The NXR Podcast - July 19, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - The Danger Of Misguided Hospitality To Strangers


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

150.67

Word count

428

Sentence count

26


Summary

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The Bible doesn't tell us how to treat strangers. It tells us how we should treat our own family. And we exercise hospitality. But we don't exercise hospitality at the expense of our own children. We exercise hospitality with strangers.

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00:00:00.000 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
00:00:06.700 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. Here's a fun fact, another Christian myth buster. None of
00:00:15.400 those three words in the Hebrew are translated as an illegal immigrant. Not one of them.
00:00:22.040 they're all immigrants but they're all there legally they're all there legally and there is
00:00:31.920 a certain criteria that must be met to be there and one of the criteria is that if you're going
00:00:37.540 to be in this land with this people there is a certain culture culture coming from the latin
00:00:44.700 word cultus which is worship there's a certain way of worship that affects everything that we
00:00:51.160 have in this society. And it's dear to us. It's precious. And we exercise hospitality, right?
00:00:59.260 Remember, hospitality is not exercise to your own family. Hospitality, by virtue of being hospitality,
00:01:04.040 is kindness to strangers. So we believe here in Israel in hospitality. But we don't exercise
00:01:13.080 hospitality at the expense of our own children. We do not exercise hospitality at the expense of
00:01:22.380 our own people. Now, I understand that some woke evangelicals at this point might object and say,
00:01:27.060 well, I mean, there were all these different laws in the Old Testament about how to treat
00:01:31.440 the sojourner and how to do this and how to do that. And it was costly. Not really.
00:01:36.640 let me give you an example when you're threshing wheat when you have a certain crop and it's time
00:01:44.280 now to harvest under the old testament the mosaic law for israel you could not harvest all the way
00:01:51.740 to the edges of your crop but you were supposed to leave the margins now let's think about that
00:01:57.780 just practically for a second it's not that god commands you only get to harvest the margins
00:02:05.300 and you leave the 98% of the crop for the sojourner.
00:02:10.700 No, you get your crop.
00:02:13.160 You are leaving a fraction of it for the sojourner.
00:02:15.800 And furthermore, the Bible also doesn't say,
00:02:19.740 go ahead and harvest all of it, including the margins,
00:02:22.800 and then take the margin harvest and put it in bushels
00:02:26.860 and pack it up nicely with a bow and a ribbon on top
00:02:30.940 and then give that to the sojourner.
00:02:32.840 No, it says, leave it.
00:02:34.180 What are you leaving?
00:02:35.300 You're leaving produce.
00:02:36.700 You're also leaving a job.
00:02:38.940 If they want it,
00:02:40.640 they're going to have to thresh the wheat.
00:02:43.540 You're not taking it for them.
00:02:45.880 You're leaving the task
00:02:48.060 and the produce for them.