Sunday Service #35 Deuteronomy 19-23 By Josh Monday

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And you know, we're doing Deuteronomy today and I want to kind of just pull my notes up first and then let me share the screen so that we can pull up. Let's do this real quick. It's kind of there we go Luke. Nope, we don't want Luke. We want Deuteronomy. And then I'm going to pull up Deuteronomy and let's see Deuteronomy intro. Why is it on that one? It was weird? Okay, Deuteronomy twenty nineteen. Man, so there's someone all right, So yeah, I think we're on Deuteronomy

in nineteen. If I'm mistaken. We did eighteen through fourteen through eighteen last week, so we are on Deuteronomy nineteen. And let's go through this. You know, I kind of I did a I listened to nineteen twenty and twenty one. I kind of did some studies on those, and yeah, so we'll have one. We'll have a good show. I appreciate you guys tuning in. So let's go ahead and

start Deuteronomy nineteen one. I'm on my notes there, and then I always like to I have two phones now because of a comment that somebody made to kind of be faster on getting to the notes. And that's just what we're gonna do here. So we're gonna be Deuteronomy nineteen The three Cities of refuge is where we're at, So let's go ahead and find out what that is.

So when the Lord your God has cut off the nations whose land the Lord your God is giving you and you and disposes them, and you disposes them and dwell in their cities and in their houses, you shall separate three cities for yourself. In the midst of your land, which the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

You shall prepare roads for yourself and divide into three parts, and territory of your land, which your Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and any man slayer may flee there, so that any man slayer may flee there. Manslayer is the same word for manslaughter. Okay, it's somebody

that kills somebody on accident. But you want to create these cities of refuge so that these people that killed somebody on accident their family members don't come and kill you, you know, or kill them, not you, but kill them, okay. So it's a city of refuge for them to be able to stay in, and it's somewhere that if something like that ever does happen. Obviously, manslaughter is when you do it on accident, right, not with malice, not with intent,

but a total accident. But still, if you know somebody accidentally killed your brother back then, and you see that guy that killed your brother on accident, you may want to go and kill him, right. So that is the reason for these cities of refuge. Okay, So let's go ahead and keep reading. This is Deuteronomy nineteen, verse four, and this is the case of the man slayer who flees there that he may live. Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally,

not having hated him in the time past. And when a man goes to the woods with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the accent, cut down the tree, and the head slips from the

handle and strikes his neighbor, so that he dies. He shall flee to one of these cities and live, lest the Avenger of blood, while his anger is hot, pursue the manslayer and overtake him because the way is long, and kill him through what is not deserving of death, since he had not hatred, hated the victim and the time past. Therefore, I command you saying you shall separate

three cities for yourself. So it's it's like a cool off period, right for the people that are maybe brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, dads. Obviously the uncles and the brothers and the dads would be the ones you really have to worry about. I mean, so it's like a that's what it's saying. It's you

flee there. So the avenger of blood while his anger is hot, you know, the avenger of the blood means like the avenger of the brothers sister whoever got killed from him, you know, swinging that axe for example, and it accidentally killing the person. Another thing he could do is chop down that tree, right, with the axe timber and then boom, the tree falls on somebody. That's another thing that could happen, and that's just that's totally not

on purpose at all. You know. You could be trying to kill a a animal and pull the bow back and shoot, and then the bow misses the animal and shoots somebody like far in a distance right and ends up killing them. The guy meant to kill the animal, not to kill the person, so it just ended up happening. It's a total accident, you know. And you could probably imagine a few things that can happen back then that would put a person in that situation. Right. Let's continue

Deuteronomy nineteen verse eight. Now, if the Lord your God enlarges your territory, and he swore to your fathers and gives you the land which he promised to give to your fathers, And if you keep these commandments and do them which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and walk always in his ways, then you shall add three more cities for yourselves Beside these three.

Three more cities. Besides these three cities for yourself, besides these three, less innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land. Which your Lord, your God has given you as it inherits, thus guilt and bloodshed upon you. Let's go ahead and stop there. Let's let's find let's do some teaching points for Deuteronomy nineteen two through three, Deuteronomy nineteen four through six, real quick, So we have Deuteronomy nineteen two through three instructs the Israelites to set

aside these cities as places of refuge. These cities were meant to protect individuals who had Sorry, jeez, right in the middle of reading that, it switched pages on me. These cities were meant to protect individuals who had accidentally killed someone, providing them a safe haven from the avenger of blood, which we kind of went through already. It's nothing crazy. And then that's places I want to talk.

I want to check out events. So God commands the Israelites to set aside three cities for the refuge of land he has given them, which we already know. These cities are meant to provide a safe haven for any one who has killed anyone unintentionally. The Hebrew term for refuge is mclatt hopefully I'm pronouncing that right. Emphasizes the purpose of these cities as places of protection. Okay, and

then another thing is the criteria for manslaughter. In my notes, I have the passage outlines the criteria for determining in a if a killing is accidental, such as a person kills another without prior enmity or intent. This distinction is crucial for the person to be eligible for refuge, highlighting the importance of justice and mercy in the law. And then the procedure for seeking refuge is the person who has killed unintentionally must flee to one of these cities

to save their life from the avenger of blood. The Hebrew word for avenger is go out, refers to a family member seeking justice for the slain relative, underscoring the cultural context of family duty. So that is the cultural context of family duty. If somebody kills your brother, it looks like the Israelites, we're gonna go and kill that person. Right. Expansion of cities of refuge. If the Lord enlarges the territory of the Israelites, they are instructed to add three

more cities of refuge. This expansion is content upon their obedience to God's commandments, reflecting the covenant relationship between God and Israel. Okay, we have that, and then let's see, we are gonna go back up to my notes right here, and we'll have fifteen through twenty one. All right, let's go ahead and continue. Okay, So we already talked about verses eight through ten. Now we're gonna jump to eleven.

Doune Army nineteen eleven says, but if anyone hates his neighbors, lies in wait for him, rises against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, he flees to one of these cities, then the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there over to the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go,

that it may go well with you. But if okay, so it says, but if anyone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities, so he's like, he does it actually intentionally with malice, with intent, and then he tries to flee, it says, Then the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there and deliver him to the hand of the avenger of blood. So they ain't gonna

let that slide. If you do that, they're gonna go into the city of refuge. They're gonna get you like the police would. And nowadays you're gonna be a wanted man. They're gonna come and get you, and they're gonna bring you to those brothers, uncles, dads, whoever it is, and they are gonna deliver them to him that he may die. Okay, it's not the same. This is like the while West. Almost your eyes shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of venison, blood from Israel, that

it may go well with you. So if you go and kill somebody, murder somebody back, then you are not you'ren't gonna get away with it and just be scott free. And then it's gonna be like whatever, And it's okay, all right, you're gonna die too, so you might as well control your anger, you know, or else you're gonna be in a world of hurt. Right, So let's see. Let's see criteria procedure for seeking refuge expansive cities. We

talked about protection against false witnesses. Well, we haven't talked about the false witnesses yet, so we don't need to read that. So let's go ahead and continue. Now we're on Deuteronomy nineteen, verse fourteen. You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set in your inheritance, which you inherit in the land that your

Lord God has given you to possess. Okay, so this part is like, okay, So let's say you have this land right, and it's your land, and there's a bunch of rocks surrounding your land. Right, there's just a whole bunch of rocks surrounding it, so you know exactly where your land is, or a whole bunch of trees whatever. I think rocks is a better example. And you know, you got this acre of land right that's all squared

out with all these rocks. What this is saying is, you know, he doesn't God doesn't want your neighbor to go to sleep at night, and these passed out and then you get, you know, twenty guys, and you guys move those rocks, you know, to the left, you know, twenty feet or whatever, so that you gather more land. It says, you shall not remove your neighbor's landmark which

the men of old have set in your inheritance. Say, you inherit the land that the Lord God has given you to possess, So don't steal land, just leave it. When you got your land, you're good. You got your acre set out or half an acre or ten acres, whatever they're doing, you got that set out. Just that's your land, Okay. You don't get to just go ahead and move the landmarks further out from the you know, or let's say, for example, God also doesn't want, you know,

you to have everything set out perfectly. You got your landmarks, and then your neighbor dies, and then you know, you're waiting for their sons to move in, and then all of a sudden you're like, oh, he's dead anyways, so I'm going to go ahead and move it further out and take some of his land so when the sons come, they're not going to know anyways. It says do not move the landmark which the men of old have set right,

So that totally makes sense. You know, it would cause a quarrel or a fight between you and your neighbor, and you don't want to have that, you know, especially between two Israelites. They don't want that. Let's continue. This is the law concerning witnesses. One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits. By the mouth of two or three witnesses.

