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The Cities of Refuge

Series: Progress as Promised
Text: Joshua 20

What should we learn from the cities of refuge?

One: The value of human life.

  • The defendant and the victim
  • For the Israelite and the stranger
  • Since all are made in the image of God

Two: The weight of civil justice.

  • Murder and rash vengeance are wrong
  • Right to a fair trial
  • Agreement of the witnesses
  • One witness is insufficient
  • Consideration of intent

Three: The hope of eternal salvation.

  • The cities of refuge were a type
  • Christ is the anti-type (fulfillment)

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