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Exodus chapter 21 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 21. Let's start in verse one.
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  Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them.
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  So you have to understand, we go back a few chapters and we're
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  going to see that Moses, father-in-law, Jethro had given
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  him really good advice that Moses decided to take.
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  And now he's going and grabbing all of these elders of Israel
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  from the tribes and he's amassing them together and he's
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  going to give them them all the things that are on the Lord's
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  mind. And we know that Moses is called
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  the friend of God. And we know that Moses coveted
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  the relationship that he had with God.
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  We know that Moses spoke with God.
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  We know that his face is going to shine brighter than the sun.
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  And the people were afraid to even look at him.
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  So we know that Moses was receiving and relaying and they
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  were speaking as if they were on a first name basis.
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  And now Moses is going to give all of these thoughts of God,
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  all the commands of God, all of the mind of God, the words of
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  God, He's going to share with the elders here in Israel.
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  Let's go to verse 2. If you buy a Hebrew servant 6
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  years he shall serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free for
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  nothing. So isn't it just like God to
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  tell them that they cannot just have a perpetual servant, A
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  perpetual worker, someone who is there to do a service for them?
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  They are to be let go on the 7th year, the year of Jubilee.
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  They are to be free. And so you can see here that
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  this is not the slavery that you and I have in mind, the cruel
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  slavery that we have in our mind, the oppression that we
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  have in our mind. These would be more like
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  indentured servants. And there were many reasons that
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  a person would sell themselves into this servitude.
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  And a lot of times we're going to read that their masters were
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  so kind that they chose to stay. We've got to get it out of our
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  mind our understanding of this cruel slavery that we have verse
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  three. If he came in by himself, he
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  shall go out by himself if he were married and his wife shall
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  go out with him. So however they came in as how
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  they are to go out, and God is a God who is fair.
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  And we can see that all of the law, everything that we're about
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  to read, and we're going to get to spend a year here at the
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  Mount of Law. We're going to see the
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  Israelites hanging out here in this mountaintop experience.
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  And we're going to get chapter after chapter after chapter
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  after chapter of Moses receiving so many things from God.
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  But what you need to understand is that all of this points to
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  our need for a Savior. For if his master gave, his
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  master had given him a wife, and she had borne him sons or
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  daughters, the wife and her children shall be her masters,
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  and he shall go out by himself. So it was thought of that he
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  came in unmarried, and because of his position there within the
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  employment of his master, that whatever he came in with he
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  would leave with, and he became in single, he would leave
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  single. Verse 5 And if the servant shall
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  plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children, I will
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  not go out free. 6 Then his master shall bring him unto the
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  judges, and he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the
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  doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with the
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  gnaw, and he shall serve him forever.
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  So here this was a ceremony that showed that the servant would
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  like to stay on with the master. And this is not in a degrading
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  way, this would be in a way where the servant sees that his
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  life is much better within the home of his master. 7 And if a
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  man sell his daughter to be a maid servant, she shall not go
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  out as the men servants do. What if old Jacob would have got
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  this with Dinah? And you can see that these women
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  are going into the families of those that they are going to be
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  betrothed to. That was the idea here is that
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  the families would see a suitor family and they would take their
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  daughter and they would place her in that family so that she
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  would be much more accustomed to the ways that they do life.
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  A If she please not her Master, who has betrothed her to
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  himself, then she then shall he let her be redeemed to sell her
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  unto a strange nation. He shall have no power saying he
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  has dealt deceitfully with her. So the whole idea here is that
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  she is going to go into that family, to become part of that
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  family. And if for whatever reason the
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  master says that he will not take her to be a wife, then she
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  is to be redeemed. She is not to be sold out to a
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  foreign nation, 9 And if he has betrothed her unto his son, he
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  shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
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  So here she was not to be treated as just a article to be
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  discarded. She is to be treated with
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  dignity, friends, and that is what God is aiming at here. 10
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  And if you take him another wife, her food and her clothing
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  and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish?
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  So she is to get this alimony, even though she never was to be
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  married and he married someone else, she is to receive the same
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  benefits as if they were married. 11 If and if he do not
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  these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
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  So she is to be let go. She is not to be kept as any
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  kind of chattel. 12 He that strikes a man so that he die
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  shall be surely put to death. So this is a great retribution,
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  that if you are to kill someone, then your life is to be demanded
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  of you. 13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God delivers him
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  into his hand, then I will appoint you a place where he
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  shall flee. So here he's talking about the
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  sanctuary, places where he can go and grab the horns of the
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  altar, and the wrath of someone who is kindled can be settled,
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  and the hearing can come, and they can be of cool minds before
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  they make their judgment. 14 But if a man comes presumptionly
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  upon his neighbor to slay him with guile, thou shalt take him
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  from mine altar, that he may die.
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  So God is saying that grabbing the horns of the altar will not
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  help a man who has premeditated murder. 15 and he that strikes
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  his father or mother shall surely be put to death.
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  We've already seen in the 10 commandments that we are to
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  honor our father and mother so that our days on this life may
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  be long. And we could see here that the
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  disrespect and just completely disregarding all of your parents
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  honor is shameful unto a holy God. 16 And he that steals some
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  man and sells him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall
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  surely be put to death. This is more of what we think of
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  when we think of the barbarous attempt at the slavery that we
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  were accustomed to here. You can see that this is
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  treacherous unto a holy God of stealing a man.
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  The other what we see in the Bible is what we would consider
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  indentured servitude. Friends, This is them having a
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  better place. This is them having a roof over
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  their head. This is them having the love of
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  a family. And this is them having a place
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  in society where they're not cast off.
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  And this is nothing like what we are accustomed to when we talk
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  about slavery. This is more of what we
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  understand is verse 16 of stealing a man and selling him.
