EXodus

The life we live in Jesus Christ is filled with much joy and much pain. Times when things go as we planned and many times when they do not. One this is for sure God’s people can confidently say they are exactly where God wants them to be. He is working in it all.

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Sermon Preview for Sunday, July 12, 2026

At the end of this prologue, Exodus 7:8-13, there is a curious story. One that seems to be out of place on the surface. Verses 6 and 7 seem to do a great job concluding the prologue but then there is more. I believe the story in these few verses continues a theme that runs throughout all the Scriptures. Do not be surprised at the achievements of man, we have been made in the image of the Almighty. We are the Creator’s crowning creation. The things men and women are capable of doing will always be amazing in their own way. Yet the most dangerous thing for men and women today is this: to be so enthralled by our own achievements we lose sight of the far greater things. The power, truth, and authority our God and Creator holds is far and above anything and everything we will ever be capable of making on our own, and The One True God is entirely able to tear all our high efforts down in an instant in order to give us a clearer view and more realistic perspective of Himself. Think of it, we stand in awe that human beings have successfully traveled to the moon and back and we have plans to go further than that currently in the making, yet our God not only created the moon with the word of His mouth, but He did the same with each and every one of the many galaxies he created. God is present in these realities as real and at the same time as He is in ours, no traveling required. It is important to have this highly exalted understanding of God because it corresponds with reality and I believe the point of this additional story in this prologue is to communicate this to the reader before the story of the ten plagues. No matter what comes, no matter what our life brings, the proper place for us as men and women will always be humbled beneath the mighty hand of our awesome God.

Sermon Preview for Sunday, July 5, 2026

Right before telling the story of the ten plagues, we are given a prologue which follows the genealogy we covered last week. It lays out everything God was going to accomplish through Moses and Aaron. It lays out all God was going to do and even gives the ages of Moses and Aaron when God used them. The heart of this prologue is also the heart of the whole story of God bringing the people of Isreal, “The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Isreal from among them.” God plans to use these eighty-year-olds, their mouths, hands, and staffs to accomplish powerful works. He will use them to accomplish this great act of redemption, leading the people out of the slavery of Egypt and into the desert. All of this work was to be accomplished so that the Egyptians would know “Yahweh” the One True God. This lesson is not only for the unbelieving nation who was enslaving God’s people. We all need to know Yahweh more and more. We all can learn from Him, communicate with Him through prayer, and submit our own will underneath the authority of His. Sometimes in our lives it takes His might on full display in order for us to see the importance of knowing our God. In this case, I pray the mighty works we read about here in Exodus chapter 7 would be sufficient to us to see the same thing.