Category: Exodus
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Why give?
Exodus 25:1-2 “The Lord said to Moses,“Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me.”” Isn’t it amazing that God, who is omnipotent, doesn’t force Himself upon us? He is looking for willing followers, not coerced ones. …
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Wonderful words of life
Exodus 24:3-4 “Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, ‘All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do.’ And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord.” Do you ever wonder what God…
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Dealing with enemies
Exodus 23:22 “But if you . . . do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.” The Bible talks a lot about our enemies. Do you realize that you have some? God warns us often about them in His Word. Usually, when we…
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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…
