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Learn to live freely and lightly

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The Message- Matt. 11:28-30

I'm not a huge fan of The Message bible but Peterston hit this one out of the park.

How do you interpret these verses?

Exposing Leaders

There is a principal in Scripture that teaches it is wrong to expose your leaders flaws. Some delight in revealing the "sins" of leadership. Canaan saw his fathers nakedness and "told his two brothers". This was gossip. The two brothers had the proper response. Instead of exposing their father and looking at his flaws they covered him. That is true loyalty. Read the story:

20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father’s nakedness. 24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.” 26 He also said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem.

Gen. 9:20-26