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I'm Patrick Miller. When people asking me for my favorite verse, I usually answer with a joke

verse. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because I find the question too hard. But today, we're

going to look at one of my go-to verses when I'm asked that particular

question, Deuteronomy 22 verse 8. Of course people give me a curious look when I say that, so

then I tell them to look it up. And when they pull out their phones and they read this gem of a verse

their faces quickly changed from curiosity to confusion. Surely I misspoke

this could not be one of my favorite verses but the honest truth is

that it really is and I'm not actually joking because embedded in this verse is

an ethical principle that unlocked how to read God's law and apply it in the present.

I guess I better read the verse to you.

Deuteronomy 22 verse 8.

When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house if anyone should fall from it.

So first, let me describe what this law is, and then second explore how it gives us principles for applying

God's law to our lives in the present. In the ancient world every part of the

house was used I mean they didn't have giant houses so you got to use everything

even the roof because Israel gets I mean they didn't have giant houses so you got to use everything.

Even the roof.

Because Israel gets very little rain,

their roofs weren't slanted like European houses.

Instead, their roofs were flat,

which meant that the roof was kind of like in additional room.

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