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FEBRUARY 6
Jesus warns against using the titles of “Rabbi…father…teachers” (vv. 8–10). Here Jesus con-
demns pride and pretense, not titles per se. Paul repeatedly speaks of “teachers”in the church, and
even refers to himself as the Corinthians’“father” (1 Cor. 4:15). Obviously, this does not forbid the
showing of respect either (see 1 Thess.5:11,12;1 Tim.5:1).Christ is merely forbidding the use of such
names as spiritual titles, or in an ostentatious sense that accords undue spiritual authority to a
human being, as if he were the source of truth rather than God.

February 6 before Me empty); and the Feast of Harvest,
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the firstfruits of your labors which you have
sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering
Exodus 23:1–24:18
at the end of the year, when you have gathered
“You shall not circulate a false report. in the fruit of your labors from the field.
23 Do not put your hand with the wicked 17 “Three times in the year all your males
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to be an unrighteous witness. You shall not shall appear before the Lord GOD.
follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify 18 “You shall not offer the blood of My sacri-
in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to fice with leavened bread; nor shall the fat of
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pervert justice. You shall not show partiality My sacrifice remain until morning. The first
to a poor man in his dispute. of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring
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“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey into the house of the LORD your God. You shall
going astray, you shall surely bring it back to not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
him again. If you see the donkey of one who 20 “Behold, I send an Angel before you to
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hates you lying under its burden, and you keep you in the way and to bring you into the
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would refrain from helping it, you shall surely place which I have prepared. Beware of Him
help him with it. and obey His voice; do not provoke Him, for
“You shall not pervert the judgment of your He will not pardon your transgressions; for
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poor in his dispute. Keep yourself far from a My name is in Him. But if you indeed obey
false matter; do not kill the innocent and righ- His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be
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teous. For I will not justify the wicked. And an enemy to your enemies and an adversary
you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the to your adversaries. For My Angel will go
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discerning and perverts the words of the before you and bring you in to the Amorites and
righteous. the Hittites and the Perizzites and the
“Also you shall not oppress a stranger, for Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites;
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you know the heart of a stranger, because you and I will cut them off. You shall not bow
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were strangers in the land of Egypt. down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do
“Six years you shall sow your land and according to their works; but you shall utterly
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gather in its produce, but the seventh year overthrow them and completely break down
you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor their sacred pillars.
of your people may eat; and what they leave, 25 “So you shall serve the LORD your God,
the beasts of the field may eat. In like manner and He will bless your bread and your water.
you shall do with your vineyard and your olive
grove. Six days you shall do your work, and
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on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox
and your donkey may rest, and the son of your 23:23 My Angel. Usually taken to be a refer-
female servant and the stranger may be ence to the Angel of Yahweh, who is distin-
refreshed. guished from the Lord who talks about Him as
“And in all that I have said to you, be cir- another person. Yet, He is identified with Him
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cumspect and make no mention of the name of by reason of His forgiving sin and the Lord’s
other gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth. name being in Him (v. 21). Neither Moses nor
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“Three times you shall keep a feast to Me some other messenger or guide qualify for
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in the year: You shall keep the Feast of such descriptions. The key to victory in the
Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened upcoming takeover of the Land would not be
bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the Israel’s military skill but the presence of this
time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it Angel, who is the preincarnate Christ.
you came out of Egypt; none shall appear
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