4/6/2023 0 Comments In touch ministries free booksThen the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. So the sons of Israel gave the Levites from their inheritance these cities with their pasture lands, according to the command of the LORD. They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, ``The LORD commanded through Moses to give us cities to live in, with their pasture lands for our cattle." Then the heads of households of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of households of the tribes of the sons of Israel. These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally may flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the congregation. So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.īeyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plain from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh. Then the manslayer shall return to his own city and to his own house, to the city from which he fled.'" `He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the one who is high priest in those days. `Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor without premeditation and did not hate him beforehand. `He shall flee to one of these cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and state his case in the hearing of the elders of that city and they shall take him into the city to them and give him a place, so that he may dwell among them. That the manslayer who kills any person unintentionally, without premeditation, may flee there, and they shall become your refuge from the avenger of blood. ``Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, `Designate the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses, However, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained. Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.īrethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, In order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,Īnd may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, Have you settled for a superficial connection with the Lord? Salvation isn’t just the door to heaven it’s the pathway to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Savior until we have the most satisfying of all possible relationships.īut whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. As we attune our hearts and minds to care about the things that matter to God, we’ll delight to do what He says. The more we get to know the Lord through His Word, the deeper our love and devotion to Him will become.Īnother vital aspect of intimacy with God is an increased desire to obey Him. It includes the engagement of our emotions as we love, serve, and worship Him. But intimacy isn’t merely an exercise of the mind. Through our reading, study, and meditation on Scripture, the Lord reveals Himself to us. Intimacy grows as we immerse ourselves in God’s Word. Is that your primary pursuit as well? When that’s our great desire, righteous living and passion for the gospel will follow. But the apostle Paul said his goal was to know Christ intimately. What’s the goal of the Christian life? Some may say it’s to become increasingly righteous or to tell others the good news of salvation.
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