Exodus 23:20-337. The Promise of an Inheritance (Exodus 23:20-33) This section is in harmony with the promise of the fourth commandment, “ That thy days may be long in the land.” It bears testimony to the fact that no man serves God for nothing. Righteousness and obedience have their reward. Exodus 24:1-18 presents to us the consummation of the giving of the Lesser Law. The glory of God accompanies it even as in the beginning at the giving of the Greater Law, so teaching us that God is in the lesser as well as in the greater: “ Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:19). After all, there is no such thing as a big sinner and a little sinner in the sight of God. To sin at all, even in the minutest point, is to constitute oneself guilty as a sinner before God, for “ whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all” (James 2:10). Even so is it with the small deeds of good that we do, the faltering word of helpfulness that we speak, the “ widow’ s mite” that we cast into God’ s treasury-these, small and insignificant though they may seem in the eyes of man, light though they may appear in the balances of earth, unworthy of notice though they may be in the esteem of man, these are of great value in the estimation of God. The spark of fire is as real fire as the flames that belch from Vesuvius. The dewdrop that trembles on the leaf is as real water as is the mighty torrent of Niagara. The man that brought his offering to the tabernacle was not compelled to bring a bullock; he could bring a turtledove; but it had to be “ without blemish and without spot.”