Law better than Chocolate 2022

<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Key Bible passages: Nehemiah 8:1–3, 5–6, 8–10;  Psalm 19; Luke 4:14–21 <strong><span style= "text-decoration: underline; color: #3598db;"><a style= "color: #3598db; text-decoration: underline;" title= "Bible passages " href= "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nehemiah+8%3A1%E2%80%933%2C+5%E2%80%936%2C+8%E2%80%9310%3B%C2%A0+Psalm+19%3B%C2%A0Luke+4%3A14%E2%80%9321&version=NRSV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here to read</a></span></strong></span> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">SUMMARY: It might sound odd, but the Law is better than chocolate! If we think of the Law in the Bible as dry rules then we have it wrong. It's stories, promises, and poetry as well as rules. Even some of the rules are pretty amazing. The storys are about hope. How God makes a world, a people, heals them and rescues them. This message explores the second part of Pslam 19, Part of Ezra 8 and draws on Jesus' words from Isaiah in Luke 4.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">How can the psalm writer say that the law “refreshes the soul”, that the law “gives joy to the heart”, “more precious than pure gold” and that they are “sweeter than honey, than honey from the honeycomb”.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Have you heard some of these laws? </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Listen to Leviticus 14:35 following:</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> “the following regulations about houses affected by spreading mildew. (These were to apply after the people of Israel entered the land of Canaan, which the LORD was going to give them as their possession.) If someone finds that the LORD has sent mildew on his house, then he must go and tell the priest about it. The priest shall order everything to be moved out of the house before he goes to examine the mildew; otherwise everything in the house will be declared unclean. Then he shall go to the house an