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The Ten Commandments are the foundation of our civil society.  The further we move away from these commandments, the less civil our society becomes.  In the first commandment, we read that we have one God.  One God means one law.  How important is that for us to rediscover in today's society.

In this prologue to the Ten Commandments, we examine the religious nature of the law for a country.  The Children of Israel had come out of slavery, been tested, organized into a Republic, and then prepaired to recieve the law of God.  These laws never change, we are to govern and be governed under the same laws.  

In the United States, we were once established in Biblical law as it was expressed in Common Law.  With the denial of God, the source of law has been replaced by man.  If you replace the source, you replace the law, if you replace the law, you replace the culture.  We are in desperate need to put God back on the throne as the only law-giver in America.

In this seventh installment of Child Training, we examine Satan's attacks on the children.  If he can't kill the child in the womb, then he destroys or steals the childhood through false teaching and training. Experts abound in child training, but if the training is not based on God's word, then it is twisted into something else that will destroy the life of the child and family.

The Children of Israel had camped by Mt. Sinai, and were being prepared to recieve the covenant law.  God had some very specific instructions for them, and worked through a mediator, Moses, to do so.  This is another expansion of the covenant, all of which points to the New Covenant in Christ.

The Children of Israel had to prepare to recieve the law, to become responsible under the law.  To these ends, God sent Moses' father-in-law to instruct Moses and the Children of Israel to be a representative Republic.  Ultimately this would be the foundation of the United States' civil and legal order.

By Chapter 17 of Exodus, we find Israel still complaining and God still faithful.  Instead of gratitude there was infighting.  In fact, they were ready to stone Moses for bringing them into the desert.  Once God gave them water to drink, then another problem occured, Amalek began attacking them and killing the weak straglers.  Israel was to deal with their own issues, then turn and deal with Amalek.  In the church today, we have the same issues.  church infighting leave us open to Amalek.

In the 16th Chapter of Exodus, we read that the children of Israel once again begin their complaints against Moses and Aaron.  Rather than praying to God, they complained about Moses and Aaron.  God graciously answered the complaints, but we see that the Hebrews were not accepting the responsibility of their new found freedom.  Their slavish mentality caused them to desire to turn back to Egypt every time they ran into difficulty. 

God not only supplies them with food (manna) but He also supplies them with a sabbath.

In this sixth installment of the child-training series, we study the puposes of dsicipline.  Ultimately, to discipline is to make disciples.  As God disciplines His people, so too are the natural parents to discipline their own children.  When the children grow and mature and leave the house, they know the disciplines of the Lord because of what the parents put into their lives.

Once the children of Israel were on the other side of the Red Sea, it only took them three days to start complaining.  God designed a series of tests for them in order to prepare them for the Promised Land. So too do we go through the testings of God after our own salvation.

With the salvation of the children of Israel came the destruction of the Egyptians. In this episode we examine how the salvation of God's people isn't an escape, it goes hand-in-hand with the destruction of God's enemies.