Key Thought: God gave Israel not only the Ten Commandments, but also the ordinances, rules, laws, and regulations. These laws were practical applications of the Decalogue to daily living.
August 30, 2025

1. Have a volunteer read Exodus 21:12-19.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What specific regulations were given concerning Hebrew slaves, homicide, and bodily injuries?
3. Personal Application: How is loving others, even our enemies, making us perfect? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “We are not under the law, but under grace. How does this statement give people the idea that the law can be ignored, forgotten, or misused even in regulations related to practical application to the law?” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Exodus 22:16-26.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What issues were dealt with in these laws, and how?
3. Personal Application: How graceful and patient are you when others reject some of the truths of God’s words, of Jesus Himself? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “Why didn’t God just drive out all the people in the land He gave Israel? Then Israel wouldn’t have been tempted to backslide and cause Israel problems?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Matthew 5:38-48.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. How did Jesus interpret the meaning of the retaliation law? How should we apply it today??
3. Personal Application: How should the realisation that justice will come one day help you deal with the injustices we see in the world today? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states, “What is the difference between justice and vengeance?” How would you respond to your neighbor?

4. Have a volunteer read Romans 12:19.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2.  What promise and command are found in these verses, and how are they closely related?
3. Personal Application: What are the ways we can learn to love in the way we are commanded to? Why does it always include death to self.”? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared. ”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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Daily Lesson for Sunday 24th of August 2025

At Sinai, with the giving of His law, God set the foundation for teaching His people how, through connection with Him, they could live holy lives. But the principles of the law needed to be applied in everyday life, so God gave them additional laws, the so-called “Code of the Covenant.” It was the responsibility of judges to watch over these laws and to apply them correctly.

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“The minds of the people, blinded and debased by slavery and heathen­ism, were not prepared to appreciate fully the far-­reaching principles of God’s ten precepts. That the obligations of the Decalogue might be more fully understood and enforced, additional precepts were given, illustrating and applying the principles of the Ten Commandments. These laws were called judgments, both because they were framed in infinite wisdom and equity and because the magistrates were to give judgment according to them. Unlike the Ten Commandments, they were delivered privately to Moses, who was to communicate them to the people.”—Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 310.

The Code of the Covenant is described in several chapters (Exodus 21:1-36; Exodus 22:1-31; Exodus 23:1-19). All these regulations and laws were issued to stop the avalanche of evil and to build an orderly society.

The slavery laws were special and should not be confused with the vicious and evil practice of modern or medieval slavery. Hebrew slaves were, in fact, protected and valued. In modern and medieval societies, servants and slaves were the property of their owner, who could do whatever they wished with them. In contrast, biblical laws regulated things differently. Servitude was limited to six years (Exodus 21:1-2; Jeremiah 34:8-22), and in the seventh year, all slaves had to be liberated unless they wanted to stay with their master. Masters also had to give them Sabbaths off (Exodus 20:9-10) and provide for their basic needs.

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