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Exodus 21:12-17
Excerpted from: Sanctification and the Teens

It doesn't have to go all the way to murder. Maltreatment of a parent through striking or cursing is placed on a par with murder and kidnapping, and is punished in the same way—capital punishment: death. There are going to be no rebels in the place of safety.

Men may overlook and reject God's judgments, but do you think that God will overlook His own law? I don't think so. Do you know what curse means? It means something that is not as strong as you might think it is. It simply means to belittle. Have any of you young people belittled your parents? Almost all of us do going through life. It means "to make light of." It means "to be contemptuous of."

Think of what I just said about what the word "curse" means. It means to belittle. It means to speak contemptuously of. Jesus is saying there that He agrees with Exodus 21:12-17. For a child to speak contemptuously of, to consider his parents as being foolish, puts him in danger of the death penalty.

Again, I tell you, this is not John Ritenbaugh's law. This is God's law, and it is Jesus Christ, our Savior, saying that He agrees with it. He's going to be the God who judges. Cursing is placed on par with murder, and there is a reason why, and that is because it proceeds with this same attitude of heart, and is punishable by death. I want you to think of this now in relation to parents. The majesty and office of God is violated in the person of the parent, because God holds the parent as His representative and of types of Him, and thus the Fifth Commandment is broken, and the wages of sin is death. It's that simple. In terms of the penalty, it is just as wrong to curse parents as it is to curse God.

Exodus 21:12-13
Excerpted from: David and the Gibeonites

This has become known as the "eye for an eye principle." It was certainly alive and well in Israel. However, there was a difference between Israel's version and the Gentiles' principle of vengeance or retribution. The Israelite version was a whole lot less absolute. It takes into consideration things like accidental death, and premeditation. It does not require at all times that a person guilty of bloodshed die. It provides the cities of refuge where he could go serve a type of prison sentence—if it was an accidental murder—until the high priest died.

Exodus 21:12-13
Excerpted from: Sanctification, Teens, and Self-Control

God is showing there is a difference between out-right murder and manslaughter.

Articles
Does Scripture Allow for Killing in Self-Defense?
Have the Ten Commandments Passed Away?
The Fifth Commandment
The Sixth Commandment
The Sixth Commandment (Part One) (1997)
Unity and Division: The Blessing and the Curse (Part Four)

Bible Studies
The Sixth Commandment
The Sixth Commandment
The Ten Commandments

Essays
Are We Really Free?
Hope and Refuge (Part Two)

Sermons
The Sixth Commandment
God's Sovereignty, Ecclesiastes, and God's Will
Refuge! Refuge! (Part One)
Refuge! Refuge! (Part One)
Lessons From Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim

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