If to swear by God's Name is a method of arriving at truth appointed by God himself, to swear by his Name falsely subverts the purpose of the command and insults the majesty of God. The effort to preserve morality in a nation without religious sanction and religious motive is like the attempt to keep alive the flame of a fire, when the fuel from which the flame is derived has been withdrawn. They could not trust him unseen; they required proof of his nearness; and this craving of a feeble faith led them to prefer the symbol of "a calf that eateth hay" (Deuteronomy 4:15) to no similitude at all. Lord God Almighty. the dust. Therefore the wise and holy Lawgiver instituted various measures by which his people should be perpetually reminded that they must be absolutely free from these heinous crimes. All stealing, lying, and dishonest dealing is denounced (verse 11). He seeks our present satisfaction, and alsoand far moreour spiritual well-being; our pleasure as children of time and sense, and our perfection as children of the Father of spirits, as followers of the righteous Leader, as temples of the Holy Ghost.C. This is another way of saying, "Thou shalt forgive." . True piety is in consulting the will of the heavenly Father (Matthew 7:21), and his will is that we should love and be kind to one another (Ephesians 4:32). THE JUSTICE OF THE LIPS is the justice of the heart in expression. 15 My mouth will tell of thy righteous acts, of thy deeds of salvation all the day, for their number . We love ourselves enough to get up in the morning, find some food for us, find provision for us in every way possible, take care of us. That power is apt to be tyrannical. God treats his people as intelligent, rational beings; and so he discourages all resort to unmeaning and pretended inspirations. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the Law" (Romans 13:8-10). IRREVERENCE. 6:1; Eph. (1) "Neither lie one to another." The true charity is a practical remembrance of the needy and suffering, beginning at home, from our own personal possessions. The observance of the sabbath is an act of. Every man amongst them must have known, as every one amongst us knows well, that dishonesty is sin in the sight of God. 23:22; Deut. The command in this verse differs from that in Leviticus 19:3 by adding the injunction to reverence my sanctuary to that requiring the observance of the sabbath. Idols are nothings. (1) He is thy brother. 2. A man who steals is not guilty of an equally heinous sin with the man who commits murder, but he is equally guilty of sin, because both murder and theft are forbidden. A distinction is drawn between adultery with a free woman, or a betrothed free virgin, which was punishable with death (Leviticus 20:20; Deuteronomy 22:23), and with a slave betrothed to another man (probably a slave also). This () nachash, or divining, may have been by fire or serpents. Leviticus 19:15 prohibited unrighteousness in the judge, or in one who was in the position of a judge; these verses forbid it in merchants and tradesmen. Those who keep God's sabbaths will not profane their daughters either to idolatry or for gain. (1) Not to reprove his sin is to hate him. (2) is so responsible for the state of others' hearts and the rectitude of their lives as he is for his own. Cf. But it cannot be enforced. This is from God, and it should be religiously maintained. Thats just a helpful guide when reading through Leviticus to realize, okay, not all of these laws to Gods people then are laws to Gods people now in the same way. All that was distinctively or closely connected with heathen worship was also forbidden: the use of enchantments, the superstitious observance of lucky or unlucky times, also superstitious cutting of the hair or of the flesh (Leviticus 19:26-28); resorting to wizards, etc. Daily Bible Reading - February 2021 God's . So please help us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and in so doing to be the holy people youve called us to be. They were once not far from the kingdom, and may yet be holy citizens of the kingdom of God. "Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man." When we look at our fellow-men in the light of their relation to God, to Jesus Christ, we can see that in them which shines through all that is repelling, and which attracts us to their side that we may win and bless them. It was a patriarchal and Jewish, as it is now a Christian, virtue. In the verses before us we note the injunction. "For he that loveth another hath fulfilled the Law. If the enemy has succeeded in introducing the tares, they are for the sake of the wheat to be let to grow together until the harvest (Matthew 13:30). Jesus, give us this kind of love for the nations. And ye shall not swear by my name falsely. 