{"id":1287,"date":"2016-08-15T23:15:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T04:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/exodus\/"},"modified":"2016-08-15T23:15:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T04:15:23","slug":"exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/exodus\/","title":{"rendered":"Exodus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>General<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>How Big is your God?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>What would have happened had Moses tried to figure out what was needed to accomplish God\u2019s command? One of the biggest arithmetical miracles in the world was required in the desert.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Moses led the people of Israel into the desert&#8230;.Now what was he going to do with them? They had to be fed, and feeding 3\u20131\/2 million people required a lot of food. According to the U. S. Army\u2019s Quartermaster General, Moses needed 1500 tons of food a day, filling two freight trains, each a mile long. Besides, you must remember, they were cooking the food (not to mention for keeping warm, and if anyone tells you it doesn\u2019t get cold in the desert don\u2019t believe them!). Just for cooking this took 4000 tons of firewood and a few more freight trains, each a mile long and this is only for one day!!! They were for forty YEARS in transit!!!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Let\u2019s not forget about water, shall we? If they only had enough to drink and wash a few dishes (no bathing?!), it took 11,000,000 gallons EACH DAY\u2014enough to fill a train of tanker cars 1800 miles long.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>And another thing! They had to get across the Red Sea in one night. Now if they went on a narrow path, double file, the line would be 800 miles long and require 35 days and nights to complete the crossing. So to get it over in one night there had to be a space in the Red Sea 3 miles wide so that they could walk 5,000 abreast. Think about this; every time they camped at the end of the day, a camp ground the size of Rhode Island was required, or 750 square miles.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Do you think that Moses sat down and figured out the logistics of what God told him to do before he set out from Egypt? I doubt it. He had faith that God would take care of everything. Let us have courage, we share the very same God!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Source unknown<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 1-2<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Resources<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Charles Swindoll, \u201cFamily Album\u201d &#8211; file<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 4:2<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>The Little Things<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? Exodus 4:2<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Our Scripture reading for today contains Moses\u2019 response to God\u2019s call at the burning bush. Having just been commissioned to lead the children of Israel out of bondage, he was apprehensive about how the Egyptians, and even his countrymen, would react. But the Lord said to him, \u201cWhat is that in thine hand?\u201d \u201cA rod,\u201d Moses answered. Then He said to him in verse 17, \u201cAnd thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.\u201d Most of us are familiar with the great miracles associated with that rod when Moses obeyed the Lord. It was insignificant in itself, but it became a powerful instrument when committed to the Lord.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Writing on this theme, J. W. Johnson imagined the following conversation between God and some of His faithful servants down through the centuries: \u201c\u2018What is that in thine hand?\u2019 asked the Lord. \u2018A sling,\u2019 said David. \u2018It is enough; go up against the giant,\u2019 and the great Goliath fell before the shepherd boy. \u2018What is that in thine hand?\u2019 \u2018A sword,\u2019 answered Jonathan. \u2018It is enough,\u2019 and the brave youth, followed by his armor-bearer, went up against an army, and the Philistines were defeated&#8230;.\u2019What is that in thine hand?\u2019 \u2018A pen,\u2019 said John Bunyan, as he spoke from the arches of Bedford prison. \u2018It is enough,\u2019 and he wrote the story Pilgrim\u2019s Progress, which will live while the world endures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Don\u2019t sell yourself short, friend! If God has called you to a task, He\u2019ll equip you for it. He merely asks, <b>\u201cWhat is that in thine hand?\u201d<\/b> Give it to Him, and you\u2019ll see what He can do with little things. R.W.D., <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Our Daily Bread<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Ministry<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>An elderly widow, restricted in her activities, was eager to serve Christ. After praying about this, she realized that she could bring blessing to others by playing the piano. The next day she placed this small ad in the Oakland Tribune: \u201cPianist will play hymns by phone daily for those who are sick and despondent\u2014the service is free.\u201d The notice included the number to dial. When people called, she would ask, \u201cWhat hymn would you like to hear?\u201d Within a few months her playing had brought cheer to several hundred people. Many of them freely poured out their hearts to her, and she was able to help and encourage them.