they shall find him one hundred shekels of silver,
Speaker 1: and give him to the father of the young woman,
Speaker 1: because he has brought a bad name on the virgin
Speaker 1: of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He cannot
Speaker 1: divorce her in all his days. And he shall be
Speaker 1: his wife, and she shall be his wife, and he
Speaker 1: cannot divorce her in all his days. Wow, we'll continue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: We're going to go all the way to verse thirty
Speaker 1: before I read it. But if the thing is true,
Speaker 1: and evidence of virginity are not found in the young woman,
Speaker 1: then she shall bring out the young woman to the
Speaker 1: door of her father's house, and the men of her sin,
Speaker 1: he shall stone her to death with stones, because she
Speaker 1: has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the
Speaker 1: harlot in her father's house. So you shall put away
Speaker 1: the evil from among you. If a man is found
Speaker 1: lying with the woman married to a husband, then both
Speaker 1: of them shall die, the man that lay with the
Speaker 1: woman and the woman. You shall put away the evil
Speaker 1: from Israel. If a young woman who is a virgin
Speaker 1: is bethrowed to a husband, and a man finds her
Speaker 1: in the city and lies with her, then you shall
Speaker 1: bring them both to the gate of the city, and
Speaker 1: you shall stone them to death with stones, the young
Speaker 1: woman because she did not cry out in the city,
Speaker 1: and the man because he humbled his neighbor's wife. So
Speaker 1: that you shall put away the evil from among you.
Speaker 1: And then the next one is Deuteronomy twenty two twenty five.
Speaker 1: But if a man finds a bethrolled woman young woman
Speaker 1: in the countryside, and a man forces her and lies
Speaker 1: with her, then the only man who lay with her
Speaker 1: shall die. A man that lay with or shall die.
Speaker 1: But if you shall do nothing to the young but
Speaker 1: you shall do nothing to the young woman. There is
Speaker 1: a young woman no sin deserving of death, just as
Speaker 1: when a man rises against his neighbor and kills her,
Speaker 1: rises against his neighbor and kills him. Even so this
Speaker 1: is the matter, For he found her in the countryside,
Speaker 1: and he would throw the young woman cried out, but
Speaker 1: there's no one there to save her, you see. So
Speaker 1: that's obviously in a case of uh, that's rape. If
Speaker 1: if a man finds a young woman who is a virgin,
Speaker 1: who is not bethrolled, then and he seizes her and
Speaker 1: lies with her, and they find out, and they found out,
Speaker 1: then the man who lay with her shall give a
Speaker 1: young woman's father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be
Speaker 1: his wife because he has humbled her. He shall not
Speaker 1: be permitted to divorce her all his days. And then
Speaker 1: twenty two thirty says a man shall not take his
Speaker 1: father's wife or uncover his father's bed. Yeah, that's important.
Speaker 1: So purity and integrity, okay, So the latter part of
Speaker 1: the chapter, verses thirteen through thirty deals with the issues
Speaker 1: of sexual morality and integrity. These laws underscore the value
Speaker 1: God places on purity and the sanctity of marriage, as
Speaker 1: well as the need for faithfulness and justice and relationships. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a more stuff that I think that people
Speaker 1: should read, that teenagers should should understand and know. You know,
Speaker 1: it would be great if I would have known all
Speaker 1: this stuff, you know, but once you know, you're held accountable,
Speaker 1: So you got to make sure, you know. So accusations
Speaker 1: of wife's virginity, We're going to go over this real quick,
Speaker 1: and says where he we read it. But this is
Speaker 1: kind of what the what the importance of it is.
Speaker 1: If a man accuses his wife of not being a virgin,
Speaker 1: but her parents must provide proof of a virginity. If
Speaker 1: this accuation is false, the man's punished and find If true,
Speaker 1: the woman is punished. So in Deuteronomy twenty two thirteen
Speaker 1: through twenty one, the law underscores the importance of truth
Speaker 1: and the sanctity of marriage. And then the next one
Speaker 1: in Deuteronomy twenty two twenty two through twenty seven, adultery okay.