The matter shall be established. If a false witness rises against any man to tell against them of wrongdoing, then both men in the controversy shall stand before the Lord, before the priest and the judges who serve in those days, and the judges shall make careful inquiry. And indeed, if the witness is a false witness who has testified falsely against his brother, then you shall do to him as

he thought to have done to his brother. So you shall put away the evil from among you, and those who remain shall hear and fear hereafter that they do not commit this such an evil among you. Your eyes shall not pity. Life shall not be for life, eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for a foot. So this is just the way it has to be. I mean, back then you come and you tell you start saying that this person did this. It's

a big thing. I mean, back then, if you disrespect your parents, they have the right to have you go out there and get stoned and killed. So this is no joke. You could do false witness against somebody and you could cause somebody to get killed. So this has to be like this now. It's just it's just the way that God is handling them, because you don't want

that evil cancer in your place anyway. For someone that doesn't even care about someone else's life, that they would bear false witness against somebody knowing what the consequences are going to be for that person, it makes total sense to me, and it should make total sense to you guys. Why that's even there. So in fifteen through twenty one,

let's see what our teaching points there. So this is going to be witnesses injustice, so Verses fifteen through twenty one highlight the necessity of multiple witness to establish a matter, underscoring the importance of truth and fairness legal proceedings. Yeah, so I also like the fact that they go up and says, we'll stand before the Lord, like God, before the priest and the judges who serve in those days. So you got three, you got God, who's the best

judge you can ever have in your life. You have the priest, who should have a strong integrity, and then you have the judges, and the judges shall make careful inquiry. And indeed, if the witnesses is a false so this is I like that. I think that's that's I think that's that's a highly intelligent way to go. And I like how God is involved. If you see nowadays, what do they have you do? Well? They all they have you do is swear on a Bible. That's all they

bring God in. They're not they're not praying, they're not asking God to come. Hey, assist me with this. I don't know what judges do, and I'm not going to judge anybody that's a judge because I have no clue what they're doing or their faith, you know what I mean. I don't know. I can't say that every single judge is like a Mason or free Mason or this or that.

Who knows, but who knows the relationship with God. Hopefully, if I was a judge, I would be praying to God because somebody's life is in your hands, your fingertips, and this person that's on the like that you're actually going to you know, judge has a mom, a dad, a daughter, they're an uncle to you know. There they have people that are depending on them, and you could be putting away the wrong person. If I was a judge, I'd be praying to God for sure, because you don't

want to be putting these people away, you know. So, and in these days also they have to make careful inquiry. Indeed, if if the witness is a false witness, yeah for sure. I mean, man's that's a big and back then if you're a judge, man, can you imagine, because you can make a decision and that person gets killed. So yeah, you gotta be careful for sure. So principle of retribution. The chapter concludes with the principles of life for life I for an eye, tooth for a tooth, which underscores

the need for proportional Sorry, proportional justice. Sorry about that. Let's go ahead and check this. So the protection against false witnesses, right, So, the chapter also addresses the issue of false witnesses, instruct that if a witness is found to be lying, there to receive the punishment they intended for the accused. So whatever they accused them of is what they're going to get punished. For right. So the principle of reciprocal justice is rooted in the Hebrew concept

of measure for measure. It's it's called meda, next meda, it's sorry, meda, next meda, Okay. And then purging evil from the community is another portion that's important. It says the ultimate goal of these laws is to purge evil from the community, ensuring that justice prevail and that the people live according to God's righteous standards. This reflects the broader Biblical theme of holiness and communal responsibility. You see, you need holiness like Israel is supposed to be set apart.

You don't want these people that are little cancers, false witnesses, not caring about somebody's life, having people get killed because they want to sit there and try to testify against them, and they're actually doing it falsely. It's terrible. So that wraps up Chapter nineteen. What I always like to do is kind of go over some practical applications that we could kind of take home with us. The first one

is seek justice and mercy. As Christians, we are called to uphold justice while extending mercy, reflecting God's character in our interactions with others. So as Christian we're called to uphold justice while extending mercy. Yes, U phole justice while extending mercy reflecting God's character interactions with them of course.

So if you become a manager, or you become a police officer, or you become a judge or a lawyer, or you become something like that, and you're a Christian, then you need to make sure with anybody in life, even if you're not a judge, if you're just a person, you're a dad, you're a mom, and you have kids, you could also need to uphold justice with extending mercy reflecting God's character. Right, So we have value of intent, consider the intentions behind actions, both in our lives and

the life of others before passing judgment. Yeah, we are

not the judge. You know, God is the judge, right, But you know, if we have a Christian brother that we are let's say that are in our congregation, and if somebody is messing up, then you do have the right to grab another brother with you that's a solid brother, go up to them and then talk to them and speak to them and correct them if they're having if there's something's going on in their life that you know of right two or more witnesses right community responsibility engage

in community efforts to ensure justice and protection for the vulnerable,

just as the Israelites were instructed to maintain cities of refuge. Yeah, because the people that are man slayors are very vulnerable, especially back then, and that that would kind of be nerve wracking, right to be going to sleep in that city because you know, there's a bunch of man slayers there, you know, So you're going into that city and like you probably think, like, oh man, hopefully someone somebody doesn't try to come and get any of these other guys

and accidentally come into my tent and kill me. You know, you might be worried about that. So, I mean it's something that but yeah, what an interesting chapter that was. That was chapter nineteen, and we're going to go to chapter twenty. And as we do that, we moved to a couple of different notes. So this is principles of governing warfare. So Deuteronomy twenty, verse one, So let's go there.

Laws of warfare. Let's go too. When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them. For the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. So let's stop there real quick. So we need to understand something, Okay. In tewod Corinthians ten, verses four through six, this is

what Paul says. He says, for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God, for pulling strong, pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments in every high thing that hasalk uself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to to obedience to Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when obedience is fulfilled. So our weapons of warfare are not carnal but mighty in God. Okay.

So when God says tells you that the Lord is with you like I am with you, it's a little different. You have like you have God with you. So and God cannot lie like that's tightus one too. And it's impossible for God to lie Hebrews six eighteen. So when he tells you go into that city I have you, guys, don't worry about it. Then you got to be prepared and ready, all right. No, you got to know and have faith that God has your back. Okay. So Deuteronomy

divine assurance in battle. Deuteronomy twenty one twenty verse one states when you go out to war against your enemies and you see horses and chariots, don't be afraid of them, because the Lord God is with you. This verse underscores the importance of relying on God's presence and past deliverance as a source of courage. Like God split the Red Sea for you, so you don't have to worry, you know, Like he split the Red sea, you're able to walk.

And then what happened when they were chasing you, the chariots. What did God do? He closed the Red sea and they killed all the people that were chasing them. Okay, the whole army got killed. Now let's continue show it. This is Deuteronomy twenty verse two. So it shall be that when you are on the verge of battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people, and he shall say to them, here, oh Israel, today you

are on the verge of battle with your enemies. Do not let your heart faint, do not be afraid, do not tremble or be terrified because of them. For the Lord God is he who goes with you to fight you, to fight for you against your enemies, and to save you. So we have chaplains that come out and speak to us in the army if we're about to go to war or when we're you know, you might have your sergeant major come out you know what I mean, or whatever and come and speak to you. Okay, So chaplains

they pray for you, they talk to you. I didn't go into combat, Okay. I went into Kuwait and I was feeling helicopters and then and then the helicopters that I was feeling went into combat. Okay, So they were and they were you know, they're bringing troops here and there apaches you know, with weapons loaded and everything ready to go. H We were feeling them. So uh and you know Chanook's and all these different helicopters. But what I will say is, uh, this right, the pre is tight, dude.

The priest comes out like I mean, I I I'm prior military. So to me, this is this is dope, you know, like to me like dope as in like I shouldn't say this is dope. This is awesome right here to me because it's like, all right, getting them ready for battle. This like pumps me up a little bit, you know, so giving them that pep talk, right, So it says that in verses two through four highlights the priest's role in encouraging the troops, reminding them of God's

faithfulness and faithfulness and urging them to not fear. This reflects the spiritual leadership necessary in times of crisis, of course, like the people need to hear that right to pump them up. So and also people need to know that are you know, when it comes to warfare, like spiritual warfare, we wrestle not against flush and bub or principalities of evil. They need to know that there's principalities of evil that

are also involved. So they're gonna, you know, they don't want the Israelites to obviously win the war, so they're gonna try to do their best to give you this these little things in your brain where you're starting to doubt yourself and start feeling bad and feel in a certain way and oh no, you know what I mean. So you know, they got to understand that aspect too. What's happening to them, So the priest has to come and straighten them out, say the Lord God is with you,

you know. And if the Lord God is with you, I'm sure he was trying to keep those principalities of evil away from the battlefield against Israel, are away from the Israelites. Deuteronomy twenty verse five. Let me just make sure I'm not missing anything here in my notes. Okay, So we already talked about that this is the reflects the spiritual leadership necessary in times of crisis. Yet we talked about that the role of the priest. Now we're

going to go through five through nine real quick. So Deuteronomy twenty verse five says, then the officers shall speak to the people, saying, what man is there who has built a new house and has dedicated it, Let him go and return to his house, less he die in battle, and another man dedicated. Also, what man there who has planted a vineyard who has not eaten it? Let him go return to his house, less he die in the battle,

and another man eat of it. And what man is there who is bethrawed a woman to a woman and has not married her. Let him go and return to his house. Lets he die in the battle, and another man married. So they're reducing the army, right, it's they're actually reducing the army when they say that. So it's you know when you know, well, first of all, this is really honorable for them to do this, to to tell the people like, hey, if you've done this, you can go do this. I mean, I think it's honorable.

And these are exemptions from battle. And you know, back in the day when we had the draft, there was some exemptions from battle also, right, I think I don't know all of them off the top of my head, but there was definitely some sumptions. One of them I think was going to college. What are the exemptions from from being drafted? In? Military? Draft exemptions are situations that make someone ineligible for service due to specific circumstances or conditions.

Some common exemptions include being on active duty, being a student, having a physical or mental disability, or being conscientious objector. Additionally, certain individuals with soul responsibilities for support or dependents might also be exempt. Physical or mental disabilities. Individuals with severe physical disabilities or mental conditions that make them unfit for

service may be exempt. That's obvious because if someone is crazy, you don't want to hand them a weapon because they can end up starting to kill you know, our own men. Specific medical conditions conditions like heart or lung disease, kidney problems, or brain disorders could also be dislocked by individuals active. Did you of Those already serving in military on activity

are typically exempt from the draft. Students Student deferments may allow individuals to postpone their draft obligations that while they're in a school. The conscientious objectors those are sincerely held religious or ethical objections to military service, may be exempt and may be required to perform alternative service. Sole support for independent individuals who are the sole provider for their family. Sole surviving son of a widowed mother might be exempt.

