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Leviticus chapter 19 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Leviticus chapter 19 Let us pray, our Father, who's in
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  heaven, holy is your name, your Kingdom come, and your will be
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  done here on this earth, just as it is there.
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  Heaven give us this day, Our Daily Bread.
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  Forgive us for our many sins. God, help us to forgive those
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  who sin against us. Not let us be LED off into
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  temptation. God, but deliver us from the
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  evil one, For yours is the power of the Kingdom, the glory, the
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  honor, forever and ever. Jesus Christ, Nazareth, the
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  branch, the long-awaited Messiah, Yeshua.
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  So we pray through. Father, we thank you God, for
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  hearing our prayers. Thank you, God, for answering
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  our prayers. Thank you, God, that we can come
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  into the holiest of holy places. Father, teach us your statues.
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  Teach us your ways. God, thank you for covenant.
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  Lord, thank you for bringing us from death to life.
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  Lord, thank you for opening up our eyes, unstopping our ears.
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  Thank you God, for reason and the ability to come, Lord, and
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  to think about these things, to read, Father, to absorb, to
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  meditate upon these words. Father, we know that heaven and
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  earth shall pass away, but not one of these words.
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  Thank you God, that Jesus is the word or we love you.
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  Father, Holy Spirit Phyllis, today I decrease as you increase
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  King Jesus, we love you and send your holy and precious and
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  powerful name that I pray. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. And the Lord spoke unto Moses,
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  saying, too, speak unto the congregation of the children of
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  Israel, and say unto them, You shall be holy.
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  For I the Lord your God am holy. So that is what is available to
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  us. Friends, you need to understand
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  it's not about your merit, it's not about what you've done, it's
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  not about your behavior modification.
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  You can be holy because He is holy.
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  And when you have the Holy Spirit indwelling you, friends,
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  you need to understand that as the Holy Spirit is inside of
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  you, that is part of the Godhead, the Trinity, part of
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  the Trinity lives inside of you. St.
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  What an amazing thought. You could be holy because God is
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  holy, not because of anything that you have done.
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  It is all about what He did for us on that cross 2000 years ago.
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  The pinnacle of every people group is the cross of Christ.
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  It is Calvary. It's the loftiest idea in
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  literature. Friends, this is the reality
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  that we must sink into is that the least in the Kingdom of God
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  is greater than anyone who is born of woman.
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  Think about it. For turn you not unto idols, nor
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  make to yourselves molten gods. I am the Lord your God.
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  You shall have no other gods beside El Elyon, the Most High
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  God. He is all powerful, all knowing,
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  and ever present everywhere all at once.
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  Every other God is an idol who cannot see and cannot hear and
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  cannot speak. There's only one true living God
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  and his name is Yahweh. Yahweh Everlasting, the God of
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  the Jews, Adonai Five. And if you offer a sacrifice of
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  peace offerings unto the Lord, you shall offer it at your own
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  will. So the peace offerings, friends,
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  was voluntary, and it was for them to come and to have
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  communion. It was a family order.
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  Everyone got to participate. The priest got his portion, and
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  it was of their own will. 6 It shall be eaten the same day you
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  offer it, and on the Morrow, and if aught remain until the 3rd
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  day shall be burnt with fire. So you could eat it the first
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  day and the second day, but by the third day, if there was any
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  leftover, it was to be burned, it was not to be consumed.
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  God doesn't want stagnant worship, friends.
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  God loves the fresh bread right out of the oven.
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  We cannot keep going off of yesterday's successes.
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  We must lock in for today. Today is the day of salvation.
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  It is a new day, friends. This is the day that the Lord
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  has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in
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  it. His mercies are new every day.
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  We cannot ride off of Grandma and Grandpa's successes.
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  We cannot ride in on their coattails, friends.
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  We must have it personally in our own lives, and it must
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  become fresh and new every day. Return back to your first love.
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  Quit going by the wayside. Quit listening to all of the
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  secular garbage all the time. Relentless information that is
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  designed to drag us away from covenant, drag us away from the
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  peace that we have available in Christ Jesus.
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  Turn off all of the noise and put your nose in the book and
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  actually read these words. I pray that you have developed a
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  spiritual appetite that this is not just some feel good, get out
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  of jail free card because Leviticus in the sense of every
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  bit of the word is tough. It's tough to get through and we
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  cannot just be so completely obsessive over New Testament and
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  not have the balance of the Old Testament.
