Do you have a new heart?
Ezekiel 36:26-27
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.”
You matter.
What you believe matters.
What you do matters.
Anyone telling you different is preaching a different gospel.
#shabbatshalom
https://firstcenturychristianity.net/you-matter/
There's an interesting chiastic structure in Deuteronomy 16:16-17:12.
Injustice invites idolatry and idolatry, in turn, encourages injustice. Injustice against man is akin to injustice against God, because we are His image.
#biblepatterns
https://soilfromstone.blogspot.....com/2016/09/a-chias
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By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down.
Proverbs 29:4 ESV
The nation prospers when the rulers ensure justice without prejudice and without being subject to bribery. However, rulers who accept bribes create capricious laws that favor those with the deepest pockets.
The Jebusites in Jerusalem are like sin in our lives. Israel could never get rid of them on their own. It took David, a foreshadowing of the Messiah, to finally rid them of that blight.
https://rumble.com/vcmb73-the-....jebusites-and-messia
And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before YHWH, to walk after YHWH and to keep his commandments...and all the people joined in the covenant.
2 Kings 23:3
A leader needs the buy-in of his subordinates--or at least of his lieutenants--in order to make any real change. Without it, he will never be able to break free of the mistakes of his predecessors. Unfortunately, their agreement in this case seems to have been a farce since they all turned their back on this covenant the moment he died.