The Old Testament Law was very specific when it came to personal injuries. Exodus 21:23-24 says, “But if there’s serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.” And Leviticus 24:19-20 went on to direct, “If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has injured the other, so he is to be injured.” So when Jesus spoke these words of passive resistance and tolerance rather than retaliation and revenge…it turned these Old Testament Laws on their heads. Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, came to earth declaring a message of love and harmony with our fellow man…and not of repaying evil for evil. (Romans 12:17 & I Peter 3:9)
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Genesis 50:15 ” When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, ‘What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?’ “
The brothers of Joseph had acted very abusively towards him… none of them denying the brutality he had been put through. So now that their father, Jacob, was dead, the brothers were fearing the worst…that Joseph would repay them for what they rightfully deserved. And Joseph could of easily put them to shame for all the wrongs they had done to him…but he chose not to. To take the moral high road, to not repay evil with evil, to bless rather than curse can be a true testament of your faith. For it shows to everyone that you’re a victor and not a victim.
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