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June 26 - Deuteronomy 16 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Thursday, it's the 26th of
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  June. And so glad that you have tapped
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  on play and said, come on Sean, let us read some more of God's
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  Word. And today is the last day for a
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  couple of weeks that we are going to be reading from
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  Deuteronomy. As we reach the halfway point,
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  we are going to take a bit of a turn and still be in the Old
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  Testament. But instead of reading what
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  Moses had to say about how God's chosen people should be living
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  in the Promised land, we are going to hear some love poetry.
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  Love poetry that's written in the context of a man and a woman
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  who love each other. That representing the love that
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  God has for you, friends and for me, that is coming next week.
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  That's going to be grand. But in the meantime, the last
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  chapter of Deuteronomy that we'll read for a while, we'll
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  round out this section of what we owe God and then move into
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  the area of human authority. And so while the 5th Commandment
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  speaks about honouring your parents, Moses will expand that
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  into how we honour each other. So let us read this fascinating
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  exposition of God's covenant with his people, then reading
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  Deuteronomy chapter 16. In honour of the Lord your God,
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  celebrate the Passover each year in the early spring in the month
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  of Abib, for that was the month in which the Lord your God
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  brought you out of Egypt by night.
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  Your Passover sacrifice may be from either the flock or the
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  herd, and it must be sacrificed to the Lord your God at the
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  designated place of worship, the place He chooses for His name to
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  be honoured. Eat it with bread made without
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  yeast for seven days. The bread you eat must be made
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  without yeast, as when you escape from Egypt in such a
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  hurry. Eat this bread, the bread of
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  suffering, so that as long as you live you'll remember the day
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  you departed from Egypt. Let no yeast be found in any
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  house throughout your land for those seven days.
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  And when you sacrifice the Passover land on the evening of
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  the first day, do not let any of the meat remain until the next
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  morning. You may not sacrifice the
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  Passover in just any of the towns that the Lord your God is
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  giving you. You must offer it only at the
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  designated place of worship, the place the Lord your God chooses
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  for His name to be honoured. Sacrifice it there in the
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  evening as the sun goes down on the anniversary of your exodus
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  from Egypt. Roast the lamb and eat it in the
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  place the Lord your God chooses. Then you may go back to your
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  tents the next morning. For the next 6 days you may not
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  eat any bread made with yeast. On the 7th day, proclaim another
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  holy day in honour of the Lord your God, and no work may be
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  done on that day. Count off 7 weeks from when you
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  first began to cut the grain at the time of harvest.
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  Then celebrate the festival of harvest.
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  To honour the Lord your God. Bring him a voluntary offering
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  in proportion to the blessings you have received from Him.
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  This is a time to celebrate before the Lord your God at the
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  designated place of worship. He will choose for His name to
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  be honoured. Celebrate with your sons and
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  daughters, your male and female servants and the Levites,
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  foreigners, orphans and widows from your towns.
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  For seven days. You must celebrate this festival
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  to honour the Lord your God at the place He chooses, for it is
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  He who blesses you with bountiful harvests and gives you
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  success in all your work. This festival will be a time of
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  great joy for all. Each year every man in Israel
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  must celebrate these three festivals, the Festival of
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  Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Harvest and the Festival of
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  Shelters. On each of these occasions all
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  men must appear before the Lord your God at the place He
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  chooses, but they must not appear before the Lord without a
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  gift for Him. All must give as they are able,
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  according to the blessings given to them by the Lord your God.
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  Appoint judges and officials for yourselves from each of your
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  tribes in all the towns the Lord your God is giving you.
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  They must judge the people fairly.
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  You must never twist justice or show partiality.
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  Never accept a bribe for bribes, blind the eyes of the wise, and
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  corrupt the decisions of the godly.
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  Let true justice prevail, so you may live and occupy the land
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  that the Lord your God is giving you.
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  You must never set up a wooden ash or a pole beside the altar
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  you build for the Lord your God, and never set up sacred pillars
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  for worship for the Lord your God hates them.
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  As we read this chapter, we see a bit of your character, Lord.
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  We see that you want us to remember you and stay close to
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  You. And the way that you remind your
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  people to do that is not with painful lists to memorise or not
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  with sacrifices to make, but it is with celebrations.
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  Our Lord, thank you that you give us lives of plenty and you
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  ask us to celebrate your love and your goodness.
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  Lord, help us to remember to do that.
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  Help us to celebrate all you have given us.
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  Celebrate your kindness to us and your kindness not just in
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  the things that you give us, but in the forgiveness and the love
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  and the acceptance and most of all in that most precious gift
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  that you gave us, which is Jesus.
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  Oh Jesus, we are so grateful for you and the way that you showed
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  us that you and your Father and your Spirit are love and love
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  us. So we come before you and we
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  celebrate you today. Open our hearts to be full of
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  praise and rejoicing today for all that you've done for us.
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  So we praise you, and we sing your mighty name in the name of
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  Jesus. Amen.