If you fail to fulfill your family responsibilities, it is a shame. You are failing to build up your brother’s house. You are failing to do your part for the health and welfare of the family. It’s unlikely that anyone will pull off your shoe and spit in your face, but it certainly is true that you are behaving disgracefully if you refuse to build up your brother’s house. Read More ...
The unsaved world is often harsh and heartless. Unbelievers often do not treat others with basic human dignity and respect. But Christians should be different. We should distinguish ourselves from the unsaved world by respecting basic human dignity. We must not sink to the level of the ungodly world around us by being disrespectful and dishonorable in how we treat others. If we have no respect for human dignity, we are inviting God’s judgment. If we expect God to bless the work of our hands, then we must respect the human dignity of all people, especially of the most vulnerable among us. Read More ...
Christians must not break their marriage vows and they should not pursue divorce without adequate biblical grounds—adultery, abandonment, abuse. Christians must insure that grounds for divorce never occur in their marriages. Christians must maintain strong marriages where divorce is not even an option. Read More ...
The best way to purge evil and to do right is to follow God’s commands. Our conditions and situations today are far different from those pertaining in ancient Israel. But we can still demonstrate a high regard for human life, for our families, and for outsiders. We can still show compassion and be fair in how we treat people. Our aim should be the same—put away the evil and do what is right in the sight of the Lord. Read More ...
On first reading, it might seem like this chapter in Deut applies only to Israel as it conquers the PL. But these timeless principles still pertain to us today. The primary lesson is to trust God. He’ll be with us and provide for us. Instead of being fearful and fainthearted, we must be faithful and obedient. Read More ...
The criminal should suffer in like manner what his crime produced. If he took innocent life, his life should be taken. If his action caused the loss of an eye, his eye should be taken. Likewise for the tooth, hand, and foot. The criminal should suffer the same result of what he intended for the victim. That might seem rather severe, but I’m sure that it would reduce crime if every criminal faced the law of retribution. Read More ...
We should have no interest in any kind of occult knowledge. That kind of thing is either totally fraudulent or it’s demonic, and we should have no engagement with it whatsoever. No fortune telling, no palm reading, no astrology, no horoscopes, no attempts to contact the dead or anything like that. Any spiritual knowledge we seek must come from the true and living God, and that knowledge is found in God’s word. Read More ...
Those in leadership positions are supposed to be subject to the law. They don’t make the law; they follow the law. They are not above the law. Everyone is supposed to be treated equally under the law. It’s important that our leaders know the law and follow it strictly. Read More ...
Regarding justice, we should demand an impartial, just, fair, uncorrupted civil judicial system. We recognize a separation of church and state, but the state ought to be righteous, especially the judicial branch of the government. If the judicial branch is corrupt, the whole system will be corrupt. We must elect just judges and prevent corrupt judges from serving in the legal system. Read More ...
Perhaps most importantly, Jesus is our Passover; it’s through his blood that we are saved. He is the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. It’s important for us to remember what the Lord has done for us. We have an ongoing ritual that we observe to help us remember the Lord’s death—the LS. Read More ...