Certain elected officials. Some elected officials may be exempt as long as they hold their positions. That should not be there, because if you're going to send people to war, you should go to War two yourself. I think that should not be there. Certain jobs deemed essential for national security or welfare, such as healthcare professionals and those in critical infrastructure, may be exempt. Okay, makes sense. I was just kind of reading off the ones for our draft. But these

are exemptions from battle. Let's go ahead and check out the notes on this, or you know what hold on, let's his house he die. Let me continue. We'll go all the way to nine, and then we'll stop. The officers shall speak further to the people. We're on Deuteronomy twenty verse eight. Now the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, what man is there who is fearful and faint hearted? Let him go and return to his house less the heart, the heart of his brethren,

faint like his heart. And so it shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they may they shall make captains of armies to lead the people. So exemptions for battle provide exemptions for those who have built a new house, planted a vineyard, or are be throwed. This demonstrates God's compassionate understanding of human needs and fears, so that yes, I think it's a beautiful thing to have those exemptions there. So certain men are exempt from battle,

including those we already read about. That the officers shall say to the army, has anyone built a new house dedicated? We already know that the Hebrew word for dedicated is chan nak, implies a consecration of settling apart for a special purpose, setting apart for a special purpose, and Deuronomy eight. After exemptions are given, officers are appointed to lead people. Then the officers shall add, is anyone afraid or faint hearted, let him go home so the hearts of his brothers

will not melt like his own. So if you are scared, you're gonna make other people scared. If you could be like a cancer, it'll start to spread. So they don't want those kind of people that they want people that are ready for war. That's why they put you through basic training in the army to weed out the weaklings, the ones that cannot handle it. And if you ever got kicked out of basic training or you couldn't make it, I'm sorry, but this this is just the way that

the military runs. They want to weed out the ones that when the going gets tough, they get going. The ones when they're going gets tough and they stick around and they continue and they push through. Those are the ones that the United States Army wants. I know that the Marines obviously want that as well, and you know the Navy, an Air Force they also want that as well. So that's why they put you through boot camp or basic training. It's called something different in the Navy and

Army but boot camp and basic training. And I'll tell you right now when it comes to basic training, when you go through when you go through Army basic training, it's ten weeks. When you go through Marine basic training, it's thirteen weeks. Navy and Air Force when I was in was six weeks and six weeks, right, So six weeks for the Navy, six weeks for the Air Force.

So if you are ever an Navy, let's say you were in the Navy for fifteen sixteen years, right, and then you get out of the Navy and then you want to join the Army National Guard, you're gonna have to even though you're already a staff sergeant by that time or whatever your rank is, you're gonna have to go and do basic training once again because you only did a six week basic training. When you're getting into the Army, you need to do a ten week basic training.

So you have to go through basic training in order for you to get into the Army. Now, if you are somebody that's in the Army and you did sixteen years in the Army and then somehow you decided to go to the Navy, you don't have to do basic training. But if you were an army guy that was in the army for sixteen years, but you want to join

the Marines now, you want to get gun ho. You even though let's say you were an infantry or a staff sergeant or whatever, you're still gonna have if you're gonna switch to the Marines, you're gonna have to still go to buqu and you need to go to their through their thirteen week course. That's just the way it works.

That's how it worked when I was in I don't know how it is now, but I thought that was absolutely fascinating because when I was in basic training for the Army, I had these are these guys that were already specialists, already coming in right, So I'm like, did you guys go to college? No, we didn't. What's up? They're like, oh no, we're prior Navy. I'm like okay.

So I was like, all right, I probably should follow what these guys are doing, because, you know, because I was green, I was coming in, you know, not knowing anything. So it's smart to kind of see that kind of stuff and be like, okay, they know what's up. But it was very h Yeah, what an awesome thing. Sorry I jumped off of off of that right now. But I was just kind of telling you of my life experiences that kind of go with this, you know. So Okay,

so we already did nine. We're gonna be on Deuteronomy twenty verse ten and before we get one thing. Yeah, so I'll stay right there. Let's see if there's any teaching points for you guys. Yeah, and you know, I like to make sure, so ten through twelve is gonna be what we're gonna do next, So we'll have those

teaching points. Okay. So Deuteronomy twenty verse ten, when you go near a city to fight against it, then proclaim an offer of peace to it, And it shall be that if they accept your offer of peace and open to you, then all the people who are found in

it shall be placed under tribute to you and serve you. Now, if the city will not make peace with you, but war against you, then you shall besiege it, And when the Lord your God delivers it into your hands, you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword. But the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that's in the city and its spoil, you shall plunder for yourself. And if you shall eat the

enemy's plunder which the Lord God gives you. Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not the cities of these nations. So it sounds brutal, you know, to people. But let's see offers of peace in verses ten through twelve. I want to see. I have my notes here. God instructs the Israelites to offer peace to a city before engaging in battle, showing a preference for peaceful resolutions when possible.

And we only went to fifteen, right, so we'll read rules of engagement after, and then let's see this one right here in terms of peace. So in when approaching a city to fight, the Israelites are to offer terms of peace. First, when you approach the city to fight against him, you were to make an offer of peace. The Hebrew word for peace is of course, it's shalom, encompasses completeness, welfare, and harmony. And then right here, when we were talking about the treatment of conquered cities, if

a city accepts peace, it's people become forced laborers. If not, the city is besieged. If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates and all the people are there, become forced laborers to serve you. The Hebrew word for forced labors is moss. Indicates a levee or tribute. Wow, okay, tribute. I need to write that down because somebody asked me a question about that tribute. Okay. I have to write that down because somebody was thinking that it was Okay.

The Hebrew for destroy implies the devotion for destruction for a sacred purpose. Okay, cool, I'm sorry. Moss, that's the word for forced laborers. Indicates a levee or tribute. Okay. I just want to make sure that's written down because somebody thought that was meaning a totally different thing, and I gotta make sure I go back and tell him that he might be listening now I don't know, okay, Okay. So we went to your cities very far from here,

not to cities these nations. Let's continue. We'll go through sixteen and then we'll come back to the we'll come back to the teaching points for the rules of engagement. But of the cities of these people, which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breeze remain alive, but you shall utterly destroy them. The Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizite,

and the Hivite and Thebucite. Just as the Lord God has commanded you, lest they teach you to do according lest they teach you to do according to their abominations, shall which you have done, which they have done for their gods, and you sin against the Lord your God. So wow, that's okay. So a couple of these are giant tribes, right, The Hittites, I believe, the Amorites, they're not all giants though, the Canaanites, they're not all giants. So and obviously we would want he would want to

wipe out that DNA of those giants. So what do we have, but you utterly destroyed the hit Tite. Are the hit Tites giants? I know? The wrights for giants? Are the hit Tites. When the Biblical text refers to giants like the Anakin Raffie, there's no explicit mention of Hittites being giants, and the Bible Hittites are mentioned as

some of the peoples inhabiting Canaan. Some scholars suggest that the Biblical giants might have been associated with Hittite or Horene religious beliefs that Goliath they Philistine, the Raphi and maybe maybe descendants of the if I am under another term for giant. The Hittites are mentioned in various places in the Bible, such as when Abraham purchases a buryo cave. Oh yeah, from Efron the Hittite when the is Israelites encounter them. I do remember that, Okay, so we don't

have any direct links for the hit Tites. Let's see the Yeah, I didn't think that they were. I know the who Rights were the Amorites. I know because that's King of Bashan's people, am Rights, So we know that one already. And then Amos two ten I think it is what it talks about them being as big as cedars or something like that, the am rights. So the am Rights are giants. What about the hip Bites. Let's see, No, the Bible does not specifically state that the Hibbites were giants.

While giants such as the nefflie Me and Anicheimer mentioned the Bible, the hi Bites are not directly associated. So I'm not going to go through each one because I have a better person to ask about that will probably be Gary Wayne. But because he's kind of does the bloodlines all the way back. But I know the Amorites definitely are the Canaanites. I think the Canaanites. It just varies the Parazites, the hipbites of the Jbsites. Just as

Lord commendity. So these these tribes have been giving time after time, given time for them to repent and for them to worship God. Okay. So it's not like God hasn't gave them plenty of time, okay, to to conform, But they're doing abominations to their gods, right, And that's just it just is what it is. You know, some things in the Bible are sometimes harder for some people to understand, or you know, there's some things in the Old Testament it's harder for people to understand. But let's

go ahead and check out the rules of engagement. So in verses thirteen through twenty, which we haven't read twenty yet, let's before we read that, let's go ahead and finish. When you besiege a city for a long time, we'll making war against it to take it all. Right, Yeah, I don't want that to be happening. When you besiege the city for a long time, we'll making a war against it to take it. You shall not destroy its

trees by welding an axe against them. If you can eat of them, do not cut them down to use in the siege. For the tree of the field is man's food. Only the trees which you know are not trees for food, you may destroy and cut down to build. Siege works against the city that makes war with you until it's subdued. So in verses thirteen through twenty outlines the treatment of conquered cities and the person preservation of preservation of resources, emphasizing justice and stewardsh it until warfare,

and then we'll go to the bottom. I should have a little bit more notes in here, like that one part about in Deuteronomy. In Deuteronomy twenty sixteen, that whole portion right there, there's some notes here for that. So it says specific nations are to be completely destroyed to prevent idolatry. However, in the cities of the nations, the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you

must not leave alive anything that breathes. The Hebrew word for destroy is sharam, implies a devotion to destruction for a sacred purpose. So they're doing something here. Okay, that's more than just worshiping another god and God is jealous or kill them all. There's something more here that we might not be able to grasp. We would have to do deep studies on each one of these tribes, right

and find out what they were doing. I mean, was it like Sodommegamura like you know, like Sodomega Mora was doing. They were going after strange flesh. They were going after something that they're doing something that's that's so abominable to God, not just the sodomy, but something where they were trying to go after, Like what are they trying to do?

