Tag: Repentance
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🐑 Exodus 22:1–4 — Justice for Theft: Making Things Right
📖 Scripture (NKJV) 🧠 Context & Overview These verses cover part of the civil law give by God to Israel. It governs property crimes and restitution. It is unlike modern systems in that the emphasis here is more about restoration rather than imprisonment, Justice and Mercy being the goal. 💡 Key Observations 🔁 Restitution Over…
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Exodus 21 – Part 4 of 4 –
Section 4: Exodus 21:28–36 — Animal Responsibility Laws • Oxen causing harm, negligence, restitution Addresses personal responsibility—specifically when animals cause harm. At first glance, it might seem like a strange topic, but these laws reveal God’s heart for justice, accountability, and the value of human life and property. 28“If an ox gores a man or a woman to death,…
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Exodus 21 – Part 3 of 4 – Equal Justice, Holy Mercy
Section 3: Exodus 21:18–27 — Personal Injury Laws • Consequences for injury through conflict or negligence • “Eye for eye” principle introduced This section deals with cases of physical harm between individuals and the appropriate just and proportional consequences. It expands on “You shall not murder” by covering injuries, responsibility, and compensation. 🔹 Verses 18–21 — Responsibility in Cases of Injury 18–19 If men…
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Exodus 21 – Part 2 of 4 – Justice, Mercy, and the Sanctity of Life
Section 2: Exodus 21:12–17 — Laws on Capital Offenses • Murder, striking parents, kidnapping, cursing parents 12“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death. 13However, if he did not lie in wait, but God delivered him into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place where he may…
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Exodus 21 – Part 1 of 4 – Servanthood, Love, and the Justice of God
✍️ Exodus 21 Breakdown Plan 4 Sections Section 1: Exodus 21:1–11 — Laws Regarding Hebrew Servants Exodus 21 focuses on civil and social laws that guide justice, fairness, and human dignity in everyday life. These laws were specific to Israel under the Old Covenant, given to help maintain order and reflect God’s justice in their society. Laws About Slaves…
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Exodus 20:18–21 — Reverence, Fear, and the Need for a Mediator
😊 Let’s walk through Exodus 20:18–21 This section is incredibly meaningful—it shows how God’s holiness affected the people and how Moses’ role as mediator was affirmed. 📖 Exodus 20:18–21 — The People Tremble at God’s Presence ⚡ Verse 18 — “They trembled and stood afar off” 18 Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet,…
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The Ten Commandments – Six through Ten
📖 Exodus 20:13 — The Sixth Commandment “You shall not murder.” (NKJV) ⚖️ Commandment #6: You Shall Not Murder 📌 This command is short—just two words in Hebrew: לֹא תִּרְצָח (lo tirtsach) • “Lo” = no / not • “Tirtsach” = murder, unlawful killing 🧠 Key point: This command does not say “do not kill” (as in all killing under every circumstance), but do not murder—the intentional,…
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The Ten Commandments – Three, Four, & Five
📖 Exodus 20:7 — The Third Commandment “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.” (NKJV) 🪧 Commandment #3: Honoring the Name of God 🗣️ “Take the name… in vain” • The Hebrew word for “take” is נָשָׂא (nasa), meaning to lift, carry,…
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The Ten Commandments – One & Two
Exodus Chapter 20 -I don’t know how far I will get each day with the commandments but we will go as far as I can and then pick up with the next one tomorrow. Today we start with the first commandment and see what happens. 📖 Exodus 20:3 — “You shall have no other gods…
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Exodus 20:1–2 — The God Who Speaks Before He Commands
Exodus Chapter 20:1-2 📜 Exodus 20:1–2 — The God Who Speaks and Saves 🗣️ Verse 1 — “God spoke all these words…” 💡 Observation: This is the first and only time in the whole bible that God makes an audible speech directly to the whole nation of Israel, not through a prophet. 📖 Hebrew Note: • “Words” here…