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Source unknown<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 7:8-10<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Unmasking Egypt\u2019s Magicians<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Now the magicians of Egypt&#8230;.cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents. Exodus 7:11, 12<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>When I was young, I often wondered how the magicians of Egypt could make snakes out of their rods in the presence of Pharaoh like Aaron had done. I knew God had divinely commissioned His ambassadors to perform a miracle, but were those on Satan\u2019s side permitted special demonic power to do the same? Perhaps in reproducing some of the plagues they were, but I don\u2019t think that was true in this case. Commentators say that serpents engraved on Egyptian monuments have the appearance of an Irish-thorn cane, with the head turned over the body as a handle. From this they conclude that the magicians knew how to paralyze a snake by putting <b>pressure on the back of its neck <\/b>so that it would become rigid. The sorcerers used these reptiles as walking sticks. The people would stare in amazement when they threw these \u2018canes\u2019 on the ground, for with the pressure released, the snakes would begin to crawl away. Then the magicians would seize the serpents and pinch their neck nerves, and they again became paralyzed and stiff.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Prior to the account in Exodus 7, Moses had been told to take his staff, which through God\u2019s power had become a serpent, and hold it not by the neck but <b>\u201cby the tail\u201d<\/b> to turn it into a rod (Ex. 4:4). Assuming that Aaron did the same thing in Pharaoh\u2019s presence, it would be obvious that his act was a true miracle and not trickery.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>The devil\u2019s followers are still using deception, and they counterfeit God\u2019s power to gain attention. Because \u201cmany false prophets are gone out into the world\u201d (I John 4:1), beware lest they trick you. -H.G.B.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>O Let us learn from Thy blest Word Base error to discern, And by Thy Spirit\u2019s light and help From Satan\u2019s snares to turn.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>Bosch<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>THOT: Error often comes dressed in the garment of truth.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Our Daily Bread, Sunday, March 23.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 8-10<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>The Danger of Compromise<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>1. You can\u2019t go at all, Ex 5:1\u20135, 7:13<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>2. Practice your religion, but don\u2019t go too far, 8:25<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>3. Only the men can go, 10:11<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>4. Leave your possessions, treasure, business<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Source unknown<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 15:26<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Jehovah-Rophi: I am the Lord that healeth thee<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>Heal us, Emmanuel! here we are, Waiting to feel Thy touch: Deep-wounded souls to Thee repair, And, Saviour, we are such. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>Our faith is feeble, we confess, We faintly trust Thy word; But wilt Thou pity us the less? Be that far from Thee, Lord!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>Remember him who once applied, With trembling, for relief; \u201cLord, I believe,\u201d with tears he cried, \u201cOh, help my unbelief!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>She too, who touch\u2019d Thee in the press, And healing virtue stole, Was answer\u2019d, \u201cDaughter, go in peace, Thy faith hath made thee whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>Conceal\u2019d amid the gathering throng, She would have shunn\u2019d Thy view; And if her faith was firm and strong, Had strong misgivings too.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>Like her, with hopes and fears we come, To touch Thee, if we may; Oh! send us not despairing home! Send none unheal\u2019d away!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper\u2019s Poems, Sheldon &amp; Company, New York<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Resources<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Divine Healing Today, Richard Mayhue, Moody Press, p. 56<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 17:15<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Jehovah Nissi: The Lord My Banner <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>By whom was David taught To aim the deadly blow, When he Goliath fought, And laid the Hittite low?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>Nor sword nor spear the stripling took, But chose a pebble from the brook. \u2018Twas Israel\u2019s God and king Who sent him to the fight;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>Who gave him strength to sling, And skill to aim aright. Ye feeble saints, your strength endures, Because young David\u2019s God is yours.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>Who order\u2019d Gideon forth, To storm the invaders\u2019 camp, With arms of little worth, A pitcher and a lamp?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>The trumpets made his coming known, And all the host was overthrown. Oh! I have seen the day, When with a single word,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>God helping me to say, \u201cMy trust is in the Lord,\u201d My soul hath quell\u2019d a thousand foes, Fearless of all that could oppose.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>But unbelief, self-will, Self-righteousness, and pride, How often do they steal My weapon from my side!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>Yet David\u2019s Lord, and Gideon\u2019s friend, Will help his servant to the end.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper\u2019s Poems, Sheldon &amp; Company, New York<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 20<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Enforcing the Guidlines<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Someone once figured out that we have about thirty-five million laws and regulations to enforce the few lines of guidance contained in the Ten Commandments.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Source unknown<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 20:1ff<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Will Slogans Save Us?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Said ABC Nightline\u2019s Ted Koppel one night:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cWe have actually convinced ourselves that slogans will save us. \u2018Shoot up if you must, but use a clean needle.