Deuteronomy 25:11 says, When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: Verse twelve adds, When thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her. Moses said if a woman's husband was fighting with another man, and she grabbed the other man's private parts to help her husband, they were to cut off her hand and not pity her. This would be seen as a sign of being immodest on the woman's part, and was to be taken very seriously. We should still take modesty seriously today. Verse thirteen states, Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Moses told the people that they should not have different weights to use with different people when conducting business. They were to be honest with all people, and so should we today. Verse fourteen adds, Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. As with the weights, they were not to have different measuring devices in their house, one greater than the other. These would be used to cheat certain people while treating some, including themselves, fairly. We cannot have different standards for different people as followers of Christ, but must be honest with everyone, even if we may not like them. Verse fifteen continues, But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Moses said they were to have perfect and just weights so that their days might be lengthened which the LORD their God gave them. This meant first that they were truly God's people and second that they were obedient to Him. As Christians, we are first God's people and second we should be obedient to Him, and if we are His by accepting Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord, our days will be lengthened to forever spiritually, and this is what really matters. Verse sixteen concludes, For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. Moses said that everyone who cheated others was an abomination toGod. We cannot follow Christ and believe that our dealings with others do not matter. God still sees dishonest business dealings, especially by His people, as an abomination. We cannot think that as followers of Christ our treatment of others does not matter. Verse seventeen says, Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; Moses called on them to remember the actions of Amalek when they came out of Egypt. This happened to the generation that had died, but was to be remembered by the coming generations as to how they shouldn't behave. Verse eighteen adds, How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. Moses reminded them that Amalek met those who had fallen behind, the weakest, who had done him no harm and killed them instead of offering them aid, because he did not fear God. Verse nineteen continues, Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it. Moses said when they had achieved peace and secured the Promised Land that they were to then destroy the Amalekites completely, but never forget what he had done. We today are to completely destroy sinful actions in our lives, but we are also to let God deal with the sins of others.
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