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Numbers chapter 35 verse 34

you shall not defile the land in which you live in the midst of which I dwell for I the

Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.

So this is the last verse at the end of two chapters in which God has outlined the borders

of the promised land where he's leading them into and he's established

certain cities for certain purposes and then he gets to the end and he says all right this land

that I'm leading to you do not defile it because I'm going to dwell among you in the midst of you.

So the whole picture is, I want this not just to be a promised land,

God says, I want this to be a blessed land,

and a land that reflects my character, my goodness, my holiness,

my purity, my love, my ways, not the ways of this world.

So it's a beautiful picture of God's design,

just picture a land where it's like,

all right, you want to see how God rules his people you want to see how

God's people love one another care for another take care of one another you want to

see how people serve one another you want to see how people serve one another. You want to see how people thrive

according to the laws of God. That's what's going to happen in this land.

Now, obviously it didn't happen. The people of God just continually turned from the law of God

did not live according to God's ways they ended up defiling the land but see the

picture and then now think about our lives today on two different levels.

So I just want to make two different applications.

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