God is serious about sin - Exodus 21-24

You can't help but read these chapters and realize God is serious about sin. In these chapters God begins to lay out for Moses and the people he is leading how they are to live their daily lives. God is serious about how we treat one another. He is serious about justice. He is serious about how we live in front of others. All this was to show the surrounding nations the God's people are different. We know that the nation didn't accomplish what God intended. They couldn't because they were full of sin. They needed a savior to redeem them and the Spirit of God to enable them. But, the law that God gives here is to lead them to that Savior and that Spirit. We must always realize the law is good but we are week (Romans 8). There was nothing wrong with the law God gives ... it was the people who couldn't enact it and live it out before the world.