15:1-14; 17:1-19:22; . The unsystematic character of this chapter is indicated by prohibitions under the fifth, fourth, first, and second commandments (Leviticus 19:3, Leviticus 19:4) being succeeded by a ceremonial instruction respecting the peace offerings, repeated from Le Leviticus 7:16-18. Hollywood Prayer Network On God's Heart For Hollywood. Recipes for a Sweet Child Amid Challenges. (2) "The wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning." 18:15; Luke 17:3; Gal. (2) Also by purity of life (Titus 2:14). (2) In keeping God's sabbaths his sanctuary is reverenced. All God's statutes, and all his judgments are to be observed without exception, in order to be righteous according to the righteousness of the Law. The appointment of one-seventh of our time for this purpose is wholly arbitrary. Those who refuse their rights to the poor will have to answer for it to God (Psalms 9:18; Psalms 12:5; Psalms 82:1-8.; Isaiah 10:1-4). Psalms 115:1-18 exhibits this contrast in several of its particulars. (Leviticus 19:7, Leviticus 19:8). (c) We have also blissful fellowship (John 17:21; 1Co 1:9; 1 John 1:3, 1 John 1:7). Jesus of Nazareth, Hillel's younger contemporary, declared that the commandment of Leviticus 19:18 is second in importance only to the command to love God (Mark 12:28-30.). Man is to "love his neighbour as himself" (Leviticus 19:18). The statement that the sun uses or sinks is materially false, because it remains stationary. THE PEOPLE OF THE HOLY GOD MUST BE HOLY. V. CHRIST'S COMMAND LIMITED IN ITS EXTENT. When you hear this, you need to remember, realize, that in the book of Leviticus, there are all kinds of laws that specifically pertain to Gods people in the Old Testament that dont pertain in the same way to people in the New Testament. THE BROAD PRINCIPLE OF GOD'S REQUIREMENT. Radical exists to equip Christians to be on mission. Whoever transgresses this ceremonial command is to bear his iniquity and to be cut off from among his people, that is, to be excommunicated without any appointed form of reconciliation by means of sacrifice. (2) We must not consider that to be wasted which goes to the poor. 12 O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me! WILLINGHOOD IN RELIGION. III. (1) Thus augury is to be discouraged (Leviticus 19:26). So in other cases, wherever men stand in a relation to each other similar to that of parent and child, obligations similar to those which bind parents and children arise. III. ESV Journaling Study Bible (TruTone Imitation Leather, Brown/Chestnut, Timeless Design), ESV Study Bible, Large Print, Genuine Leather, Black, ESV Thompson Chain-Reference Bible, hardcover, The ESV New Inductive Study Bible, Milano Softone, Green, ESV Study Bible, Burgundy Genuine Leather, ESV Teen Study Bible (TruTone Imitation Leather, Burnt Sienna). Two things lend a special interest to this passage. Plug in, Turn on and Be Enlightened! There are men who pass through human life and learn nothing in the passage; the folly of youth cleaves to them still. For the Jews it took the form given it in the fourth commandment (Exodus 20:8-11; Deuteronomy 5:12-15) and other Mosaic injunctions (Exodus 31:13, Exodus 31:14; Exodus 35:2, Exodus 35:3; Numbers 15:32-36). Matthew 26:60; Matthew 27:4). No software to install. "When the Lord's day is kept holy, and a holy reverence for the Lord's sanctuary lives in the heart, not only are many sins avoided, but social and domestic life is pervaded by the fear of God, and characterized by devoutness and propriety" (Keil). On the other hand, the authorities in the State and in the Church have their duties also, not now the same as those of the parent towards the child, on account of the changed position of him who was once a child, but nevertheless analogous to them. (2) The Divine example should inspire and guide us. Thus carefully does the Lord fence round his people with precautions. CHAPTER 19. "If ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors" (James 2:9). Pray with these powerful prayers right now and see what happens. The purification of temples and services is not the sanctification God requires. "He openeth his hand, and satisfieth every living thing." The needs of the gleaner are to be respected. (2) The Noachian precepts in general were violated by the heathen, and in particular this precept respecting blood. The people of God are taught by it to avoid everything that would compromise their simplicity and sincerity (2 Corinthians 6:14). They were eminently calculated to secure the happiness of the nation at home, and to promote its credit abroad. IX. 2. When we forget our derivation from him and our dependence upon him, he reminds us, by some providential privation, that we are failing from the spirit of reverence, gratitude, and submission which is the very life of our soul. THE ROOT FROM WHICH THIS FEELING WILL SPRING. The three dispensations preceding we need scarcely specify to be the Patriarchal, Levitical, and Christian. The sin of cursing another is in itself complete, whether the curse be heard by that other or not, because it is the outcome of sin in the speaker's heart. In other words, we have the four commandments of the first table strewn up and down these details, and exhibiting the fountain-head of social morality in faithfulness to God. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. THOSE WHO STAND IN A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP TO US. VI. The man is afterwards to offer a trespass offering. It is upon this that our blessed Lord seizes as the essence of the Divine Law (Matthew 22:35-40). This self-love is to measure our love to our neighbour. Or to look out for their interests as if thats our own interest. "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made" (Genesis 2:3). By apostolic authority, as proved by apostolic practice, the Christian sabbath was kept on the first day of the weekthe anniversary of Christ's resurrectionand the severity of its character was abrogated. When no circumstantial evidence is forthcoming, the only means of arriving at truth is the awe of God solemnly invoked by an oath, and the dread of offending him by perjury. (1) The case (Leviticus 19:20) is that of a slave dishonoured and stilt held in bondage, who, through a subsequent offense, which, if she were free, would merit death (see Deuteronomy 22:24), is now punished with scourging. Exceptional and imperious necessity not only justifies but demands unusual securities. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful" (Luke 6:35, Luke 6:36). 19:19; 22:39; Mark 12:31; Luke 10:27; Rom. 15And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. In the Decalogue we have social morality, that is, our duty to man, based upon our duty to God; the "second table" rests upon the first. and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?" When we consider this "better self," we do not suffer sin upon it, we try to keep it pure and subject unto Christ. What is Love? 1. The Israelites said to Aaron, "Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wet not what is become of him." So, God, help us to love the church this way. It was twice quoted by our Lord (Matthew 19:19 and Matthew 22:39). Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy. Whoever fails to rebuke his neighbour when he ought to do so, bears sin on his account (the more correct and less ambiguous rendering of the words translated in the Authorized Version, suffer sin upon him, cf. The words of the Law are clear and strong, going straight to the understanding and to the conscience. One of the preparations made by the Jews for an approaching Passover was to go over the fields near Jerusalem, and root up plants that had grown from mingled seeds. Fraudulent bankrupts, dishonest tradings, overreachings,these are what go to lessen the influence of religion among men. Therefore St. Paul warns his delegates, Timothy and Titus, "Them that sin rebuke before all" (1 Timothy 5:20). (3) deal falsely or unrighteously in any transaction or in any relation, without consciously breaking the Law and coming under the displeasure of Jehovah. Thus the effect of the false witness of the two men of Belial against Naboth was that "they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died" (1 Kings 21:13; cf. I am the Lord. We may fall into the latter when we are seeking to practice the former; or we may, from undue fear of the latter, neglect the former. Parents are God's representatives to their children. to superstition, it is (see 1 John 2:20, 1 John 2:21). You think about how much we love ourselves. (2) to sacred ordinances, for the Lord's sake, are enjoined in this verse. The fear of God nourished by the one will prevent the other. David Platt serves as a pastor in metro Washington, D.C. (2) The tear of the retributive justice of Heaven should restrain (see Luke 17:1). "Turn ye not unto idols" forbids the worship of false gods; "nor make to yourselves molten gods" forbids in addition the sin of worshipping the true God under the form of a molten shape. Moral.,' 4.334). Our asylums for the deaf, the dumb, and the blind are embodiments of this great social duty. THE FRUITS WHICH HOLY LOVE WILL BEAR. Wrong must not be practiced stealthily. It has been to them a necessity owing to the unfriendly laws of the nations with respect to them. He will regard it every time it returns as God's holy day of rest, the weekly commemoration of the primeval rest of God and of all the signal mercies of the elder covenant. 4 Do not turn aside to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. The debt we owe to them for all they have done for us is the heaviest of all, next to that supreme indebtedness under which we stand to God. Jesus said unto him, Thou hast said" (Matthew 26:63, Matthew 26:64). (2) Respect for those who enjoy rank and station is not only lawful but laudable. VI. THE UNIVERSAL REQUIREMENT. How to apply the principle that "he that will not work shall not eat," and at the same time show the due measure of compassion, is a problem demanding most careful solution. Do not take revenge or bear a grudge against members of your community, but love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord.. We are never so much like our merciful Master as when we speak and act considerately toward those who are poorer, weaker, and more helpless than ourselves.C. (2) They will not "make" to themselves "molten gods." 22:16; Rom. I. The Hymnal 1982: according to the use of the Episcopal Church. There is amongst us much adoption of practices which are idle and vain, not warranted in Scripture nor founded on reason. The difficulty raised on this verse by the allegation that the high priest's dress was made of mixed materials, is met by the answer that, if it were of mixed materials (which is uncertain, for wool is not mentioned in Exodus 28:1-43, nor is it quite determined that shesh means linen), the mixture was not such as is here forbidden. He interposed to save the children of Israel because they were weak and afflicted. 