Like it could be that these tribes are trying to they're trying to bring down angels and have sex with them or cause something big like and their gods they have a fallen angel behind them. Right, they're not gonna They're not just some They're not just worshiping some some like like box, Like this is a box I have in my hand. Okay, They're not just wishing some box or some wood or some there's a demon behind it or a fallen angel behind it. So something is there.

There's some kind of abomination going on to me. I mean, you'd have to do a deep study on each one of these tribes. The Amorites, obviously, that's king of King of Baisham was an Amorite. His bed was fifteen by seven feet. If you do a royal cubit it's actually bigger than that. Okay. So there's something else going on there, something else going on there that's deeper. And then we

go to Deuteronomy twenty nineteen. It says fruit trees are to be preserved during the siege, as they provide sustenance. When you lay seeds to a city for a long time, finding against it to capture it, to do not destroy it trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. The Hebrew's word for destroy means to ruin or corrupt, highlighting the importance of preserving life

giving resources. So there's a lot going on in this chapter that a lot of people probably would would kind of not really be able to accept, especially especially especially when you know, I got to turn the lights off real quick, Mike. My wife is in our back house. I bought a back house, you know, for them, it's just like a it's not like a backhouse like a full backhouse and everything. It's a it's like a shed where she turned my shed that I thought was gonna

be my shed into a freaking full house. She put like wood floors, and she put a bed in there, she put everything. So she's saying, have a good podcast. I love you too, babe. Sorry, guys, I don't mean to. Don't forget to drop off a box of milk in front door for the morning before your Podet's right. I don't know how I'm gonna do that, but whatever, All right,

let's go ahead and continue. So there's a lot of things in here that atheists would point to, like look at that, that's slavery, and then oh, look at this part. They're gonna kill all the men, women and children. That's a jealous god, but just because they're worshiping other gods. But you gotta get the full context and find out what was going on. There's abominations, right, abominations. So what I could do is just kind of I should have done a deeper dive on this portion right here, because

there's so much to it. But this is this is kind of the same stuff that people they debate about. Okay, this is where atheists would come and say, look at what your God does. Look at the you know, they try to say that, you know, not knowing what's going on there. You know, a lot of these are giant tribes some of them, and there's things going on. But he, uh,

God does in the beginning, does what he offers? Peace? Right, God offers, gives you a peace offering, and if you decide for the peace offering, then the people, Yeah, they're used as laborers. But the way that the Israelites are supposed to treat their laborers, they're supposed to give them food, supposed to give them water. You know. So do I

agree with slavery or agree with all this stuff? Well, it's a lot different than our times now, and we have and and and it's it's just it's just different, you know. So I kind of I want to go to that portion right there, sixteen and there it is right there. I want to look at that word abominations real quick, because that word is a disgusting thing, abomination, abominal and ritual sense of unclean food, idols, mixed marriages,

and ethical sense wickedness. Okay, so where else does abominations use? Genesis forty three thirty two, Egyptians might not eat better with the Hebrews, for that as an abomination under the Egyptians. But we want to find out what abominations to God is. Okay, that shall not lie with mankind, as it is womankind is abomination, So that is one right, shall not commit any of these abominations. So if you therefore keep my statute adjustment and shall not commit any of these abominations,

neither any of their nation. So I'm just looking at the strong for any time it says abomination for whoever this is a Leviticus eighteen twenty, whoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them, shall be cut off from among their people. Yeah. So Doude Army seventeen one says thou shall not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God, any bullock or sheep when it is blemist, or any evil favored ness that is an abomination unto

the Lord. We talked about that already, So we actually talked that a few weeks ago. All right, So let's go ahead and continue. Uh, this would be a good portion for you guys to look into. Deuteronomy twenty verses sixteen through eighteen and find out like like wow, like God he is so he's so they're doing so much that like why would he have him do that utterly destroy them these people? Only like he's really pointing to

the people and saying to do that. So that's that's something I think would be good to look into if you're interested in it. I know it's people getting destroyed and killed, but what is that abument? Like what are they doing? We want to make sure that we're not doing that, or there's nobody in living today that are

doing this, which I think there probably are plenty of them. Right, So if people are doing stuff that that are this bad, right, then we need to make sure that they stop stop doing that because if God hates it that much, you know, tribulation is coming. We already know that. So let's go ahead and continue Deuteronomy twenty verse twenty one. Now we're going to be talking about the law concerning unsolved murder. But before we go there, let me go ahead and

do some practical applications. Sorry, I should have remember to do that. So practical applications you can kind of put towards your life. Just as the Israelites are encouraged to trust in God's presence, We too can find courage and knowing that God is with us in our battles, whether they're physical, emotional, or spiritual. God is with us. Right so, especially with these spiritual battles that we go through on a day to day basis, God is with us. We

could do anything through Christ, who strengthens me. We could do anything with God. Anything. Everything is possible. Right with man, it's impossible. With God, everything is possible. There's a lot of verses you can go to for that seek spiritual guidance. The role of a priest in encouraging the troops highlights the importance of seeking spiritual guidance and encouragement from faith leaders in our own lives. Yeah. So, like my pastor was really good about giving me advice and stuff like that.

Like we still work out together, and he's a pastor Dan Awesome, awesome gentlemen, and great leader. You know, some pastors are great with teaching. Some pastors are great with preaching. Some pastors are good with preaching and teaching. Some pastors are good with preaching, teaching and leadership. You know. So I happened to Calviy Chapel Fontana was it's the church. I'm still with its just I've been doing. You know, I got my own ministry going now pretty much I

have my own ministry. So now I'm stepping in the role of like what a pastor's doing. You know, So I still want my family to do get fed. I just I work Sundays, so you know, it's it's helping me to be able to do this show. There's a lot of benefits to me working on Sundays. And people might go, ah, why would you work on Sundays. That's it's like I have to because all the people that are it's like my job. A lot of people are taking leave of absences right now. There's like a lot

of people getting injured. So it's crazy. But anyways, let's continue seek spiritual guidance the role of a priest. We already talked about that recognized personal limitations. Understanding the exemptions from battle can remind us to recognize our own limitations and to seek rest and renewal when needed. That is so important. Pursue peace. The instruction to offer peace first encourages us to seek peaceful resolutions in our conflicts, whether

whenever possible. Yeah, that's definitely true, like seek peace first. We don't want war, right, especially when you're talking to your wife or arguing with your wife. I think you should seek peace for sure, peaceful resolution instead of fighting, arguing and keep you know, there's like a little tiny flint that's lighting this little fire, and then you keep fighting and fighting, that flint starts to turn to a fire.

And now that you've got this fire, raging fire happening, and sometimes it just you know, you got your kids watching, and you know you don't want that to happen. So peaceful resolutions definitely exercise justice and stewardship. The Rules of Engagement reminds us to act justly and responsibly even in challenging situations. And one thing I forgot to go to before was the connecting versus, but we'll do it for this one. Additional scriptures you could go to is Joshua

one nine. Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous, Do not be afraid, do not be discouraged, For the Lord your God is with you. The Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. The verse echoes the assurance of God's presence in Deuteronomy twenty Amen I love that I was. You know, my name is josh right, Joshua right love that Psalm's forty six to one. God is our refuge and strength and ever present help in times of trouble. This psalm reinforces the theme of divine

support and adversity. All right, perfect, that's so. Check that one out. And then Romans twelve eighteen, if it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone. This New Testament verse aligns with the call to pursue peace in Deuteronomy twenty verse nine. It says, if it is possible in your part, live at peace with everyone. Right, So that's one true peace is way better. Peace and joy and love is way better. I've been in war with back in the day, Like I was that war

freak before. Like like, I mean, I'm a nice person now, but you know, at one time, uh when I when I in my younger years, you know, uh yeah, I used to like to get down sometimes. But in my brother too, you know, we used to try to you know,

we used to fight back to back against people. But now it's like, you know, I realized that it was just this I was just this broken kid, you know, trying to always trying to prove myself or I had, you know, some kind of chip on my shoulder, you know, and uh now it's like I have so much joy and peace. It's just it's a blessing. I live at peace with everyone. You'll be happy, You'll be joyful, you won't be watching your back all the time. You won't need to go to the city of refuge. You know

you ain't gonna have to do that. So let's go ahead and check this out. This is pretty interesting. I studied this this weekend, this Deuteronomy twenty verse one, and I'm gonna be honest. I used to well, I still like watching them, but I used to watch the first forty eight. I used to watch Forensic Files. I used to watch all these different crime shows, like like maybe you know when I got out of basic training. Oops, when I got out of basic training, I know what happened.

That text message came in and it vibrated my phone and knocked it down. Yeah. All I want to say is I used to love crime shows. Okay, so I used to love them, so so I was kind of interested in this, this this portion of Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy twenty one, verse one, and we are going to go to Deudonomy twenty one in our notes. That's going go there. So if anyone is found slain, this is Deuteronomy twenty one

one we're gonna read. Now. If anyone is found slang lying in the field, in the land which the Lord of God has given you to possess, and it is not known who killed them, then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance from the slain man to the surrounding cities. And it shall be that the elders of your city nearest to the slain man, excuse me, will take a heifer which has not been worked,

and which has not hold with a yoke. The elders of the city shall bring you the helper down to a valley with flowing water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and they shall break the heifer's neck in the valley. Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister to him and to bless the name of the Lord.

