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God just longs to be at the center of our lives. This is one of the major lessons that we will continue to learn through the back half of the book of Exodus, seeing the directions concerning the tabernacle. He longs to fellowship with his people. He wants to be at the center of our lives. He wants to be in a relationship with us.
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As we open up our study of Exodus chapter 23, I'll remind you that we're really concluding a three-part series here on Exodus 21, 22, and 23. God is giving the people of Israel laws that would govern their civil day-to-day experiences in life.
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We are in a section of the Book of Exodus where God has already delivered to the people the 10 commandments. It was a moment filled with fear and trembling. Now, God takes the time to explain the laws regarding worship in Israel, the tabernacle, the ceremonies, the sacrifices.
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Exodus 21 starts with verse one. “Now these are the rules,” God says to Moses, “that you shall set before them.” This section regarding the civil law for ancient Israel are laws concerning how they would treat each other and conduct business.
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This week, in Exodus Chapter 18, Moses is going to interact with his father-in-law, a man named Jethro, and receive important counsel from this man. This counsel is going to impact generations of the people of Israel. And Chapter 19 of Exodus begins the process of God delivering the law to the people of Israel from Mount Sinai.
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This week we look to Exodus chapters 16 and 17. At this point, in the book of Exodus, God has delivered his people from their Egyptian captivity. The three sets of three plagues have been brought upon Egypt. The angel of death came upon Egypt for the 10th and final plague. The Passover occurred, and the people of Israel were commanded to go, given riches and wealth and treasure from the Egyptian people and urged to go on their way. God had redeemed a people for himself.
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Hey, Calvary family. Thanks for joining us in our study through the book of Exodus. Today we're in Exodus chapters 12 and 13. There is tension now in the text. God has unleashed His wrath upon the Egyptians. Plague after plague has come down upon Pharaoh and his people, and Pharaoh's heart has been hardened.
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In Genesis chapter 27 and 28, Moses turns his attention to the story and the line of Jacob. And just as a reminder to the setting that we're in, in chapter 25 and 26, we saw the emergence of Jacob and his older brother by a couple of minutes, Esau. And we saw in chapter 25 God's selection by promising to Rebecca that Jacob would be the chosen heir. Remember, in the book of Genesis, we are chasing the question from the very beginning of the book, who will be the one to come and crush Satan, who will be the serpent crusher that in chapter three of Genesis God promised to Eve?
Read moreAll right. Let's turn in our Bibles to Genesis chapter 25. We're in a section in the Book of Genesis where a shift is occurring from Abraham to Isaac. And of course, the promises of God have been stated to Abraham in places like Genesis chapter 12 and following. And we've been journeying with Abraham through the course of his life to watch how God reconfirmed his promise to Abraham over and over again.
Read moreWell, as we turn to Genesis chapter 24, we're actually turning to the longest chapter in the book of Genesis. Now, of course, when Moses wrote the book of Genesis, he did not insert chapter breaks and divisions and verse breakdowns, that was added to scripture later, but he did write in sections. And this section, the marriage of Isaac and Rebecca is one of the longer sections or episodes in the book of Genesis. It might give us a little insight into how God feels about marriage that he would depict this story in such robust terms. But really the chapter isn't so much about relationships, it isn't so much about marriage as it is about God. God continuing to move and work and perform his plan here on earth.
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