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  There's so much judgment within the New Testament.
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  There's so much mercy in the Old Testament.
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  You see it, It's the same God yesterday, today, and forever.
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  Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever,
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  friends. And he is congruent from Genesis
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  to Revelation. Every word, every jot, every
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  title, nothing added, nothing subtracted.
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  It is the complete authority, the infallible, inerrant word.
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  Friends, that is what we need. We need spiritual appetite.
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  In this hour six. It shall be eaten the same day 7
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  and if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is an abominable.
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  It shall not be accepted. So God says, I will not be in
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  it. If you want to eat the food that
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  has set out for three days, 8 Therefore everyone that eats it
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  shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the hallowed
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  thing of the Lord, and that soul shall be cut off from among his
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  people. At the end of the day, friends,
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  this is for their own benefit, is to keep them from being
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  sickly, is to keep them from disease, and is to keep them
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  from being eradicated. You need to understand God knows
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  what He's doing, and he gave them this provision for their
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  own health benefits, friends. And there is a spiritual
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  connotation, of course, which is that God desires freshness and
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  newness every day, not yesterday's old bread. 9 And
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  when you reap the harvest of the land, you shall not wholly reap
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  the corners of the field, neither shall you gather the
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  gleanings of the harvest. So what you need to understand
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  this was a way for God to take care of the poor.
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  And if you were a landowner and you were able to put the crops
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  down in your fields, you were not to try and be stingy and try
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  to get every last kernel, every last piece of grain.
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  You were to leave it in the corners for the poor to be able
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  to come in. And they had to get up, just
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  like the birds God provides. But they had to get up, and they
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  had to go out, and they had to work. 10 You shall not glean
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  your vineyard, neither shall you gather every grape of the
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  vineyard. You shall leave them for the
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  poor and stranger. I am the Lord your God.
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  He is the Lord God. He's the one that gets to tell
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  us what to do. We don't get to shake our fistic
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  God and tell God how to behave. It doesn't work that way,
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  friends. 11 You shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither
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  lie one to another. Very simple stuff here, friends.
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  God deals with it at the infancy, before it ever becomes
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  something larger, and before it becomes mature.
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  God says Deal with it in its infancy. 12 And you shall not
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  swear by my name falsely, neither shall you profane the
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  name of your God. I am the Lord.
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  So, so much of this was written on the tablets of stone, and
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  this is God reiterating it back to them, letting them know that
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  He meant what He said and He said what He meant.
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  And it still holds true today, friends, that we need to honor
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  God. We do not need to take His name
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  in vain. No lying, no stealing.
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  He wants us to be honest in all of our dealings, and He will
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  turn His face towards us. 13 You shall not defraud your neighbor,
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  neither rob him. The wages of him that is hired
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  shall not abide with you all night until the morning.
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  So as quickly as someone earns their wages is as quickly as we
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  should be paying out. God takes this very seriously.
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  14 You shall not curse the deaf, don't put a stumbling block
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  before the blind, but shall fear your God I am the Lord.
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  So you need to understand here that God hears you when you
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  curse the deaf. God sees you when you put the
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  stumbling block in front of the blind.
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  You need to understand that false doctrine and false
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  theology, false teachers, friends, is on the rise.
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  The apostate church. We do not need to be those who
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  try to mix people up on purpose. You need to be someone who
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  speaks the truth. And here God is saying that he
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  sees every single bit of it and he will deal with it in due
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  time. 15 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment.
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  You shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the
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  person of the mighty. But in righteousness shall you
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  judge your neighbor. He's saying right things are
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  right. Doesn't matter if you're rich or
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  poor, if you're young or old, it doesn't matter.
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  And he says, listen to the entirety of the case.
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  Do not pass judgment immediately.
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  Do not judge a book by the cover you need to sit.
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  Listen to all the facts before you make a good judgment. 16 You
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  shall not go up and down as a tail bearer among your people,
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  neither shall you stand against the blood of your neighbor.
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  I am the Lord. So he's saying, do not be a busy
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  body gossip. Don't be out there just trying
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  to talk just to hear yourself. Don't be out there just trying
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  to win favor with people by telling them all kinds of
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  stories. You need to be those who are
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  quick to listen and slow to speak and slow to anger.
