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Last Updated on : July 10, 2013

 

 

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April 25th - Deut. 10

Love Ye Therefore The Stranger


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"For the Yahweh your Elohim is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty and a terrible, which regardeth not persons nor taketh reward: He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt."

This wide compassion is part of our understanding of God. He giveth His rain to the good and evil, and causeth His sun to shine on the just and unjust. So the Israelite must love the Israelite and the stranger, having compassion on every man who was oppressed. In this Jesus our Lord excelled: his words to the Samaritan woman at the well, to the Syrophoenician woman whose child was sick, to the woman who was a sinner, were all examples of his extensive mercy on those in need. If we would capture this spirit our lives would be enriched. It would increase our understanding of men, invigorate our preaching, and free us from the sin of "respect of persons" which besets us in a variety of forms.

Harry Tennant, Moses My Servant, pages 176-177

 


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