Sermon by Bruce McCallum - 10 June 2018

2. Parliament, Tuesday 27 February 2018 – During its sitting today the
National Assembly (NA) resolved to assign the Constitutional Review
Committee to review Section 25 of the Constitution – which speaks to
the right of property ownership.
The ANC amended parts of the motion to read as such: “With the
concurrence of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) instruct the
Constitutional Review Committee to review section 25 of the
Constitution and other clauses where necessary to make it possible for
the state to expropriate land in the public interest without
compensation.”
The motion was adopted following a vote where 241 MPs voted for the
amended motion with 83 MPs voting against it.

3. LAND – WHO OWNS IT AND WHAT RIGHTS DO
WE HAVE? DOES THE BIBLE HAVE ANYTHING
TO SAY ABOUT LAND?
Deuteronomy 1:9 - 18
The first government is formed.
It is a representative, consensus
based, decentralized, bottom up
system of government.
The authority to govern a nation is
in the people being governed.

4. 1. LAND AT THE BEGINNING
Genesis 2:10-15 (NIV)
10 A river watering the garden flowed from
Eden; from there it was separated into four
headwaters. 11 The name of the first is the
Pishon; it winds through the entire land of
Havilah, where there is gold. 12 (The gold of
that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are
also there.) 13 The name of the second river is
the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of
Cush. 14 The name of the third river is the
Tigris; it runs along the east side of Asshur.
And the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15 The
LORD God took the man and put him in the
Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

5. Eastern Egypt
Eastern Sudan
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Somalia
Uganda
Kenya
Possibly Tanzania and
Mozambique,
The entire Arabian
Peninsula
All of Palestine
Israel
Lebanon
Syria
Jordan
And most of Turkey
and Iraq

6. 2. LAND AFTER THE GARDEN
Gen 12
Gen 15
Gen 17

7. 3. LAND IS FOR THE PEOPLE
Numbers 26:52-56 (NIV)
52 The LORD said to Moses, 53 "The land is to
be allotted to them as an inheritance based
on the number of names. 54 To a larger group
give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller
group a smaller one; each is to receive its
inheritance according to the number of those
listed. 55 Be sure that the land is distributed
by lot. What each group inherits will be
according to the names for its ancestral tribe.
56 Each inheritance is to be distributed by lot
among the larger and smaller groups."

8. Deuteronomy 1:8 (NIV)
8 See, I have given you this land. Go in and take
possession of the land that the LORD swore He
would give to your fathers - to Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob - and to their descendants after
them.

9. 4. FAMILY OWNERSHIP OF LAND
Numbers 34
The division of land was officiated by
- the head of government (Joshua, son of
Nun)
- the head of Ecclesiastical institution
(Eleazar)
- with the help of a leader from each tribe.
- The distribution is ratified by the people,
supported by God and enforced by law.