The Week March 30, 2016
We must stand on Scripture in the matter of good government.
True Riches
Are we seeking the true Kingdom riches in Christ?
A Question of Timing
When will these expectations be realized?
The Sympathy of God
God would leave a remnant for Israel.
Nahum 1:2
The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and wrathful; the LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies. Hallelujah for the Cross of Christ stands between me and the jealous and avenging God. As the old Fanny Crosby hymn puts it: Safe in the Arms of […]
Property and Marriage
The Eighth Commandment: Statutes and Precepts (5)
Deuteronomy 25.5-10
5 “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family; her husband’s brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. 6 And it shall be that the firstborn son which she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. 7 But if the man does not want to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.’ 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. But if he stands firm and says, ‘I do not want to take her,’ 9 then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who will not build up his brother’s house.’ 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal removed.’”
