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28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
City of Refuge.pdf
City of Refuge.pdf
Life can be difficult...
Full of disappointments, struggles and fights to survive.
We have all heard stories of those that have suffered crushing disappointments and hurts, yet continue on in life.
We’ve all hear sayings like:
One thing after the other
Straw that broke the camels back
Straw that broke the camels back
Modified on November 18, 2012
I heard a story:
The Cities of Refuge
In 1972 a two year old Chinese boy, Hu Jen-chuan, fell from a table and went into a coma. When he woke up after six days he was not able to talk or move. Like any parent, his mother, was terrible distressed. Yet her distress was multiplied by the fact that she could not afford to place him in a nursing home.
Cities of Refuge
Instead she has cared for Hu Jen-chuan herself, and her care has shown the unfathomable depth of her mother-love. You see, because he is unable to move Hu Jen-chuan is liable to get terrible bed-sores. So for the past thirty years his mother has done the unbelievable – she has carried her son on her back. As of May 2002 Liu Kuei-lan was 65 years old and weighed 80 pounds. Her son, now a grown man, weighed 160 pounds. On many occasions Liu has fallen and fractured bones while carrying her son. Yet she continues to carry him. When asked how she can do it her reply is simple: “he ain’t heavy, he’s my son.”
SundaNovember 18, 2012
Life has a way of being unfair!
We’ve all heared sayings like:
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We’ve all hear sayings like:
One thing after the other
Straw that broke the camels back
It’s our way of saying, life has put to much on me - there is no way we can continue...
Yet continue we do!
We stumble around with a weight twice our size, falling and breaking bones...
,
It was never God’s intention for us to carry life’s loads on our own…
KJV 1900
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
November 18, 2012
FOL
What burdens can Jesus carry?
1
What are you carrying?
The
SIckness
L
Family
Financial
Relationship
Job
What burdens can Jesus carry? All of them...
ORD
also spake unto Joshua, saying,
I Give You Jesus
If the ship of your life,
Is tossing on the sea of strife;
You need someone.
And if you feel so all alone,
And your house is not a home;
You need someone.
If it seems life isn't fair,
And there's no one left to share;
All those lonely days and nights,
And things just won't turn out right;
And you need someone to care,
And someone to just be there;
You need someone.
2
I give you Jesus,
He's the peace that passes all understanding;
I give you Jesus,
He's the perfect love that casteth out all fear;
I give you Jesus,
He's the water that you drink and never thirst again;
I give you Jesus, my friend,
I give you Jesus,
Speak to the children of
If the pressures all around,
Keep your spirits to the ground;
You need someone.
And If your body is in pain,
And your health you can't regain;
You need someone.
And If at times when you have tried,
With all the strength you had inside;
And it seems that you have failed,
Remember on the cross He nailed
All the bitterness and grief,
To give you peace and sweet relief
He is that someone that you need.
Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto
So I give you Jesus,
He's the peace that passes all understanding;
I give you Jesus,
He's the perfect love that casteth out all fear;
I give you Jesus,
He's the water that you drink and never thirst again;
Oh I give you Jesus, my friend,
I give you Jesus,
you by the hand of Moses:
He's everything, everything you'll ever need
Oh I give you Jesus, my friend,
I give you Jesus,
3
That the slayer that killeth
So many people wait until there is no hope...
any
Health is gone
person
Family is falling appart
unawares
Life is a wreck
and
But I give you Jesus!
unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge
So what is Jesus?
The friend
24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: And there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
My shelter
1 Hear my cry, O God; Attend unto my prayer.
2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
3 For thou hast been a shelter for me, And a strong tower from the enemy.
4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.
My fortress
19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, And his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.
My strength
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, That the everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; And to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings as eagles; They shall run, and not be weary; And they shall walk, and not faint.
Jesus is asking today, are those burns heavy?
from the avenger of blood.
Are you tired of struggling under the weight of life’s load?
I give you Jesus
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The load bearer!
3 (KJV)
19
And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so
shall it be done to him;
20
Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for
tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him
again
.
21
And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that
killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
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21 (KJV)
T
he
Avenger of Blood could take your life by law if you killed by
accident of in
self
-
defense
.