\u2019 or, \u2018Enjoy sex whenever and with whomever you wish, but protect yourself.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cNo! The answer is no! Not because it isn\u2019t cool or smart or because you might wind up in jail or dying in the AIDS ward, but because it\u2019s wrong!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cWhat Moses brought down from Mount Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, but the Ten Commandments!\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Bits &amp; Pieces, April 30, 1992<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Ten Commandments<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Ted Turner, founder of the Cable News Network, told a convention of newspaper executives that the Ten Commandments are out of date. Instead, Turner suggested a set of \u201cTen Voluntary Initiatives\u201d to guide \u201csensitive persons through the new age.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Washington Post, 10\u201331-89<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Resources<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Supremacy of Jesus, Stephen Neill, pp. 40-42<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; P. Brand, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, p. 84<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 20:1-6<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Best and Worst News<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Best News for Older People About Teenagers<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>According to a poll by the Gallup Youth Survey, four out of five teenagers feel the Ten Commandments are valid.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Worst News For Older People About Teenagers<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The same survey also stated that only three out of 100 teenagers can name the Ten Commandments.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Parade, January 6, 1985<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Resource<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Someone Who Beckons, p. 22.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 20:3<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>What Other Gods?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>What other gods could we have besides the Lord? Plenty. For Israel there were the Canaanite Baals, those jolly nature gods whose worship was a rampage of gluttony, drunkenness, and ritual prostitution. For us there are still the great gods Sex, Shekels, and Stomach (an unholy trinity constituting one god: self), and the other enslaving trio, Pleasure, Possessions, and Position, whose worship is described as \u201cThe lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life\u201d (1 John 2:16). Football, the Firm, and Family are also gods for some. Indeed the list of other gods is endless, for anything that anyone allows to run his life becomes his god and the claimants for this prerogative are legion. In the matter of life\u2019s basic loyalty, temptation is a many-headed monster.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Your Father Loves You by James Packer, Harold Shaw Publishers, 1986, page for April 17<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 20:3-6<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Agent Orange<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>In 1968, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, Jr., took command of the American naval forces in Vietnam. In an effort to reduce U.S. casualties, he ordered the waterways sprayed with the chemical defoliant Agent Orange. It was a move designed to push back the jungle and make it harder for North Vietnamese to ambush Navy river patrol boats at pointblank range. One of those boats was commanded by 21-year-old Lt. Elmo Zumwalt III. The tragedy and irony of the story is that today he suffers from an unusually fatal form of lymph cancer that both father and son believe was caused by his exposure to Agent Orange. Theirs is the heartbreaking story of a father who made a decision that unintentionally resulted in great suffering for his own son. Yet they both agree that it was the right one.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Our Daily Bread, Saturday, November 21.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>The Trail of a Right Choice<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>&#8230;but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>A young man by the name of James Taylor had lived a worldly life, and was a leader in opposing a revival that had swept his neighborhood. The morning of his wedding day he awoke with the words of Joshua 24:15 on his mind. In earlier years he had memorized that verse. Unlike our modern customs, he put in a full day\u2019s work before his wedding that evening. As he went about his labors, the Holy Spirit convicted his heart, and he accepted Jesus as his Savior. He said, \u201cYes, we will serve the Lord!\u201d At first his bride was dismayed by this decision, but she soon became a believer, and a Christian home was established.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>You say, \u201cWhat\u2019s so unusual about that story?\u201d Well, that young man was the great-grandfather of J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, now called the Overseas Missionary Fellowship. Nor has the influence of that first decision been without present-day consequences. The newly appointed general director of that organization is the great-grandson of the founder.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Though saving faith cannot be transmitted from parents to children, God does use the holy influence of fathers and mothers upon their offspring and upon successive generations. What if James Taylor hadn\u2019t yielded to Christ? What if his decision had been different? It is possible that a company of dedicated missionaries would not be serving in the Orient now under an organization whose founding was a direct result of that man\u2019s conversion.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>The trail of a right choice in your home may lead to great blessings many years down the road.