Exodus 21:17
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that prides itself on its rebellion. But in our mad rush to tear everything down, we have forgotten a simple, architectural principle: you cannot remove a load-bearing wall without bringing the whole house down in ruins. The family is the first and most fundamental load-bearing wall of any society. It is the first government, the first church, and the first school. When that principle is abandoned, when the very headwaters of societal order are poisoned with contempt, the entire downstream culture becomes toxic. You cannot have a healthy nation populated by families where the children despise their parents. All the chaos you see in the public square began as quiet insubordination at a dinner table somewhere. This is why the case laws of Exodus, which can seem so harsh and alien to our sentimental modern ears, are in fact a profound mercy.