Sat.’s Devo - Deeper Truths

Read: Leviticus 19:1-20:21; Mark 8:11-38; Psalm 42:1-11; Proverbs 10:17 All of God’s laws were built around the truth that God is holy and he wanted a holy people. He gave them laws and told them exactly how they could follow them. He made it very easy for them to obey. Today we read what we call the 10 Commandments with more details. Every law had spiritual insight for us today. For example. In 19:9 instructions are given for harvesting your crops. You were not to harvest along the edges or the corners of your fields or pick up any that was dropped because they are to be left for the poor and the foreigner. That law kept Ruth and Naomi alive. Spiritually, it means that the uttermost parts of the earth will not be judged or reaped until the end of time. (Ezekiel 7:2-4). Jeremiah 9:25-26 gives us nations that are in the four corners that will be judged last. Judah is listed as being uncircumcised in their heart. One of the laws that needs to be in effect today is: “Do not make your hired workers wait until the next day to receive their pay.” Waiting two weeks to get paid is absurd to me especially for someone who is living hand to mouth and has children to feed.” God gives us a definition of spiritual prostitution in 20:6. It is putting trust in mediums or in those who consult the spirits of the dead. God lists everything that is a capital offense punishable by death. Two of them will leave you childless: A man who has sex with his uncles’ wife and a man who marries his brother’s wife. Both have to do with brothers. The first has to do with his father’s brother and the other has to do with his own brother. I think these have to do with sinning against a fellow Christian brother. John the Baptist came down upon Herod for taking his brother Phillip’s wife. Yet, if the brother is dead, the living brother is required to marry the wife of the dead brother and raise up seed for the dead brother. In Mark, Jesus warned them of the yeast of the Pharisees and of Herod. Herod was breaking so many of the laws of the Jews. The “yeast” of the Pharisees has to do with the doctrine of the Pharisees. Instead of getting the point, the disciples worried that they only had one loaf of bread. Jesus rebuked them and asked them if they didn’t remember the miracles of the 5,000 and the 4,000. Bread was not a problem when you are walking with the Bread of Heaven. Jesus encountered a blind man and he took him to a remote place to heal him. Once again used his own spit to heal him and told him to go straight home and not to the village. Jesus asked his disciples who the people thought he was. Then he asked who they thought he was. Peter said, that he was the Messiah. Jesus warned them not to tell people that because he had to die first. Peter was not happy with that but Jesus rebuked that spirit out of him. Jesus told us how to be his follower: to take up our cross and follow him. Lord, we desire to do just that.