Wed.’s Devo - God is Holy

Read: Deuteronomy 23:1-25:19; Luke 10:13-37; Psalm 73:1-10; Proverbs 12:12-14
Every law in the Old Testament is a pictures to teach us godly doctrine (2 Timothy 3:16). In their camp was to be the dwelling place of God. It is like our body that is the temple of the Holy Spirit. All uncleanness and sin had to be put outside the camp just as sin cannot remain in us. They were not to allow the Ammonites or Moabites inside their assembly because they actively tried to bring a curse down on them and refused to help them. These stand for principalities in the demonic realm to us. We fight those that are warring against us but we leave at peace those that aren’t. We don’t go looking for a fight. God told them not to hate the Edomite or the Egyptian because the Edomites were their brothers and they had been neighbors with the Egyptians.
If there is one thing we can glean from God’s laws it is that he is a holy God and he wants us to be holy people, not like their neighbors. God held them accountable for how they acted and how they treated one another because they were to be an example of Him. He cared about the alien also. God is a just god who wants us to be just and not cheat or show favoritism.
God ended by telling them to blot out the memory of Amelek from under heaven. Amelek means “perversion”. It just means “the wrong version” of everything. God has a version and Satan has a version and we have to have discernment or we will be sucked into thinking Satan’s ways are the right ones because they seem right. “There is a way that seems right unto man but its end are the ways of death.” Proverbs 16:25.
In Luke, Jesus was talking to his seventy disciples. He condemned cities in which he taught and did great miracles, yet they still didn’t believe he was the Messiah. He reminded the 70 that they were going out as Him and if the people accepted them then they were accepting Jesus.
When they returned they were excited that the demons were subject to Jesus’ name. Jesus told them that more importantly than that was that their names were written in heaven. He had seen Satan fall from heaven so he was not the powerful one. Satan is way overrated. God is the one who is King and we are to love him with all our hearts and our fellow man as we love ourselves. Jesus told the parable about the good Samaritan to show that a neighbor is not just someone who agrees with you or but one who shows mercy. We must be kind to those who aren’t like us or believe like us the same way we are kind to those who do. It is the kindness of the Lord that leads us to repentance.
Lord, help us to walk in mercy and authority. Help us not to tolerate evil but bring your righteousness to the earth.