Deuteronomy 17: 1-18<\/p>\n
Purge evil without God brings dire consequences.
\nPurge can be defined as
\n1. To clear of guilt.
\n2. To cause evacuation from, e.g. purge the bowel.<\/p>\n
If you had a colonoscopy before, you would remember how a powerful laxatives purge your digestive system until your colon are clear.\u00a0 Then, your gastroenterologist scope your colon to identify and remove potential cancer cells.\u00a0 Just like Jesus Christ, He is our great doctor.\u00a0 His Law reveals our hidden sins.\u00a0 We cannot remove our sins by our own efforts.\u00a0 We have to rely on His cleansing blood on the cross to purge our sins.\u00a0 Unlike colonoscopy, we need to redo it every 5-10 years.\u00a0 Jesus Christ purges our sins once and for all.<\/p>\n
After the purging of sins, we need to carefully read His word in order to fight with our spiritual enemies.\u00a0 In Matthew 12:43-45, an unclean spirit left a man and passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.\u00a0 It decided to return to the house he left.\u00a0 The unclean spirit find the house vacant, clean and put it in order.\u00a0 It brought seven more wicked spirits to occupy that house and the final plight of the man is worse than the first.
\nA preacher once told me that if we empty our minds through meditation, we run the risk of letting evil spirits enter our minds.<\/p>\n
Therefore, brother and sister, do not practice emptying our minds without meditating on the words of God.<\/p>\n
In 14-18, God foretold the Israelites that they would reject God as their King and replaced Him with earthly king.\u00a0 The King must be an Israelite.\u00a0 The king must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them.\u00a0 He must not take many wives and accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.
\nGod told the King to write for himself on a scroll a copy of the law and to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to\u00a0revere the LORD his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees and not consider himself better than his brothers and turn for the law to the right or to the left.
\nGod promise to keep the king and his descendants reign for a long time if they follow His laws.<\/p>\n
We learn it from the Bible, the Israelite kings did not obey His commands.
\nEarthly kings are not perfect; but our perfect king, LORD Jesus Christ will one day return to this earth and reign with us forever.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0—- Alan Yam<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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