Exodus 22:25–27
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that has tried, with a great deal of frantic energy, to separate every area of life from God. We have been told that politics is downstream from culture, which is true enough, but our adversaries have successfully convinced many Christians that economics is a separate and sterile science, a realm of neutral numbers and amoral market forces. Do you worship Mammon, a god who is tight-fisted, anxious, and demanding? Or do you worship the triune God of Scripture, who is open-handed, generous, and gracious? The laws we find here in Exodus are not dusty regulations for a bygone agrarian society. They are case law applications of God's unchanging character. They reveal the heart of a God who is intensely interested in justice, particularly for the vulnerable. These laws are the guardrails that prevent a society from driving off the cliff into the canyon of systemic oppression and greed.