Lord's Day Sermon
May 10, 2026
The Way to Be a Slave for Life
Sermon Details
Read passage (ESV) — Exodus 21:1-11
Laws About Slaves
21:1 “Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. 2 When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. 3 If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out alone. 5 But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 6 then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.
7 “When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. 8 If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her. 9 If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. 10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. 11 And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
Outline
- The ________________ to the Book of the ___________________ (1)
- Rulings That __________________ How a __________________ Servant in Israel Must Be ______________________ (2-6)
- Rulings That __________________ How a ____________________ Servant in Israel Must Be _____________________ (7-11)
- Applications A. _______________ and ____________________ should form the basis of our ___________________________ in life. B. ______________________ consistently recognizes the ______________________ of personhood of males and females, yet at the same time acknowledges the unique ___________________________ of the _______________________ in a _________________ world. C. We see the ______________________ in these verses through the mandated _______________________ from bondage, from the _______________ between master and servant, and from the ______________________ the lord gave to his servant.