Portrait of a Godly Life [7:45m]:
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Exodus 23:1-13 [+/-]Exodus 23:1-13
[23:1]"You shall not spread a false report. You shall
not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.
[2]You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor
shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many,
so as to pervert justice, [3]nor shall you be partial to a
poor man in his lawsuit.
[4]"If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going
astray, you shall bring it back to him. [5]If you see the
donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden,
you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall
rescue it with him.
[6]"You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor
in his lawsuit. [7]Keep far from a false charge, and do not
kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the
wicked. [8]And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds
the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are
in the right.
[9]"You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the
heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land
of Egypt.
[10]"For six years you shall sow your land and gather in
its yield, [11]but the seventh year you shall let it rest
and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and
what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall
do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.
[12]"Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh
day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have
rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may
be refreshed.
[13]"Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and
make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be
heard on your lips. (ESV)
Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones was the esteemed pastor of the famed Westminster Chapel in London. He served with distinction for almost forty years. The very first sermon that he preached in the pulpit of Westminster on December 29, 1935 opened with these words, I feel it is an interesting and profitable subject to try to decide which the more dangerous position for a person to be in to state openly and avowedly that he is not at all interested in Christ and religion, or to follow Christ for a wrong and false reason. I know that ultimately there is no difference between the two persons. Then he offers this assessment, the difficulty with a man who follows Christ for a wrong reason is that he not only deludes himself, but he also deludes the church.Â
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