By the word. Every controversy and every assault shall be settled, And all the elders of the city nearest to this lame mound shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. So this is when someone dies. There's gonna be death. That's that's that's that's what's happening here. Then they shall answer and say, our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it. Provide atonement, O Lord, for your people Israel,

whom you have redeemed. Do not lay innocent blood to the charge of your people Israel, And atonement shall be provided on their behalf for the blood. So you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you when you do what is right in the side of the Lord. Now you read this verse and you go, what you're going to kill that animal? But what you don't realize this is for atonement for sin, like whoever

did that? Because they are uh. It outlines the procedure for dealing with the unsolved murder right, emphasizing the community's responsibility to seek justice in atonement. The elders and the priests play a crucial role in the process, highlighting the importance of leadership and maintaining the social order. Okay, so you are when you kill somebody and the blood is there you're you're you're ruining the land. Right, it's impure like the land, right because the blood was shed there.

So and you have to kill this animal for atonement. Okay, we failed. People failed to realize they might be thinking of the animal. That's sad for the animal. But what about Jesus. He died on the cross. Uh, your show with the machioc right, the Messiah, he Jesus died on the cross. God on the flesh, died on the cross for us had to go through all that because of all the sins that we've committed. So innocent blood right, So it's it's it's yeah, it's part of the deal.

Value of human life as well. In verses one through nine, the ritual described in verses one through nine underscores the sanctity of human life and the need for atonement when blood is shed, even when the perpetrator is unknown. This, this reflects God's justice and seriousness which he views the taking of life. Now you see nowadays, I've seen the first forty eight where this guy he literally he killed

somebody for twenty dollars. Other people kill people for less than that twenty dollars, or if somebody is on you know your city block, and you know you're stealing drugs, and someone goes and tries to deal drugs in your block, you kill them. I mean, what are you making You're making one hundred dollars two hundred dollars a day on

selling drugs. Are you're gonna kill this person when you could go out and get a job that make two or three hundred dollars a day, you know, being an electrician working in the water industry doing something that you know and you don't have to worry about anybody killing you, So why are you gonna go and do all that and risk your life for that? But anyways, all I'm saying is nowadays, life, like human life is, is so precious, but people don't understand that like that, There's people are

killing people for oh man. I've seen so many TV shows that I that I watched were it's like, I cannot believe this person did that. So atonement for unsold murders when a slain person is found in the land, let me just highlight this. I make sure when a slain person is found in the land and the murder is unknown, the elders and judges measure the distance of the surrounding cities, which we read the elders of the nearest city must take a heffer and a valley are

running water break us new. Yes, this ritual serves as atonement for the bloodshed. The Hebrew word for atonement is kapoor, meaning to cover and make reconciliation. All right, So next versus we're gonna go over is ten through fourteen marrying a captive woman. So it's gonna tell you all about that and family and inheritance laws. So we'll go there first. Stay here for my notes. I want to go ten through fourteen. Let's go. We're gonna go. Deuteronomy twenty one,

verse ten. When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord of God delivers them into your hand, and you take them captive, and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and desire her and would take her for your wife. Then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails. She shall put off the clothes in captivity, remain in your house, and mourn her father and her mother.

A full month after that you may go into her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife, and it shall be if you have no delight in her, and then you shall set her free. But you certainly shall not sell her for money. You shall not treat her brutally because you have humbled her. So understand that marriage, even the marriage that we do. Now, okay, it's not biblical.

It's tradition. So going up there and and you know, dum dunt the dum doom, dun't the dumb And then you know, you have your dad walk you down the aisle with all these people looking at you, you know, family on one side, family on the other side, and you walk down the aisle and then you say your vows and then you have a priest marry you. That's not biblical. And even though you might think gets in the Bible somewhere, like I know it's somewhere on here.

Let me check Exodus, let me see. Nope, nope, it's not Deuteronomy. Okay, let me tell let's check the New Testament. Let's see. This is in Ephesians, Corinthians, Colossians. Where's it. No, it's nowhere. It's just tradition. And you don't need to go to a church to get married. What the Bible says, I mean, even though like Jesus was at feast, you know, you know that, you know, Jesus is at a party for a wedding. You see what I mean. I'm not

saying that that wasn't part of the tradition. But the Bible doesn't tell you anywhere that you need to go get a pastor and have him marry you. Just doesn't say that. You know how you get married in the Bible, it says it right there, you go into her. Okay, just like Jacob he went into the tent Leah came in. He went into her. Now they're married. That's the way

it worked. So when we're out here hooking up with all these different people that we don't know, and we're just going into this person and then going into this person, becoming one with this person, becoming one with this person, becoming one with this person, what we failed to realize is there's studies that they've done now where sometimes the ex person, the ex husband or whatever, the ex lever, their DNA is like still in some of these women not you know, it's like you become one with them,

and that's literally marriage in God's eyes. So obviously I never knew this back when I was partying in my party stage of you know, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty two before I met my wife. You know, I was like twenty four when I met my wife. So this is something that we need to definitely show our kids, our teenagers, and let them know that in God's eyes, once you go into somebody, you are now married.

And now when you go into these other people, when you're sleeping with this person, this person, this person, this person, you're literally committing adultry. So not only are you fornicating what, you're committing adultry because in God's eyes, you just married that person. So that's why it's important for you to wait till you're married, or wait till you or want to be with that person forever before you actually go

into her or him. I know it's nowadays everything is pushing these people to not wait and just to divorce and just to do this, and this is something that people need to understand. But with this in context of this verse right here, I just want to just say, so I'll go over the notes real quick and then I'll kind of go with my own little breakdown. She shall yeah and shave her head and all that that might be because God just wants her to just have

a renewed life. If an Israelite man desires to marry a captive woman, he must bring her into his home, allow her to mourn her parents for a month, and then he may marry her if he later finds no delight in her. Yeah, we read that, so that the word the Hebrew word for captive is chaba is shabba, indicating someone taken in war. Okay, so the Hebrew word for okay, hold on real quick, okay, marrying a captive woman if he later find okay, So we kind of

went over that. Yeah, so uh, let's see, got the punishment dignity, rebellious children, family inheritance laws, which is going to be fifteen through seventeen. So now we're gonna go over that. So Deuteronomy twenty one, verse fifteen, if a man has two wives, one love and the other unloved, then they have borne him children, both the loved and unloved. Real quick, I'm gonna stop the show real quick. I'll be right sorry about that, guys. I'll jump right back.

Took a quick break, real quick, because my wife is such it's too hot back there, so I'll have to get them as soon as I get done with this. All right, let's continue. So now we're gonna do firstborn inheritance rights. Deuteronom Be. Twenty one to fifteen. If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, then they have borne him children, both the loved and unloved.

And if the firstborn son is of her who is unloved, then it shall be on the day he bequeaths his possessions to his sons, that he must not bestow firstborn status on the son of the loved wife in preference to the son of the unloved the true firstborn. But he shall acknowledge the son of the unloved wife as the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of that he has, for he is the beginning of his strengths.

The right of the firstborn is his. So in fifteen through seventeen it addresses the rights of the firstborn son. Even in a polygamous family setting setting, the law ensures fairness to the protection of inheritance rights, demonstrating God's concern for justice within the family unity. So yeah, polygamy obviously now is as a no no, okay, so that Jesus kind of makes that clear. But back then, you know, and this is something also people go do like, oh,

how was this? Okay? You know, it says if a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, Okay, so kind of like Jacob, right, Jacob had Leah and then he had Rachel. Right, So he had two wives, and then you know, they also had helpers or assistants, and then he even slept with some of them, you know. So it's just it's just different now. But this is

kind of talking about the inheritance laws to protect them. Right, And let's see what we have in my other notes here ten to fourteen, we went through the rights of the firstborn. So the Hebrew term are the firstborn a title to a double portion of the inheritance. The Hebrew term for firstborn is bacore, emphasizes the primacy of birthright. Okay, now we're gonna go into the rebellious son. This is

gonna be Deuteronomy twenty one eighteen. If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chasen him, will not heed them. Then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city, and they shall say to the elder of the city, this son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice.

He is a glutton and a drunkard. Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall put away the evil from among you, and all israels shall hear and fear. You see what I mean. I talked about this earlier, right that you if you disrespect your parents, or if you're a glutton, or if you're a drunkard, then you could get stoned to death. Right if if a man has a stubborn or rebellious son who will not obey the voice of

his father. So this is also like a little cancer of evil, and God does not want that to pass through the city. You know, if you're a little cancer of evil and you're rebellious, then you're gonna have other people follow your rebellion, and then you're gonna start influencing other people. And then a lot more people are gonna become stubborn rebellious. And then also if you're drinking or you're causing you know, all this disruption, then that's the

way they handled it back then. They would stone him to death with stones. Now do I agree with that, No, I think that's I think that's you know, now, in my position right now, I would think that that'd be harsh. But that's just the way it went back then. And you know, God knows best. I don't know best. God knows best. Right, So let's let's read what the notes

say here every rebellious Son. It says if parents have a stubborn, everybellied son who does not obey them after discipline, they must bring him to the elders of the city gate. If the son is found guilty, the men of the city will stone them to death to purge the evil from among them. The Hebrew word for rebellious is marah,

meaning to be contentious or disobedient. Okay, so marah, Wow, so very interesting, and I'll hop up to the top here check out if I have anything else here rebellious children. This reflects the importance of parental authority and community standards in maintaining order and respect. Also, you know, it's one of the Ten Amendments, right for them to honor thy father, honor thy father and mother. It's one of the commandments.