5:7; 12:13; 1 Pet. "Nor put a stumblingblock before the blind.". INTEGRITY IN WORDTRUTH. Hence these injunctions to leave some corn in the corners of their fields, and the scattered ears for the reaping and gleaning of the poor (Leviticus 19:9); to leave also some clusters of grapes which had been overlooked for needy hands to pluck (Leviticus 19:10); to take no advantage of the weaker members of their society, the deaf and the blind (Leviticus 19:14); and to show kindness to the stranger (Leviticus 19:34). Heavenly Father, thank You for the Old Testament teachings and the many things that I can learn from Your Word. In each instance the prohibition was given to common progenitors of the race, and therefore universally obligatory. THAT THE CUSTOMS OF THE HEATHEN MUST NOT BE FOLLOWED. 16(K)You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not (L)stand up against the life[a] of your neighbor: I am the Lord. (2) Pretenders to the unenviable distinction, as well as persons actually possessed of such devils, are here held up to reprobation. (2) They appear in the convocations of God's people. This I ask in Jesus' name, AMEN. Morality can be proved to be reasonable, apart from religion. Not Yet a Member? We pray for this kind of love for the people in our family. The suffering caused to one who hears the curse creates a further sin by adding an injury to the person addressed. II. And this is the picture in, Church Membership is for Every Christian, Especially Missionaries. Time proves to each generation of men that wisdom, whether it be that of earth or of heaven, is only gained by the discipline of life. God brooks no rival (verse 4). Their consequences are penetrating and far-spreading. It was to be given (probably) to the priests. In the present resume this distinction is not noticed. (b) First thoughts and forward desires are vanity, and must be rejected as coming from the flesh (see Genesis 2:11). No advantage is to be taken of a neighbour or of a servant (verse 13). Thank You that by faith in Christ,I have been called to be Your very own, and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of Him Who called me out of darkness into His marvellous light. (1) "Ye shall not steal"ye shall not injure your neighbour in a concealed way. (1) At the time when animal food was granted to man the blood was reserved. Mere social considerations and political economy will never purify trade and sanctify men's intercourse with one another. The heathen customs of cutting the hair and the flesh evinced the insanity of idolatry. There are many things that were told to avoid, to run from. Even though there might be no danger of giving positive pain and exciting resentment, yet they were not to direct harsh words against any one of their more unfortunate brethren. (1) In reaping the harvest, owners are instructed to spare the corners of their crops for the poor. "Like as a father pities his children, so he pities them that fear him." It is just possible that we may, in our eagerness to be always presenting the truth of the gospel to our fellow-men, have failed to enforce sufficiently the morality which must be the great evidence of our religious life. Read full chapter Leviticus 19:18 in all English translations Leviticus 18 Leviticus 20 New International Version (NIV) "By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: that in blessing I will bless thee" (Genesis 22:16, Genesis 22:17). II. He will celebrate it weekly as the feast of the Lord's resurrection, and all the blessings of that resurrection; as the feast of the Holy Ghost the Giver of peace and rest in the Church, as the weekly antepast of that glorious and unending rest in the presence of God which still remaineth for the people of God. (2) "Nor bear any grudge." Thus sin begets sin; and sin, in its offspring, becomes increasingly degenerate. The Sunday and its sacred observance will be to him the center, and furnish, so to speak, the form of his own way of life, and that of all his family and dependents. "There are many adversaries," it is true; many drawbacks, hindrances, difficulties in the way of spiritual advancement. In Chapters 19 & 20, to which we now come, we have a series of miscellaneous instructions covering various situations and problems of daily life that were faced by the people of God in that day and, at one level or another, which we face in our own lives today. ", 3. Will God Judge Me? But to acquiesce in their unseen God, I am; to obey without immediate continual consciousness of his nearness; to trust in his protection at times when they had no sensible aid to help them to realize to their imagination his power; to let loose, as it were, their prayers into the air, without having some representative figure, or emblem, at the least, at which to point them;all this was too difficult a task for a feeble faith in things invisible and spiritual" (Moberly, 'The Law of the Love of God'). Not only does it name the neighbour and the stranger as those whom we are to love, but also the enemy. These are summed up in the following passage of Philo Judaeus:"Let the word of the good