Welcome to the 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

My name is Keith Simon and right now we're going through the book of

Exodus. Exodus has been an epic adventure for 20 chapters. We've had stories of

midwives rebelling against Pharaoh to save baby boys lives. We've had God speaking

in a bush to Moses. We've had God delivering the Israelites from Egypt via the ten plagues.

We've seen the Israelites cross the sea on dry ground. God has met his people on

his holy mountain. He gives them his ten commandments. And now there's an abrupt change. Here's how Exodus 21 starts. These are the laws you were to set before them.

Everything slows down. We're getting ready to get into the nitty gritty of life.

See, God gave them the moral law in his ten commandments

and now he's going to show them how to apply it in various areas of their life.

He's taught them some big truths and now he's going to teach

him how to live out those truths in their day-to-day life.

Most of our lives are pretty ordinary. Most of our lives are filled with mundane tasks. So if the

gospel isn't affecting the mundane, it's not really affecting our life. Right? I mean, the gospel

should be affecting ruptured relationships or how we deal with

disappointment or how we handle the transition of moving into a new job or how you talk to your

spouse or what you do when your friend begins to share gossip with you,

or how you think about disciplining your kids,

or how you respond when you've been hurt.

If the gospel isn't touching on these kind of everyday issues, it's not really touching on your real life.

Well, the laws in Exodus 21 through chapter 24 have the same authority as the Ten Commandments, but they're not the same in every

way. You see, the Ten Commandments were written by the Finger of God on Stone. But Moses wrote

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