In the Old Testament, God set up six cities of refuge so that if anyone accidentally killed another person, he could flee to those cities for safety (Exodus 21:13; Numbers 35:6-29; Deuteronomy 19:1-10; Joshua 20:1-9).<\/p>\n
An individual was not safe from the avenger of blood until he was within the place of safety, and he had to make haste lest his pursuer overtake and slay him.<\/p>\n
Just as a person who had accidentally killed his neighbor was assured of safety if he gained entrance into a city of refuge, the one who is in Christ has refuge from sin and condemnation (Romans 6:17-18; Romans 8:1).<\/p>\n
Those of us who have obeyed Christ, and are living faithfully in Him, are the ones, “who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us<\/strong>” (Hebrews 6:18-20).<\/p>\n Dear reader, will you not also flee for refuge in Christ today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the Old Testament, God set up six cities of refuge so that if anyone accidentally killed another person, he could flee to those cities for safety (Exodus 21:13; Numbers 35:6-29; Deuteronomy 19:1-10; Joshua 20:1-9). An individual was not safe from the avenger of blood until he was within the place of safety, and he … Continue reading “Fleeing For Refuge – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}