man be a firm oath, immovable trust, free from falsehood, based on truth. (2) harmful, as taking the place in our thought which belongs to something really good and wise; II. cf. They are all God's children; it may be his prodigal children, living in the far country, but still his sons and daughters, over whom he yearns. (G)The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning. The words, ye shall offer it at your own will, should rather be, for your acceptance, as in Leviticus 1:3. (1) With age there should be the wisdom of experience, and this should be honoured by youth. No man, indeed, can, (1) give as much time and thought to each of his neighbours as he does to himself, and no man. They too deserve praise who, when they are compelled to swear, suggest the thought of reverence both to the bystanders and to those who impose the oath by the limitation and unwillingness which they show. (2) Slander may have this result without the intention of the slanderer. All nations extant are sprung from the family of Noah. Christ came to reveal the Father unto man as the Father of souls. "Nor observe times," nor consult the clouds. At present, in this peculiarly mercantile age, this department of morality needs most earnest attention. PERJURY. TO SWEAR BY GOD'S NAME IS COMMANDED, AS BEING A RECOGNITION OF HIM AS SUPREME LORD. Teach me to take every thought captive to Christ, when I feel that my rights are being violated or when I would like to take matters into my own hands. (e) In the fifth year and thenceforward, the fruit was sanctified to the use of the owner. The revolutionary command of the Bible is to love others like that. The remainder of the verse forbids the transgression of the second commandment, as the earlier part of the verse forbids the transgression of the first commandment: nor make to yourselves molten gods, as was done by Jeroboam when he set up the calves (1 Kings 12:23). And the revolutionary command here in Leviticus 19:18 is love others like that. Leviticus 19:18 NKJV. We foster what is good and holy within us. All are brethren. 2:17, Ex. THE UNIVERSAL MOTIVE. "For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation" (Hebrews 6:13-18). 2. The more solemn an oath is, the greater is the sin of perjury. 17(M)You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but (N)you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you (O)incur sin because of him. 2. He has a common fatherhood with thee in God. "The Christian man will endeavour to recognize with faithful respect that holy Name wherever it meets him in his walk of life. Our Lord has, with strongest emphasis, commended to us considerateness toward the weak and helpless (Matthew 10:42; Matthew 18:6, Matthew 18:10, Matthew 18:14; Matthew 25:34-40, etc.). The defense of equivocation rests upon a confusion of two things totally differentmaterial truth and moral truthfulness. The Jews were expressly enjoined to. Moreover, we pray for this kind of love for those who are lost without Christ. HONESTY OF DEALING is only to be maintained by religion. He says not, "Be ye punctilious in worship and profuse in ritual;" but "Be ye personally holy, let your holiness be a transcript of mine, which is the holiness of will, of work, of thought, of character.R. 23:1, 7; [Matt. Nearly the same words are repeated in James 5:12. Each of these would be worthy of an entire sermon in its own right. Let us then love them as we do ourselves. It bade the true Israel of God record with gratitude and keep in mind, by the weekly institution and its recurring festival of rest and praise, the creation of mankind, the deliverance from Egypt, the entrance of the people into the promised land, the return from captivity, the coming of the Messiah; and to look forward under the dispensation of the Holy Ghost to the crowning and final mercy of the long scheme of Providence, the eternal rest in heaven which yet remaineth for the people of God" (Bishop Moberly, 'The Law of the Love of God'). The peculiar affection enjoined is the brave, trusting, spiritual faith in God invisible, spiritual, absent to our sense, dim in his tokens, obscure sometimes in his providences, not demonstrable in his evidences, not invariable in his benefits. Possessed of this spiritual faith in the Unseen, a man walks along his narrow path of life with a confidence, security, and cheerfulness which establish at once his comfort and his safety" (Moberly, 'The Law of the Love of God'). Whether it be really true or false, yet, if a man thinks it false and assert it as true, he lies, for he is aiming to deceive His heart is double, not single; he does but bring out what he has there"; and the teaching of the reformed Church, "Our result is that the party swearing after this manner both sinneth in his equivocal oath, and is notwithstanding that tacit equivocation bound in conscience unto the performance of his promise in that sense which the words yield of themselves, and are, without constraint, apt to beget upon the minds of others. The first is a mystical injunction against the confusion of things which are best kept apart, illustrated in three subjectsdiverse kinds of cattle in breeding, mingled seeds in sowing a field, and mixed materials in