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Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Taking Law into Our Own Hands (21:12-32)
We see, then, the justification for jurisprudence, the consideration of motives and guilt, as means of making sure that the law is applied correctly and justice is done in a society.
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Slavery (21:1-11)
Yahweh will determine how we conduct our lives and His concern of love for those who fall into this dilemma bodes the prospect that slavery may one day be abolished.
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Stealing (21:33-22:15)
Ownership of property and loving your neighbor by not envying it or stealing it, or if taken, making restitution for it, is God’s requirement of His people.
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Exodus: True Worship (20:22-26)
Our worship must be about honoring God in the way He describes rather than our own concoctions of worship.
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Our Opinion vs. God’s Opinion (20:18-21)
Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off and said to Moses,
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Ninth Command (20:16)
The need for honesty in all our dealings is a natural implication of the ninth commandment.
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Tenth Command (20:17)
There is something distinctively different about the tenth commandment which sets it apart from all the rest. And this distinction gives a key to the interpretation of all the rest.
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Eighth Command (20:15)
If there were no private ownership, there could be no stealing, but “You shall not steal” (Exodus 20:15, ESV) stands as an endorsement of private ownership. God speaks of things belonging to Him. All
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Seventh Command (20:14)
Our culture is looking for ways to represent adultery as an acceptable alternative to a dead-end marriage or even a healthy thing for a so-so marriage. But God, in his wisdom and concern for the welfare
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Sixth Command (20:13)
The sixth commandment is not properly translated, “You shall not kill.” Killing is not prohibited in every form by God, but only certain forms of killing are prohibited.
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Fifth Command (20:12)
This is the commandment for little kids, right? Wrong! It is for grown-ups, as well. The heart of this commandment is the word “honor.”
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Fourth Command (20:8-11)
Do you trust the Lord to take care of you or do you feel the need to work all the time as if your life depended on it?
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Third Command (20:7)
“Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?” Is the third commandment a prohibition against such an oath?
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Second Command addendum (20:5)
Even if we don’t worship a fashioned likeness of God, we may still be operating with a purposely distorted image of Him.
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Second Command (20:4)
God will not be controlled by any human. No image can capture Him. He is the incomparable sovereign of the universe before whom we must always bow and worship in truth.
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