Deuteronomy 24:10-15 Bible Study | Episode 934

May 8, 2025

Hope Alive: Applying God’s Word to Your Daily Life

Deuteronomy 24:10-15 Bible Study | Episode #934

I am Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and had been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. The purpose of studying scripture is that you might know the character of Jesus Christ, and that you might see the world from the Father's perspective. That you gain wisdom that changes your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open His word to you and allow you to see Him and to know Him. To know His will, that you might glorify Him and that you might walk in faith and power each day, especially today. In Jesus name.

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Transcript

This is Chad Harrison and you're listening to Hope Applying God's word to your daily life.

Hi, this is Chad Harrison and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and have been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life.

I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open up.

His word to you and allow you.

To see him and to know him and to know his will, that you might glorify him and that you might walk in faith and power each and every day, especially today in Jesus name.

Well, good morning. Welcome to Lake Community Church's morning Bible study. We are In Deuteronomy, chapter 24, and we're dealing with verses 10 through 15,

some great economic principles, great personal economic principles as far as how we deal with people who we lend to.

And happily and excitedly. For me in my life, I was taught these things as a young man. I was taught these things as a child watching my father and my grandfathers operate in many of these principles.

And so these principles to me are eternal. They're important.

They speak less to pure economics with my economics background, but they speak more to the importance of relationship, the importance of how we deal with our fellow human beings around us and how we make sure that we do the things that cause these relationships to be fulfilled and do the things that cause us to be blessed in our community.

And so, as I read through these things, as we watch, as we kind of study them,

I want you to think about these principles and I may even add a little bit to them in the sense of some of my own experience. It says, when you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

Now, what that means is I'm lending him something and he's giving me back collateral. He's giving me back something of value to hold as collateral for a pledge. Now, the first thing I want you to notice is when you lend to your brother,

there's some very strong teaching out there, and I think it's biblical also that lending to your brother is a very dangerous thing to do as far as your personal relationship with them.

And oftentimes most of the time in my life, I have not lent to my brother at all.

I won't lend. I will give. I will give and I give not in a way that's going to cause them to be co dependent on me, meaning to be dependent on my income and my resources.

For their living. But I will definitely give to a brother in need and not take it as a loan. Now, if they want to pay me back, that's their business.

But I don't hold it in my heart, meaning I don't hold a place pledge that they're going to pay me back in my heart, because that tends to divide between people.

That causes a division for a lendor and a lende, a person who's being lent the money. And so I try not to do that. But if you're going to do that and you take something as collateral, he says, you shall stand outside and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge out to you.

Meaning you're not going to act like you now have some control over him. You're not going to treat him as if he is some type of servant to you. And these are important understandings of how we see how we deal with people.

Now it tends to indicate in this passage that this pledge is probably some item of clothing, which in modern times wouldn't be something that we would actually lend out. We would take as collateral for a pledge.

But back then,

clothing would have been very, very important because they wouldn't have had all that much clothing, especially clothing that is an outer garment that keeps you warm. And that's what probably is going on here.

And if the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight. Why? Why would I not keep his pledge overnight?

Well, the reason I wouldn't keep his pledge overnight is because it's going to keep him warm. You shall in any case return the pledge to him again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own garment and bless you.

And so we see that this is indication that the pledge is some kind of item of clothing. And it shall be righteousness to you before the Lord your God. Notice what God's saying is, if you treat your brother rightly and you treat your brother lovingly and goodly, and I don't even know if goodly is a word,

but treat him well. If you treat him well, then you're going to. You're going to. To be blessed. It's going to be counted as righteousness. Why? Because. Because taking care of your brother is, is, is, you know, one of the greatest commandments.

And in fact it is the third commandment, a new commandment Jesus gave them. And this is in the upper room before he goes to the cross. Love your love each other, meaning other believers, those people in that room love each other as I've loved you.

And understanding that that, that is, that is a, that is, that is what God asks us to do is to love each other, to, to, to be concerned about each other's needs, to meet each other's needs in a self sacrificial way.

And he says if you, if you're going to lend to your brother and, and this might even be lending something to your brother, a value that you have, that's not just money, it's likely that don't take a pledge from him.

And if you do take a pledge from him and it's something that's going to be needed by him to live, don't keep it to his detriment. Don't, don't use it as a, as a method of, of extracting from him what you lent him in order, in order to get that pledge.

These things, if you think about them, if you internalize them, you begin to understand that God is in business of blessing his children who do the things that are necessary to not only take care of each other,

but to build the kingdom and to not treat the things that you own as yours. They're not yours. God gave them to you. They're a blessing from God. And when we treat them as a blessing from God and use them to bless others, well then the kingdom is, is advanced.