- P.R.V.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>Parents, remember you bear Christ\u2019s dear name, Your lives are for children to view; You are living examples\u2014they\u2019ll praise you or blame, And measure the Savior by you.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>-Anon.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>A child may not inherit his father\u2019s talent, but he will absorb his values.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Our Daily Bread, Thursday, September 10.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 20:4<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>George McCluskey<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>You\u2019ve probably never heard of George McCluskey. To my knowledge, no biographies have been written about his life. McCluskey was a man who decided to make a shrewd investment. As he married and started a family, he decided to invest one hour a day in prayer. He was concerned that his kids might follow Christ and establish their own homes where Christ was honored. After a time, he decided to expand his prayers to include not only his children, but their children and the children after them. Every day between 11 A.M. and noon, he would pray for the next three generations.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>As the years went by, his two daughters committed their lives to Christ and married men who went into full time ministry. The two couples produced four girls and one boy. Each of the girls married a minister and the boy became a pastor. The first two children born to this generation were both boys. Upon graduation from high school, the two cousins chose the same college and became roommates. During their sophomore year, one of the boys decided to go into the ministry as well. The other one didn\u2019t. He knew the family history and undoubtedly felt some pressure to continue the family legacy by going into the ministry himself, but he chose not to. In a manner of speaking this young man became the black sheep of the family. He was the first one in four generations not to go into full-time Christian ministry. He decided to pursue his interest in psychology and over the years, met with success. After earning his doctorate, he wrote a book to parents that became a best-seller. He then wrote another and another, all best-sellers. Eventually he started a radio program that is now heard on more than a thousand stations each day. The black sheep\u2019s name? James Dobson, without a doubt the most influential and significant leader of the pro-family movement in America. His ministry is the direct result of the prayers of a man who lived four generations ago. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Steve Farrar, Point Man, p. 154<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Jukes &amp; Edwards <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Perhaps the deepest imprints of human faults are made by parents upon their children. Moses told the Israelites that in some cases God visits the iniquity of \u201cthe fathers on the children, on the third and fourth generations\u201d (Exodus 20:5). And he doesn\u2019t have to work to do it. When our sins and failures run their normal course, they harm future generations. Our hang-ups are passed to our children, who in turn pass them to their own. The New Testament says that parents\u2019 sins may cause specific problems like angry, resentful behavior or depression (Ephesians 6:4, Colossians 3:21).<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>A comparison of the offspring of two marriages clearly illustrates this. Over four hundred descendants of Jonathan Edwards, America\u2019s first great theologian, have been traced. Similarly, over twelve hundred offspring of a criminal named Jukes have been studied. Of the descendants of Jonathan Edwards: one hundred became ministers, missionaries, or theology teachers; one hundred became professors; over one hundred were lawyers and judges; sixty became doctors; and fourteen were college presidents. Among the descendants of Jukes; one hundred and thirty were convicted criminals; three hundred and ten were professional paupers; four hundred were seriously injured or physically degenerated due to their life-styles; sixty were habitual thieves and pickpockets; seventeen were murderers; only twenty ever learned a trade, and half of these learned their trades in jail. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>From Bruce Narramore (with Bill Counts), Freedom From Guilt, pp. 90-91.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Jukes &amp; Edwards<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Of 1026 total for Jukes: 300 were sent to prison for an average term of 13 years; 190 were public prostitutes; 680 were admitted alcoholics. His family, thus far, has cost the state in excess of $420,000.00.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Of 929 total for Edwards, 430 ministers, 86 university professors, 13 university presidents, 75 authored books, 5 elected to U.S. Congress, 2 to the Senate, one was vice-president. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Homemade, Vol. 10, No. 9<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Jukes &amp; Edwards<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>In 1677 an immoral man married a licentious woman. Nineteen hundred descendants came from the generations begun by that union. Of these, 771 were criminals, 250 were arrested for various offenses, 60 were thieves, and 39 were convicted of murder. These people spent a combined total of 1300 years behind bars and cost the state of New York nearly $3 million. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>The Edwards family represented another union of the same era. The third generation included Jonathan Edwards, the great New England revival preacher and president of Princeton University. Of the 1344 descendants, many were college presidents and professors. One hundred eighty-six became ministers of the gospel. Eighty-six were state senators, three were Congressmen, thirty were judges, and one became Vice President of the United States. