The Sixth Word and the Advent of Vindicating

The Sixth Word, Part Three
Sermon Notes for November 21, 2010 by Pastor Dennis Tuuri

Deuteronomy 5:17 You shall not kill (a man).

Intro - Tentative Advent Season Sermon Schedule
11/21 - Dt 19:13-21 The Advent of Vindication
11/28 - Dt. 20 The Advent of the Anointed of the War
12/5 - Dt. 21 The Advent of Atonement and Honor
12/12 - Dt. 22:1-8 The Advent of Neighborliness
12/19 - Dt. 5:18 The Advent of Purity

Ex. 21:12-14 (PUP); Num. 35:16-34 (PUP) ; Dt. 4:41-43 (CUC), Joshua 2:2-9 (UCU) Deut. 19 (CUCP)

Word Biblical Commentary Overview of Chapter 19
A The six cities of refuge in the promised land 19:110
B Intentional murderersPurge the guilt of innocent blood 19:1113
X The inviolability of boundary markers 19:14
B Laws about witnessesPurge the evil from your midst 19:1519
A Lex talionis is intended as a deterrent to false witness 19:20,21

Deuteronomy 19:11-20 and the Protection of Life

11 But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and strikes him fatally so that he dies,
and he flees into one of these cities,
12 then the elders of his city
shall send and take him from there,
and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

A. 13 Your eye shall not pity him,
B. but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may be well with you.
C. 14 You shall not move your neighbors landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
15 A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any iniquity or for any sin in connection with any offense that he has committed.