Monday, March 7, 2016

Exodus Chapter 20


1 And God spoke all these words, saying: 2 ” I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

1. How did God communicate to Moses? How does God
 communicate with you?

The scripture seems to indicate that God spoke to Moses at times in an audible voice, just like you and I talk. 

2. How does God identify himself?
He uses His personal name, “Yahweh”. Exodus 3:13-15

And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ “15 Moreover God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.

This is the name for people who know him, his people, his friends, his family.It’s interesting how Jesus identified himself with this term I Am in the book of John. 
I am the bread of life.
I am the light of the world
I am the door.
I am the good shepherd
I am the resurrection and the life.
I am the way, the truth, and the life.
I am the true vine, 
before Abraham was, I AM.”

3. Why does God continue to remind them about the Egypt thing?

God came to the Israelites as the Great King and presented to them a binding treaty in which He would make certain promises to them and they would have certain obligations as his servants. This was not a treaty between equals; it was a treaty between the superior King, who had just showed His power in bringing them out of Egyptian bondage, and His inferior servants. Her God is reinforcing the fact that he has the authority to rule, based on what He had done. Anyone who violates any of these first 10 Commandments is to be put to death.

The Ten Commandments
Commandment
O.T. Statement
O.T. Death Penalty
N.T. Restatement
1st Polytheism
Ex 20:3
Ex 22:20; Dt 6:13–15
Ac 14:15
2nd Graven Images
Ex 20:4
Dt 27:15
1Jn 5:21
3rd Swearing
Ex 20:7
Lv 24:15, 16
Jas 5:12
4th Sabbath
Ex 20:8
Nu 15:32–36
Col 2:16 nullifies
5th Obedience to parents
Ex 20:12
Ex 21:15–17
Eph 6:1
6th Murder
Ex 20:13
Ex 21:12
1Jn 3:15
7th Adultery
Ex 20:14
Lv 20:10
1Co 6:9, 10
8th Theft
Ex 20:15
Ex 21:16
Eph 4:28
9th False Witness
Ex 20:16
Dt 18:16–21
Col 3:9, 10
10th Coveting
Ex 20:17
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Eph 5:3

3 ” You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 ” You shall not make for yourself a carved image — 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;

4. Why does God put this commandment first? 

God has just brought the Hebrews out of the Egypt where the people worshiped over 100 different gods. It’s important to establish a mindset with the Hebrews of monotheism. (One God). The beliefs of the people around us have an affect on us, whether we want to admit it or not. 

5. People now days don’t worship carved images, so is this commandment pretty much obsolete?


People of our time are into astrology, various forms of witchcraft, all kinds of cults, not to mention worship of celebrities, sports figures, politicians, and the rich and famous. We don’t carve images, we are just more sophisticated in our pagan worship. Our images are on TV, movies, and the internet. ‘no other Gods before Me” literally means “over against me”. False Gods stand in opposition to the “real God”.

5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

6.  Isn’t jealousy a negative, ugly emotion? 

jealous God. God will not put up with rivalry or unfaithfulness. Usually his “jealousy” concerns Israel and assumes the covenant relationship (analogous to marriage) and the Lord’s exclusive right to possess Israel and to claim her love and allegiance. God views the Hebrew people as His bride. Husbands are justified to be jealous, the wife belongs to him as well as him belonging to her.

It is good for a man not to touch a woman.2 Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 1 Cor. 7-1-4

7. Am I responsible for sins that my father and grandfather committed? 

20:5, 6 on the third and the fourth generations … thousands. Moses had made it clear that children were not punished for the sins of their parents (Dt 24:16; see Eze 18:19–32), but children would feel the impact of breaches of God’s law by their parents’ generation as a natural consequence of its disobedience, its hatred of God. God is especially speaking of the sin of idolatry, worship of false Gods. Children reared in such an environment would imbibe and then practice similar idolatry, thus themselves expressing hateful disobedience. 

 The difference in consequence served as both a warning and a motivation. The effect of a disobedient generation was to plant wickedness so deeply that it took several generations to reverse. When King Saul defeated the Amalekites, Samuel told him… Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. 1 Sam 15:3. There are people in the middle east who want to kill us and there is no way they will ever come to the peace table. Their children and grandchildren have been programmed to hate us and it stems from the worship of a false God. A god of hatred and evil the Muslim “allah” who is as we mentioned “over against” the one true God, Yahweh, The LORD, Jesus Christ.

7 ” You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

8. What’s the big deal if I say god_______ it, or I swear to god, or Jesus Christ you’re stupid?

His name is Holy. It must be respected. It would be like going to church and pooping on the stage or peeing on the Pastor. It’s just not right, and at that time you would be stoned to death. How does it make you feel to hear people using your name behind you back? Our names represent who we are.

8 ” Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

9. What day of the week was the Sabbath, should we be keeping the Sabbath?
The first day of the week was Sunday, so Saturday would be the Seventh day, the day God rested from his creation work. The command to keep the Sabbath was for the people of Israel, not for gentiles.

So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. Col. 2:16

The Sabbath was a picture of the rest we have in Christ. When Jesus hung on a Roman cross John records in John 19:30 So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. 