A. God commands the appointment of six cities of refuge.
1. (1
-
3) A place of refuge from the avenger of blood.
The
LORD
also spoke to Joshua, saying, “Speak to the children of
Israel, saying: ‘Appoint for yourselves c
ities of refuge, of which I spoke
to you through Moses, that the slayer who kills a person accidentally
or
unintentionally may flee there; and they shall be your refuge from the
avenger of blood.’”
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a.
Appoint for yourselves cities of refuge
: God now tell
s Joshua to fulfill
what the
LORD
had commanded through Moses in
-
the
appointment of six cities of refuge.
b. The purpose of the cities of refuge was to protect
the slayer who kills
any person accidentally or unintentionally
.
They were to pr
otect
someone in the case of
manslaughter
as opposed to
murder
.
c.
And they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood
: Such a
person needed protection against the
avenger of blood
.
The Hebrew
word for this phrase is
goel
, and in this context means
the representative
from the victim’s family charged with making sure justice is carried out
against the murderer of the family member.
i. God had a passion to make sure that murderers were punished in
ancient Israel, and in that culture, the final respon
sibility for justice
rested with the designated
goel
(
avenger of blood
) in the family.
ii. The principle for capital punishment goes back to :
Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the
image of God He made man.
The
state’s right to use the sword of
execution is also stated in the New Testament (
-
4).
iii. God said also that unpunished murderers defiled the land:
Moreover
you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of
death, but he s
hall surely be put to death . . . So you shall not pollute the
land where you are; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be
made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of
him who shed it.
Therefore do not defile the
land which you inhabit, in
the midst of which I dwell; for I the
LORD
dwell among the children of
Israel.
(,
-
34).
d. The
avenger of blood
tracked down the murderer, and if necessary,
delivered him over to the authorities for execution.
This was providing
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the
testimony of two or three eyewitnesses could confirm the guilt of the
murderer according to
-
7.
e. Since the
avenger of blood
might set himself against a person really
guilty of manslaughter (accidental or unintentional killing) instead
of
murder, the cities of refuge were established to protect the person
innocent of murder.
2. (4) Entrance into the city of refuge.
And when he flees to one of those cities, and stands at the entrance of
the gate of the city, and declares his case in t
he hearing of the elders of
that city, they shall take him into the city as one of them, and give him a
place, that he may dwell among them.
a.
And declares his case in the hearing of the elders of that city
:
According to custom, the elders of the city s
pent much time at the gates
of the city.
When someone fleeing from an avenger of blood came to a
city of refuge, he stated his case to the elders at the city gates.
b.
They shall take him into the city as one of them
: After explaining the
case, the flee
ing person could expect to find protection within the walls
of the city of refuge, though he would have to stay there, and live in the
city, to enjoy that protection.
3. (5) Protection against the avenger of blood.
Then if the avenger of blood pursues
him, they shall not deliver the
slayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, but
did not hate him beforehand.
a.
They shall not deliver the slayer into his hand
: The leaders of a city of
refuge were obliged to protect the one who
had fled to the city.
The
avenger of blood
had no legal standing to deliver the slayer over to
execution.
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b.
Because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, but did not hate
beforehand
: Israel had a sophisticated legal system, with judgments
often
based on intent and premeditation.
4. (6) Freedom for the slayer.
And he shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for
judgment,
and
until the death of the one who is high priest in those days.
Then the slayer may return and come
to his own city and his own house,
to the city from which he fled.
a.
He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for
judgment, and until the death of the one who is high priest in those days
:
To be protected against the avenger
of blood, the slayer had to stay
within the walls of the city of refuge until his case was fully heard by the
proper authorities, and until the death of the standing high priest.
b.
Then the slayer may return and come to his own city
: After being
declare
d innocent of murder by the proper authorities, and after the
death of the standing high priest, the slayer could go back to his home
and be protected against the wrath of the avenger of blood.
B. Six cities selected for cities of refuge.
1. (7
-
8) The
appointment of six cities.
So they appointed Kedesh in Galilee, in the mountains of Naphtali,
Shechem in the mountains of Ephraim, and Kirjath Arba (which
is
Hebron) in the mountains of Judah. And on the other side of the Jordan,
by Jericho eastward, the
y assigned Bezer in the wilderness on the plain,
from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and
Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.
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