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Deuteronomy 23:1 · BSB
23:1 No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.
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…turned away at the temple gates. Despite his long and arduous journey to get to Jerusalem, he may have gotten to the temple and been turned away.Deuteronomy 23:1is blunt about it. It says, Eunuchs shall not be admitted to the assembly of the Lord. The assembly of the Lord was sort of the inner part of the…
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…the knife of circumcision as the ticket into the family of God. Paul says, Fine, if the knife gains you entry, then go all the way with it. BecauseDeuteronomy chapter 23, verse 1, and this is what he's referring back to, bars that exact man from the assembly of the Lord. Deuteronomy 23, 1 says that eunuchs were not allowed…
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…this step of faith, and he asks the question What prevents me from being baptized? This is an important question for this eunuch to ask becauseDeuteronomy chapter 23, verse 1, it excludes eunuchs from full participation in any assembly that Israel holds. And now this eunuch has an encounter with a man who is teaching him…
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…service, [SPEAKER_00]: He's man, he was made a unique. [SPEAKER_00]: We tracked in, I don't need to go more detailed than that. [SPEAKER_00]: So,Deuteronomy 23 verse 1says this. [SPEAKER_00]: It says, no one who has been amastulated by crushing or the cutting may enter the assembly of the Lord. [SPEAKER_00]: So,…
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…with the royal treasury. And the fact that he's possessing Isaiah suggests that he had a significant education to be able to afford an entire book.Deuteronomy chapter 23, verse 1, it placed restrictions on a eunuch's participation and education in Israel's assembly, while Isaiah 56 later holds a prophetic promise of…
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…to life. Next, he's a eunuch. Now, this detail I think carries the most significant theological implications in the entire passage. You see, inDeuteronomy 23, verse 1, the law of Moses was explicit. In fact, it's too explicit for me to read with some children in the room. So I'll just say, here's what it says A…
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…not his skin color, it's his being a eunuch. Spiritually speaking, as far as the community is concerned, he's damaged goods. You can take a look atDeuteronomy chapter 23, verse 1, and see what I'm talking about. So, what's the issue? Well, for a Jew, a son of Abraham, he couldn't enter the temple to formally worship to offer…
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…is it included that this is a eunuch? And why is it such a big deal? Well, we have to understand that in Philip's day, this was a big deal. Here isDeuteronomy chapter 23 verse 1. No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting, because that's somehow better, may enter the assembly of the Lord. In other words, if it…
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…No one of a legitimate birth shall enter the assembly of Yahweh. Even to the tenth generation, none of his seed shall enter the assembly of Yahweh,Deuteronomy 23, verses 1and 2. The law concerning the eunuch is paramount to calling him, as in our passage, the last part of verse 3, a dry tree, a dry tree. What does…
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…come but so close into the presence of God. So he goes to worship God, but he's met with resistance. In addition to that, he also was a eunuch.Deuteronomy 23:1tells us that if a man is a eunuch, that he's not even permitted to be a part of the sacred assembly. So let's think about this for a moment. This…
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…as we remember from studying the gate called beautiful a couple of weeks ago, they had kept people out of the gate. In fact, Deuteronomy did say inDeuteronomy 23:1, that no one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting could enter the assembly of God. So this man came all this way, but he couldn't go in.…
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…to the Mosaic law, there were a lot of people who were not allowed in the temple to worship Lepers, diseased people and sexually altered people.Deuteronomy 23, verse 1. You're not allowed in here. Verse 1. You're not allowed in here. Here's a man who has literally thrown everything aside in a major spiritual…
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…he gets into the gentile court, but probably doesn't even gain access to the Gentile court. Uh why do you say that, Greg? Well, if you look atDeuteronomy chapter 23, verse 1, and I'm gonna read this in the NIV, which is a little less descriptive. I see we have some kids in here, but you'll get the idea. It says uh in…
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…of the position of eunuchs during the Old Testament age telling us very very specifically that they were isolated from the worshipping community.Deuteronomy 23:1, no one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord. Bible doesn't mean it doesn't get bothered…
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…their hopes that the fulfillment he's seeking is finally going to be found. But of course we know what would have happened. Because we know whatDeuteronomy chapter 23 verse 1says. That no eunuchs are allowed in the temple. So 500 miles on the road, he would have pulled up to the temple and he would have been told, no…
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…to go into the court of Gentiles, that would be it for him. He didn't have full communion, in a sense, with God, worshipping with God's people.Deuteronomy chapter 23, verse 1says, It's speaking of eunuchs, and there is more to say about that, and maybe it'll hit the Sunday follow-up on Wednesday when I send it out. But…
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…they just didn't fit in. And then we know from the law of God in the Old Testament, within the rules of who could enter the temple, we read inDeuteronomy 23:1no one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord. I know, not your memory verse. I know that.…
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…have children was absolutely devastating. And from a religious point of view, the news was even worse. Because according to the law, according toDeuteronomy 23 verse 1, no castrated man could ever enter into the assembly of the Lord. That might seem really harsh to you. Because given that most eunuchs weren't so…
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…accepting you. I'm welcoming you. Come. He also speaks here to the eunuchs. Now eunuchs, again, are a group that in ancient Israel were outsiders.Deuteronomy, chapter 23, verse 1, bans eunuchs from coming to worship in the temple. And there was a historian around the time of Jesus named Josephus who wrote down just a brief…
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…than going into it, but suffice to say, gentlemen, you don't want to be one. Now, the reason that's significant, though, is that if we go back toDeuteronomy 23, verse 1there, part of the Jewish law, we see that eunuchs essentially can never be full members of God's people. Added to this is the fact that he's an…
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