garments. The heavens were their gods, and the clouds they naturally regarded as their aspects toward men, as indicating their intentions. and what concord hath Christ with Belial? PROFANITY in speech and in act is an evil to be cured by positive religion. He sets himself as our model of holiness (verse 2). Moral.,' 4:451). It is a pitiful thought that, in every nation, justice has been open to corruption; that men placed in honourable posts in order to do justice between man and man have either sold it to the highest bidder or surrendered and betrayed it from craven fear. And because they are God's commands in both these ways, they are to be obeyed. If religion, therefore, do not produce a higher type of mercantile morality than the world, it will be discredited. We shall try to win our brother back to that path of truth or righteousness which he has forsaken; so shall we "gain our brother" (Matthew 18:15), instead of "suffering sin upon him." He can reasonably maintain that the general conscience may be misled by prejudice or superstition, and that his own conscience is more enlightened than that of the mass. (2) The Hebrew is reminded, in connection with this injunction, how bitterly he suffered in the land of Egypt from the operation of the opposite principle. 3. "Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put ant in obscure darkness," says the Word of God (Proverbs 20:20). 2. In order to partake of the holy things, the people must be made ceremonially holy by ablutions. There are other things though, ritual laws, that pertains specifically to an Old Testament sacrificial system that are not repeated in the New Testament, so we know we dont do those things. The moral meaning of the command, "Thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed," receives an illustration from the parable of the "man which sowed good seed in his field: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. III. The general good of mankind, or the duty of obeying the highest principle of our nature, has never restrained, and never will restrain, the mass of mankind from yielding to the force of strong passion or desire.In the present chapter we find the moral dutiesthose of the second table as much as the firstrested upon a religious basis. Progressive Christian Love Self and Neighbor: Reflections on Leviticus 19: 1-2, 9-18 February 16, 2014 by John Holbert Lectionary Reflections Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18 February 23, 2014. Thus God reasserted and confirmed his claim to all the produce of the land. It must be altogether understood that he does not sin gravely if he curses his parents, whether they are alive or dead, unless the curses are uttered with malevolent meaning.'' I. 7: Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee. The family life is built upon reverence to parents, and on the family is built society. (2) wise regard for our own true welfare. You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD. Without the restraints and impulses of piety we are under irresistible temptation to do this. Is anyone cheerful? Deuteronomy 5:7, quoted by Wordsworth). 2. In Leviticus 20:11, Leviticus 20:14, Leviticus 20:16, 35, 36, obedience is inculcated to the eighth and the ninth commandments, which are the laws of honesty and of truthfulness; in Leviticus 20:12 to the third commandment, which is the law of reverence; in Leviticus 20:17, Leviticus 20:18, 33, 34, to the sixth commandment, which is the law of love; in Leviticus 20:20, 29, to the seventh commandment, which is the law of purity; in Leviticus 20:9, Leviticus 20:10, Leviticus 20:13, the spirit of covetousness is prohibited, as forbidden in the tenth commandment, which is the law of charity. 4:33; 19:15-20; 20:2-5; Job 42:8; Prov. Baptist Hymnal 1991. Being coeval with creation, the sabbatical law, like the marriage law, is of universal obligation on all mankind. Vengeance is discouraged (verse 18)it is the outcome of hatred, which is unlawful when borne towards a brother (verse 17). They come from God or are permitted by him. "Rebuke them sharply" (Titus 1:13). Or to look out for their interests as if thats our own interest. 2. "Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father." 1. We note. 24:23; James 2:9; [2 Chr. A GENEROUS CONSIDERATION FOR THE POOR. 26:60, 61]; See 1 Kgs. So far the observance is outward. Materialism and weakness of faith are the spiritual effects of worshipping images and craving after visible symbols. Leviticus 19:5, "At your own will," or "that you may be accepted," i.e; do it as unto God, by his Word, for his glory, in dependence on his grace, with hearty resignation of self to him. But beyond this, God would have us be specially kind to the necessitous because they are reedy. Although these details are given indiscriminately, it is yet possible to discern certain great principles among them. But even that could do them no good, for according to the text, "If it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted. The selfish man is his own worst enemy; the man who cultivates proper self-love is his own best friend. Remove the fear of punishment, and the goods of another will no longer be respected. What benefits our parents have conferred on us, what kindnesses they have rendered us, what sacrifices they have made for us, what anxious thought and earnest prayer they have cherished and offered on our behalf,who of us shall reckon? So in the new dispensation, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" (Matthew 5:48). He will surely not use it at all except he have occasion to speak of it seriously and carefully. With the spirit of vengeance there can be no peace in the world. He knows that the stain of sin goes deeper and lasts longer than we think it does. Let him (A)sing praise. 