Speaker 1: If a man is forced is found lying with another
Speaker 1: man's wife, both must die. If a virgin pledge to
Speaker 1: be married is violated in the city, both are punished.
Speaker 1: If the country, only the man is punished. If in
Speaker 1: the country only the man is punished, as the woman
Speaker 1: is presumed to have cried out for help. This law
Speaker 1: emphasizes the seriousness of sexual immorality. We don't even we
Speaker 1: have no idea, We don't even nowadays, you know, people
Speaker 1: don't even think like this at all. Don't even think
Speaker 1: it's important to God. Right. So in a in Deuteronomy
Speaker 1: twenty two twenty eight through twenty nine, if a man
Speaker 1: rapes a virgin who is not pledged to be married,
Speaker 1: he must pay the father and marry her without possibility
Speaker 1: of divorce. If a man rapes a virgin who is
Speaker 1: not pledged to be married, he must pay the father
Speaker 1: and marry her without the possibility of divorce. So this
Speaker 1: law reflects the cultural contexts and the protection of the
Speaker 1: woman's future. Wow, so where is it at. That's twenty
Speaker 1: eight through twenty nine. If the man finds a young
Speaker 1: woman who's a virgin, who is not bethralled, and he
Speaker 1: seizes her and lies with her, and they are found out,
Speaker 1: then the man who lay with her shall give the
Speaker 1: young woman bother fifty shekels of silver. And so that's
Speaker 1: I guess to prevent men from doing that, because then
Speaker 1: they're going to have to be married to her forever.
Speaker 1: So he might not be ready for you know, if
Speaker 1: he does that, he needs to commit to her forever.
Speaker 1: And obviously that's that's hard for the woman because if
Speaker 1: the woman gets raped by this person, you know, she
Speaker 1: thinks she wants to be with them forever. But you know,
Speaker 1: this is the way it was back then, and this
Speaker 1: is in twenty two through thirty. A man must not
Speaker 1: marry his father's wife, as this would dishonor his father.
Speaker 1: This law reinforces the boundaries of familial relationships. So all right,
Speaker 1: So that is Deuteronomy twenty two, and we'll go into
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of things that a lot
Speaker 1: of people might not agree with here. It might be
Speaker 1: hard for them to understand. But this is obviously to
Speaker 1: the Israelites, to those people at that time. And also,
Speaker 1: you know, we got to understand that it's important for
Speaker 1: us to understand these things as well. You know, that's
Speaker 1: why it's good to go over the Old Testament then
Speaker 1: come to the New Testament. Excuse me. Uh So the
Speaker 1: practical applications that we could take actively look for ways
Speaker 1: to assist. Let's be a good neighbor. Actively look for
Speaker 1: ways to assist those around you, whether it is helping
Speaker 1: someone in need or returning lost property. This fosters a
Speaker 1: spirit of community and reflects God's love. You know that
Speaker 1: was that was in the beginning. Uh. Respect God's design.
Speaker 1: Embrace the rules, the roles and distinction God has established,
Speaker 1: recognizing that they are for our good and His glory.
Speaker 1: This includes honoring gender distinctions and ensuring the safety of others. UH.
Speaker 1: Uphold purity in a world that often discards sexual purity.
