Sat.’s Devo - The Law and Jesus

Read Lev. 24:1-25:46, Mark 10:13-31, Ps. 44:9-26, Pr. 10:20-21 Today we have the story of the son of an Egyptian father and an Israelite mother. The son blasphemes God and God commands that he be stoned. This is the answer to a son who has been raised in a Christian household, yet he chooses to have the devil as his father. He must be put to death. His flesh must die and all the church must stone him. In other words, the stone is the Word of God. So the church must proclaim the Word of salvation over him and pray for him to die of his sinful nature. This will save him. The next few verses have to do with the law of reaping what you sow. For example : an eye for an eye, etc. Jesus addressed this in the sermon on the mount. His law went much further. Jesus said that if someone slaps you on one cheek, you don’t slap him back, but, you turn the other to him. Grace is all about forgiveness, not retribution or retaliation. The seventh year was to be a sabbath rest to the land. This was the year that the earth would rejuvenate itself. This year speaks of millennium when the earth will have a thousand years to rest. Then we will come back and eat the fruit of its rest. Every fiftieth year is a Jubilee. There will be 120 Jubilees in the 6,000 years that the earth will be in existence as we know it Remember what God told Moses in Genesis 6:3? He told Moses that His spirit would not always strive with man, yet his days would be a hundred and twenty years. He was referring to one hundred and twenty Jubilees. God hides his wisdom in mysteries and this is one of them. God was telling us the length of the earth’s age, not the age of man. In Mark a rich man came to Jesus wanting to know how to receive eternal life. He assured Jesus that he had followed the law to the letter. Then Jesus spoke to his heart. His heart and his works were not the same. He went through the motions but his heart was full of self. Jesus explained to the people that the only way to come to Him in sincerity was to have a need for salvation. This man had no need, so he couldn’t find the door. Jesus said that only God can bring a person to salvation. Lord, Your ways are so much higher than ours. Lead us in Your wisdom.