His Words Are Life

Exodus 19:10 To Exodus 22:9

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Participants: Kelly Mowrer

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00:17 Hi and welcome to His Words Are Life.
00:19 I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank you
00:21 for joining with me today
00:22 to read the Word of God.
00:23 Before we read together, let's pray.
00:26 Dear Jesus, thank you so much that once again we can come
00:30 and sit with you and read your words to us.
00:33 Thank you that you have told us the way to all truth
00:36 lies in your words and that we now have the opportunity to...
00:40 to hear them and to know you better.
00:43 Please be with us as we read. Help us to understand
00:46 and beyond understanding help us to put into practice
00:50 the lessons that you want us to learn today.
00:52 We love you so much and thank you for loving us.
00:55 Amen.
00:56 When we were last together we were reading about Moses
00:59 and the Israelites in the wilderness.
01:02 And his father-in-law comes to visit him: Jethro.
01:04 He's heard all of the miracles and all of the ways that God has
01:07 blessed Moses and freed the Israelites from the Egyptians.
01:11 And so Jethro comes to him, and Moses is glad to see him
01:14 and they talk together. And then Jethro watches as Moses
01:17 is judging the Israelites that line up and bring to Moses
01:21 all of their problems throughout the day.
01:24 And at the end of the day Jethro says to Moses:
01:26 Why are you doing this? This isn't a good thing
01:28 you are doing. And it struck me as we were reading this that
01:32 rather than get sort of indignant or offended in any way
01:35 and say something like "Well, God's just used me to
01:39 free the Israelites and you dare to say that what I'm doing
01:41 is the wrong thing? " Instead, Moses is humble,
01:44 and he listens to the counsel of his father-in-law.
01:47 And he goes ahead and appoints the different judges to handle
01:50 the smaller matters and conserve his strength.
01:52 And I thought what a lesson in humility and in wisdom
01:56 Moses gives to each of us by that example.
01:59 And now we're continuing to read in Exodus.
02:01 This is chapter 19, and we are starting with verse 10.
02:06 The Israelites have just told God through Moses
02:09 that they are going to do everything that the Lord
02:11 has told them to do. Picking up in verse 10...
02:14 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people,
02:17 and sanctify them today and tomorrow,
02:19 and let them wash their clothes.
02:21 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord
02:25 will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
02:29 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying,
02:33 Take heed to yourselves, that you go not up into the mount,
02:37 or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount
02:40 shall be surely put to death:
02:43 There shall not a hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned,
02:47 or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live:
02:51 when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
02:56 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people,
02:59 and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
03:01 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day:
03:06 come not at your wives.
03:08 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning,
03:11 that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud
03:15 upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud:
03:19 so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
03:22 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp
03:25 to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
03:30 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke,
03:33 because the Lord descended upon it in fire:
03:36 and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace,
03:39 and the whole mount quaked greatly.
03:41 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long,
03:44 and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake,
03:47 and God answered him by a voice.
03:50 And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai,
03:52 on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up
03:56 to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
03:58 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people,
04:02 lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze,
04:05 and many of them perish.
04:06 And let the priests also, which come near to the Lord,
04:09 sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break forth upon them.
04:13 And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up
04:16 to mount Sinai: for Thou chargedst us, saying,
04:18 Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
04:21 And the Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down,
04:24 and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee:
04:26 but let not the priests and the people break through to come up
04:30 unto the Lord, lest He break forth upon them.
04:32 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.
04:36 We are reading in the book of Exodus, chapter 20, and this is
04:40 the King James version.
04:42 And God spake all these words, saying,
04:45 I am the Lord thy God,
04:47 which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt,
04:50 out of the house of bondage.
04:52 Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
04:55 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,
04:58 or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above,
05:02 or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water
05:04 under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them,
05:07 nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God,
05:12 visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
05:15 unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;
05:18 and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me,
05:22 and keep My commandments.
05:24 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain:
05:28 for the Lord will not hold him guiltless
05:30 that taketh His name in vain.
05:32 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
05:36 Six day shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
05:39 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God:
05:42 in it thou shalt not do any work,
05:45 thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter,
05:48 thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle,
05:51 nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
05:53 for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth,
05:56 the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day:
06:01 wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
06:05 Honor thy father and thy mother:
06:07 that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God
06:11 giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill.
06:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
06:17 Thou shalt not steal.
06:19 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
06:22 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house,
06:25 thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife,
06:27 nor his manservant, nor his maidservant,
06:30 nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
06:34 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings,
06:38 and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking:
06:41 and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
06:44 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us,
06:48 and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
06:51 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not:
06:54 for God is come to prove you,
06:56 and that His fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
07:01 And the people stood afar off,
07:03 and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