Speaker 1: Commit to a living Commit to living a life that
Speaker 1: honors God's standards. That this includes being true truthful and
Speaker 1: maintaining integrity in all relationships. Yes, we are, definitely we
Speaker 1: disregard sexual purity nowadays, whether you're in high school or
Speaker 1: you're you know, you're going to parties, or you know,
Speaker 1: you just have a boyfriend and girlfriend in high school,
Speaker 1: or when you get out of high school you're starting
Speaker 1: to go to clubs and people are just you know,
Speaker 1: just going crazy, you know, going to college, you know,
Speaker 1: going to college parties, all these you know, people are
Speaker 1: just going crazy. Sexual purity is just it's it's it's
Speaker 1: just not something that people are disregarding it on, you know,
Speaker 1: so much, and during that time. That's why it's good
Speaker 1: to raise your kids in the Bible and raise them
Speaker 1: into the Lord. And especially if you know males, you know,
Speaker 1: because I think more. I know that sometimes females you know, well,
Speaker 1: I know that sometimes females will push the the issue,
Speaker 1: you know, push it forward. But a lot of the
Speaker 1: times the males are the ones that need to know
Speaker 1: this and once if they want to have sexual purity,
Speaker 1: it's a little easier because usually they're the ones. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying all the time, but they might be pushing
Speaker 1: the envelope more than the female is not saying that's always.
Speaker 1: But usually if a female has a virgin she's trying
Speaker 1: to protect her virginity, you know, and then the male
Speaker 1: is just trying to persuade her into doing that. Not
Speaker 1: saying that's always. But you know, so if men were,
Speaker 1: if the boys or the or the or the men
Speaker 1: had more regard for sexual purity, I think it would
Speaker 1: help tremendously. Sometimes it's pure pressure. Sometimes the woman loves
Speaker 1: the boyfriend and she wants to keep him as a boyfriend,
Speaker 1: so the only way she thinks she could keep him
Speaker 1: is if she does this, and the man kind of
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's like, yeah, I'm not saying it's
Speaker 1: always like that, but it's something that I noticed when
Speaker 1: I was growing up, you know. Definitely. Okay, so we'll
Speaker 1: go over some verses that are that connect with this,
Speaker 1: and then let me see, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: want to get into Yeah, I think we got fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: We'll go over some connecting verses real quick. And connecting
Speaker 1: verses would be uh yeah. A good one to connect
Speaker 1: would be Luke ten twenty five through thirty seven. The
Speaker 1: Parable of the Good Samaritan echoes the call to love
Speaker 1: and care for our neighbors as seen in Deuteronomy twenty
Speaker 1: two one through four. For sure, Right, if you see
Speaker 1: a donkey that's injured and you want to take it
Speaker 1: to their you know, take care of them, then obviously
Speaker 1: a person is even more important. Right, What more is
Speaker 1: a person than you know, a donkey or an ox? Right? Uh?
Speaker 1: One Corinthian six, verses eighteen through twenty. Paul's exhortation to
Speaker 1: flee sexual morality aligns with the call to purity found
Speaker 1: in Deuteronomy twenty two teen through thirty. Of course, so
Speaker 1: if you want to go back and read that, also
Speaker 1: read about Joseph when he was tempted by the woman
Speaker 1: when the husband left. The woman was trying to you know,
Speaker 1: remember that that where Joseph ran away plead, all right,
Speaker 1: that's a good one to look at as well. Matthew
Speaker 1: five seventeen through twenty. Jesus is teaching on fulfillment of
Speaker 1: the law, reminds us that these Old Testament laws point
Speaker 1: to deeper spiritual truths. Okay, so yes, So that is
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy twenty two. I think we could probably go to
Speaker 1: twenty three. We have like another fifteen minutes. I think
Speaker 1: we could kind of bust this out real quick. Let's
Speaker 1: see if we could do that, all right. Deuteronomy twenty three,
Speaker 1: Verse one. He who is emasculated by crushing and mutilation
Speaker 1: shall not enter the assembly of the Lord. One of
Speaker 1: the legitimate births shall not enter the assembly of the Lord,
Speaker 1: even to the tenth generation. None of his descendants shall
Speaker 1: enter the assembly of the Lord. An Ammonite or Moabite
Speaker 1: shall not enter the assembly of the Lord, even to
Speaker 1: the tenth generation. None of his descendants shall enter the
Speaker 1: assembly of the Lord forever, because they do not meet.
