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, May 31, 2026

One failure, one extreme setback, one “broken spirit and harsh slavery” has challenged the faith once on full display. From now on, Moses and Aaron are going to have to deal with leading a hurt people who have a hard time believing God again after their pain, when they attempt to do everything God calls them to. Leading these people will also become more of a challenge because this same doubt also rises up inside Moses and Aaron. The most important fact for the people of Israel is that God has made a covenant with them and in Christ, God has made a covenant with us. The covenant God has made with us, bought and paid for by the blood of Jesus Christ, His son, is the most important fact about our lives as well. Even in our doubt, even in our failure, and especially in the bumps and bruises brought on as we walk in Christ the covenant of grace still stands. In order for it to fall someone would have to overthrow God Himself from His glorious throne, for He is the one who has written the terms and paid the price for the terms to stand, and no one will ever overthrow God or furthermore, ever pluck anyone who has been forgiven out of His hand (John 10:28). Anyone who truly and humbly calls on the name of the Lord in the name of Jesus Christ and repents of sin is not only heard, but also forgiven, blessed, redeemed, and adopted as sons and daughters of God. Brother and sister, if this humble call to the Lord comes from a place of deep “groaning” in suffering, be encouraged all the more because our God hears the groaning of His people. 

Sermon Preview for Sunday, May 24, 2026

The main point offered to us in Exodus chapter 5 is simply this; even in the Truth of Christ visiting us, delivering us of our sin, and leading us toward righteousness, disbelief and sin still reign all around us and far too often, even inside us. Our God is meticulous and all powerful. Not to always keep these things and their effect from our experience in life, but to use these things in powerful ways to strengthen and grow the little faith we have. It is through the trial and the suffering God does His best work on growing the faith inside us because in suffering we are forced to exercise the faith we have making it stronger. That means at any given point we may doubt our Lord, we may give in to temptation, we may even cry out in anguish toward God speaking things we will later regret, but what matters most in all of this is our God is never changed by such things. He is always by our side and He reigns and rules over our lives guarding us with His grace the whole time. Due to this fact, and only because of this fact, for those who truly believe in Christ and who truly worship our Triune God, we will once again at some point be reunited with the experience described in Exodus 4:31. Oftentimes we will be led by God through circumstances that He knows ahead of time far outweigh our faith, yet through the guidance we receive in the middle of these times God also accomplishes the strengthening of our faith He intended all along. Let us move forward even in our struggles and doubt trusting the one who is perfect and who offered the perfect sacrifice on our behalf. How glorious is our sovereign, mighty God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Worthy is His name!