Capital Punishment

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Capital Punishment

• Genesis 96 Whoever sheds mans blood, by man
  his blood shall be shed, for in the image of God
  He made man.

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During The Time Of Moses

• Ex 2013 You Shall Not Murder
• The Penalty For Murder Ex 2112
• The Penalty For Kidnapping Ex 2116
• The Penalty For Rape Deut 2225

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Careful Administration Of Capital Punishment Was
Required

• Numbers 3529-33
• Justice Was To Be Administered By The Family

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New Testament

• Were Not To Avenge God Will Do It For Us!
  (Rom 1219-137)
• 1 Pet 213
• Acts 2511

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God Required The Death Penalty For Various Sins
Under The O.T.

• Striking Parents Ex 2115
• Cursing Parents Ex 2117
• Infanticide Ex 2122f
• Keeping A Dangerous Animal That Now Kills Ex
  2128f
• Malicious False Witness Deut 1916-21
• Rebellion Against Parents Deut 2118f

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What About Moral Crimes?

• Adultery Lev 2010
• Incest Lev 2011-12
• Homosexuality Lev 2013
• Sex With An Animal Lev 2015-16
• Lev 1824 Do not defile yourselves by any of
  these things for by all these the nations which
  I am casting out before you have become defiled

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What About Religious Crimes?

• Witchcraft Ex 2218
• Sabbath Breaking Ex 3114
• A Medium Lev 2027
• Blasphemy Deut 172-7
• No Law To Cover The Situation? See Nadab
  Abihu (Lev 101f) Uzza (1 Chron 1310)

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Application

• Im NOT SAYING Our Government Should Punish
  Idolatry!
• But Understand How Important These Sins Were
  (ARE) To God!
• What Is Your Attitude Toward Sin?

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God Does Not Classify Sin As We Do

• WE THINK A Crime With A Victim Is Bad.
  Therefore Capital Punishment Is OK For Murder.
• BUT Capital Punishment For Immorality Or
  Religious Error?
• GOD MAKES NO DISTINCTION !

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Here Is The Point

• Why Is Crime Wrong?
• Why Is Immorality Wrong?
• Why Is Religious Error Wrong?
• All Are Sin!

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All Sin Deserves Death - True In Every
Dispensation

• Gen 217 you shall surely die
• Ezek 1820 The person who sins will die
• Rom 623 the wages of sin is death.
• Sin Requires A Separation From God Because God Is
  Holy.
• Why Are We Not Struck With Death When We Sin?
  (Rom 23-4)

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Christ Paid The Penalty For You

• Isa 534 Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And
  our sorrows He carried Yet we ourselves esteemed
  Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted.
• Isa 535 But He was pierced through for our
  transgressions, He was crushed for our
  iniquities The chastening for our well-being
  fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are
  healed.
• Isa 536 All of us like sheep have gone astray,
  Each of us has turned to his own way But the
  LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on
  Him.

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• Isa 5311 As a result of the anguish of His
  soul, He will see it and be satisfied By His
  knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will
  justify the many, As He will bear their
  iniquities.

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Christ Has Suffered The Death Penalty That You
Deserve !
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Three Deaths
JUDICIAL

• SPIRITUAL

MORTAL
Life payment for sin
Death of our bodies
Separation From God
Required of every sinner
Result of Adam and Eves first sin
Result of individual sin
The wages of sin is death Romans 323
for dust you are, and to the dust you shall
return. Genesis 319
without the shedding of blood there can be no
forgiveness of sin Hebrews 922
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Animal Sacrifice
SINS (FIGURATIVE)
JUSTICE
MERCY
REPRESENTATIVE DEATH
INNOCENT SACRIFICE
SINNER
SANCTIFIED
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Behold the
LAMB OF GOD
that takes away the sin of the world
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Obey The Gospel Have Your Sins Washed Away

• Act 2216 'Now why do you delay? Get up and be
  baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His
  name.'
• Rev 15 To Him who loves us and released us
  from our sins by His blood--

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