So they should already know that. They should it should already be instilled in them to not do that right, so they should know that. Now we're going to talk

about capital punishment and dignity. If a man has committed a sin deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain overnight in the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day so that you not defiled, so you do not defile the land which the Lord God has given you as an inheritance, for he who is hanged is a cursed of God. Like, Uh, defile is the word I was looking for when I was talking about, Like, if a murder happens on a land and the blood

is shed, you're defiling the land. So that's that's what God wanted. That's why God wanted them to break the neck of the Hepper. So let's go ahead and see what the notes say about this capital punishment and dignity. The chapter concludes with instructions on the treatment of executing criminals Versus Twenty two and twenty three, emphasizing that even in judgment, human dignity must be preserved. The body must not remain hanging overnight, showing respect for the deceased and

the land man. That's just so brutal, you know. Back then, if a man is executed and hanged on a tree, the body must not have made overnight. It must be buried. We talked about that already. The Hebrew word for curse is quilla, indicating a state of being despised or at horrid. Okay, so we have that, and then let's go over some

practical applications. Seek justice and reconciliation and reconciliation. Just as the Israelites sought to atone for unsolved murderers, we should strive for justice and reconciliation reconciliation in our communities, addressing wrongs and seeking peace. Honor family responsibilities, uphold fairness and integrity, and family relationship consharying that each member is treated with respect and justice, especially in matters or inheritance and responsibility. Yes,

discipline with love and community support. Approach discipline with balance of love and firmness. Involving community support when necessary to guide and correct wayward behavior. Approach discipline with the balance of love and firmness, of course, and that's something you know, sometimes there's a one one one family member or one husband or wife will be like kind of a pushover

more and the other will be more strict. It happens, So we got to have balance of love and firmness, okay, And then it looks like involving community support when necessary, like if you're in a church and if you want to, you know, maybe community support the guide and correct wayward behavior.

You know, I don't really involve anybody else in the way I do parenting, but you can maybe involve your pastor if you have that you don't want to ask questions and going to get some parental advice, or maybe like a good friend that you know has been parenting, you know already has kids and does a great job,

then you can ask them for advice. That is a good way to guide and protect your wayward behavior the way their wayward behavior, Ask how they handled it, and then you can kind of use that same thing on your kids. Respect for life and dignity. Uphold the sanctity of life in all circumstances, treating every individual with dignity and respect, even in situations of judgment or punishment. Can't emphasize that enough. That's that's it's perfectly said right there.

And then we have some connecting scriptures to this. Would be justice and atonement would be Mackay six. Verse eight emphasizes doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God, echoing the themes of justice and atonement in Deuteronomy twenty one.

Family integrity would be a Feesian six verses one through four instructs children to obey their parents and parents to bring up their children, and the discipline and instruction of the Lord reinforcement the family principles and found in Deuteronomy twenty one. So that's a verse that would connect to this.

It's a feast in six versus one through four. Community responsibility Galatians six one through two encourages believers to bear one another's burdens, reflecting the communal responsibility seen in handling of unsolved crimes. So yeah, so I'm gonna take a quick break, real quick to bring my kids in. Be right back. You guys won't even notice. Hold on stop screen share, I apologize, guys. I'm so sorry. I'm decided to stop twice. You won't even notice it stopped, but

I do. Okay, So we kind of went over all that. We went through, connecting verses Galatians six to one through two. We talked about that it's gonna be believers to bear one another's burdens, reflecting the community responsibility seen in handling of unsolved crimes. Okay, so all right, and let's go ahead and make sure I'm there. All right, Let's go to Deuteronomy twenty two and we will talk. We'll go over those real quick. So we're moving right along through Deuteronomy.

So this is the very various laws of morality. Okay, So we'll go over Deuteronomy twenty two to one through four, and then I'll have a little bit of notes to go over here. Okay. So Deuteronomy twenty two, verse one says you shall I will not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray and hide yourself from them. You shall certainly bring them back to your brother. And if your brother is not near you or you do not know him, then you shall bring it to your

own house, and it shall remain with you. Until your brother seeks it, then you shall restore it to him. You shall do the same with his donkey, And you shall do the same with this, And you shall do with his garment. With any lost thing of your brother's which he has lost and you have found, you shall do likewise. You must not hide yourself. You must not hide yourself. Right. So, in Deuteronomy twenty two, verses one and four emphasize the importance of helping others even when

it is inconvenient. If you see your brother's ox or sheep strayed, you must not ignore it, be sure to return it to your brother. Deuteronomy twenty two one. This teaches us about the responsibility we have towards neighbors and the importance of community care. Take care of people. You know, it's like loving your neighbors as you know, as you love yourself. Right, it's I mean, it's all biblical principles

right there. So so when we go to the Hebrew word for return implies restoration and responsibility, right, so, that would be that. And then in helping with fallen animals, if you see your brother's donkey ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it. You are to help and lift it up. Do Teronomy twenty two, verse four. This emphasizes here is on community responsibility and assistance. Right, So we'll go ahead and go back up and let's continue.

We're going to read verses five through twelve, and then I'll have a little bit of notes for that. So you shall not see your brother's donkey or as ox fall down along the road and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help it and lift them up again. Deuteronomy twenty two to five. A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment, For all who do so

are an abomination to the Lord your God. Wow, a woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put a woman's garment, for all those who do so are an abomination to God. What agenda is being pushed so hard right now? So not even like transitioning, but even putting on women's clothes being a man, it's an abomination to the Lord your God.

And what do they always do to actors that are I mean, there's some African American actors, a lot of them, or rappers that are out right now, they're trying to to demasculate them by having them put on women's clothes or women's dresses. You know this, this is the conspiracy aspect of it. Bruce Jenner, when he became Caitlyn Jenner or whatever, he's still Bruce Jenner, that was one giant. I mean, that was a huge spell cast on mankind.

You know, it was like a huge ritual. When he was in the spotlight with that Kardashian family was in the spotlight, and then he transitioned like that. It caused that whole bloodgate to open, and now it's everywhere. Okay, I'm not here to judge whatever you do in your bedroom. I'm not here to judge anything you do whatever. I'm

not the judge. I'm only here to teach and preach, and I have to show that if the Bible says this here, we got to understand it's abomination to the Lord, right, So when we see it's abomination, you know, like witchcraft or sorcery or or you know, we have to make sure we pay attention to that. So yeah, let's continue. If a bird's nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the

young or on the eggs. You shall not take the mother with the young. You shall surely let the mother go and take the young for yourself, that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days. This is a verse eight twenty two. Verse eight. When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet parapet for your roof, that you may not bring guilt or bloodshed on your household if anyone falls from it.

You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest you yield the seed with you have sown, and your fruit and your vineyard be defiled. Ten says you shall not plow with an ox or donkey together. Eleven says you should not wear a garment of different sorts such as wool and linen, mix together people. This is something that people go to when we see how people how they're designing clothes. Now right, you shall make tassels

on the four corners of your clothing. You shall make tassels on the fore corner of your clothing with which you cover yourself. So in distinction and order, discuss to the various laws that maintain. So in verses five through twelve, it discuss the various laws that maintain order and distinction, such as the prohibition against cross dressing and the command

to build a parapet to you for your roof. These laws highlight the importance of respecting God's created order and ensuring the safety and well being of And yeah, you see the agendas. You know where they're trying to throw the middle finger to yahweh, right to the most High. And that's one of the genders. So prohibition of cross dressing. A women must not wear men's clothing or a manda or women's clothing. This is detestable to the Lord your God.

The Hebrew word to eva is used here, often translating as abomination, indicating a strong moral prohibition. Okay, this is not like traditionally. Hey, this is tradition. We don't like it. This is like abomination to God. It's something that we should pay attention to the bird's nest law. If you come across the bird's nest with chicks or eggs, we talked about it. This law reflects reflects a principle of compassion and sustainability, because if you take the mom and

the babies and the eggs. Then the mom can't reproduce. So you want to make sure that you are you know, you want sustainability. You want them to be able to keep producing more birds. Right. Building a parapet. Let's see what this is. When you build a new house, you must make a parapet for your roof so you will not bring blood guilt to your house if someone falls from it. The law outside the importance and safety of prevention of harm. I don't know what a parapet is.

I could probably look that up real quick. Let's find out what that is. What is a When I'm reading it, I'm like, what is a parapet? What is it? Like a ladder or something? A parapet? Okay? So. In the Bible, a parapet, also known as a battlement, is a protective structure, typically a low wall or railing, that is built around the edge of a flat roof to prevent people from

falling off. This is specifically mentioned in Deuteronomy twenty two eight, with states that when you're building a new house, once you construct a parapet on the roof to prevent the guilt of bloodshed of someone falls from it. Purpose the primary person of paraphet has prevent accidental falls from the flat roof, which are common in ancient Near Eastern homes and often used for social gatherings, dry and produced and

sleeping commandment significance. The commandment highlights of biblical principles of loving one's neighbor and proactively ensuring the safety, of demonstrating God's concern for human life. Okay, so we kind of see what that is. Now, now we know a good thing. I read that because I did not know Deteronomy nine. Okay, so, and then prohibiting mixing. Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed, lest the entire harvests be defiled. Do not plow with an ox and a docy yoke together.

Do not wear clothes of wool. These laws highlight the principle of separation and purity. And then the tassels on garments. You are to make tassels of four corners of the cloak you wear Deuonomy twenty two twelve. This commands served. This is a physical reminder of the commandments and covenant with God. Now we're going to go through the laws of sexual morality. So this is something we should read and find out what's and pay attention to as well.

