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)