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Text: Exodus 23: 31-33

MEDITATION

Exodus 23:31-33

31 And I will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the sea, Philistia, and from the desert to the River. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

MEANINGFUL APPLICATION TO LIFE

1. Boundaries for the nation of Israel

a. Boundaries are necessary.

b. They mark the geographical extent of the land.

c. Israel may defend its country.

d. But it must also respect other lands that lie on their borders.

2. The inhabitants in the land

a. God’s part

God will deliver them to Israel.

b. Israel’s part

It is to drive them out of their land.

3. No covenant with the inhabitants of the land

a. Covenants always involved the gods of the nations.

b. Thus, Israel must make no covenants with them.

c. For this would mean acknowledging their gods.

4. They must not dwell in the land of Canaan

a. The nations would end up corrupting Israel.

b. They would cause Israel to sin against God.

c. Israel would end up serving their gods.
Any covenant with the nations in Canaan would become a snare to Israel.

经文：出埃及记 23:31-33

沉思

《出埃及记 23:31-33》
31我要定你的境界，从红海直到非利士海，又从旷野直到大河。我要将那地的居民交在你手中，你要将他们从你面前撵出去。
32不可和他们并他们的神立约。

33他们不可住在你的地上，恐怕他们使你得罪我。你若侍奉他们的神，这必成为你的网罗。”

在生活里有意义地应用

1. 以色列国的境界

a. 他们必须有境界

b. 这是清楚地立下土地的边缘

c. 以色列人便能够保卫他们的国家

d. 他们也必须尊敬靠在他们边缘的国家

2. 拘留在那片土地的人们

a. 上帝的本分

祂将他们交到以色列人的手中

b. 以色列的本分

他们必须将这些人从这片土地撵走

3. 上帝和拘留在土地的人并没有立约

a. 上帝会与祂的子民立约

b. 所以，以色列人不能够与他们的神立约

c. 若他们立约，这便是以色列对他们所崇拜的神的认可

4. 他们不能够继续在迦南拘留

a. 其他的国家会腐败以色列

b. 他们会使以色列得罪上帝

c. 以色利会因此侍奉他们的神

若他们与迦南其他的族群立约，这将会带给以色列危害。