Seeing Gods Heart

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Seeing Gods Heart Behind the Laws Deut. 24
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The Old Testament is for us!

• 2Tim. 316-17
• All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for
• teaching , rebuking, correcting and training in
• righteousness, so that the man of God may be
• thoroughly equipped for every good work.

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The Old Testament is for us!

• 1Cor. 106, 11
• Now these things occurred as examples to keep us
• from setting our hearts on evil things as they
  did. . .
• These things happened to them as examples and
  were
• written down as warnings for us, on whom the
• fulfillment of the ages has come.

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The Old Testament is for us!

• Matt. 43-4
• The tempter came to him and said, If you are
  the
• Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.
  Jesus
• answered, It is written Man does not live on
  bread
• alone, but on every word that comes from the
  mouth
• of God. (Deut 83)

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The Old Testament is for us!

• Luke 2444
• He said to them, This is what I told you while
  I was
• still with you Everything must be fulfilled that
  is
• written about me in the Law of Moses, the
  Prophets
• and the Psalms.

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Gods Heart in Human Relationships

• Mic. 66-8
• With what shall I come before the LORD and bow
• down before the exalted God? Shall I come before
  him
• with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
  Will the
• LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten
• thousand rivers of oil? Shall I offer my
  firstborn for
• my transgression, the fruit of my body for the
  sin of
• my soul? He has showed you, O man, what is good.
• And what does the LORD require of you? To act
  justly
• and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your
  God.

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Gods Heart in Human Relationships

• 1. Walking humbly with God in Loving Faithfulness
• Deut. 241-4
• If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing
  to
• him because he finds something indecent about
  her,
• and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives
  it to her
• and sends her from his house, if after she leaves
  his
• house she becomes the wife of another man, and
  her
• second husband dislikes her and writes her a
• certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends
  her
• from his house, or if he dies, then her first
  husband,
• who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her
  again

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Gods Heart in Human Relationships

• 1. Walking humbly with God in Loving Faithfulness
• Deut. 241-4
• after she has been defiled. That would be
  detestable in
• the eyes of the LORD. Do not bring sin upon the
  land
• the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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Gods Heart in Human Relationships

• 1. Walking humbly with God in Loving Faithfulness
• Matt. 193-6
• Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They
  asked,
• Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for
  any and
• every reason? Havent you read, he replied,
  that
• at the beginning the Creator made them male and
• female, and said, For this reason a man will
  leave his
• father and mother and be united to his wife, and
  the
• two will become one flesh? So they are no longer
  two,
• but one. Therefore what God has joined together,
  let
• man not separate.

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Gods Heart in Human Relationships

• 1. Walking humbly with God in Loving Faithfulness
• Matt. 197-9
• Why then, they asked, did Moses command that
  a
• man give his wife a certificate of divorce and
  send her
• away? Jesus replied, Moses permitted you to
• divorce your wives because your hearts were hard.
  But
• it was not this way from the beginning. I tell
  you that
• anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital
• unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits
  
• adultery.

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Gods Heart in Human Relationships

• 1. Walking humbly with God in Loving Faithfulness
• Deut. 245
• If a man has recently married, he must not be
  sent to
• war or have any other duty laid on him. For one
  year
• he is to be free to stay at home and bring
  happiness to
• the wife he has married.

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Gods Heart in Human Relationships

• 1. Walking humbly with God in Loving Faithfulness
• 1Pet. 37
• Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you
  live
• with your wives, and treat them with respect as
  the
• weaker partner and as heirs with you of the
  gracious
• gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your
  prayers.

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• 2. Walking humbly and justly with God
• Deut. 247
• If a man is caught kidnapping one of his brother
• Israelites and treats him as a slave or sells
  him, the
• kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from
• among you.

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Gods Heart in Human Relationships

• 2. Walking humbly and justly with God
• Deut. 2414-15
• Do not take advantage of a hired man who is poor
  and
• needy, whether he is a brother Israelite or an
  alien
• living in one of your towns. Pay him his wages
  each
• day before sunset, because he is poor and is
  counting
• on it. Otherwise he may cry to the LORD against
  you,
• and you will be guilty of sin.

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Gods Heart in Human Relationships

• 2. Walking humbly and justly with God
• Deut. 2416
• Fathers shall not be put to death for their
  children,
• nor children put to death for their fathers each
  is to
• die for his own sin.

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Gods Heart in Human Relationships

• 2. Walking humbly and justly with God
• Deut. 2417-18
• Do not deprive the alien or the fatherless of
  justice, or
• take the cloak of the widow as a pledge. Remember
  
• that you were slaves in Egypt and the LORD your
  God
• redeemed you from there. That is why I command
  you
• to do this.

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• 3. Walking humbly with God in Compassion Mercy
• Deut. 246
• Do not take a pair of millstones not even the
  upper
• one as security for a debt, because that would
  be
• taking a mans livelihood as security.
• Deut. 2410-11
• When you make a loan of any kind to your
  neighbor,
• do not go into his house to get what he is
  offering as a
• pledge. Stay outside and let the man to whom you
  are
• making the loan bring the pledge out to you.

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Gods Heart in Human Relationships

• 3. Walking humbly with God in Compassion Mercy
• Deut. 2412-13
• If the man is poor, do not go to sleep with his
  pledge in
• your possession. Return his cloak to him by
  sunset so
• that he may sleep in it. Then he will thank you,
  and it
• will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight
  of the
• LORD your God.

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• 3. Walking humbly with God in Compassion Mercy
• Deut. 2419-22
• When you are harvesting in your field and you
• overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave
  it for
• the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that
  the
• LORD your God may bless you in all the work of
  your
• hands. When you beat the olives from your trees,
  do
• not go over the branches a second time. Leave
  what
• remains for the alien, the fatherless and the
  widow.
• When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do
  not

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• 3. Walking humbly with God in Compassion Mercy
• Deut. 2419-22
• go over the vines again. Leave what remains for
  the
• alien, the fatherless and the widow. Remember
  that
• you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command
  you
• to do this.

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• Mic. 68
• He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what
• does the LORD require of you? To act justly and
  to
• love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.