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  And here he's saying, do not stand against the blood of your
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  neighbor. So if somebody has been wrong,
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  speak up and out against the atrocities, friends.
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  That is what is spoken of here. 17 You shall not hate your
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  brother in your heart. You shall in any ways rebuke
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  your neighbor and not suffer sin upon him.
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  Speak up and out over the things that are happening.
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  Do not be silent on these matters, friends.
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  And Jesus says that having hate in your heart for a brother is
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  like murder. 18 You shall not avenge nor bear any grudge
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  against the children of your people, but you shall love your
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  neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
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  Jesus told us this in the New Testament.
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  He tells us to love the Lord God with all your heart, with all
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  your mind, with all your soul, and love your neighbor as
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  yourself. You feed yourself, you care for
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  yourself, you dress yourself, you give yourself a drink of
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  water. You are loved and you need to
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  understand that that love for yourself needs to continue out
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  into the community, into the family of brothers and sisters.
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  Love people, love people. And you need to understand that
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  people who are hurting, they hurt people.
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  So if you know that you are loved by a loving God who has
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  forgiven all of your sins, and he's cast them as far as the
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  east is from the West, and none of them will be counted against
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  you, how forgiving should we be? How loving should we be?
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  How open handed should we be, if that is the God that we serve?
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  19 You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle
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  gender with a diverse kind. You shall not sow your field
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  with mingled seed, neither shall a garment mingled of linen and
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  wool come upon you. So you need to understand that
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  what is being mentioned here in this verse and this verse gets
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  taken out of context a lot. But what is mentioned here is
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  Pagan rituals where they thought there was some kind of occult
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  power in mixing of the seeds and mixing of the different
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  materials and they thought that it was supposed to give them
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  some kind of pseudo power over any kind of divinations.
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  And God here saying do not be like the Pagan nations that
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  you're going into that I'm driving out that are being
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  vomited out of the land because of all of these things, these
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  infractions that God has seen. Nothing is missed on God.
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  He hears everything. He sees everything.
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  Nothing done in the dark is hidden from God.
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  It will all be brought out to the light.
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  And God sending the Israelites into the land of Canaan was
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  because there's sin had heaped up to heaven.
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  God had seen it all, and he was dealing with it, and he was
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  using the Israelites to be an instrument in his hand. 20 And
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  whosoever lies carnally with the woman, that is a bond made,
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  betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeem, nor freedom given
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  her, she shall be scourged. They shall not be put to death
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  because she was not free. So this would have been a woman
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  who was an indentured servant, and this would have been a
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  sexual altercation with a man who was free, and he took
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  advantage, and she was betrothed to someone else.
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  And what God is saying is, she had no real part in this.
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  She felt as if she had to do it because she had no rights or no
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  liberty to say no. And he is the one who is at
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  fault and not her. 21 And he shall bring his trespass
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  offering unto the Lord, unto the door of the Tabernacle of the
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  congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.
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  So he is meant to make it right, make it good to pay for his
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  disgusting act. 22 And the priest shall make an atonement
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  for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the
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  Lord for his sin which he has done.
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  And the sin which he has done shall be forgiven him, as long
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  as he made it good, and he made it right, and it would be
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  forgiven him. And he is to marry this woman
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  now. 23 And when you shall come into the land, and shall have
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  planted all manner of trees for food, then you shall count the
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  fruit of it as uncircumcised. 3 years shall it be uncircumcised
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  unto you, and it shall not be eaten of.
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  God says, Let the ground rest. God says, don't be so stingy
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  that you go out there trying to pick every little thing.
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  Let the birds, let the animals have their way.
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  And as they come in and as they dig around, it is actually
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  beneficial for that that tree. It is actually beneficial for
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  the Grove and for the vineyard. You need to understand that God
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  orchestrated all of these things.
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  He's the one that put it all into motion.
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  And He knows what is good. And if we'll listen to Him, we
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  will reap the benefits even when it comes to planting and even
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  when it comes to how we set up our farms and our lands, even as
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  we set up in the places that He puts us.
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  You need to understand it. God knows what He's doing.
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  He has all the creatures on this earth, and they all serve a very
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  distinct purpose. And it all works beautifully.
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  It's a Symphony, Friends. 24 But in the fourth year, all the
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  fruit of it shall be holy, to praise the Lord with all.
