The Exodus Study - PART 4 - THE RESPONSE OF THE REDEEMED

Before looking at the Ten Commandments, it is important to take a more general look at the whole question of law, and its relationship to covenant. We have already noted that God redeemed his people because he remembered his covenant with them (2:24), and he gives his law to them so that they will keep his covenant (19:5). The idea of covenant is bigger than the idea of law. Yet the Book of Exodus describes the law of God as the ‘book of the covenant’ (Exod. 24:7). So what is the relationship between covenant and law? That question may be answered in various ways.