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💭 Consider this: What does the way God that cares for our property reveal about the way that He cares for us?

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justice

demands

that we make

restitution.

God’s laws

are different

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God is different

We must

consider God

who is our

ultimate judge

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📣 What does the way that God cares for our property reveal about the way that He cares for us? 🤔

How valuable would it be if you could read the original Israelite laws for yourself? What would they tell you about how the Israelites lived? What would it tell you about their God? Well, did you know that God wrote a set of laws to govern crimes relating to personal property and we have those laws preserved for us in the book of Exodus!

In this sermon’s text we see the eternally almighty God stoop down to the level of limited, sometimes dishonest, often quarrelsome people. In the details of these laws, we discover a patient, caring, merciful God who’s special notice of His children and their belongings ought to draw us back to Him as that same cognisant heavenly Father today. Far from being a distant, overbearing tyrant, this text demonstrates quite the opposite to be true of our God. Come and see for yourself…

📄 Follow along with this sermon's transcript: https://www.bethelbpc.com.au/sermon-database/the-punishment-deters-the-crime-property-laws

📍 Sermon Outline 00:00 Trailer 01:24 Introduction 04:53 I. THEFT 11:20 II. NEGLIGENCE 14:46 III. SAFEKEEPING 23:47 IV. BORROWING 25:59 V. WHAT DO GOD’S LAWS REVEAL ABOUT HIM? 35:05 VI. HOW CAN I APPLY THESE PRINCIPLES?

🎧 Listen to this sermon on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6U7dfysXiaYUP7NrpUkixf?si=985e138a361c4121

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theft

the law did not allow vigilante justice. even the life of the thief was precious to God. he had the right to live. what if the thief was caught? he would have to sell himself

let us take a moment to pause and consider how seriously the people took their words. they took their vows very seriously because they took God seriously.

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you might read this as a list of laws…

have u ever met someone who says the OT is harsh? nothing could be further from the truth.

we see God giving his law so that the people would learn to live as a covenant community. he wanted them to respect one another. not only their lives but their property.

“this would bring something, something and something to the community.”

God’s law did not allow excessive punishment.

penalty for theft based on social system. the punishment was based on whom it was taken from.

in the court of our almighty God, everyone stands equal.

but God cares for the offender as well as the victim.

justice demands that we make restitution.

an apology is good, but it is not enough.

do not live like the people who say in rome do as the romans do.

everything we do say or think we must consider God.

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