He yelled “tetelisti”………Paid in full. The same phrase that would be stamped on a bill when it was paid.

12 ” Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

10. Does this mean we are to put our parents ahead of our husband and wives and children?

Genesis 2:24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

1 Peter 3:7 Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered. 

Our parents have lived longer than us and hopefully have learned from their mistakes. Many times if we follow their advice we can avoid trouble. 

13 ” You shall not murder.

11. What about killing the enemy in war, or the guy who pulls a knife on me and tries to kill me?

The Hebrew for this verb refers to a premeditated and deliberate act. Murder is different from killing. God provided for cities of refuge for those who had killed due to accident or negligence.

14 ” You shall not commit adultery.

12. But if I’m not married shouldn’t I be able to sleep around. It’s not adultery if I’m not married. 

Fornication: voluntary sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons or two persons not married to each other.

Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. 

1 Cor 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

15 ” You shall not steal.

13. What about taking from the rich and giving to the poor?

Everything belongs to God, He ultimately decides what we have, and stealing violates his authority to distribute as He sees fit.
Stealing deprives others of what God has entrusted to them

16 ” You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

14. What about “white lies”?  

Ezekiel 18:4, “… the soul that sinneth, it shall die. 

1 Tim 1:9-10 for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine,

17 ” You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.” 

15. What is coveting? 

Covet….to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others: to covet another’s property.

18 Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and
stood afar off.19 Then they said to Moses, “You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.” 20 And Moses said to the people, “Do not fear; for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin.”21 So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was. 
22 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘You have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.23 You shall not make anything to be with Me — gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.24 An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record My name I will come to you, and I will bless you.25 And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.26 Nor shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed on it.’

16. Why would God not honor an altar built out of hewn stone?
God did not want them building altars with anything fashioned in anyway as an image of or representation of Himself. If they build something of their own design, soon they will begin worshipping the altar itself. God does not need anything from us and He doesn’t want us taking pride in some altar that we make.
 List of Egyptian gods.

