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God is Holy and Full of Compassion

Sunday, March 6, 2022
Pastor Jojo Ma

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Exodus 21:16-31

The most important thing about the Book of the Covenant, and about the 10 Commandments earlier, is how they display God’s character, how they reveal human sin, and how they point us to the Savior, Jesus.

I.          Sex is for marriage [16-17]
II.        3 heinous sins [18-20]
III.       A God of compassion [21-27]
IV.       Ways to honor the Lord [28-31]

I.         Sex is for marriage [16-17]
16 If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife. 17 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.

God’s laws aimed at promoting godly patterns of courtship, marriage, and sex…and in that order. Pre-marital sex was not okay. Sex has always been for marriage, reserved for that covenant commitment between one man and one woman.

II.        3 heinous sins [18-20]
18 You shall not permit a sorceress to live. 19 Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death. 20 Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the LORD alone, shall be devoted to destruction.

Lev 18:23-24 And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion. Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean.

20 Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the LORD alone, shall be devoted to destruction.

III.      A God of compassion [21-27]
21 You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 22 You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. 23 If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, 24 and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless. 25 If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him. 26 If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, 27 for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

Lev 19:34 You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Ps 68:5 Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

IV.       Ways to honor the Lord [28-31]
28 You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people. 29 You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me. 30 You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me. 31 You shall be consecrated to me. Therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

C-R-O-S-S: Cheerful - Regular - Overgenerous - Sacrificial - Sowing