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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 21:14
Excerpted from: Refuge! Refuge! (Part One)

This is plain and straightforward here. God provides for us an accidental or careless cause for death. We read this earlier, but I wanted to emphasize it here again because, on the other hand, if the murder was premeditated, the official government put the murderer to death.

Whether he was sane or not had no bearing on the verdict. It was understood by all and should be by us, but is not, because for some reason we all seem to be insane and not even be able to define sanity. But it was understood by all then that if a man intentionally murdered another human being, he was insane. That was just automatically understood, and it should be today, so it should not be a way out for anyone. There was no argument to be had; determining this made no difference, nor did it lessen the loss to the victim's family. In no way would an insanity plea pay the murderer's debt to society and the victim's family. There was a debt to be paid, and God established that all the way back at the beginning with Genesis. Capital punishment provides a degree of justice and if carried out immediately establishes a deterrent against future crimes of this sort. But if he does not do it intentionally, but God lets it happen, he is to flee to a God-designated place.

Exodus 21:14
Excerpted from: Presumptuousness

But this also covers accidental murder as well—meaning manslaughter. For example, if you would run over somebody with your chariot, you could flee to a city of refuge because you did not lie in wait. It was an accident. It was something that you did not intend to do. So, you could go to a city of refuge; and you would stay there until the death of the high priest.

Remember that, if they wanted mercy, they would go and grab the horns of the altar. God says, "I don't care who he is. If he acted with premeditation, you loosen his grip on those horns, and you go out and kill him. He gets no mercy."

Now, this word premeditation is the same word that is elsewhere translated presumptuously. I think that in the King James Version it is actually "presumptuously." And in the New King James, the marginal reference is also "presumptuously."

So, we have to add this idea of premeditation(intent). We saw this a little bit in the "intentional sin," but this kind of adds to it. Lying in wait with craftiness—that's the element of planning, or setting out with a purpose to do it. Often times, it's not done emotionally. It is something where one sits down and plans to sin—no matter what.

Exodus 21:13-17
Excerpted from: Sanctification and the Teens

There it is—the death penalty.

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."

Exodus 21:14
Excerpted from: Sanctification, Teens, and Self-Control

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

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