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Day 56, or February the 25th. The law is all

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for our benefit. Our thoughts today are rooted

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in Deuteronomy chapter 17, verse 10. Be careful

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to do everything they instruct you to do. Now

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the big picture surrounding this verse. The regulations

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of Deuteronomy are very extensive and dominate

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the book. Throughout the centuries, rabbis and

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other Jewish spiritual leaders have debated these

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laws and decrees and have produced a substantial

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amount of comment and explanation called the

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Talmud. This ancient writing complements the

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Jewish Torah, which is what Christians call the

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Pentateuch, or Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,

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and Deuteronomy. The Talmud is highly respected

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amongst Jews, and is second only to the Torah.

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A lovely thought to bear in mind is that Jesus

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came to fulfil the law, and we read in Luke 24

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verse 27 what happened on the road to Emmaus

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after Jesus was raised from the dead. It reads,

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Then Jesus took them through the writings of

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Moses and all the prophets, explaining from all

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the scriptures the things concerning himself.

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Not just the first five books of Moses, but all

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the prophets as well. What a wonderful Bible

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study to have experienced. Now our action step

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for today. Jesus was very familiar with all these

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laws. When he was confronted by a woman who had

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been caught in the act of adultery in John chapter

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8, he bases his response on Deuteronomy chapter

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17, verse 7. The witness must throw the first

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stones, and then all the people may join in.

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Jesus adds, Let the one who has never sinned

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throw the first stone. Did you ever notice that

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whenever Jesus quotes the Old Testament law,

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it's only to urge repentance, never just to condemn?

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There's a great principle here. The Bible was

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never meant to condemn anyone to hell, but to

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warn them and plead with them to repent and avoid

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condemnation. Our God does not want us to perish.

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He pleads with us to repent. In truth, the God

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of the Old Testament is really the same forgiving,

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loving God we see in the person of Jesus in the

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New Testament.