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 3, 2026

Now what? God has put to rest all protests, counterpoints, and questions. God has repeatedly declared the most important thing will be true, namely, “I will be with you”. God has said He would be with Moses’ mouth and with his speech. God sent Aaron as an act of mercy and grace in His anger to provide the mouthpiece for Moses. Furthermore, God has clearly told Moses all that would happen, which is a luxury not very often afforded to us in our walk with Christ. This moment of decision and finality is a moment we as disciples of Christ know all too well. This is the moment of human responsibility each one of us, who desire to follow our Savior, face on a daily basis. Our lives of Christian living and sanctification are marked by moments of alignment between God’s sovereign will and our human consciousness and freedom. When both of these are in complete alignment we see the largest spiritual growth but it is never easy. It seems as if the moments of highest potential for spiritual growth come at the most difficult of circumstances. So far in the story of Moses, God’s Sovereign will has already been on full display, and now is the moment for Moses’ will to be in submission and surrender to God’s as the Master servant relationship demands. How does it usually turn out when you are put into this situation? What goes through your mind when God has made something clear to you? Are you living with a strong will of your own toward God or is it sensitive toward Him ready to fall whenever He impresses upon it something different? The life of faith opened to us in Jesus Christ is one committed to Christ’s leading at all times and in all things. 

Sermon Preview for Sunday, April 26, 2026

Here are the next three statements Moses makes to God as God calls him to go back to Egypt and lead the Israelites out of slavery and into the land that has been prepared for them. First, “they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, The Lord did not appear to you.” Second, “Oh my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.” Finally, “Oh my Lord, please send someone else.” I think of an older grandparent engaging in conversation with a 2- or 3-year-old grandchild, no way of knowing for sure where the conversation is headed and no way of keeping up with the line of thought. Yet the older one still sits there and listens intently to every word. This is a clear picture of patience and grace because we all know from the outside the grandparent is not gaining anything from the information given, and we all know this grandparent certainly isn’t required to sit and continue to listen. I can think of many examples throughout the entirety of scripture when God works within his own sovereign will to provide the very thing a doubter was asking for so they would believe. I do not believe God does this because He has to, as if our petitions and pleas of desperation somehow put Him in our debt, I believe God does this because baked into God’s sovereign will and flawless nature is the absolute reality that God is gracious and slow to anger. He desires the lost to repent and be saved, the doubter to see and believe, and the weak one to find strength to carry on. I say Hallelujah to and for our wonderful, merciful, God.