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The camel is an unclean animal. The Hebrews did not eat it because it didn’t have a separated hoof | |||
<ref group="n">Camels walk on toes with flesh on the ground.</ref>. | |||
The camel is a symbol of a judge. | |||
<ref group="v">גמל - camel, recompense (give what is deserved)</ref> | |||
<ref group="p">Camel standing behind a judges desk with gavel. Water in his hump is the Word. he carries his own word to judge by.</ref> | |||
<ref group="n">There are four voices or roles in the play that speak for God: prophet, judge, priest, king. There are four animals that carry bread in the scriptures. The donkey and camel are two. Can you find the other two?</ref> | |||
<ref group="s">{{sy| bread }}</ref> | |||
<ref group="s">{{sy| donkey }}</ref> | |||
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Being an unclean animal doesn't mean that judges are bad. It just means that they teach us something that God doesn't want us to learn | |||
<ref group="n">Like the tree in the garden</ref>. | |||
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Jesus said that we should not judge, or we too will be judged. | |||
<ref>{{bgw| Mt 7:1}} Judge not, that ye be not judged.</ref> | |||
<ref group="n">Adam and Eve both ate the fruit. But only Adam's sin brought death into the world. We can't judge them because we don't know the heart</ref> | |||
<ref>{{bgw| Ge 3:6 }} And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.</ref> | |||
<ref>{{bgw| Ro 5:12 }} Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:</ref>. | |||
<ref>{{bgw| Jer 17:9 }} The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?</ref>. | |||
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Many people see God as a great and terrible judge. But he judged all of our sins on the cross of Jesus and forgave us | |||
<ref>{{bgw| Col 2:14 }} Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;</ref> | |||
to show that he is also love | |||
Many people see God as a great and terrible judge. But he judged all of our sins on the cross of Jesus and forgave us to show that he is also love. When you are forgiven, there is no more judgement. <ref> | <ref>{{bgw| 1Jo 4:8 }} He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.</ref>. When you are forgiven, there is no more judgement. | ||
<ref>{{bgw| Ro 8:1}} [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.</ref> | |||
God's teachers teach his love, the Gospel, by showing his forgiveness through the cross. He doesn't want us to become judges. He wants us to forgive as he has forgiven. <ref> | }} | ||
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Jesus told a story about a man who owed a lot of money to a king. <ref> | God's teachers teach his love, the Gospel, by showing his forgiveness through the cross. He doesn't want us to become judges. He wants us to forgive as he has forgiven. | ||
<ref>{{bgw| Mt 5:44 }} But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;</ref> | |||
The man was shown great love through forgiveness, but then became a judge who had none. The king threw the man in prison for not also forgiving. | }} | ||
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We should not learn to be a judge, because if we judge, we will be judged. | Jesus told a story about a man who owed a lot of money to a king | ||
<ref>{{sy| debt}}</ref>. | |||
<ref>{{bgw| Mt 18:23-35 }}</ref> | |||
He could never pay it back. When the king forgave him his debt, he put his neighbor in prison for owing him just a little money. | |||
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The man was shown great love through forgiveness, but then became a judge who had none. The king threw the man in prison for not also forgiving | |||
<ref>{{sy|not forgiving}}</ref>. | |||
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We should not learn to be a judge, because if we judge, we will be judged. | |||
<ref group="n">Jesus lived a perfect life and removed all our excuses. His life judged us, so he had to be judged.</ref> | |||
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