Leviticus 24:19 Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner: 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury.
PRAISE THE LORD,
Leviticus 24:19 is our lead scripture for today. Bible scripture must always be translated with scripture; when THE LORD speaks; you must find it in the bible. Who are these people who do injury to their neighbour? And who is this neighbour? And who is HE that declares revenge?
Romans 12:19 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord.
This vengeance, revenge was not for you. Many have used this scripture to justify their evil ways. It was never about our personal interests and gains. The Bible is spiritual, and it has been about THE LORD himself talking to the church and Israel. The Bible is an instruction from GOD that its purpose is to bring reconciliation between the children back to their father. THE LORD has sworn to take vengeance, and HE will do it.
From our lead scripture who is the neighbour? Who is this neighbour that is very important to THE LORD, that when you hurt, THE LORD promised HE MUST revenge? Aaaaih! Who is this neighbour THAT THE LORD is saying, Love your neighbour as you love yourself.
Mathew 22:37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
All the servants of GOD lean on these two commandments, Love THE LORD your GOD with all your heart, Love your neighbour as you love yourself. All people who testify by their tongue and lives that JESUS IS LORD, live by these two commandments. These two commandments are their life, their everything. Then who is this neighbour, is it your spouse? Or your family; father, mother, children? Let us see what THE LORD says about them.
Luke 14:25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. 27 And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
When it comes to family and own self, the word THE LORD uses is HATE, HATE. The price, and the cost of following JESUS. Let’s first understand what it means to love according to the bible.
John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
There is no greater love than to give up your life, to lay down your life, for a friend. John 3:16 HE laid down HIS life on the cross (Mathew 27, 2nd Samuel 14:14), HE was crucified and persecuted for your sake. Now this is LOVE. THE LORD is saying that many are going to HELL because they idolise their families, marriages and their lives. They love themselves more than they love GOD. They are ready to lose their life to eternity in the Lake of Fire because of the momentary pleasures in this world. Love; is to lay down your life for something. Love THE LORD your GOD, with all your heart; with no spec of a doubt, you are always willing to lay down your life that THE WILL OF GOD may prevail. Love your neighbour; love JESUS; Always ready and willing to lose your life for JESUS; the true cost of following JESUS. Love only GOD and GOD alone, that is the first and the last commandment.
Therefore the neighbour the bible mentions is JESUS CHRIST; THE MIGHTY GOD. Back to our lead scripture:
Leviticus 24:19 Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner: 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury.
Anyone who injures their neighbour will be injured in the same manner.
Hebrews 6:4 It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age 6 and who have fallen[c] away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.
Already JESUS went to the cross. Why are you sending HIM over there again and again every time you wallow back into sin? Why is the church wallowing in sin? And yet JESUS already went to the cross? Why are they inflicting injury again to THE MESSIAH? Could it be every time you wallow back in sin, HE hears the bang of the nail peirce on HIS hands? HE hears the words from the church saying crucify, crucify, crucify; we want Barnabas. The church is rejecting JESUS again and again, even after HE went to the cross, died, and was resurrected again. The church is behaving like it needs another deliverance. As if the first deliverance was not enough. Aaaaaaaih! Why are you still wallowing back into sin? Why is the church still in sexual immorality, sexual lust, false prophets, gospel of prosperity, idolatry? Why are you subjecting JESUS to public shame?
Every time you wallow back to sin, you are inflicting injury to THE LORD, TO THE MESSIAH, TO MY KING. And THE LORD is saying, there are consequences, this will not go unpunished.
Isaiah 61:2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
Repent, Repent, Repent and turn away from sin. For the judgement of GOD is coming. Without Holiness, the church will miss rapture, they will slip into the eternal lake of fire. Without Holiness, the church will slip into tribulation; when God’s wrath will befall all the inhabitants of the earth that rejected JESUS.
Revelation 14:20 They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
Revelation 6:16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us[f] from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of their[g] wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”
Isaiah 63: NIV(God’s Day of Vengeance and Redemption)
1 Who is this coming from Edom,
from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson?
Who is this, robed in splendor,
striding forward in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, proclaiming victory,
mighty to save.”
2
Why are your garments red,
like those of one treading the winepress?
3
“I have trodden the winepress alone;
from the nations no one was with me.
I trampled them in my anger
and trod them down in my wrath;
their blood spattered my garments,
and I stained all my clothing.
4
It was for me the day of vengeance;
the year for me to redeem had come.
5
I looked, but there was no one to help,
I was appalled that no one gave support;
so my own arm achieved salvation for me,
and my own wrath sustained me.
6
I trampled the nations in my anger;
in my wrath I made them drunk
and poured their blood on the ground.”
The sweet JESUS, the child on the manger; this world knows. On that day, there will be no mercy, no grace. JESUS HIMSELF, THE MIGHTY GOD; HE will smash people with HIS anger; the day of HIS vengeance. You don’t want to face the wrath of GOD. Receive JESUS now wholeheartedly, there is no other time. And turn away from sin completely.
If you want LORD JESUS to show you mercy, then have some mercy. (Mathew 27) The cost of your salvation was a heavy price that in this life we will never understand.
Repent, Repent, Repent, The kingdom of GOD has drawn nearer. Please prepare.
Hallelujah.