Remember When God Has Delivered You
Moses told Israel to remember the day Israel went out of Egypt by not eating leavened bread (Exo 13.3), because the children of Israel had to leave in a hurry and could not wait for bread to rise.
He said further, “On this day you are going out, in the month Abib. And it shall be, when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites…that you shall keep this service in this month…And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘This is done because of what the LORD did for me when I came up from Egypt.’ It shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the LORD’s law may be in your mouth…” (Exo 13.4–10).
The Lord wanted Israel to remember regularly what He had done for them, and that they would use the opportunity to teach succeeding generations.
Likewise, He wants us to remember what He did for us Christians by dying on the cross and so we remember Him weekly by eating the Lord’s Supper. DR
The Lord’s Definition of Marriage
We hear much these days about marriage, because a few want polygamy and many want same-sex marriages, but if we listen to the Lord, we notice that the same way in which He eliminated divorce and polygamy, He also eliminated homosexual marriages, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate” (Matt 19.4–6).
In the beginning, God set up marriage for one man and one woman. Jesus added, “the two,” in the quotation from Genesis 2:24. That means three things:
He intended marriage to be for life.
He intended marriage to be between one man and one woman.
He intended marriage to be between a man and a woman.
Yes, in the same discussion the Lord gave an exception for divorce, but even as we should contend for heterosexual monogamy, we should also contend for the permanence of marriage. DR
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