Oil and bread, and a foul-mouth son
I. Give me oil in my lamp, keep it burning… (1-4)
II. Man shall not live by bread alone; but there’d better be bread on the table every day…(5-9)
III. Watch your mouth son, or the neighbors will kill you…(10-23)
Meditation Points:
- How often have you heard a TV chef recommend extra-virgin olive oil? Do you see what kind of oil God requires for the oil-burning lamps in the Tabernacle?
- The way to God is not a leap in the dark; it is a well-lit path of repentance and faith in His Son Jesus.
- 12 loaves of bread on the table? 12 sons of Jacob, 12 tribes of Israel.
- His mother was a Hebrew; his father was not. It’s too bad that this son of Shelomith didn’t listen to his mother as did another son of a mixed marriage (Timothy, in Acts 16:1-3)
- See the death penalty for blasphemy and murder.
- Eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Isn’t that how God’s justice works today?
- “For I am the Lord your God.” (v. 22). Is there a better reason to obey God?
- One law for citizens and the same law for foreigners.
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