And let's see if we have anything in my teaching point notes purity and intigrity thirteen through thirty, which we're about to read, so that starts there. So let's go ahead and read these laws of sexual morality Deuteronomy twenty two, verse thirteen. If any man takes a wife and goes into her and detest her and charges her with shameful conduct and brings a bad name on her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came to her,

I found she was not a virgin. Then the father and mother of the young woman shall take and bring out the evidence of the young woman's virginity to the elders of the city of the gate. And the young woman's father shall say to the elders, that gave my daughter to this man, as why and he detests her now he has charged her with shameful conduct, saying I found your daughter was not a virgin, and yet there's evidences of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the

cloth before the elders of the city. Then the elders of the city shall take the man and punish him, and they shall find him one hundred shekels of silver, and give him to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name on the virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He cannot divorce her in all his days. And he shall be his wife, and she shall be his wife, and he cannot divorce her in all his days. Wow, we'll continue. Yeah, We're going to go all the way to verse thirty

before I read it. But if the thing is true, and evidence of virginity are not found in the young woman, then she shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her sin, he shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house. So you shall put away

the evil from among you. If a man is found lying with the woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die, the man that lay with the woman and the woman. You shall put away the evil from Israel. If a young woman who is a virgin is bethrowed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both to the gate of the city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry out in the city,

and the man because he humbled his neighbor's wife. So that you shall put away the evil from among you. And then the next one is Deuteronomy twenty two twenty five. But if a man finds a bethrolled woman young woman in the countryside, and a man forces her and lies with her, then the only man who lay with her shall die. A man that lay with or shall die. But if you shall do nothing to the young but

you shall do nothing to the young woman. There is a young woman no sin deserving of death, just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills her, rises against his neighbor and kills him. Even so this is the matter, For he found her in the countryside, and he would throw the young woman cried out, but there's no one there to save her, you see. So

that's obviously in a case of uh, that's rape. If if a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not bethrolled, then and he seizes her and lies with her, and they find out, and they found out, then the man who lay with her shall give a young woman's father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife because he has humbled her. He shall not be permitted to divorce her all his days. And then twenty two thirty says a man shall not take his

father's wife or uncover his father's bed. Yeah, that's important. So purity and integrity, okay, So the latter part of the chapter, verses thirteen through thirty deals with the issues of sexual morality and integrity. These laws underscore the value God places on purity and the sanctity of marriage, as well as the need for faithfulness and justice and relationships. So, yeah, this is a more stuff that I think that people

should read, that teenagers should should understand and know. You know, it would be great if I would have known all this stuff, you know, but once you know, you're held accountable, So you got to make sure, you know. So accusations of wife's virginity, We're going to go over this real quick, and says where he we read it. But this is kind of what the what the importance of it is. If a man accuses his wife of not being a virgin,

but her parents must provide proof of a virginity. If this accuation is false, the man's punished and find If true, the woman is punished. So in Deuteronomy twenty two thirteen through twenty one, the law underscores the importance of truth and the sanctity of marriage. And then the next one in Deuteronomy twenty two twenty two through twenty seven, adultery okay. If a man is forced is found lying with another

man's wife, both must die. If a virgin pledge to be married is violated in the city, both are punished. If the country, only the man is punished. If in the country only the man is punished, as the woman is presumed to have cried out for help. This law emphasizes the seriousness of sexual immorality. We don't even we have no idea, We don't even nowadays, you know, people don't even think like this at all. Don't even think

it's important to God. Right. So in a in Deuteronomy twenty two twenty eight through twenty nine, if a man rapes a virgin who is not pledged to be married, he must pay the father and marry her without possibility of divorce. If a man rapes a virgin who is not pledged to be married, he must pay the father and marry her without the possibility of divorce. So this law reflects the cultural contexts and the protection of the woman's future. Wow, so where is it at. That's twenty

eight through twenty nine. If the man finds a young woman who's a virgin, who is not bethralled, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found out, then the man who lay with her shall give the young woman bother fifty shekels of silver. And so that's I guess to prevent men from doing that, because then they're going to have to be married to her forever. So he might not be ready for you know, if he does that, he needs to commit to her forever.

And obviously that's that's hard for the woman because if the woman gets raped by this person, you know, she thinks she wants to be with them forever. But you know, this is the way it was back then, and this is in twenty two through thirty. A man must not marry his father's wife, as this would dishonor his father. This law reinforces the boundaries of familial relationships. So all right, So that is Deuteronomy twenty two, and we'll go into I know there's a lot of things that a lot

of people might not agree with here. It might be hard for them to understand. But this is obviously to the Israelites, to those people at that time. And also, you know, we got to understand that it's important for us to understand these things as well. You know, that's why it's good to go over the Old Testament then come to the New Testament. Excuse me. Uh So the practical applications that we could take actively look for ways

to assist. Let's be a good neighbor. Actively look for ways to assist those around you, whether it is helping someone in need or returning lost property. This fosters a spirit of community and reflects God's love. You know that was that was in the beginning. Uh. Respect God's design. Embrace the rules, the roles and distinction God has established, recognizing that they are for our good and His glory.

This includes honoring gender distinctions and ensuring the safety of others. UH. Uphold purity in a world that often discards sexual purity. Commit to a living Commit to living a life that honors God's standards. That this includes being true truthful and

maintaining integrity in all relationships. Yes, we are, definitely we disregard sexual purity nowadays, whether you're in high school or you're you know, you're going to parties, or you know, you just have a boyfriend and girlfriend in high school, or when you get out of high school you're starting to go to clubs and people are just you know, just going crazy, you know, going to college, you know, going to college parties, all these you know, people are

just going crazy. Sexual purity is just it's it's it's just not something that people are disregarding it on, you know, so much, and during that time. That's why it's good to raise your kids in the Bible and raise them into the Lord. And especially if you know males, you know, because I think more. I know that sometimes females you know, well, I know that sometimes females will push the the issue,

you know, push it forward. But a lot of the times the males are the ones that need to know this and once if they want to have sexual purity, it's a little easier because usually they're the ones. I'm not saying all the time, but they might be pushing the envelope more than the female is not saying that's always. But usually if a female has a virgin she's trying to protect her virginity, you know, and then the male is just trying to persuade her into doing that. Not

saying that's always. But you know, so if men were, if the boys or the or the or the men had more regard for sexual purity, I think it would help tremendously. Sometimes it's pure pressure. Sometimes the woman loves the boyfriend and she wants to keep him as a boyfriend, so the only way she thinks she could keep him is if she does this, and the man kind of you know, it's it's like, yeah, I'm not saying it's always like that, but it's something that I noticed when

I was growing up, you know. Definitely. Okay, so we'll go over some verses that are that connect with this, and then let me see, I don't know if I want to get into Yeah, I think we got fifteen minutes. We'll go over some connecting verses real quick. And connecting verses would be uh yeah. A good one to connect would be Luke ten twenty five through thirty seven. The Parable of the Good Samaritan echoes the call to love and care for our neighbors as seen in Deuteronomy twenty

two one through four. For sure, Right, if you see a donkey that's injured and you want to take it to their you know, take care of them, then obviously a person is even more important. Right, What more is a person than you know, a donkey or an ox? Right? Uh? One Corinthian six, verses eighteen through twenty. Paul's exhortation to flee sexual morality aligns with the call to purity found

in Deuteronomy twenty two teen through thirty. Of course, so if you want to go back and read that, also read about Joseph when he was tempted by the woman when the husband left. The woman was trying to you know, remember that that where Joseph ran away plead, all right, that's a good one to look at as well. Matthew five seventeen through twenty. Jesus is teaching on fulfillment of the law, reminds us that these Old Testament laws point to deeper spiritual truths. Okay, so yes, So that is

Deuteronomy twenty two. I think we could probably go to twenty three. We have like another fifteen minutes. I think we could kind of bust this out real quick. Let's see if we could do that, all right. Deuteronomy twenty three, Verse one. He who is emasculated by crushing and mutilation shall not enter the assembly of the Lord. One of the legitimate births shall not enter the assembly of the Lord, even to the tenth generation. None of his descendants shall

enter the assembly of the Lord. An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the Lord, even to the tenth generation. None of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord forever, because they do not meet. They do not meet you with bread and water on the road when you came out of Egypt, because they hired against you, Balem, the son of Bure the path were of Mesopotamia to curse you. Nevertheless, the Lord your God would not listen to Balem. But the Lord your