1. God, the Judge of all, surveys not the conduct only, but also the motive. Not as a Jewish regulation, but as both the demand of physical nature and the gracious provision of God for us. It is pledged to maintain them. Revenge and malice are forbidden as well as hatred, and the negative precepts culminate in the positive law. Skip to main content . I. "No harm is done to reverence but by an open manifestation of insult. 1. III. Both are equally immoral. 5:43; Cited Matt. So it is unreasonable to blame for not having rendered service those who were not informed that such service was expected. Because the high priest's words were "the voice of swearing" (James 5:1), Jesus broke his silence and spoke in obedience to the adjuration; and oaths are spoken of with approval in the Epistle to the Hebrews (Hebrews 6:13-18). The words fear and reverence are in this connection interchangeable. Accordingly, it is taught by an authority that may not be gainsaid by any member of that communion, that if a man prefixes the words" I say that" to a sentence, he may with a good reason make any false statement that he pleases, because in his own mind he means only to declare that he is making use of the words following that prefix, not that he is asserting their truth, as the person that he addresses supposes him robe doing (S. Alfonso de' Liguori, 'Theol. The sabbatical ordinance is necessary as a previous condition of religious worship. It leaves a taint behind; it pollutes the mind; it mars the life; it makes its fruit, its natural growth and outcome, to be "as uncircumcised," to be unholy and unclean. The moral meaning of the whole of this injunction is exhibited in the following passages from the New Testament, "Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils" (1 Corinthians 10:21). The holy men of God speak as they are moved by the Holy Ghost. THE SUPERSTITION WHICH WAS TO BE SHUNNED. The force of the comparison, as thyself, may be studied in Bishop Butler's sermon 'Upon the Love of our Neighbour.'. (b) Mingled seed must not be sown in the field. We have, I. "I am the Lord" is a basis of morality which never fails. (4) Hence in the text (Leviticus 19:3), the injunction to keep God's sabbaths is associated with another touching the respect due from children to parents (comp. It is here that we read, "Love your fellow as yourself . We should worship regularly at the sanctuary, because. THOSE WHO CARRY THE WEIGHT OF YEARS. Men would rather have transactions with others than with them, lest they should find themselves worsted in the bargain. " They begin by inculcating (in Leviticus 20:3, Leviticus 20:4) duties which fall under the heads of. In many cases, if not in most, we can impute no blame to others for their weakness: the unfortunate are not necessarily the undeserving, and we have no right to make them suffer. I. (2) But godly persons will avoid them. The plants of both kinds in such a case are found to be inferior (Deuteronomy 22:9). Heavenly Father, thank You for the Old Testament teachings and the many things that I can learn from Your Word. This suspicion may be well founded; but if it be so, it ought to be remembered that it is the consequence of the long and cruel disadvantages under which they have suffered, and is not clue to anything in their own blood or to any defect in their venerable Law. The Divine command is related to and blessed with the Divine provision of grace in a specific system of holiness, in which the people of God are held up. The great temptation to the Jews down to the time of their captivity appears to have been that of taking the gods of the nations round about them as their gods; Baal, Ashtoreth, Molech, Chemosh, drew off their affections from Jehovah. That the fruit of a tree uncircumcised must not be eaten. The revealed word of the true God is sufficient for all lawful purposes of sacred knowledge. "God says, Thou shalt," must be the support of natural feeling. No injury must be done either by word or deed, either by neglect of another's interests or unholy wrath against another or encouraging him to sin by withholding due rebuke. Proverbs 11:1, "A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight;" and Proverbs 20:10, "Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord;" see also Micah 6:10, Micah 6:11 and Ezekiel 45:10. (2) "Neither shall ye deal falsely." III. You may unsubscribe from Bible Gateways emails at any time. The prophets utter their voice still more forcibly (Isaiah 58:6-8; Ezekiel 18:7; Nehemiah 5:10-12; Jeremiah 22:16; Amos 4:1, etc.). This is grounded upon the great fact, "I am the Lord your God." (3) Pedlars have, amongst other evils, been notorious tale-bearers. It also reminds us of some truths which come home to ourselves. His prohibition refers to ordinary swearing, not to solemn oaths taken in courts of justice or under similar circumstances. WHAT WAS THE PRIMARY PURPORT OF THIS TRIPLE LAW. THE DEPTH AND BREADTH OF THE TAINT OF SIN. The allusion here is to Aaron's calf, which he intended to represent Jehovah Elohim. 