 • Aken……. ……………………Ferryman of the Underworld 
• Aker…….. …………………..Guardian and Gatekeeper of the Underworld
• Am-Heh …………………………… Devourer of Millions    • Ament …………..Greeter of the Dead
• Ammit……………………………… Devourer of the Wicked
• Amun and Amun-Re……… The King of the Gods   • Anat………………………… Mother of Gods
• Andjety…………………….. .A precursor of Osiris
• Anqet ………………………..The Embracer, Goddess of Fertility and the Nile at Aswan
• Anubis……………………… God of Embalming     • Anuke………………………. Goddess of War
• Anuket ………………………Goddess of the Nile     • Apep…………………… The Great Destroyer
• Arensnuphis …………………Anthropomorphic Nubian Deity
• As …………………………….Kindly God of the Desert
• Astarte,……………………… Warrior Goddess of Canaan
• Aten…………………………. The Sun Disk and later God   • Atum …………………The All-Father
• Auf (Efu Ra) …………………An aspect of the sun god Ra
• Baal, …………………………God of Thunder                     • Ba-Pef ………………………- The Soul
• Babi – ………………………..The Dominant Male Baboon God
• Banebdjetet………………… God of Lower Egypt
• Bast…………………………. Beautiful Cat-Goddess
• Bat -………………………… Ancient Cow Goddess
• Benu (Bennu) -…………….. The Bird of Creation
• Bes …………………………..Protector of Childbirth   • Dedwen -……… Nubian God of Resources
• Denwen – ……………………The Fiery Serpent
• The Ennead……………….. The Nine Great Osirian Gods
• Fetket -…………………….. The Sun God’s Butler
• Geb………………………… God of the Earth        • Gengen Wer -…………….. The Great Honker
• Hapi………………………. God of the Nile River
• Hathor…………………….. Goddess of Music and Dance
• Hatmehyt -………………… The Fish Goddess
• Haurun,…………………… The Victorious Herdsman
• Heh and Hauhet…………… Deities of Infinity and Eternity
• Heqet………………………. Frog Goddess
• Heret-Kau ………………….- She who is Above the Spirits
• Heryshef,…………………… Ruler of the Riverbanks
• Heset ………………………..Goddess of Plenty          • Hetepes-Sekhus -………….. An Eye of Re
• Hike …………………………God of Magic and Medicine
• Horus……………………….. King of the Gods on Earth
• Hu …………………………..God of the Spoken Word
• Iabet,………………………… Cleanser of Re, Personification of the East
• Ihy ……………………………- The Child God
• Imhotep……………………….. Lord of Science and Thought
• Ipy (Opet), ……………………A Mother of Osiris
• Isis……………………………. Queen of the Gods
• Iusaas…………………………. Creator …  
• Kek and Kauket, Deities of Darkness,  and Night
• Khenmu………………………. The Great Potter
• Kherty -………………………… Ram-headed God
• Kephri …………………………The Great Scarab
• Khonsu………………………… God of the Moon
• Maat………………………….. Lady of Truth and Order
• Mafdet……………………….. Goddess of Scorpions and Snakes
• Mahaf -………………………. The Ferryman
• Mahes…………………………. The Lord of the Massacre
• Male ……………………………Child Gods of Egypt
• Mandulis -……………………… The Lower Nubian Sun God
• Mehen…………………………… Defender of the Sun Boat
• Mehet-Weret -…………………. Cow Goddess of the Sky
• Menhit ………………………….Lion-headed War Goddess
• Mertseger ………………………………………Guardian of the Valley of the Kings
• Meskhenet -……………………………………. Goddess of Childbrith
• Mihos -…………………………………………. Son of Bastet
• Min ……………………………………………..God of Fertility
• Montu, ………………………………………….Warrior and Solar God
• Mut ……………………………………………..Grandmother of the Gods
• Nefertem……………………………………….. Lord of the Sunrise
• Nehebkau, ………………………………………the God who Joined the Ka to the Body
• Nekhbet …………………………………………Goddess of the Power of Kings
• Neith …………………………………………….Goddess of War and Funerals
• Nephthys……………………………………….. Lady of the Wings
• Nun and Naunet ………………………………..Gods of Chaos and Water
• Nut ………………………………………………Goddess of the Firmament
• The Ogdoad……………………………………  The Primordial Creation Gods
• Onuris …………………………………………..The War God
• Osiris …………………………………………….Lord of the Dead
• Pakhet ……….The Strength of Woman                     • Panebtawy -………. The Child God
• Peteese and Pihor ……………………………..- Brother Gods
• Ptah The Creator
• Qadesh – ………………………………………..Goddess of Esctasy and Sexual Pleasure
• Re (Ra)………………………………………… The Sun God
• Renenutet Goddess of the Harvest                     • Reshep – The Syrian War God
• Sah and Sopdet (Sothis)……………………….. The Astral God and Goddess
• Satet …………………………………………….Goddess of the Inundation
• Satis…………………………………………….. Guardian of the Borders
• Sebiumeker -…………………………………… Meroitic God of Procreation
• Sefkhet-Abwy – ………………………………………Goddess of Writing and Temple Libraries
• Seker………………………………………………… The Resurrected Osiris
• Sekhmet…………………………… The Eye of Ra     • Sepa -…………… Centipede God
• Serapis…………………………………………………………….. the Composit God
• Serqet (Selkis)…………………………………………………….. Scorpion Goddess
• Seshat………………. Goddess of writing, measurements                 • Set……………. God of Evil
• Shay -……………………………………………………………… Personified Destiny
• Shesmetet ………………………………………………………….- Leonine Goddess
• Shesmu……………………………………………………………. Demon god of the Win Press
• Shu ………………………………………………………………….God of the Air and Sky
• Sia -………………………………………………………………… The Perceptive Mind
• Sobek…………………………………………………………….. Guard of the Gods
• Sons of Horus ………………………………………..Gods of the Viscera and the Canopic Jars
• Sopedu -…………………………………………………………… The Border Patrol God
• Ta-Bitjet – ………………………………………………………….A Wife of Horus
• Tasenetnofret …………………………………………………….- The Good Sister
• Taweret ……………………………………………………………Goddess Demoness of Birth
• Tayet -……………………………………………………………… Goddess of Weaving
• Tefnut ………………………………………………………………Goddess of Moisture
• Tatenen -……………………………….. “Father of Gods” and the God of the Rising Earth
• Thoth God of Wisdom
• Wadj Wer -………………………………………………………… The Pregnant God
• Wadjet ………………………………………………………………The Serpent Goddess
• Weneg – ……………………………………………………………..Ancient Son of Re
• Wepwawet (Upuaut)……………………………………………… The Opener of the Ways
• Wosret -……………………………………………………………. Goddess of Thebes
• Yah – ………………………………………………………………..Another Moon God
• Yamm – ……………………………………………………………..God of the Sea 

 ·         ESVN………….ESV Study Bible Notes
·         MSBN…….MacArthur NASB Study Notes                     
·         NIVSN…..NIV Study Notes. 
·         JVM ……………..J Vernon McGee,
·         ACC ……………. Adam Clarke’s Commentary
·         BN ……………..Barnes Notes
·         WBC…………….   Wycliffe Bible Commentary
·         CN …… …………..Constables Notes 
·         IC………………….Ironside Commentary
·         NET……………….Net Bible Study Notes.
·         JFB…………..Jamieson  Fausset  Brown Commentary
·         VWS……………..Vincent Word Studies
·         CMM………….Commentary on Matthew and Mark
·         BDB………….. Barclay’s Daily Study Bible (NT)
·         Darby………..John Darby’s Synopsis of the OT and NT
·         Johnson………Johnson’s Notes on the New Testament.
·         NTCMM…………..The New Testament Commentary:  Matthew and Mark.
·         EHS………………….Expositions of the Holy Scriptures
·         CPP…………………The Complete Pulpit Commentary
·         SBC…………………Sermon Bible Commentary
·         K&D……………….Keil and Deilitzsch Commentary on the OT
·         EBC…………………Expositors Bible Commentary
·         CBSC……………….Cambridge Bible for Schools and College
·         GC……………………Guzik Commentary
·         RD……………………. Robert  Deffinbaugh

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