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Discoveries, Vol. 1, #2<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 20:8<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Human Error<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Oil tankers suffer a quarter of their total spills on Saturdays\u2014well over the one-seventh that one might expect. These \u201cextra\u201d spills amount to some 163,000 gallons a year &#8211; and early all are due to human error. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>The Economist, Signs of the Times, August, 1992, p. 7<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Fourth Commandment<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>When I first held meetings in Glasgow, my committee (without my knowledge) sent to a livery establishment that kept a thousand horses to engage a cab to drive me to my meetings on Sunday. The proprietor was a godly man, and sent me this message: \u201cTell Mr. Moody he will do as much good by walking to his meetings as by driving three or four miles through the Fourth Commandment.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Moody\u2019s Anecdotes, p. 54<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 20:12<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Honor Your Father and Mother<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cHonor your father and mother so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>I talked to a husband and wife who have deliberately moved south so they don\u2019t have to be around their aging parents. In this case, both husband and wife agree that they can \u201cno longer stand\u201d being around their parents. They are both career people with extremely busy schedules. When the old parents call on the phone, they cut them off because the time is never right. Both young parents are in poor health and two of their three children are experimenting with drugs. They fail to see the connection between their attitudes toward their parents and what is happening in their own lives. &#8211; Marsha Drake<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Homemade, November, 1984.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>A Fairy Tale<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Once there was a little old man. His eyes blinked and his hands trembled; when he ate he clattered the silverware distressingly, missed his mouth with the spoon as often as not, and dribbled a bit of his food on the tablecloth. Now he lived with his married son, having nowhere else to live, and his son\u2019s wife didn\u2019t like the arrangement.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cI can\u2019t have this,\u201d she said. \u201cIt interferes with my right to happiness.\u201d So she and her husband took the old man gently but firmly by the arm and led him to the corner of the kitchen. There they set him on a stool and gave him his food in an earthenware bowl. From then on he always ate in the corner, blinking at the table with wistful eyes. One day his hands trembled rather more than usual, and the earthenware bowl fell and broke. \u201cIf you are a pig,\u201d said the daughter-in-law, \u201cyou must eat out of a trough.\u201d So they made him a little wooden trough and he got his meals in that. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>These people had a four-year-old son of whom they were very fond. One evening the young man noticed his boy playing intently with some bits of wood and asked what he was doing. \u201cI\u2019m making a trough,\u201d he said, smiling up for approval, \u201cto feed you and Mamma out of when I get big.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>The man and his wife looked at each other for a while and didn\u2019t say anything. Then they cried a little. They then went to the corner and took the old man by the arm and led him back to the table. They sat him in a comfortable chair and gave him his food on a plate, and from then on nobody ever scolded when he clattered or spilled or broke things.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>One of Grimm\u2019s fairy tales, this anecdote has the crudity of the old, simple days.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Unfinished Business, Charles Sell, Multnomah, 1989, pp. 121ff<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Longevity<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>You\u2019ve probably heard about the old fellow who lives to be 100 and attributes his longevity to booze, black cigars, beautiful women\u2014and never going to church. \u201cThat kind of impious longevity may be the exception, not the rule,\u201d says Dr. George W. Comstock of Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>In a study of the relation of the social and economic factors to disease, Comstock and his colleagues made an incidental but fascinating discovery. Regular churchgoing and the clean living that often goes with it seem to help people avoid \u201ca whole bagful of dire ailments and disasters.\u201d Constock concludes, \u201cNice guys to seem to finish last.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Our Daily Bread<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 20:14<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Resource<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Biblical Sermons, H.W. Robinson, Baker, 1989, p.31 (sermon by E. Lutzer)<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 20:16<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Resource<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tell it to the Church, p. 11<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 34:5-7<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Resource<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Strong Family, Bible Study Guide by C. Swindoll, p. 46<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Exodus 34:14<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>Resource<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cEvangelical Preaching,\u201d Charles Simeon, p. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General How Big is your God? What would have happened had Moses tried to figure out what was needed to accomplish God\u2019s command? One of the biggest arithmetical miracles in the world was required in the desert. Moses led the people of Israel into the desert&#8230;.Now what was he going to do with them? 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