Speaker 1: They do not meet you with bread and water on
Speaker 1: the road when you came out of Egypt, because they
Speaker 1: hired against you, Balem, the son of Bure the path
Speaker 1: were of Mesopotamia to curse you. Nevertheless, the Lord your
Speaker 1: God would not listen to Balem. But the Lord your
Speaker 1: God turned the curse into a blessing for you. Because
Speaker 1: the Lord your God loves you. You shall not seek
Speaker 1: their peace nor their prosperity in all your days forever. Wow,
Speaker 1: And the Moabites and Ammonites, they came from Lot when
Speaker 1: he slept with his daughters. Right, So just let you
Speaker 1: know where they came from. You shall not abhor to Eatomite,
Speaker 1: for he is your other. You shall not adhort to
Speaker 1: Egyptian to an Egyptian, because you are an alien in
Speaker 1: his land. The children of the third generation born to
Speaker 1: them may enter the Assembly of the Lord. So in
Speaker 1: uh Deuteronomy twenty three one to three outlined outlines who
Speaker 1: may be excluded from the Assembly of the Lord. This
Speaker 1: reflects the importance of maintaining the purity and holiness to
Speaker 1: the community. No one who has emasculated by crushing or
Speaker 1: cutting may enter the Assembly of the Lord. So let's
Speaker 1: see if we have anything down here. So in verses
Speaker 1: one through two discusses who are excluded. No man with
Speaker 1: crust or severed genitals may enter the Assembly of the Lord.
Speaker 1: The Hebrew term for assembly is quahal, refers to the
Speaker 1: congregation or community of Israel. This exclusion emphasizes the importance
Speaker 1: of physical wholeness in the context of worship and community participation.
Speaker 1: In Verses three through six, no Ammonite or Moabite of
Speaker 1: any of the descendants may enter the Assembly of the Lord,
Speaker 1: even to the tenth generation. This exclusion is due to
Speaker 1: their historical enmity and lack of hospitality towards Israel. The
Speaker 1: Hebrew word for tenth generation is Assari. Asari underscores the
Speaker 1: long lasting nature of this prohibition and then acceptance of
Speaker 1: the Edomites and Egyptians. The text allows the inclusion of
Speaker 1: Edomites and Egyptians to the third generation. Do not despise
Speaker 1: the Edomite or he is your brother, for he is
Speaker 1: your brother. Do not despise the Egyptian because you are
Speaker 1: a foreigner in his land. The Hebrew term for brother
Speaker 1: highlights the kinship of edom who is the historical relationship
Speaker 1: with Egypt is acknowledged. While the historical relationship with Egypt
Speaker 1: is acknowledge. Now we're going to go into the cleanliness
Speaker 1: of the camp. Cleanliness of the camp. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: through this quite quickly, because we have like another ten minutes,
Speaker 1: and I want to make sure that we get through this.
Speaker 1: There we go, all right. So Deuter want to be
Speaker 1: twenty three verse nine. When the army goes out against
Speaker 1: your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing. If
Speaker 1: there's any man among you who becomes unclean by some
Speaker 1: occurrence in the night, then he shall go outside the camp.
Speaker 1: He shall not come inside the camp. But it shall
Speaker 1: be when evening comes, then he shall wash with water,
Speaker 1: and when the sun sets he may come into the camp. Also,
Speaker 1: you shall have a place outside the camp where you
Speaker 1: may go out, and you shall have an implement among
Speaker 1: your equipment, And when you sit down outside, you shall
Speaker 1: dig with it and turn to cover and cover your
Speaker 1: cover your refuse. For the Lord your God walks in
Speaker 1: the midst of your camp to deliver you and give
Speaker 1: your enemies over to you. Therefore your camp shall be holy,
Speaker 1: that he may have no unclean that he may see
Speaker 1: no unclean thing among you and turn away from you. So,
Speaker 1: since God walks in the midst of your camp, he
Speaker 1: wants to make sure that nothing is unclean. Right, So
Speaker 1: that makes sense. So in your camp must be holy,
Speaker 1: so that you may not see anything indecent among you
Speaker 1: or turn you away from So. So, for the Lord
Speaker 1: your God walks through your camp and protects you from
Speaker 1: delivering your enemies to you, your camp must be holy
Speaker 1: so that you may not so he will not see
Speaker 1: anything indecent among you and turn away from you. And
Speaker 1: if I go a little further down, let me check
Speaker 1: some cleanliness in the camp. The Hebrew word Okay, So
Speaker 1: when you are in camped against your enemies, when you
Speaker 1: shall keep yourselves from every wicked thing. The Hebrew word
Speaker 1: for wicked indicates moral and ritual impurity, stressing the importance
Speaker 1: of holiness. Now we're going to get into miscellaneous laws.
