Remember

Deuteronomy 24:6-14 – Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person’s livelihood as security. If someone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you. In cases of defiling skin diseases, be very careful to do exactly as the Levitical priests instruct you. You must follow carefully what I have commanded them. Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam along the way after you came out of Egypt. When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge. Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you. If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge in your possession. Return their cloak by sunset so that your neighbor may sleep in it. Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the Lord your God. Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

Deuteronomy 4:10 – Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.”

Deuteronomy 6:25 – And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.”

Leviticus 25:36 – Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you.

1 Timothy 5:18 – For Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and “The worker deserves his wages.”

Application:

• ·         The divine call to Israel to remember the Lord’s past redemptive acts—especially how He delivered them from slavery in Egypt—is a common theme in Deuteronomy and is summarized: “Remember the days of old”.
• ·         Righteousness refers to a true, personal relationship with the covenant Lord that manifests itself in the daily lives of God’s people.
• ·         The main idea in not taking interest was that no one should profit in any way from another’s misfortune; rather, the needy should be given assistance.
• ·         The use of “Scripture” for both an Old Testament and a New Testament passage shows that by the time that 1 Timothy was written, portions of the New Testament were considered to be equal in authority to the Old Testament Scriptures.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV