Fri.’s Devo -The Power of the Law

Read: Ex. 22-24
One thing that is obvious to me when I read the laws is that all sin is weighed on a different scale. Some sin had to be paid back five times and others just double. When the thief steals, he must be required to pay us back. Our thief, Satan, is not flesh and blood but the law still applies to him. We have to require that he repay us everything he steals from us. If we don’t then he gets away free. We use our authority in the Lord and demand the devil pay us back for everything he has stolen from us with interest. Some of the things he steals is our health, our time, our money, our children, our creativity, our gifts, our marriage, etc.
In Chapter 23 the law commands that we help those who need help even if we don’t like this person. It commands us to have compassion on new people, sinners and people of other religions because once we were without God.
God gave them a command for the sabbath. The people, the animals and the land were to rest on the seventh year. Three times a year they were to hold a feast which would coincide with their different harvests. The first feast would be the wheat harvest which would be the feast of Passover, Unleavened bread and First fruits. The next harvest was the barley harvest which occurred at Pentecost or feast of weeks. The last feasts would be at the fruit harvest which were the feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippor and Feast of Tabernacles. God would mark these feasts as very important times He would move on the earth.
Then he sent his angel before them (the Holy Spirit) and if they did what he said God would cut off their enemies, take their sickness away, they would have no miscarriages or infertility, and their enemies would flee from them. Their enemies would keep their land for them until they could occupy it, then they would have to leave it to them. Could life be better? Something tells me we are living below this standard. They were told not to agree with their enemies and not to COEXIST!
Unlike the days of Moses, we are all invited to draw near to God because of the blood of Jesus. (Hebrews 10:22) We can see God just like Moses, Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu and the seventy elders did. The veil has been rent.
Lord, anoint our eyes to see into the heavens and see You. Help us to walk in the authority You have given us because of the blood.