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Day 41, or February the 10th. Is that really

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fair? Our thoughts today are rooted in Leviticus

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chapter 24, verses 19 and 20. Anyone who injures

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their neighbour is to be injured in the same

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manner. Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth

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for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury

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must suffer the same injury. and now the big

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picture surrounding these verses Leviticus contains

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so much detail about the offerings and feasts

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of the Jewish people that we must conclude that

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we have a fair god who wants us to know exactly

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what is expected of us the apostle Paul tells

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us that all these regulations were to point us

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to Jesus Galatians 3 verse 24 tells us, The law

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was our guardian until Christ came. It protected

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us until we could be made right with God through

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faith. All of these laws and regulations were

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fulfilled in Jesus, so that we are now free to

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live our lives to the full. Of course, when we

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do this, we inevitably keep the spirit of all

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these godly regulations. And now our action step

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for today. In Leviticus we read about the ancient

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eye for an eye type of rough justice, which was

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centuries before its time. When Moses first told

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the children of Israel about this part of God's

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law, their jaws would have dropped in disbelief.

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They were used to wiping out a whole family for

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a personal injury. In fact, you will find this

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sort of reaction in the Bible. Here we have a

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glimpse of the mercy -loving heart of God. The

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synagogue monsters may agree with the ancient

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rabbi who said, that will simply produce a nation

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of blind people. I don't agree. It told the Jews,

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and you, and me, that our God is intrinsically

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fair. I know there are things that happen every

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day that question that, but I am convinced that

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the God of the Bible is always fair, and on Judgment

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Day, no one will be able to say, that wasn't

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fair. Now that's a thought that bears reflecting

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on in these days of injustice and unfairness

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that's shown by people to other people all over

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the world. Our God's a fair God, and everyone

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will see it. and experience it one day.