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Ezekiel chapter 22 verses six and seven.

Behold the princes of Israel in you,

everyone according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.

Father and Mother are treated with contempt in you.

The sojourner suffers extortion in your midst. The fatherless and the

widow are wronged in you. This is at the beginning of a paragraph of a list of specific ways that God's

people have dishonored Him by dishonoring others have not glorified him by ignoring people in need,

extorting people in need,

treating people in need, treating people with contempt.

How from verse six, the people with power

have used that power for their own gain and for others hurt.

Such a clear reminder that when God entrusts power, influence leadership to anyone, he intends that for the good of others,

not for the harm of others.

And yet, we are all tempted in this world to take power

influence that we have and to use it to harm others. Verse 7, Father and Mother are treated with contempt in you.

The dishonoring of fathers and mothers in a way that goes directly against God's word, God's design for children

and parents. The sojourner suffers extortion in your midst all throughout scripture we see God commanding his people to care for the sojourner

the immigrant the one who is away from his or her homeland in your midst,

care for the sojourner.

The fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.

Another two groups of people the orphan and the widow who got over and over and over again

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