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  So then he says, after three years of letting it rest, then
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  it is unto him. 25 And in the 5th year you shall eat of the
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  fruit of it, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof.
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  I am the Lord your God. So by the 5th year you're able
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  to actually partake. The three years is for rest and
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  for the animals, and then the 4th year is for the priests, is
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  for the holy sacraments, is for them to bring in.
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  And then on the 5th year they are able to eat.
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  And if they were to do this, God would bless it. 26 And you shall
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  eat, no, you shall eat anything, shall not eat anything with the
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  blood, neither shall you use enchantment to observe time.
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  So again, God here is referencing what the Pagan
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  nations that they were going into were doing.
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  They were using this blood and they were actually taking it and
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  using it for enchantments and all kinds of occult, demonic
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  practices, and it was repulsive and repugnant to the nostrils of
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  a holy God, and he was going to vomit them out of the land. 27
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  You shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shall you
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  mar the corners of your beard. So here what he was saying is
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  that they were not to look and to do the things that the Pagan
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  nations were doing. They were to stand out, to be
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  different. They were not to give their
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  daughters over, they were not to look like them, they were not to
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  practice the same things as them. 28 You shall not make any
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  cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon
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  you. I am the Lord.
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  Again. These were the things that the
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  Pagan nations were doing that were getting driven out. 29 Do
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  not prostitute your daughter to cause her to be a whore, lest
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  the land fall to whoredom and the land become full of
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  wickedness. So these were the temple
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  prostitutes that were given over to all the false gods, the
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  lowercase G idols in the land, and the people thought that they
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  were doing something good by giving their daughters over to
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  whoredom and God detests it. 30 You shall keep my Sabbath some
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  reference my sanctuary. I am the Lord. 31 regard not
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  them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after Wizards to be
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  defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.
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  So here this would have been like a pet demon that they would
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  go and they would try to conjure up and they would bring to the
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  scene and they would ask questions.
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  And God wants you to understand that He is all powerful.
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  We should go to him about everything.
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  Do not go and try to figure out what the future is.
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  Don't go to fortune tellers. Don't look at astrology.
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  Don't go to palm readings. Don't look at all this crystal
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  ball garbage that's out here. The tarot cards.
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  Do not look at this occult dark black magic, this new age
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  witchcraft. We need to get it out of the
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  land. It is polluting the land.
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  Friends. We need revival to break out.
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  We need us to be completely reliant upon God Almighty, the
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  God of the Jews. That's who we serve.
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  You do not want to be made unclean and dirty by all the
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  disgustingness. It's out in the land. 32 You
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  shall rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the
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  old man and fear your God. I am the Lord.
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  So he's saying, give honor to the aged.
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  Do not marginalized them and push them into facilities.
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  You need to understand that they hold so much wisdom that all of
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  the technology and everything that's out there cannot even
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  keep up with friends inside of the human mind.
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  Friends, there is a divinity, there is the image of God that
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  has been imprinted, and there is no supercomputer on planet earth
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  that can keep up with the processing abilities of mankind.
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  33 And if a stranger sejourn with you in the land, you shall
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  not vex him. 34 But the stranger that dwells with you shall be
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  unto you as one born among you, and you shall love him as
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  yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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  I am the Lord your God. Over and over and over God tells
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  us that he is Lord. Over and over and over he tells
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  us that we need to take care of people.
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  We don't need to try to kick people down and try to climb the
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  ladder and try to exalt self and be prideful.
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  That is a good way for you to be humble. 35 You shall do no
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  unrighteousness and judgment and meet your weight and measure. 36
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  Just balances, just weights and a EPA and a hand, just him shall
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  you have. I am the Lord your God, which
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  brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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  He's saying make sure that in all of your dealings that you
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  are honest and fair and that you use the correct balances and do
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  not try to cheat somebody, because God sees it all. 37
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  Therefore shall you observe all my statutes and all my judgments
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  and do them. I am the Lord your God.
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  You need to understand that God sees it all and He's moving
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  everything in a accordance to His plan.
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  And we need to get under the yoke of Jesus and we need to
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  make sure that we're found standing with God and that we
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  have not turned our backs on all of the things that the Lord has
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  told us that is good. And Jesus came and fulfilled
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  every single bit of this. And if you truly love Jesus, you
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  will keep His commands. I hope that you've been blessed
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  by this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.