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Text: Exodus 23: 19

MEDITATION

Exodus 23:19

19 The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

MEANINGFUL APPLICATION TO LIFE

1. Firstfruits offering

a. This word was a reminder.

b. Worship was something that needed to be learned.

2. Why was there this emphasis?

a. The human heart tends to be carnal.

b. Some common problems associated with the human heart:

i. It can become distracted.

ii. It can lose its focus.

iii. It can lose faith easily.

iv. It can give way to unbelief.

v. It can end up becoming disobedient.

c. This reminder was given:

i. To strengthen faith.

ii. To develop a needed relationship with God through worship.

iii. To encourage a deep sense of hope and trust in God.

iv. To believe that God will bless with a full harvest.

v. No one should begrudge giving the firstfruits to God in worship.

vi. Every act of faith would result in a stronger relationship with God.

3. A good regard for animals

a. Animals may not be human beings.

b. But they still deserve respect and good regard.

c. Boiling a young goat:

i. Some may prefer to have boiled goat’s meat for consumption.

ii. Others may prefer the meat roasted.

iii. The preference is personal and valid.

d. What is not allowed:

i. To boil the young of a goat in his mother’ milk.

ii. Technically, it may seem that this is a matter of cooking.

iii. But the challenge is to be gentle and sensitive.

iv. A mother has just lost her kid to be consumed for food.

v. There must have been some sense of loss.

vi. There is sensitivity shown to the mother goat when one does not use her milk to cook the flesh of the young goat!

经文：出埃及记 23：19

沉思

《出埃及记 23：19》

19 地里首先初熟之物要送到耶和华你神的殿。不可用山羊羔母的奶煮山羊羔。

在生活里有意义地应用

1. 初熟之物

a. 这经文是个提醒

b. 如何崇拜是需要学习的

2. 为什么要强调？

a. 人的心往往是属肉体的

b. 与人的心有关的一些常见问题：

i. 它可能会分心

ii. 它可能会失去焦点

iii. 它很容易失去信心

iv. 它可能会不信

v. 它最终可能会变得不听从

c. 给予这提醒的原因：

i. 增强信心

ii. 通过崇拜与上帝建立必要的关系

iii. 鼓励对上帝充满盼望和信心

iv. 相信上帝会赐福丰收

v. 任何人都不应当在崇拜中埋怨献出给上帝初熟之物

vi. 每一个富有信心的行为都会使我们与上帝的关系更加坚强

3. 善待动物

a. 动物虽然不是人类

b. 但是它们仍然值得尊敬和良好的尊重

c. 煮一头山羊羔：

i. 有些人可能比较喜欢吃熬的山羊肉

ii. 其他人可能比较喜欢吃烤肉

iii. 对食物有所偏爱是个人选择和合理的

d. 不允许的：

i. 用山羊羔母的奶煮山羊羔

ii. 事实上，这似乎只是烹饪的问题

iii. 但是，其中的挑战就是要富有温柔及和善

iv. 山羊羔母刚刚失去了它的幼儿，因它被当为食物

v. 山羊羔母一定有某种失落感

vi. 不使用山羊羔母的奶煮山羊羔的肉，是要表现对山羊羔母的和