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| I feel the lesson from Manifestation Magic this chapter is obvious. Don't be a spiritual slave driver. Don't oppress your brothers and sisters in Christ. Don't sell them back into slavery under sin with your accusing and slanderous words, your cold heart or cold shoulder, your upturned nose or you downturned smile. And that's just the lesson for us normal people under the authority of others. The lesson for the powerful, stop building churches to raise money and not warriors and champions of lost souls.
Stop condemning people and enslaving their minds to obsessing over their sins. Doing that is just like charging interest on your relatives like what was happening in chapter 5. By constantly condemning you are ensuring that person will always have more guilt they need to atone for, more than they had to begin with because you are charging their guilt with interest. In doing so you know they will always return, and you will always be supported by a church of slaves to guilt rather than a church bursting at the seams with love and salvation.
The lessons from this chapter can be applied to so many situations in our lives where we are entrusted with authority. You should be constantly checking yourself and your actions with the Word of God, and ensure that you aren't a slave driver. That you aren't vile.Chapter 8 gives us an interesting look at the Law of the ancient Israelis and their practice of it. As Ezra reads the law to all the people, they intently listen, soak it in, and let it emotionally affect them. Later they return to the law to study it even more scrupulously, and find that God is speaking to them through the law and revealing a truth that they hadn't known before. They are to build shelters a certain way for the upcoming festival that they are preparing for. This is the key here. Instead of second guessing it, or defaulting to doing what the law says next time they have a festival, the Israelis immediately act according to God's Law.
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