14 But I will hope continually, and will praise thee yet more and more. VI. Moral commandments have a double sanction. The family is an institution of God's appointment (Genesis 1:28; Genesis 2:24). It is the privilege and duty of God's people to acquaint themselves with his will. 2. "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." In fact, it's repeated by Jesus as the second greatest commandment, the first being love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and then the second, Jesus said, is like it. Biblical history abundantly proves that the law of retaliation is a law of God.J.A.M. INTEGRITY IN OFFICIAL DUTYJUSTICE. Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God, Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I. "Lest the land," etc. Leviticus 19:1-37 may be regarded as an extension of the previous chapter in this direction, after which the subject of Leviticus 18:1-30, is again taken up in Leviticus 20:1-27. II. But if any remain to the third day, this they burn with fire. natural parents, and his institutions, as the sabbath, are enjoined. I. (1) Their power is greatest over the "children of disobedience." What fails from the hand of the reaper is not to be gathered up again, but left to the gleaner. It is needless to say how totally he will refrain from such wanton profanation as that of garnishing his common speech by using the Name or referring to the doings of the Most High; still less how impossible it would be for him to allege the sacred Name, literally or by implication, in support of falsehood; nay, how impossible it would be that he should assert what is false at all, seeing that the Name of God is all around him, and that the most secularly sounding asseverations are nothing else than allegations of that Name. II. Teach me to take every thought captive to Christ, when I feel that my rights are being violated or when I would like to take matters into my own hands. (a) We have assurance of our adoption (Romans 8:16; Galatians 4:6). The young are apt to think that they can reach the heights of wisdom without laboriously climbing the steeps of experience. (Leviticus 19:15.) 2. For they have lived, not only for themselves, but for their kind. If the Israelites had concluded that the iniquities of the Canaanites were to be regarded as polluting the very soil, they would not have reckoned that three years would be required to free the land from the taint of evil. It is an appeal to the tribunal of God, the person swearing (or adjured) calling God to witness to the truth of his words. It is robbing under the very colour of equity. VIII. When a lie is acted in false dealing, the next thing is to utter a lie to cover the wrong. So, in larger or lesser degree, is all sin. On the one side we are not to hate our brother in our heart, whatever wrongs he may commit; but on the other side, we are in any wise to rebuke our neighbour for his wrong doing. It is uncertain whether we shall receive the honour which is due to us. Leviticus 19:18 NIV Leviticus 19:18 NLT Leviticus 19:18 ESV Leviticus 19:18 NASB Leviticus 19:18 KJV Leviticus 19:18 BibleApps.com Leviticus 19:18 Biblia Paralela Leviticus 19:18 Chinese Bible Leviticus 19:18 French Bible Leviticus 19:18 Catholic Bible OT Law: Leviticus 19:18 You shall not take vengeance nor bear (Le Lv Lev.) Babylon who is also "drunk with the blood of the saints and martyrs of Jesus," is therefore doomed to drink blood, for that she is worthy (Revelation 17:6; Revelation 16:3-6). (2) They worship him in faith. In business they must be careful not to join in ungodly partnerships. The mixture would induce electrical disturbances impairing to health. It is when his Name is feared and reverenced as it ought to be that man acts aright in his various relations. (3) In this prohibition God asserts himself, "I am Jehovah thy Elohim." And (C)if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. (1) show kindness to the poor (Leviticus 19:10); (2) to be careful of those who suffered from bodily infirmity (Leviticus 19:14); (3) to interest themselves in the stranger (Leviticus 19:33, Leviticus 19:34). But in our godly parents, the work of God's hands, we have truer representations of the living Father than can possibly proceed from our own hands. the Form of Solemnization of Matrimony: "Marriage was ordained for the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and to the praise of his holy Name.". to the world. But though the Law. V. SUPERSTITION IS TO BE DISCOURAGED, NO enchantment was to be used, nor were they to round the corners of their heads or beards; they were to make no cuttings in their flesh for the dead, or print marks upon themselves (verses 26-28). Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father. (1) This was ceremonially described in the Law. 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