Sermon Tone Analysis

Exodus 24:7

Deuteronomy 4:44

The word “law” is the word Torah in Hebrew and it refers to not only the commandments given to Moses by God on Mount Sinai (), but also to the books of Moses, the first 5 books of the Bible, better known to us as the Pentateuch.

Now what’s important is the difference a Jewish person had in their view of the “Law” or Torah.

Our word “law” is a set of rules given to us from some form of an authority and violation of these rules leads to punishment.

But that is not how a Jewish person viewed the Torah.

A Hebraic definition of Torah is “a set of instructions or teaching from a loving father to his children for the purpose of training and guiding them in right living with him and others.”

(See ) The purpose of the Torah is to teach and bring children from infancy to maturity in living righteous lives that honor and glorify God.

Israels obligation to the Torah was obedience.

reads, “All the people answered together and said, ‘All that the LORD has spoken we will do.”

Unfortunately for the nation of Israel, this was more difficult than they realized, and being obedient was extremely challenging.

Thankfully the law had two parts to it; part 1, a list of do’s and don’ts, part 2, a system that allowed the people to say sorry and make right all that they did wrong before God and to each other.

I’m not sure what comes to your mind or what you feel when you hear the word “law”, if it has a negative connotation or a positive one, if it is restrictive to you or provides you with safety, or how you even view authority for that matter, but for the Jewish person they would immediately think of the Torah as something good, something that was given to them by Moses from the God who rescued them and loved them, in order to protect them and guide them.

I’m not sure what comes to your mind or what you feel when you hear the word “law”, if it has a negative or positive connotation, if it’s restrictive to you or provides you with safety, or how you even view authority for that matter, but for the Jewish person they would think of the Torah as something good, something that was given to them by Moses from the God who rescued them and loved them, in order to protect them and guide them.

When you hear the word “law” what do you think and feel?

Pray for the Lord to show you why that is?