"Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from each man whose heart prompts him to give." – Exodus 25:2 (NIV)
"Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them." – Exodus 25:8 (NIV)
God asked the Israelites to bring an offering, an offering [...]
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Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, "We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey." Exodus 24:7 (NIV)
I think the struggle most of us face is doing just this. We say "We will do everything the LORD has said; and will obey" but [...]
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See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him. – Exodus 23:20-21 [...]
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Do not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people. – Exodus 22:28 (NIV)
In this election cycle there are a lot of people who are going to struggle with the second half of this verse. Of course, there are plenty of us who struggle with the first half as well. Many think of blaspheme [...]
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These are the laws you are to set before them: – Exodus 21:1 (NIV)
But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. – Exodus 21:23-25 (NIV)
This is one of [...]
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I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
You shall not bow down [...]
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On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. – Exodus 19:16 (NIV)
In the news recently there was an article by a Jewish scholar who said that none of what happened to Moses on [...]
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Moses’ father-in-law replied, “What you are doing is not good. 18 You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone. Exodus 18:17-18 (NIV)
Ever go to a church and it looks like one or two people do everything? Are you [...]
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When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset. – Exodus 17:12 (NIV)
Encourage is a French word that roughly means “To insert courage into [...]
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The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”
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