It says, you shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy. Notice verse 14 says we, we notice there's a common theme here. We do not take advantage of poor of the poor.

We don't do that. He says,

whether one of your brethren or one of the aliens who's in your land with your get within your gates notice. Now we're going to the second great commandment which, which is to love your neighbor as yourself.

He says, don't oppress the poor hired servant. Somebody's working for you. Don't take advantage of them. That's a very important principle. I'm going to tell you. I've had some great, great employees.

I got some great employees. Even now in my life I've got, I've got some people that have been under me, whether they be in ministry or whether it be in business or whether it be in the law.

I've had some great people that worked under me and worked for me. And one of the things that I've learned is, is when you got great people you treat and when you've got people who don't know exactly how to do their job, you, you give them, you give them the tools necessary so that they might be successful in their life to Come you,

you, you lead them. You, you be someone that it's a blessing not only to work for, but it's a blessing to, to.

Well, I mean it's blessing far beyond work for you. It's a blessing for their life down the road. And so feeding into those around you is a.

Well, it's an important task. It's a real important task that we have. God says to those who've been given much,

much is required. And in fact we have, we have responsibility for the, for the, for the blessings God's given. God. God's given us. The parable of the talents is another one of those stories in Bible where Jesus clearly teaches us that we, that which we've been given is really the Lord's and it's been given to us for our benefit and for his kingdom benefit and for the benefit of those around us.

And so we ought to always put our gifts and our talents to work. And he says we don't treat those people around us poorly. Each day you shall give him his wage and not let the sun go down on it.

For he is poor and he has set his heart on it. Lest he cry out against you to the Lord and it be a sin to you. Now notice what he's saying is, is you've got to, you've got to be aware of those people around you whom you are responsible to.

I mean that I think, I think that is, is, is a critical understanding. You've got to be aware of the needs of those around you. It's called self awareness, by the way.

It seems weird to be, say self awareness makes you aware of those around you. Yeah, but self awareness is. Self awareness is the idea that I'm aware of how my actions impact the people I'm around.

And so having self awareness, meaning having a realization that my actions change and affect the world around me is important. And when I have that self awareness, when I have a self awareness that my sin is impacting others, we so many times have things that people say, well, that's just a,

that's just a personal sin, that, that doesn't affect anybody else. That's not true. It's not true. You are a reservoir, the power of God. You're a reservoir, the grace of God.

And when you continue to operate in such a way that you puncture holes in your reservoir,

you mar yourself as a jar of clay or as a picture of hope.

If you place holes in them and that grace seeps out because of your sin, well, that's going to affect how much of a reservoir of grace you are to others.

It just is, I'm sorry, that's a spiritual understanding that, that, that you have to get to. And the way I get to it is a realization that the things I do and the things I say and where I'm at and what I do affect not only myself then affect not only my blessings,

but they affect the lives of others around me. Always affect the lives of others around me. And others are dependent. The more you learn to be that, the more you learn to walk in it.

Well, the more you're going to be great at using your, and the more you're going to be a blessing to those around you. But the more you realize that, the more you realize that you are important to the kingdom of God.

You are a trophy of God's grace. You're a reservoir of his grace. You're a carrier of the kingdom of God.

You're actually a carrier of the image of God. And so when we think about all that, that is, well, we've got a duty and responsibility to be self aware of how our lives and how what we're doing affects others.

And if it affects others in a negative way, then I must consider whether or not that's what I should be doing.

And that doesn't mean that, that I'm placing myself under any rule or law. I'm not being legal. What I'm doing is allowing the Holy Spirit reveal certain things to me.

And so in certain situations, yeah, I'm,

I'm going to do what is in someone's best interest above myself. In other situations I might not do that because as the people as a whole will be hurt by it.

I've got to consider how I should live my life.

And the consideration in the equation is not just me, myself and I, the consideration for the equation is the world I live in, the people I live around, and those whom God has told me to love, which is everyone really,

and him especially. And so I pray that as we kind of look at these economic principles, these interpersonal lending relationship principles, you realize there's far more to it than that.

And what's more, what, what is, what is, what is, the more to it is that you are far more important, far more powerful,

far more influential on the world you live in than you ever really even know. And if you would learn to apply these principles,

and I say all the principles of scripture, you become a very important,

you become a very important trophy of God's grace in the world that you live in.

And I pray that you will do that you'll consider who you are and consider how you live each and every day. And when you see troubles and difficulties that are clearly created by you,

you would do the things that would cause your character to change, such that you would be a blessing to the world you live in and not a curse.

And God quite clearly says that it will be righteousness attributed to.

As you go today, I pray that the Lord.

Will bless you and keep you, that.

He'Ll make his face to shine upon.

You, and that he will give you.

Hope and peace today in Jesus name.