Category: Exodus
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Honoring Mom and Dad
Exodus 20:12 “Honor your father and your mother.” How often we can take people for granted. We can fail to appreciate them as a result of our familiarity with them. This can include our own parents. Thankfully, we have God’s Word to “slap us upside the head” with an exhortation to never take them for…
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Who is God?
Exodus 20:4-5 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a…
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Seeing the glory of God
Exodus 20:4-5 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a…
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Other gods
Exodus 20:2-3 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.” In the verses above which describe the first of the Ten Commandments, the Lord reminds Israel of how He had brought them out of the land of…
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A God Who loves?
Exodus 19:21 “And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to look and many of them perish.’” God is love. That’s what the Bible tells us. Yet, in so many of the places we read about Him, it seems to us like He’s anything…
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“Our” possessions
Exodus 19:5 “all the earth is mine” Malachi 3:8-10 “Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food…
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A helping hand
Exodus 18:17-19 “Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone. Now obey my voice; I will give you advice, and God be with you!” Are you thankful…
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Why this?
Exodus 17:8 “Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.” Israel’s history as they wandered in the wilderness is an interesting one. After they had been delivered by God’s mighty hand from captivity in Egypt, they started on a journey of faith to the Promised Land. It was a journey that would take 40…
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Why complain?
Exodus 16:7 “. . . and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against the Lord. For what are we, that you grumble against us?” Philippians 2:14 “Do all things without grumbling or disputing” So why is complaining about something such a bad thing? If things aren’t as we think they…
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Grace
Exodus 16:6-7 “At evening you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against the Lord.” Grace: the unmerited favor of God. What an amazing gift of God that…
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