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July 28 - Deuteronomy 25 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. Great to have your company on
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  this Monday, the 28th of July as we crack open a new week and
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  keep on working our way through. Yeah, this amazing book of
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  Deuteronomy. I hope you guys have been
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  enjoying it as much as me. And we have got two more full
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  weeks and then we will round it out and a couple of days the
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  week following that. But this week is the last week
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  that we are going through the commandments 1 by 1.
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  And today we are in the last commandment, the last of the 10
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  commandments, which is you shall not covet anything that belongs
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  to your neighbour. So this is where Moses is
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  expanding. What does it mean to have human
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  rights, the privileges of being a human being in God's people?
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  What does that look like? And it's not just desiring the
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  thing or not desiring the thing that your neighbour has, but
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  also people's right to justice, you know, their their right to
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  basic food and shelter and, and to have a family and be fairly
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  treated. You know, basically, these are
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  the things that we tell our kids they've got to do to each other
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  so that we have the basic rules of law around us.
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  That is what this final section is going to be talking about
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  before Moses will say some final words next week and tie it all
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  up. And then we'll see the narrative
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  continue as they enter the promised land.
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  But let us sit down and expand and open up what God's law looks
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  like as his people enter this promised land.
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  As we read together Deuteronomy chapter 25,
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  suppose two people take a dispute to court, and the judges
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  declare that one is right and the other is wrong.
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  If the person in the wrong is sentenced to be flogged, the
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  judge must command him to lie down and be beaten in his
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  presence with the number of lashes appropriate to the crime.
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  But never give more than 40 lashes.
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  More than 40 lashes would publicly humiliate your
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  neighbour. You must not muzzle an ox to
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  keep it from eating as it treads out the grain.
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  If two brothers are living together on the same property
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  and one of them dies without a son, his widow may not be
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  married to anyone from outside the family.
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  Instead, her husband's brother should marry her and have
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  intercourse with her to fulfil the duties of a brother in law.
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  The first son she bears to him will be considered the son of
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  the dead brother, so that his name will not be forgotten in
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  Israel. But if the man refuses to marry
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  his brother's widow, she must go down to the town gate and say to
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  the elders assembled there, My husband's brother refuses to
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  preserve his brother's name in Israel.
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  He refuses to fulfil the duties of a brother in law by marrying
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  me. The elders of the town will then
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  summon him and talk with him. If he still refuses and says I
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  don't want to marry her, the widow must walk over to him in
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  the presence of the elders, pull his sandal from his foot and
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  spit in his face. Then she must declare this is
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  what happens to a man who refuses to provide his brother
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  with children. Ever afterward in Israel, his
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  family will be referred to as the family of the man whose
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  sandal was pulled off. 2 Ezraelite men get into a fight
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  and the wife of one tries to rescue her husband by grabbing
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  the testicles of the other man. You must cut off her hand.
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  Show her no pity. You must use accurate scales
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  when you weigh out merchandise, and you must use full and honest
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  measures. Yes, always use honest weights
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  and measures so that you may enjoy a long life in the land
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  the Lord your God is giving you. All who cheat with dishonest
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  weights and measures are detestable to the Lord your God.
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  Never forget what the Amalekites did to you as you came from
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  Egypt. They attacked you when you were
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  exhausted and weary, and they struck down those who were
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  straggling behind. They had No Fear of God.
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  Therefore, when the Lord your God has given you rest from all
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  your enemies in the land He is giving you as a special
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  possession, you must destroy the Amalekites and erase their
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  memory from under heaven. Never forget this.
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  Our Lord, you are a gracious God, a God who cares about
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  justice in not just the big international movements in your
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  world, but in the small everyday things, in the rights that a
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  widow has not to be forgotten by society, for people not to be
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  cheated as they go about their daily shopping errands in the
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  markets. Lord, you want to see justice
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  prevailing in all corners of every part of our world, or to
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  pray that we would continue to have your heart for justice,
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  that you would move our heart by the injustices of our world so
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  that we can truly bring your Kingdom here in all the agency
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  that we possess. We love you, Jesus, and we thank
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  you that as well as bringing justice, you brought grace,
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  grace that covers over all of our sins and brings us before
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  you perfect through everything you've done for us.
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  So we lift you up and praise you and pray all of this in your
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  precious name, Amen.