Is Your Ear Pierced?

Here’s the outline from the message tonight, in case you didn’t get it all.  I thank God I got my ear pierced years ago!!! AMEN!!

Is Your Ear Pierced?

Exodus 21:1-6

Intro: There’s a lot of body piercing places around town.  You can get your body pierced just about anywhere, and tattoos as well if that’s what you want.  Of course a Spirit-filled child of God wouldn’t dream of it but it is available for the unbelievers and ignorant believers.

This passage deals with a lot more than a body piercing that was done out of peer pressure, some perverted craving for pain or desire for acceptance.

This was a serious event in someone’s life.  Let’s look at it and I want to know tonight, “Is YOUR Ear Pierced??”

I. A Purchased Destiny – vs. 2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve:

• 1 Cor. 6:20  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
• 1 Cor. 7:23  Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

II. A Personal Decision – vs. 2b and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing

            Rom. 12:1 – Present your bodies a living sacrifice.

            Nobody can make you serve him; you can go out free if you want to

III. A Plain Declaration – vs. 5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free

            It’s not complicated; it all boils down to LOVE.

1. Love for His Fellowship – being with the Master; near Him and His work
2. Love for His Family – doing what’s best for your family
3. Love for His Furnishings – there’s no other place to serve with these benefits!

IV. A Public Display – vs. 6a Then his master shall bring him unto the judges;

• The word “judges” in this verse is the Hebrew word, elohiym, which is translated 2,346 times “God”.  Here it is translated “judges” because when you make a commitment to God to serve Him, others will be able to see it!

V. A Permanent Distinction – vs. 6b Then he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

            There will be a noticeable, distinction marking you as a servant of God.

            There will be a noticeable, distinction marking your place of service! (mark on the door of the Master’s house)

Conclusion:

• Are you serving the Lord?
• Do you love Him enough to give your life for Him? 
• Do those around you know it? 
• Have you allowed Him to make that noticeable distinction in your life? 
• Have you left your “mark” on the door of your Master’s house??