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How to Worship

Exodus 20:22-26How to Worship If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus Chapter 20 and the 22nd verse. We are beginning tonight a summer study on the book of the Covenant, from Exodus 20, verse 22 to Exodus 23, verse 33. Now, this is about the time in the book of Exodus when commentators and readers of commentaries and listeners of sermons get bored. I'm not going to let you get bored. This is great stuff! This book is the application of God's 10 words in specific areas of living and in society, and in this book of the Covenant we see issues addressed such as slavery, capital punishment, what does an ‘eye for an eye’ and a ‘tooth for a tooth’ really mean. You've heard about ten different things, I'm sure, in your life, as to what ‘an…

What About Slavery?

Exodus 21:1-11What About Slavery If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus chapter 21. We’re continuing our study through the Book of the Covenant, that is that section of Scripture that runs from towards the end of Exodus chapter 20 through Exodus chapter 24. The introduction of the Book of the Covenant we studied the last time when we looked at Exodus 20, 22-26. It focuses on worship. Not surprisingly, worship is the first matter dealt with at the conclusion of the section in Exodus, chapter 20, giving us the Ten Commandments. The Book of the Covenant is distinct from the ten words. The Book of the Covenant contains applications of the principles of the Ten Commandments to the specific needs of Israel as a society at the time, as well as general principles…

Capital Punishment

Exodus 21:12-17Capital Punishment: Biblical or Barbaric? If you have your Bible I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus chapter 21:12, as we continue our summer long study of the book of the covenant. The book of the covenant begins at the end of Exodus chapter 20 and runs all the way to Exodus chapter 24. It is that book of laws in which we have God's application of the principles of the Ten Commandments to various issues in Israel's society at the time. We see how God works out the principles of those ten words in Israel's society as they are still in the wilderness. Exodus 19 sets the context to Mt. Sinai. Exodus 20, which gives us the Ten Commandments. The code proper begins in Exodus 21:1, but there is a preface to it that we find at the end of Exodus 20, and it…

What Does “An Eye for an Eye” Really Mean?

Exodus 21:18-32 What Does “An Eye for An Eye” Really Mean? If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus chapter 21. We are continuing through our summer long study of the book of the covenant. That is a section of Exodus from chapter 20 to 23, and it is often called a covenant code. It gives us a public application of the moral principles which have been set forth in the Ten Commandments. In the last weeks in which we have been in this book, we have been away from it…

What God Says About Dogs, Cows and Property Rights

Exodus 21:33-22:15What God Says About Dogs, Cows & Property Rights If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn to Exodus 21:33 as we continue our study of the Book of the Covenant, that the name given to this section of Scripture by Moses himself in Exodus 24:7. It refers basically to end of Exodus 20 through the end of Exodus 23:33. And the code of law, or case laws contained in this section, begins in Exodus 21. There is a preface, the end of Exodus 20, which deals especially with…

God’s Concern for Community

Exodus 22:16-31God's Concern for Community We have said over and over that the Book of the Covenant is distinct from the Ten Commandments; it applies the principles set forth in the Ten Commandments to specific social and economic context in Israel. The Ten Commandments were written with the finger of God. The Book of the Covenant was given to Moses and written down on parchment. We have also said that the Ten Words, or Ten Commands, give us the fundamental legal principles for Israel's…

Justice and Neighbor-love

Exodus 23:1-9Justice and Neighbor Love The Ten Words give us the fundamental principles for Israel's society and the covenant code here in Exodus 21, 22, and chapter 23 specifically applies those principles to the social context in which Israel found herself. And so the code is at least, in part, a temporary and derivative application of those general principles. And you don't have to look far to find changes even within the first five books of the Bible of some of the specific…

The Parties You Have to Go To

Exodus 23:10-19The Parties You Have to Go To If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus chapter 23. Tonight we come to the penultimate message in this series on the book of the covenant. We started all the way back in Exodus 20, immediately after the 10 commandments with that section beginning in verse 22 which is the formal beginning of the book of the covenant. At the beginning of chapter 21 we got into the laws of the book of the covenant. Tonight we study the last…

Loyalty to God

Exodus 23:20-33Loyalty to God If you have your Bibles, please open to Exodus chapter 23, beginning at verse 20, hear the word of God: “Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. “Be on your guard before him and obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since My name is in him. “But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will…