Speaker 1: You shall not give back to his master the slave
Speaker 1: who has escaped from his master to you. He may
Speaker 1: dwell with you in your midst in the place which
Speaker 1: he chooses, within one of your gates, where it seems
Speaker 1: best for him. You shall not oppress him. In fifteen
Speaker 1: through sixteen, it instructs Israel not to return runaway slaves
Speaker 1: to their master. You shall not hand over to his
Speaker 1: master a slave who has escaped from the master to you.
Speaker 1: This reflects compassionate approach, allowing the escaped slave to live
Speaker 1: freely among the Israelites. And we're going to get into
Speaker 1: verse seventeen. Now it says there shall be no ritual
Speaker 1: harlot of the daughters of Israel or perverted one of
Speaker 1: the sons of Israel. You shall not bring the voyages
Speaker 1: of a harlet or the price of a dog to
Speaker 1: the house of the Lord your God for any vowed offering,
Speaker 1: for both of these are an abomination to the Lord.
Speaker 1: So verse seventeen prohibits cult prostitution. No daughter or son
Speaker 1: of Israel is to be a cult prostitute. The Hebrew
Speaker 1: word for colt prostitute is quotashaw for him for females
Speaker 1: and quidest for males. Refers to those involved in pagan
Speaker 1: religious practices which are strictly forbidden. So we got to
Speaker 1: understand that, and let's see if there's anything I could Okay,
Speaker 1: So yeah, we kind of went over that already. Do
Speaker 1: not return to sleep as mester. We kind of went
Speaker 1: over that. Now we're going to go through nineteen and twenty.
Speaker 1: You shall not charge interest to your brother, interest on money,
Speaker 1: or food, or anything that is lent out in interest.
Speaker 1: To a foreigner, you may charge interest, But to your
Speaker 1: brother you shall not charge interest that the Lord your
Speaker 1: God may bless you and in all to which you
Speaker 1: set your hand, and land which you are entering to possess.
Speaker 1: So in nineteen and twenty addressed to the issue of
Speaker 1: charging interest from money, fairness and brother they love. You
Speaker 1: must not charge your brother interest or money, food, or
Speaker 1: any type of loan. And we see what's happening to
Speaker 1: people nowadays where they're just buried in interest right, even
Speaker 1: when you pay your house, Like if you check out
Speaker 1: how much interest you're paying, you know you're paying one
Speaker 1: hundred or two hundred thousand, four hundred thousand dollars worth
Speaker 1: of interest. It's crazy, But we are foreigners to the
Speaker 1: people that are lending it anyways, because the people that
Speaker 1: are actually lending them money are people that are I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying all of them, but some of them
Speaker 1: are definitely evil, you know, if they're just trying to
Speaker 1: make all that money in interest of us. Right. So
Speaker 1: the Hebrew word for interest is neshka, implies a biting
Speaker 1: or unseerious practice, which is discourage among the community. And
Speaker 1: then we're going to go to Deuteronomy twenty three, verse
Speaker 1: twenty one. When you make a vow to the Lord
Speaker 1: your God, you shall not delay to pay it to
Speaker 1: the Lord your God will surely require it of you,
Speaker 1: and it would be a sign to you. But if
Speaker 1: you have strained from vowing, it shall not be a
Speaker 1: sin to you that which has gone from your lips.