07:06 And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the
07:09 children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you
07:12 from heaven. Ye shall not make with me gods of silver,
07:16 neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
07:19 And altar of earth thou shalt make unto Me,
07:21 and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings,
07:23 and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen:
07:27 in all places where I record My name, I will come unto thee,
07:31 and I will bless thee.
07:33 And if thou wilt make Me an altar of stone,
07:36 thou shalt not build it of hewn stone:
07:38 for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
07:42 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar,
07:45 that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
07:49 Continuing with Exodus chapter 21
07:52 in the King James version.
07:53 Now these are the judgments
07:56 which thou shalt set before them.
07:57 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve:
08:02 and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
08:06 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself:
08:09 if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
08:12 If his master have given him a wife,
08:15 and she have born him sons or daughters;
08:18 the wife and her children shall be her master's,
08:21 and he shall go out by himself.
08:23 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master,
08:27 my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
08:31 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges;
08:34 he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post;
08:37 and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl;
08:41 and he shall serve him for ever.
08:44 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant,
08:47 she shall not go out as the menservants do.
08:51 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her
08:55 to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed:
08:58 to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power,
09:02 seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
09:05 And if he have betrothed her unto his son,
09:09 he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
09:12 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment,
09:16 and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
09:19 And if he do not these three unto her,
09:22 then shall she go out free without money.
09:25 He that smiteth a man, so that he die,
09:28 shall be surely put to death.
09:30 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him
09:33 into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place
09:36 whither he shall flee.
09:39 But if a man come presumptiously upon his neighbor,
09:42 to slay him with guile;
09:44 thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
09:47 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother,
09:50 shall be surely put to death.
09:52 And he that stealth a man, and selleth him,
09:54 or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
09:58 And he that curseth his father, or his mother,
10:00 shall surely be put to death.
10:02 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone,
10:06 or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
10:10 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff,
10:13 then shall he that smote him be quit:
10:16 only he shall pay for the loss of his time,
10:19 and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
10:22 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod,
10:26 and if he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
10:30 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two,
10:33 he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
10:37 If men strive and hurt a woman with child,
10:40 so that her fruit depart from her,
10:43 and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished,
10:47 according as the woman's husband will lay upon him;
10:50 and he shall pay as the judges determine.
10:53 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life.
10:57 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
11:03 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
11:08 And if a man smite the eye of his servant,
11:11 or the eye of his maid, that it perish;
11:14 he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
11:17 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth,
11:19 or his maidservant's tooth,
11:21 he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
11:24 If an ox gore a man or a woman that they die:
11:28 then the ox shall be surely stoned,
11:31 and his flesh shall not be eaten;
11:32 but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
11:35 But if the ox were want to push with his horn in time past,
11:40 and it hath been testified to his owner,
11:43 and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed
11:46 a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned,
11:48 and his owner also shall be put to death.
11:52 If there be laid on him a sum of money,
11:55 then he shall give for the ransom of his life
11:58 whatsoever is laid upon him.
12:01 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter,
12:04 according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
12:07 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant;
12:11 he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver,
12:15 and the ox shall be stoned.
12:18 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit,
12:21 and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
12:24 The owner of the pit shall make it good,
12:27 and give money unto the owner of them;
12:28 and the dead beast shall be his.
12:31 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die;
12:35 then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it;
12:39 and the dead ox also they shall divide.
12:41 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past,
12:45 and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay
12:49 ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.
12:52 Continuing to read in Exodus
12:55 chapter 22, and this is the
12:57 King James version.
12:59 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it,
13:01 or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox,
13:06 and four sheep for a sheep.
13:08 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die,
13:12 there shall no blood be shed for him.
13:14 If the sun be risen upon him,
13:17 there shall be blood shed for him;
13:18 for he should make full restitution;
13:21 if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
13:24 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive,
13:27 whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep;
13:29 he shall restore double.
13:31 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten,
13:35 and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's
13:38 field; of the best of his own field, and of the best
13:42 of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
13:45 If fire break out, and catch in thorns,
13:48 so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn,
13:51 or the field, be consumed therewith;
13:54 he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
13:58 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep,
14:03 and it be stolen out of the man's house:
14:05 if the thief be found, let him pay double.
14:08 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house
14:12 shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have
14:15 put his hand unto his neighbor's goods.
14:18 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass,
14:22 for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing,
14:25 which another challenges to be his,
14:27 the cause of both parties shall come before the judges;
14:30 and whom the judges shall condemn,
14:32 he shall pay double unto his neighbor.


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