Unjust Weights and Measures

We have long since grown accustomed to the world's economic advice as to how to succeed and profit financially, but, from God's perspective, what is necessary and what should be avoided in order to be financially successful in our society? Does God even speak on this real life issue?

Well, God has much to say about this, and we are studying it in this month's lesson UNJUST WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. In fact, we are learning that this topic is one that God takes very seriously.

Our lesson begins with how NOT to comport your business adminstratively; in an unjust manner. Having an unjust scale is one of the worst things a human being can have on this earth because it is an abomination to the Lord. What does it mean to have an unjust weight or scale? It means that you show partiality or deceit in business exchanges in order to deceive others to profit yourself. "Dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight," the Bible states in Proverbs 11:1. "Diverse weights and diverse measures; they are both alike, an abomination to the Lord," Proverbs 20:10 continues, because this requires you to measure with partiality. It is very important to God not to have unjust or diverse weights. This is because they deceive innocent people, taking advantage of them.

In order to discern what weights and measures are unjust, we must know what they are and how they are determined so that we can compare them for accuracy and injustice. The first couple of weeks of this lesson lay the foundation of what specific measures are and how they are determined. When a weight is just, it conforms to the universal standard of measure.

Some of the foundation scriptures for this lesson include:
Leviticus 19:35-36 You shall do no injustice in judgment in measurement of length, weight, or volume. You shall have honest scales and honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 25:13 -16
13 You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light.
14 You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small,
You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. For all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are an abomination to the Lord your God.

Proverbs 16:11 Honest weights and scales are the Lord's. All the weights in the bag are His work. Proverbs 20:23 Diverse weights are an abomination to the Lord, and dishonest scales are not good.

We are studying this lesson not so much that we learn not to use unjust weights and measures, but so that we do not become victims of the world who does use them to deceive and rob us.

This is the first lesson of 1998, and it has been on Pastor's heart to teach to us for a few years. The Lord spends a lot of scriptures discussing this topic, and therefore, it must be very important to Him.