Speaker 1: You shall keep and perform for your voluntary vow to
Speaker 1: the Lord. But you have promise with your mouth, so
Speaker 1: you got to make sure that you when you make
Speaker 1: a vow to the Lord your God, you must not
Speaker 1: delay in fulfilling it. And the Hebrew word for a
Speaker 1: vow is nadar. It signifies a solemn promise. Highlight in
Speaker 1: this seriousness of commitments made to God. So if you
Speaker 1: are in some type of sin and you try to
Speaker 1: tell God, like, you know, hey, I won't do this anymore.
Speaker 1: I promise you got to make sure that you know
Speaker 1: you're making a vow to God, don't do that. Okay,
Speaker 1: don't do that because it's not good, because sometimes you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't fulfill that vow. So don't do that. Just
Speaker 1: it's better to just abstrain from what you what your
Speaker 1: sin is, and then just try to do, you know,
Speaker 1: repent doing one eighty. But you don't need to make
Speaker 1: promises to God. Like God knows your heart, he knows
Speaker 1: exactly what's going on. You don't need to do that.
Speaker 1: Just do your best, you know, but you don't need
Speaker 1: to try not to make a vow to God unless
Speaker 1: you can one million percent fulfill it. Let's go to
Speaker 1: verses twenty four and twenty five, or almost to two
Speaker 1: hours here, when you come into your neighbor's vineyard, you
Speaker 1: may eat your fill of grapes at your pleasure, but
Speaker 1: you shall not put any in your container. When you
Speaker 1: come into your neighbors standing grain. You may pluck the
Speaker 1: heads of your hand, but you shall not use it
Speaker 1: as a sickle of your of your neighbors standing grain.
Speaker 1: This is actually portrayed in Luke where they're walking through
Speaker 1: and they're actually grabbing grain on the Sabbath. It's Jesus,
Speaker 1: our Lord, you know, our Lord, Jesus Christ his shoe
Speaker 1: of the Machioc and his disciples and the Pharisees point
Speaker 1: out that they're grabbing grain on the Sabbath, saying that
Speaker 1: they're they're, they're they're working on the Sabbath. And Jesus
Speaker 1: points to David when they went into the temple and
Speaker 1: they at the temple bread the pre spread because they
Speaker 1: were hungry, like they were like this came from a battle.
Speaker 1: So Jesus points them to that. But this is this
Speaker 1: is here just saying that you know, if you're walking
Speaker 1: through and you're hungry, you're allowed to grab some grain
Speaker 1: or some grapes, but you may each your fill of
Speaker 1: your grapes your pleasure, but you don't get to bring
Speaker 1: a container and shart grabbing a bunch of grapes and
Speaker 1: putting him in a container. Or you know, you don't
Speaker 1: get to bring gardening tools and start digging out the grain. No,
Speaker 1: you just grab what you need when you're walking by,
Speaker 1: and that's it. That's all you could do. You could
Speaker 1: pluck it, but that's it, you know. And this is
Speaker 1: a so in verse twenty five to allow eating from
Speaker 1: a neighbor's vineyard. This reflects a balance between generosity and
Speaker 1: respect for property right. It's totally understandable. So if there's
Speaker 1: let me go over the practical applications, so we can
Speaker 1: we're just about at the two hour mark. So practice applications.
Speaker 1: Pursue holiness. Strive to live a life that reflects God's holiness,
Speaker 1: being mindful of how your actions and attitudes set you
Speaker 1: apart from as a follower of Christ. Pursue holiness for sure.
Speaker 1: Strive for holiness and your actions and attitudes, yeah, set
Speaker 1: you apart for sure. Maintain cleanliness. Consider how spiritual cleanliness
Speaker 1: and order in your life can create an environment where
Speaker 1: God is honored and present. Yes, maintain spiritual cleanliness. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're if there's anything in your life that you
Speaker 1: have that's a sin. You want to make sure that
Speaker 1: you get rid of it right. Keep your spirit, your
Speaker 1: spirit clean right. Show compassion. Be proactive and showing compassion
Speaker 1: and justice to those who are vulnerable or in need,
Speaker 1: reflecting God's heart for sure. Practice integrity. Uphold integrity and
Speaker 1: all your commitments, whether to God or others, ensuring that
Speaker 1: your word is trustworthy. Should do that definitely with your
Speaker 1: job with people, with your friends, for sure. Promote fairness.