God turned the curse into a blessing for you. Because the Lord your God loves you. You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity in all your days forever. Wow, And the Moabites and Ammonites, they came from Lot when he slept with his daughters. Right, So just let you know where they came from. You shall not abhor to Eatomite, for he is your other. You shall not adhort to Egyptian to an Egyptian, because you are an alien in his land. The children of the third generation born to

them may enter the Assembly of the Lord. So in uh Deuteronomy twenty three one to three outlined outlines who may be excluded from the Assembly of the Lord. This reflects the importance of maintaining the purity and holiness to the community. No one who has emasculated by crushing or cutting may enter the Assembly of the Lord. So let's see if we have anything down here. So in verses

one through two discusses who are excluded. No man with crust or severed genitals may enter the Assembly of the Lord. The Hebrew term for assembly is quahal, refers to the congregation or community of Israel. This exclusion emphasizes the importance of physical wholeness in the context of worship and community participation. In Verses three through six, no Ammonite or Moabite of any of the descendants may enter the Assembly of the Lord, even to the tenth generation. This exclusion is due to

their historical enmity and lack of hospitality towards Israel. The Hebrew word for tenth generation is Assari. Asari underscores the long lasting nature of this prohibition and then acceptance of the Edomites and Egyptians. The text allows the inclusion of Edomites and Egyptians to the third generation. Do not despise the Edomite or he is your brother, for he is your brother. Do not despise the Egyptian because you are

a foreigner in his land. The Hebrew term for brother highlights the kinship of edom who is the historical relationship with Egypt is acknowledged. While the historical relationship with Egypt is acknowledge. Now we're going to go into the cleanliness of the camp. Cleanliness of the camp. We're gonna go through this quite quickly, because we have like another ten minutes, and I want to make sure that we get through this. There we go, all right. So Deuter want to be

twenty three verse nine. When the army goes out against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing. If there's any man among you who becomes unclean by some occurrence in the night, then he shall go outside the camp. He shall not come inside the camp. But it shall be when evening comes, then he shall wash with water,

and when the sun sets he may come into the camp. Also, you shall have a place outside the camp where you may go out, and you shall have an implement among your equipment, And when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn to cover and cover your cover your refuse. For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and give your enemies over to you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may have no unclean that he may see

no unclean thing among you and turn away from you. So, since God walks in the midst of your camp, he wants to make sure that nothing is unclean. Right, So that makes sense. So in your camp must be holy, so that you may not see anything indecent among you or turn you away from So. So, for the Lord your God walks through your camp and protects you from delivering your enemies to you, your camp must be holy so that you may not so he will not see

anything indecent among you and turn away from you. And if I go a little further down, let me check some cleanliness in the camp. The Hebrew word Okay, So when you are in camped against your enemies, when you shall keep yourselves from every wicked thing. The Hebrew word for wicked indicates moral and ritual impurity, stressing the importance of holiness. Now we're going to get into miscellaneous laws. You shall not give back to his master the slave

who has escaped from his master to you. He may dwell with you in your midst in the place which he chooses, within one of your gates, where it seems best for him. You shall not oppress him. In fifteen through sixteen, it instructs Israel not to return runaway slaves to their master. You shall not hand over to his master a slave who has escaped from the master to you. This reflects compassionate approach, allowing the escaped slave to live freely among the Israelites. And we're going to get into

verse seventeen. Now it says there shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel or perverted one of the sons of Israel. You shall not bring the voyages of a harlet or the price of a dog to the house of the Lord your God for any vowed offering, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord. So verse seventeen prohibits cult prostitution. No daughter or son of Israel is to be a cult prostitute. The Hebrew word for colt prostitute is quotashaw for him for females

and quidest for males. Refers to those involved in pagan religious practices which are strictly forbidden. So we got to understand that, and let's see if there's anything I could Okay, So yeah, we kind of went over that already. Do not return to sleep as mester. We kind of went over that. Now we're going to go through nineteen and twenty. You shall not charge interest to your brother, interest on money, or food, or anything that is lent out in interest.

To a foreigner, you may charge interest, But to your brother you shall not charge interest that the Lord your God may bless you and in all to which you set your hand, and land which you are entering to possess. So in nineteen and twenty addressed to the issue of charging interest from money, fairness and brother they love. You must not charge your brother interest or money, food, or

any type of loan. And we see what's happening to people nowadays where they're just buried in interest right, even when you pay your house, Like if you check out how much interest you're paying, you know you're paying one hundred or two hundred thousand, four hundred thousand dollars worth

of interest. It's crazy, But we are foreigners to the people that are lending it anyways, because the people that are actually lending them money are people that are I mean, I'm not saying all of them, but some of them are definitely evil, you know, if they're just trying to make all that money in interest of us. Right. So the Hebrew word for interest is neshka, implies a biting

or unseerious practice, which is discourage among the community. And then we're going to go to Deuteronomy twenty three, verse twenty one. When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it to the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and it would be a sign to you. But if you have strained from vowing, it shall not be a sin to you that which has gone from your lips. You shall keep and perform for your voluntary vow to

the Lord. But you have promise with your mouth, so you got to make sure that you when you make a vow to the Lord your God, you must not delay in fulfilling it. And the Hebrew word for a vow is nadar. It signifies a solemn promise. Highlight in this seriousness of commitments made to God. So if you are in some type of sin and you try to tell God, like, you know, hey, I won't do this anymore. I promise you got to make sure that you know

you're making a vow to God, don't do that. Okay, don't do that because it's not good, because sometimes you can't. You can't fulfill that vow. So don't do that. Just it's better to just abstrain from what you what your sin is, and then just try to do, you know, repent doing one eighty. But you don't need to make promises to God. Like God knows your heart, he knows exactly what's going on. You don't need to do that.

Just do your best, you know, but you don't need to try not to make a vow to God unless you can one million percent fulfill it. Let's go to verses twenty four and twenty five, or almost to two hours here, when you come into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes at your pleasure, but you shall not put any in your container. When you

come into your neighbors standing grain. You may pluck the heads of your hand, but you shall not use it as a sickle of your of your neighbors standing grain. This is actually portrayed in Luke where they're walking through and they're actually grabbing grain on the Sabbath. It's Jesus, our Lord, you know, our Lord, Jesus Christ his shoe of the Machioc and his disciples and the Pharisees point out that they're grabbing grain on the Sabbath, saying that

they're they're, they're they're working on the Sabbath. And Jesus points to David when they went into the temple and they at the temple bread the pre spread because they were hungry, like they were like this came from a battle.

So Jesus points them to that. But this is this is here just saying that you know, if you're walking through and you're hungry, you're allowed to grab some grain or some grapes, but you may each your fill of your grapes your pleasure, but you don't get to bring a container and shart grabbing a bunch of grapes and putting him in a container. Or you know, you don't get to bring gardening tools and start digging out the grain. No, you just grab what you need when you're walking by,

and that's it. That's all you could do. You could pluck it, but that's it, you know. And this is a so in verse twenty five to allow eating from a neighbor's vineyard. This reflects a balance between generosity and respect for property right. It's totally understandable. So if there's let me go over the practical applications, so we can we're just about at the two hour mark. So practice applications.

Pursue holiness. Strive to live a life that reflects God's holiness, being mindful of how your actions and attitudes set you apart from as a follower of Christ. Pursue holiness for sure. Strive for holiness and your actions and attitudes, yeah, set you apart for sure. Maintain cleanliness. Consider how spiritual cleanliness and order in your life can create an environment where

God is honored and present. Yes, maintain spiritual cleanliness. You know, if you're if there's anything in your life that you have that's a sin. You want to make sure that you get rid of it right. Keep your spirit, your spirit clean right. Show compassion. Be proactive and showing compassion and justice to those who are vulnerable or in need, reflecting God's heart for sure. Practice integrity. Uphold integrity and all your commitments, whether to God or others, ensuring that

your word is trustworthy. Should do that definitely with your job with people, with your friends, for sure. Promote fairness. Engage in financial dealings with fairness and generosity, prioritizing relationships over profit. Engage in financial dealings with fairness and generosity prior Yes, that that has to do with the interest that's made, that's asked for. So all right, So some connecting verses we could put that real quick before we end.

Holiness uh first Peter one fifteen through sixteen. But just as he who called you as holy, so be holy in all you do, for it is written, Be holy because I am holy. Compassion Mackay six 's eight. He has shown you, oh man, what is good? And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, to walk humbly with your Lord integrity Matthew five thirty seven. Simply let your yes, b yes, and you know we know anything more comes from the

evil one. Awesome? All right, so perfect. Now we're gonna be on Deuteronomy twenty four. What do we have twenty four? Twenty five? We got all the way till thirty two. I think it is right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're gonna be all the way. We still got some time in Deuteronomy. So we'll be in Deuteronomy twenty four next week. I appreciate everything. I appreciate you guys sticking around for that. Oops. Did I just do that? I want to make sure that I have that up for next week. Twenty four? Perfect,

Deuteronomy twenty four. Perfect, Well, thank you guys so much. Let me go ahead and stop the screen share and well what is that? So? I want to tell you guys before we end, if you stuck around all the way to the end, I want you to do me a favorite and please comment on Spotify. Okay, I appreciate you sticking around to the end. This is so good for you guys, so good for me, and it's such a blessing. Thank you for allowing me to teach, preach,

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away from my kids. So it kind of helps me out here and there. But anyways, I just let you guys know I appreciate you. I love you. Thank you. Let me end this in prayer, So, Father God in the name of Jesus, thank you so much. I appreciate everything you do for us. Thank you for giving me this time to go over Deuteronomy and anybody that's listening out there, I please, I just ask that you help them take in the knowledge and then turn it into

wisdom by living it in their life. We all need that, Lord, We all need that wisdom, We all need that encouragement. We all need help from you and from your word to know what we need to do. We went over some of this stuff today, Lord that some people may agree with and some people may not agree with. But we know that you are righteous, you are just, and everything that you've done and told us to do is setting us up heart from you know, I know that some of the stuff that we read, we don't know

the full context because we weren't there. We don't know what the abominations that these other tribes were doing where you want them totally eliminated, and some of these giant tribes, you know you want the DNA totally eliminated. We might not understand that because we weren't living there at that time. So help people that are listening to this show in

particular understand the context of what was going on. Hopefully we get a little deeper in the studies so we can find out about the hibtes, the Jebi sites, and the Canaanites and the Amorites and understand why you wanted them totally eliminated. Lord, just help us to be gracious when we read and you know, some of the stuff that we read today. Like I said, for us in these times, Lord, it's hard for us to accept, but we know that you were just, and I just trust

and I have faith that you know best. So thank you so much for everything you do for us. We love you and Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you guys for listen, thank you for tuning in. Please share the show and please comment on Spotify. I love you guys, and God bless