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  17 and he that curses his father or mother shall surely be put to
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  death. Think about it, friends,
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  whenever someone is so completely degraded and they're
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  minded to base, and they do not understand that they are to
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  honor and respect their parents, then it is a shameful thing. 18
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  And if men strive together, and one strike another with a stone,
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  or with his first, and he died not but keepeth his bed, so this
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  is perhaps him being so injured that he has to lie in recovery.
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  19 If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, then
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  shall he that struck him be quit.
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  Only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him
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  to be thoroughly healed. So here we can see that if there
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  was a fight that broke out and one hurt the other to the point
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  where he could not work, could not support himself or his
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  family, then the other is to pay for his lost wages and lost time
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  and he is to be concerned with him getting healthy again. 20
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  And if a man strike his servant or his maid with the rod and he
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  die under his hand, he shall be surely punished.
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  So it is not becoming of someone who has the authority over
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  another to mistreat them. 21 Notwithstanding, if he continue
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  a day or two, he shall not be punished for his his money.
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  So he's saying that if he is disciplined, it is OK.
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  And this is much like when we discipline our children.
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  Friends, there is a huge difference between discipline
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  and beating. That is what you need to
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  understand. This soft parenting will never
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  amount to anything but a rebellious child.
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  We need to understand that if you spare the rod, you spoil the
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  child. You need to understand that
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  there is a place at a time for correction, and that is what is
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  spoken of here. 23 And if any mischief follow, then you shall
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  give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand,
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  foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, and
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  stripe for stripe. So here God lays out the ground
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  rules for a society that has order and law and justice and
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  peace. And these things are still
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  applicable to day. Friends, we need to go back to
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  the basics. Friends, we have gotten so
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  completely off track. We think that we can just love
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  people into hell and it doesn't work that way.
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  There is so much mercy in the Old Testament and there's so
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  much judgment within the New Testament.
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  And when whenever we trade God for a hippie dippie, do Jesus
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  who is OK with sin, we have made a grave air, Friends. 26 And if
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  a man strike the eye of a servant or the eye of his maid,
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  that it perished, he shall let him go free for his eyes sake.
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  So here he's saying that if someone's wrath is kindled and
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  they strike someone and they lose a body part, their payment
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  enough is that anything that is owed is completely forgiven and
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  they are free of any debt, and they are to go out free. 27 And
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  if you strike out his manservant's tooth or his maid
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  servant's tooth, he shall let him go for the tooth's sake. 28
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  And if an ox gore a man or a woman and they die, then the ox
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  shall surely be stoned and his flesh shall not be eaten, but
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  the owner of the ox shall be quit.
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  So it's lost enough that he does not get to eat on the on the ox,
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  and he does not get to keep the ox.
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  The ox is to die, but he is not responsible. 29 But if the ox
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  were want to push with this horn in times past, and it has
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  testified to his owner and he has not kept him in, but that he
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  has killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and his owner
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  shall also be put to death. So here you can see that it was
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  negligence. It wasn't just a freak accident,
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  it was negligence on the owner's part.
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  So not only does the ox die, but so does the owner. 30 And if
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  there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for
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  the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
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  So here you can see that if there is a chance to be
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  redeemed, then he is to be redeemed and not have to give
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  his life. 31 Whether he have gored a son or have gored a
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  daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto
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  him? So here you can see that
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  whatever happens is on him, it's his responsibility, and he is to
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  pay perhaps with his own life. 32 If the ox shall push a
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  manservant or a maidservant, he shall give unto their master 30
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  shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
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  So there you go. If it is a accident in the sense
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  that no one died, he is to pay, and the oxes to be killed. 33
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  And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and
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  not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it, 34 the owner
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  of the pit shall make it good and give money unto the owner of
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  them, and the dead beast shall be his.
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  So here you go. If a man was negligent and he
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  dug a hole for whatever reason, and an animal fell in and died,
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  he has to make it good. 35 And if one man's ox hurt another,
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  that he died, then they shall sell the live ox, divide the
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  money of it, and the dead ox also they shall divide.
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  So they will have money, and they will also have food.
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  And you can see here that it is of a wonderful place and a
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  wonderful law to see that God cares for even the animals.
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  God cares to make things good, make things right.
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  And that is the whole crux of the whole situation of the whole
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  matter here, friends, we can look it all over.
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  You can make it and scrupulize it.
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  You can look and see and look at the fine details.
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  But what you need to know is that God is saying make it good.
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  Whatever the cost, make it good. We do not need to pass the buck,
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  pass the blame. We do not need to make excuses.
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  At the end of the day, we just need to make sure that we make
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  it good even if it costs us our very life.
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  We make it good friends. 36 Sir, if it be known that the ox has
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  used to push in Tom's past and his owner has not kept him in,
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  he shall surely pay ox for ox and the dead shall be his own.
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  Well in there friends, I hope you've been blessed by this
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  amazing chapter in God's Word. God cares about every little
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  detail. God cares about it all and our
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  society. You can see all of the things
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  coming unglued and undone and we need to get back to the basics.
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  Not in every single detail, not in every single way, because
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  this was for them for this time. But the principle still applies
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  to us to this very day. We need to be a people that make
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  it right, make it good friends. And aren't we thankful for the
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  Lord Jesus Christ who paid all of our debt and redeemed us from
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  sin and made us a people and an inheritance unto himself?
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  And now we can know that. We know that we're going to bust
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  heaven wide open. I love you, I'm praying for you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for today, We
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  thank you for this time, we thank you for your word, we
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  thank you for who you are. Thank you God, you are so
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  amazing. Thank you for allowing us to
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  hold your word. And Lord, I pray that you'll
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  help us to actually apply it to our lives.
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  In Jesus name I pray. Amen.