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May 31 - Exodus 23 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends. It's shown here and I am
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  delighted that you have joined me for day three of these.
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  Three days of God, setting out the blueprints, for what it
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  looks like to be his people. And then tomorrow, we get to
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  hear how the nation of Israel responds to God.
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  But today we get the last of the series of God forming, this
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  nation, forming, these people. Well, they're not even a nation
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  yet, are they forming them into a nation with an understanding
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  of what their society looks like and what it looks like to live
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  together. So, join me as we read the final
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  part of God, laying out his Covenant for his people to
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  respond to. But for today, let's read
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  together. Exodus chapter 23.
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  You must not pass along false rumors, you must not cooperate
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  with evil people by lying on the witness stand.
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  You must not follow the crowd in doing wrong when you are called
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  to testify in a dispute. Do not be swayed by the crowd to
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  twist Justice and do not slide. Your testimony in favor of a
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  person. Just because that person is poor
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  if you come across your enemies, ox or donkey.
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  That is straight away. Take it back to its owner.
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  Owner, if you see that the donkey of someone who hates, you
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  has collapsed under its load, do not walk by instead, stop and
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  help. In a lawsuit, you must not deny
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  Justice to the poor. Be sure.
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  Never to charge anyone falsely with evil never sentence, an
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  innocent or blameless person to death.
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  For I never declare a guilty person to be innocent take no
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  bribes for a bribe. Makes you ignore something that
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  you clearly see. A bribe makes even a righteous
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  person, twist the truth. You must not oppress foreigners.
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  You know what it's like to be a foreigner for you yourselves
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  were once foreigners in the land of Egypt, plan and harvest your
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  crops for six years. But let the land be renewed and
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  lie uncultivated during the 7th year.
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  Then let the poor among you harvest, whatever grows on its
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  own. Leave the rest for wild animals
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  to eat the same applies to your Vineyards and Olive Groves.
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  You have six days each week for your ordinary work, but on the
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  seventh day, you must stop working.
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  This gives your ox and your donkey a chance to rest, it also
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  allows your slaves in the foreigners living among you to
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  be refreshed, pay close attention to all my
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  instructions. You not call on the name of any
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  other gods, do not even speak their names.
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  Each year, you must Celebrate Three festivals in my honor.
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  First celebrate, the Festival of unleavened bread.
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  For seven days, the bread you eat must be made without yeast.
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  Just as I commanded, you celebrate.
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  This Festival annually at the appointed time in early spring
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  in the month of abib for. That is the anniversary of your
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  departure from Egypt. No one may appear before me
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  without an offering. Second celebrate, the Festival
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  of harvest when you bring Me, the first crops of your Harvest.
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  Finally, celebrate the Festival of the final Harvest at the end
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  of the harvest season. When you have harvested, all the
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  crops from the fields at these three times each year.
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  Every man in Israel must appear before The Sovereign the Lord,
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  you must not offer the blood of my sacrificial offerings
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  together with any baked goods, containing yeast and do not
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  leave the fat from the festival offerings until the next
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  morning. As you harvest, your crops,
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  bring the very best of your first harvest to the house of
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  the Lord. Your God, you must not cook a
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  young goat in its mother's milk. See, I am sending an angel
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  before you to protect, you on your journey and lead, you
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  safely to the place, I have prepared for.
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  You pay close attention to him and obey his instructions.
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  Do not rebel against him for, he is my representative and he will
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  not forgive your Rebellion, but if you are careful to obey him
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  following all my instructions, then I will be an enemy to your
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  enemies. And I will oppose those who
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  oppose you For my angel, will go before you and bring you into
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  the land of the amorites, Hittites, perizzites Canaanites,
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  hivites, and jebusites. So, you may live there and I
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  will destroy them completely. You must not worship the gods of
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  these nations or serve them in, anyway, or imitate their evil
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  practices. Instead, you must utterly
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  destroy them and smash their sacred pillars.
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  You must serve only the Lord your God.
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  If you do, I will bless you with food and water and I will
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  protect you from illness. There will be no miscarriages or
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  infertility in your land and I will give you long full lives.
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  I will send my Terror ahead of you and create Panic among all
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  the people whose lands you invade.
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  I will make all your enemies turn and run.
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  I will send Terror ahead of you to drive out the hivites.
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  Canaanites and Hittites, But I will not drive them out in a
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  single year because the land would become desolate and the
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  wild animals would multiply, and threaten you?
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  I will drive them out a little at a time until your population
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  has increased enough to take possession of the land and I
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  will fix your boundaries from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean
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  Sea. And from the Eastern Wilderness
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  to the Euphrates River, I will hand over to you.
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  The people now living in the land and you will drive them.
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  I'm out ahead of you, make no treaties with them or their
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  gods. They must not live in your land
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  or they will cause you to sin against me.
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  If you serve their gods, you will be caught in the Trap of
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  idolatry. Lord.
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  We see. So clearly in this that you are
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  an organized God, you are a God, who creates Beautiful Life,
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  Giving structure around us. You even don't want the promised
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  land to be overrun by the brambles and the the wild pigs
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  if there are wild pigs in that part of the world.
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  But you want it to remain just so so that it can be a gift to
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  your people. Thank you, that you have
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  fulfilled, all of this and giving us Jesus.
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  And that. Now all you ask of us is to come
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  before you with faith in Jesus. Thank you for this Covenant that
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  you give us. We love you and we worship you
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  and we are able to do all of this because of that mighty name
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  of Jesus who you gave for us. That's in his name that we pray.
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  Amen. That's in his name that we pray.
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  Amen.