Deuteronomy 25:11-16 Bible Study | Episode 938

May 14, 2025

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

Deuteronomy 25:11-16  Bible Study | Episode #938

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 25,

not far from the end, just maybe eight, nine chapters away.

We are. We're moving toward. We're moving toward the book of Joshua. I'm looking forward to it. In fact, Deuteronomy ends by transitioning from Moses to Joshua. So that's. That's something to look forward to and, and look forward to the discussion of going into the promised land.

It's a very important discussion. There are some,

I guess, you know, maybe. Maybe some things that we'll be discussing that are a little bit difficult to deal with as far as if you have kids in the car.

So we'll. We'll try to be as discreet as possible when we're dealing with this. And likewise, today we have one of them. And, and sometimes when you read a passage of scripture,

and especially in the Pentateuch, in, In the first five books of the Old Testament, and to tell you the truth, as you get on into history books,

it. There are things that happen that you just sometimes don't even have really, an answer for.

They're interesting,

maybe even funny in some ways. This passage is. Well, I mean, I guess it is funny.

And in. In.

In a real way,

uh, it. You begin to ask yourself, okay, this. This has some picture for us, but I'm not sure what it is.

And, And I don't. I don't know exactly what the purpose is here other than just to warn women not to do this. And that's really all I got for you on this one this morning.

It says if two men fight together and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband.

So we got two men fighting,

one man is losing, and his wife is. Is trying to help him out.

Okay,

that's really all I can say about that. All right? And it says, and she's Rescuing him or rescuing her husband from the hand of one attacking him and puts her hand and seizes him.

Well,

seizes him.

There's three more words there. But anyway,

seizes him that way,

just for the kids in the car.

Then you shall cut off her hand.

Your eye shall not pity her.

Well, you know, when we're talking about this, like I said, there's some passages. I'm not quite sure what the picture is telling us here.

A faithful wife fighting for her husband can't do that.

And that is.

That's the rule. That's. That was the law,

and that's the end of it. I've really given you all I can give you on that one. Okay.

And I'm sure if I put it in the back of my brain. And by the way, that's kind of how I do when I run across a passage. I really don't have an A.

I don't. I can't correlate it directly to the New Testament. I can't tie it off somewhere in the Bible. And by the way, all scripture ties to each other, right?

I mean,

all scripture helps us. Helps us interpret and understand the rest of Scripture.

And so this has a purpose and a reason for it. It has a meaning.

And whenever I run across something like this that I really can't tie off to anything, I don't. I don't in my mind,

really get the understanding of it. And I've tried the commentaries, and there's really not anything that I think was really good about that.

When I look at those who've made comments about it,

I can't find how it ties off. Well, I put it in the back of my mind because that really means that that's something that I need to. I need to hold back there and just think about,

because at some point in time, the future, God's liable to show me how it's tied off.

This one, no, no, nothing today.

And it is kind of funny and not really funny because women,

God's really against that. Just letting you know,

hope you never in that situation.

And by the way, two men, Two. Two married men shouldn't be fighting. Just letting you know that, you know, that's for. That's for children,

not for adults. And I know we have a lot of adult men who like to do stuff like this,

and they're before me in court.

They like to get in fist fights as adult men.

Okay,

You. You do really don't want to be in court in front of me doing stuff like this. Okay. All right. You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light.

Okay,

um,

what's this talking about? Well, it's talking about weights and measures in order to conduct business.

So I would have a bag of weights, and if I was buying some produce from somebody or if I was buying some minerals from somebody, we would put it on the.

On the scale, and then we would put a weight beside it, and that would figure out the exact weight of whatever I was purchasing.

And what God's saying here is you can't have two sets of weights, one that's heavy and one that's light,

so that. So that you can take advantage of someone.

He says you shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small,

not a heavy and a light, not a large and a small.

You can't have those things. If you have those things in your house, then you're a thief.

Okay, so we've got. We've got assault in verse 11 and 12,

and how that should not be handled by the wife of the two men who are fighting.

The wives of the two men who are fighting. Then you have in this one theft. You. You shall not have differing measurements or differing, differing methods of measuring so that other people.

You're cheating other people. You. You shall not do that. All right,

he says you can't do it. You shall have a perfect and just weight,

a perfect and just measure,

that your days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. Now, God is saying that this is of such importance that you not cheat people,

that it will cause you.

It will. It will determine how long you're going to walk in the blessings of God in the land.

Now, I'm telling you that that's true in the law, and that's the only thing I can really go to, to kind of explain it to you, because our Western culture and our laws today are based off of British common law, which come from scripture.

And there were certain crimes that were considered crimes that grew out of a moral character or a moral character that was marred or dysfunctional or.

Well, just to tell you the truth,

they believed that it was a character that might be.

Especially in the Middle Ages, on into the Renaissance, they considered it a crime such that your character may not ever be able to be changed.

And what was interesting about those crimes were murder was not one of those crimes because murder could easily, easily come from a passionate, a fight, an argument. You raised emotions.

But there were crimes that were considered crimes that. That. That were of such a moral, such a Low moral character that the person needed to be judged and executed or dealt with immediately.

And interestingly enough,

those crimes were theft and, and sexual assault. Some,

some, some type of sexual assault.

And you'll see that in the old west, if something like that happened,

if someone assaulted someone sexually or someone stole someone's property, they would just hang them. In the wild, wild west,

that was what they considered frontier justice. And what that means is it's just baseline justice. Justice that is just the very basis of.

If you were, if you were caught doing something like those two things,

well, you would be hung. Now if you, if you got in a gunfight, you, you might not be hung.

Might be, it might be a, might be a,

something that was of, of such an emotional state, a fight over something that was such, of such importance between the two parties that it didn't reveal a flaw in the character.

It just revealed a difficult situation. Which is interesting when you think about that.

It's very interesting.

Well, in this situation,

God obviously forbids the shedding of innocent blood, but he does not forbid the shedding of blood, period.

Meaning there, there were situations where a person would be right to kill another person.

Self defense and a lot of other situations.

But in, in this situation and in sexual assault situations, you see in, in the Old Testament that there's no, that God doesn't offer any grace in those situations. Theft is one of those situations.

Theft is one of those crimes that God says,

you know, you're acting so much like the enemy,

you, you can't, you can't be redeemed in the law.

Now we know you can be redeemed from both of those things in the New Testament. Okay, we know that God's redemption through Jesus Christ is able to do that for everything.

Okay, for everything.

But, but here you quite clearly see that a person who is a thief is dealt with severely.

And God says,

if you have separate weights, meaning you're cheating someone out of their,

out of their livelihood, out of their money,

out of their value,

the things that they've created themselves,

you're going to be cut off from the promises of God.

He says, for all who do such things,

all who behave unrighteously are an abomination to the Lord your God,

huh?

So thievery or cheating someone out of the product of their labor, how they, the things that they created with their own work,

God says,

not going to have it, going to cut that off.

That's very interesting.

Something that you ought to put in the back of your mind.

God understands certain things that would grow out of an emotional rage and emotional sadness and emotional struggle. And he recognizes something that's an internal flaw in a character.

And that flaw in character God says I can't have in Israel because it'll destroy society.

Interesting Bible.

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.