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, October 11, 2026

I am struck by the statement in Exodus 12:26, “And when your children say to you, what do you mean by this service?”, both because I know from experience this is a common question asked by children to their parents about a variety of things, but also because God shows his incredible wisdom in the fact that He knows this about children and he uses this knowledge to instruct the parents to answer the question. The whole point of God telling the parents to do this is because it is the will of God that there would never be a time when we do not remember the day when God “struck the Egyptians” but spared the houses of the people of Israel. Can a story transcend the time and place it took place and insert eternal meaning into the lives of every generation and all people thereafter forever? Yes, it can, and here it does. The main themes of this story carry on to this day because Yahweh, the One True God continues to live to this day. The major truths communicated in this event are True because they first existed in our eternal God. This same eternal God later then put on flesh, was born of woman, walked among us, and was tempted in every way we are and have been yet He did not sin. The Scriptures say, if we have seen Jesus we have seen the Father, for Jesus Christ was born to make our God known. In this specific effort Jesus continues what God began in the plagues as a whole but especially in the last plague and the exodus of Israel. Jesus Christ and this story reveals the same One True God to the whole world. We look to both of these and praise God for His work in saving and redeeming us from our sins.

Sermon Preview for Sunday, October 4, 2026

The Passover is a Jewish celebration involving a feast, a gathering of family, a time of worship and prayer, but most of all, a time of remembering the deliverance and salvation of God. Throughout the Scriptures, both Old Testament and New Testament, the Passover is a central theme. In the Gospels and in Acts there are references to the Passover Celebration or the feast of the Unleavened Bread. Those references, all those hundreds of years into the future, began here in this text of Exodus chapter 12 and 13. It is because of our ease of forgetting and lack of “memorials” to bring the truth back to our minds that we so often go through the day without depending and relying on the power and grace God has granted to us. We constantly look ahead to the next thing, we make plans and prepare as much as possible to be ready for the future, and yet the truth of the matter is this, the very thing that will secure our future, that will prepare us and provide for us no matter what comes in the future is the greatest event that has ever taken place which happened just over 2000 years ago in Jerusalem. The same event that was at the center of the Passover celebration instituted by God in Egypt. Strive to remember, Church, let the fact that Christ conquered the grave be all you need no matter what comes in the future. In order for this to be the case we need to remember, we need a memorial to constantly bring it to mind. That is why God established the ritual ceremony in Exodus.