Speaker 1: Engage in financial dealings with fairness and generosity, prioritizing relationships
Speaker 1: over profit. Engage in financial dealings with fairness and generosity
Speaker 1: prior Yes, that that has to do with the interest
Speaker 1: that's made, that's asked for. So all right, So some
Speaker 1: connecting verses we could put that real quick before we end.
Speaker 1: Holiness uh first Peter one fifteen through sixteen. But just
Speaker 1: as he who called you as holy, so be holy
Speaker 1: in all you do, for it is written, Be holy
Speaker 1: because I am holy. Compassion Mackay six 's eight. He
Speaker 1: has shown you, oh man, what is good? And what
Speaker 1: does the Lord require of you? To act justly and
Speaker 1: to love mercy, to walk humbly with your Lord integrity
Speaker 1: Matthew five thirty seven. Simply let your yes, b yes,
Speaker 1: and you know we know anything more comes from the
Speaker 1: evil one. Awesome? All right, so perfect. Now we're gonna
Speaker 1: be on Deuteronomy twenty four. What do we have twenty four?
Speaker 1: Twenty five? We got all the way till thirty two.
Speaker 1: I think it is right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be all the way. We still got some time in Deuteronomy.
Speaker 1: So we'll be in Deuteronomy twenty four next week. I
Speaker 1: appreciate everything. I appreciate you guys sticking around for that. Oops.
Speaker 1: Did I just do that? I want to make sure
Speaker 1: that I have that up for next week. Twenty four? Perfect,
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy twenty four. Perfect, Well, thank you guys so much.
Speaker 1: Let me go ahead and stop the screen share and
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Speaker 1: Let me end this in prayer, So, Father God in
Speaker 1: the name of Jesus, thank you so much. I appreciate
Speaker 1: everything you do for us. Thank you for giving me
Speaker 1: this time to go over Deuteronomy and anybody that's listening
Speaker 1: out there, I please, I just ask that you help
Speaker 1: them take in the knowledge and then turn it into
Speaker 1: wisdom by living it in their life. We all need that, Lord,
Speaker 1: We all need that wisdom, We all need that encouragement.
Speaker 1: We all need help from you and from your word
Speaker 1: to know what we need to do. We went over
Speaker 1: some of this stuff today, Lord that some people may
Speaker 1: agree with and some people may not agree with. But
Speaker 1: we know that you are righteous, you are just, and
Speaker 1: everything that you've done and told us to do is
Speaker 1: setting us up heart from you know, I know that
Speaker 1: some of the stuff that we read, we don't know
Speaker 1: the full context because we weren't there. We don't know
Speaker 1: what the abominations that these other tribes were doing where
Speaker 1: you want them totally eliminated, and some of these giant tribes,
Speaker 1: you know you want the DNA totally eliminated. We might
Speaker 1: not understand that because we weren't living there at that time.
Speaker 1: So help people that are listening to this show in
Speaker 1: particular understand the context of what was going on. Hopefully
Speaker 1: we get a little deeper in the studies so we
Speaker 1: can find out about the hibtes, the Jebi sites, and
Speaker 1: the Canaanites and the Amorites and understand why you wanted
Speaker 1: them totally eliminated. Lord, just help us to be gracious
Speaker 1: when we read and you know, some of the stuff
Speaker 1: that we read today. Like I said, for us in
Speaker 1: these times, Lord, it's hard for us to accept, but
Speaker 1: we know that you were just, and I just trust
Speaker 1: and I have faith that you know best. So thank
Speaker 1: you so much for everything you do for us. We
Speaker 1: love you and Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you guys for listen,
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