Exodus 22:29–30
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that is pathologically obsessed with autonomy. The lie is that you are your own, that you belong to yourself, and that the world is a vast, meaningless buffet from which you may pick and choose as you please. But the God of Scripture, the God who is, confronts this insolent pride with a claim of absolute and total ownership. He made it all, and so He owns it all. And because He owns it all, He has the right to command how it is to be used. The laws we find here in Exodus are not dusty regulations for a bygone era. They reveal the character of God and the fundamental structure of reality. These are not arbitrary hoops for Israel to jump through. They are pedagogical, designed to teach Israel, and by extension, us, what it means to live as creatures in a world owned by a generous and sovereign Creator.