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  (EXODUS) EXODUS 20 INTRODUCTION
  by J. Vernon McGee
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Summary: The sermon explains the significance of the Law, including the
Ten Commandments, social legislation, and the Mosaic system, and how it
is interpreted in Deuteronomy.

Duration: 2:50 Topics: "Expositional"

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In this sermon, the speaker discusses the importance of the law in the
Bible. They explain that the Ten Commandments are just a part of the
law, and that there are other instructions and social legislation
included as well. The speaker emphasizes the need for an altar and the
shedding of blood for sin, comparing it to washing oneself with a basin.
They also mention the significance of the tabernacle and the service
associated with it. The sermon concludes by mentioning that the book of
Deuteronomy provides an interpretation of the law after 40 years of
experience with it.

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Now you have here, in chapter 20, the giving of the Law. And actually,
the Ten Commandments is not all of it, by any means. We have, first of
all, here, the Ten Commandments, and with it is the order for the altar
in chapter 20.

And remember, they both go together. There must be an altar for a
sacrifice to be offered. Because, you see, the Law reveals, and there
must be the shedding of blood for sin.

And just as you have in your bathroom a mirror, and that represents the
Law, and underneath is a basin. Now, you don't wash yourself with the
mirror. The mirror reveals, but you wash yourself with the basin.

And today there is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's
veins, and sinners plunge beneath that flow, lose all their guilty
stains. Now, we have here, in chapter 20, the Ten Commandments, and then
instructions about the altar. That's important, but that doesn't end the
Law.

You have then, in chapters 21 and 24, what is called social legislation.
Now, we're living in a day when a great deal of attention is being given
to what is known as social legislation. We're just finding out how
important that that is, especially in this complicated age.

But God took care of this a long time ago, and that won't end it.
Because with the Law, we'll have instructions for the making of a
tabernacle, and that's the very center of the life of Israel. That
tabernacle will be right in the center of the camp.

And then you have, in the next book, the book Leviticus, the service of
the tabernacle, and all of that's part of the Law. Now, when you get to
Deuteronomy, you'll find out that you have not the repetition, although
it looks like it, but it's not. What it is, is the interpretation of the
Law after 40 years' experience with it.

And that means that Exodus now, beginning here with chapter 20, all the
way through the book of Leviticus and Numbers, for they're on the
wilderness march there, and Deuteronomy, that's all the Mosaic system.
That's the Law. There are those today that like to say they're under Law
and that you must keep the Law, and what they mean is just the Ten
Commandments.

But friends, that was really a small part of it.

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Audio: https://sermonindex1.b-cdn.net/11/SID11573.mp3
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/j-vernon-mcgee/exodus-exodus-20-introduction/
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