King James Daily Bible Study: God Takes The Blame
Date: Thursday February 10, 2011
Chapters: Leviticus 24-25
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Details of Today's Reading: Oil for the lamps to be burned daily, the shewbread, the law against blasphemy, all blasphemers are stoned, the sabbath of rest for the land every seventh year, the year of jubilee every fiftieth year, redemption of the land and houses, compassion on the poor, and the laws respecting bondmen.

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The word blaspheme is defined as to speak evil of, to swear, slander, or abuse, especially toward God or in reference to Him. We all go through things in life or see things happening and wonder at times why God allows them to happen. That is natural and God expects and accepts our questions, even when we get angry or upset. It is not God that we are really angry with, it is the person or circumstance, God just happens to take the blame for it. The Bible says, “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil...Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.” - Ephesians 4:26,27,29-32.

God can handle anger, what He can not handle is speaking evil of, slandering, or abusing His name. Think about it. How do you feel when someone speaks lies about you? Or even worse judges you because you chose not to participate in some stupid pastime or act that others are doing? It makes you angry, right? You just want to go up to the person who started it all and smack them, right? Well, speak bad about God and you will get worse than a smack. There was a man among the Israelites, who was married to a Israelite woman that found our first hand the cost of blaspheming God.

“And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp; And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:) And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them...And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin. And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.” - Leviticus 24:10-12,15, 16.

Today, we are lucky that this law is no longer in effect, but the same rule applies to the blasphemer, to the one who curses God, he shall bear his sin, that is, bare the punishment for cursing God. Out of all the things we can do with our bodies nothing is more dangerous than the speaking of the tongue. “And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell...Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom...And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.” - James 3:6,13,18. There is a saying I remember growing up, “Sticks and stone may break my bones, but words may never hurt me.” Words do hurt and they can destroy our relationship with God, but they can also mend it. “Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity. Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry: And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.” - Psalm 106:43-45.

Even God repents of His anger when we humbly go before Him, regardless of what people think, God does have compassion on His people, even when they mess up. God does not want to cause hurt upon anyone, we really do it to our ourselves, God just takes the blame for it. The year of jubile was a time of restoration, it was a yearlong period to be observed by the Jews once every fifty years, during which Jewish slaves were to be freed, alienated lands were to be restored to the original owner or an heir, and all agricultural labors were to be suspended.

“And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field...Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God:for I am the LORD your God. Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.” - Leviticus 25:10-12,17-19.

To fear God is to have respect for Him, to acknowledge Him, and to just live a moral life with Him in it. We can all fear God and mean it if we just let go of the things that cause us to jump out of His safety zone. The majority of people that walk away from God do it because they can not let go of the past, are angry with something that someone has or they themselves have done, or have the false sense that following God I supposed to take all their care away. God did not promise to take the problems away, but He did promise to help us through the problems, if we just trust Him, even if we cause the problem ourselves. We can not live for God and not be blessed, if we are doing the best we can to live right and trusting in God we are going to be blessed as we endure the circumstances. “Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.” - I Peter 4:12,13.

God took on the blame for all of our sins when He came down here through His Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus bared all the iniquities of our sins for us so we can not only be reconciled with God, but escape the burning fire of hell, all who ask Jesus to save them escape this horrid fate. “Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.” - Romans 5:9-11. Praise God!

Jesus Said, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 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. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” - Matthew 11:28-30. No matter what you have done in your life, Jesus will save you if you just go to Him. He has already taken the blame for you by giving His life for you, show Him how thankful you are and how much you love Him by going to Him. He will change your life for the better, but He can not change it as long as you keep holding on to the one thing that you can not let go of. It is time to let go and just go to Jesus.

Jesus Christ Revealed: Today Jesus is revealed through the shewbread and oil that remained in the tabernacle (24:2-7). Jesus is our light and the bread of life, “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” - John 6:51.

Thanks and God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

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