Zechariah 7:9-11 9 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Execute true justice, show mercy and compassion everyone to his brother. 10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart against his brother.’ 11 But they refused to heed, shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears so that they could not hear.
Unregenerate Israel was to live by doing the Law, and we have been taught by it to come to grace in Christ - yet God does not change in character, and the heart response in loving Him and others should be the same. We must be just, merciful, compassionate, meeting true needs, and not seeking the evil of vengeance or any other ill will to others, no matter what they do. Like the verses following the Lord's Prayer, if we close our ears and do not forgive and treat other as we want and He commands, He will not hear us either.
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