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SAY 'NO' TO ENSLAVEMENT

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DAILY MANNA
SUNDAY, JUNE 14 2020

It is advisable that you prayerfully and meditatively read the text first

SAY 'NO' TO ENSLAVEMENT 
TEXT: DEUTERONOMY 15:12-23.

🔑KEY VERSE 
"And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee" (DEUTERONOMY 15:12).

On December 2, 1808, in his annual message to Congress, widely reprinted in most newspapers, President Thomas Jefferson denounced the "violation of human rights" attending the international slave trade and called for its criminalisation.

The Lord, in this chapter, prohibited the Israelites from keeping fellow Israelites servants beyond six years. On the seventh year, they should be set free and allowed to go wherever they want without any conditions. The servant who willingly expresses his or her desire to stay in service beyond six years, is to have a hole bored on the right ear to signify that he volunteered willingly to stay in service with his master beyond the stipulated period.

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The Lord reminded the Israelites of the horrible experience they had while working as slaves in Egypt. He wanted them to act differently from the prevailing harshness and cruelty meted out to slaves and servants among the surrounding heathen nations. He wanted them to hate enslavement with passion.

Human trafficking in any form for the purpose of exploitation is a gross violation of human rights. Within the body of Christ, under the current dispensation, it is a serious offence against God for any believer to put people in servitude or subject them to oppression for any reason. The Lord has already condemned in Scriptures the habit of keeping workers or employees under poor working conditions and failing to pay them their wages when due. God does not answer the prayers of those who oppress their fellow human beings.

To have His favour and blessings, we must obey His command to set free those we have placed under captivity and oppression, instead of engaging in endless prayer and fasting.

✍THOUGHT FOR THE DAY 
Set the captives free and release those under oppression.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR 
2 SAMUEL 23-24.

HYMN 
Somebody needs your love
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