These Israelites who become enslaved, here are the regulations whereby you treat them with justice.

And that's why slavery is the first thing that's regulated here in the Book of the Covenant in Exodus 21.

You know, if you flip over to 2221, you find this phrase, you shall not wrong a sojourner

or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

At the very heart of this legal code that the Lord is delivering to Israel is...

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My name is Alex Duke, and with me are my two senior pastor friends.

Sam Amati?

Jim, Jim, you've been a senior pastor for a while, Jim, you've been a senior pastor for a while.

Mm-hmm. Sam, you've been a senior pastor for a few days. Yeah. I was voted in as the senior

pastor of Hunsinger Lane Baptist Church here in Louisville last Sunday. So if you know anybody

looking for a church in Louisville and, you know, they don't want to hang out with Jim because, I don't know, he's too something.

They don't want to hang out with me because I'm too something else.

Yeah.

And you want to hang out with Sam, who's just wonderful.

Send them to Hunsinger Lane Baptist Church.

Praise the Lord.

Very happy for you.

Thanks, brother. goofy idea for a podcast. I remember saying to you guys how excited I was to talk about all these things. You know, creation, the flood, Babel, Abraham, Isaac, you know, Jacobs, WrestleMania moment, Joseph, Moses,

the Exodus, Ten Commandments. I was just so excited. Who wouldn't want to listen to this? And I also

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