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If there is ever any doubt know this; God is 100% faithful to us. Verse 23 says, Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. Knowing that He is faithful, we must hold onto the faith and knowledge that He love and cares for us. God wants nothing but what is best for us.
Daily Devotion 
So I got really confused in the CEV in verse 28 “If two or more witnesses accused someone of breaking the Law of Moses, that person could be put to death.”. I thought the whole Law thing was being repudiated and replaced with the death of Christ. So I read in the Message “If the penalty for breaking the law of Moses is physical death, what do you think will happen if you turn on God’s Son, spit on the sacrifice that made you whole, and insult this most gracious Spirit? This is no light matter.”
That makes so much more sense.
The first part of this chapter goes back to something I commented on a month or so ago (that I, of course, stole from Stan). The original intent was never to have animal sacrifice. He wanted our hearts. He wanted relationship. But, knowing humans so well, he progressed in his relationship with us at a rate that we could understand. It was incredibly radical in OT times for a God to not demand human sacrifice, to say that these were his people, to say he loved them. Totally radical! I’m encouraged to look back over history to see how God woos his people and slowly changes hearts to move them closer to his original design, because it gives me hope to know he is still doing that today. We aren’t there yet. He still has so much to reveal and to change in the hearts of his people. I am reminded to stay open to that. To not get stuck in dogmatism. Hold to the core truths of the Gospel, but know there is always more that God has to reveal and to teach us.