25.09.16 “Helpful Covenant Laws” (Exodus 21-23)

 

No matter where you live in the world, as you head out into your day today what will guide the many choices you will make? Your family culture: laws of the city in which you live; your habits or your desires? Our choices write the story of our lives, don’t they?  I left you yesterday standing at the base of Mount Sinai with Moses and about 1 million Hebrew slaves. For most of them, all they’ve ever known is living choiceless lives. Their only option everyday was obedience to their slave masters or a beating! Exodus 19 & 20 tell us Mount Sinai was shaking violently and smoking like a volcano. A powerful voice, God’s voice, was speaking His Covenant Commandments for His people.  Understandably, the people were terrified as they heard the voice of God telling them His expectations of how they should live every day for His glory and their good. But sadly, the people allowed their fear to steal their sense of great privilege. God loved them and had rescued them from their slavery! But the record says, “The people stayed at a distance and said to Moses: ‘Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die.” (Ex. 20:19) 

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Pastor Doug Anderson    “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)

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